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Greetings Tattoo Tribe Members,
Welcome to the sixth edition of the Tattoo Tribe
Newsletter! We now have over 3700 members!
Please accept our apologizes for the lack of
newsletters over the last few months. Things have been really
crazy around here as we inch closer to actually filming the
pilot for the Vanishing Tattoo series. We will be featuring
updates from Borneo once filming starts as well as some behind
the scene photos of the action.
Your editor,
Doug Cook
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Vince Hemingson
Tattoos & the World's 100 Sexiest Women
How many of the world's top 100 sexiest women have tattoos?
FHM Magazine recently published their annual list of the 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2002 as voted on by their readers. The poll offers a fascinating insight into the popularity of tattoos among female celebrities. A quick look at the Top 100 list reveals that one of the things that many of the women picked have in common is body art, i.e. tattoos!
An afternoon of research revealed the following results;
six of the top ten sexiest women in the world have one or more tattoos (sixty percent),
eleven of the top twenty sexiest women as voted on by FHM's readers have a tattoo (fifty-five percent),
thirteen of the top 25 have tattoos (fifty-two percent),
22 out of the top 50 have tattoos (forty-four per cent), and out of the top 100 Sexiest Women 2002 as judged by FHM's readers, 36 have tattoos that I know about (a still impressive thirty-six per cent)!
These percentages are really quite amazing when taken into context with the overall general population. Esquire Magazine published a poll in March of this year that said one in eight of the general population in the United States sports a tattoo. Details Magazine published a poll that said 22% of those aged 18-25 have a tattoo. But neither poll can hold a candle to FHM's 100 Sexiest Women 2002. I think it's high time the mainstream media took a closer in-depth look at the popularity of tattoos and body art around the world. *Search Engine Lycos, ranks the
Top 50 search terms every week. "Tattoos" was the fourth most popular search term on the internet in 2001, the seventh most popular search term for the year 2000, and the eleventh most popular search term in
1999! *In July of 2002, "tattoos" reached its highest ranking ever, coming in as the number two most requested search term on the internet. "Tattoos" was requested more often than Pamela Anderson, marijuana or KaZaA, illustrating that
skin ink is now more popular than "sex, drugs and rock n' roll!"
As of this week it sits at #3. And the results are...
Vince Hemingson
The Vanishing Tattoo
August, 2002
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Vanishing Tattoo UPDATE |
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Filming will be getting underway this September! Our intrepid crew
of adventurers will be heading to Borneo for three weeks of
shooting along the River of Death. Stay tuned for more...
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Early Japanese Tattooing
Love and religion seem to have been significant inspiration for early Japanese tattoos. Lovers, courtesans and lowly prostitutes would often have the name of a lover written on the inner arm, with the kanji for inochi (life), symbolizing a pledge of eternal love, added. Edo period (1603-1867) literature abounds with references to pledge tattoos, or irebokuro as they were known.
A singular aspect of the Japanese tattoo is that, rather than being almost exclusively a mark of punishment or an element of ritual, it became an immensely popular fashion statement among working-class urbanites of the late 18th century to mid-19th century, despite a ban on tattoos from 1789 to 1801. That was when the tattoo found favor among the growing legions of laborers, rickshaw pullers, criminals, firefighters, artisans and women of the pleasure quarters.
Tattoos have never received official favor in Japan, however, and are still frowned upon in polite society. During the Edo period expressions of individuality among the masses were invariably interpreted as subversive, a potential cause of social unrest, and accordingly repressed. Tattooing was an obvious target for the government and it was frequently banned, although the bans were largely ignored.
From The Indelible art of the Tattoo, Stephen Mansfield, Japan
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