On Friday June 13th - 15th in downtown Toronto at the Hilton the 10th annual Northern Ink Xposure tattoo convention is taking place. For more info check out www.tattoos.com

Paul Booth

Juxtapoz has some photos of the opening of the show Last Rites Inaugural. Check out more of the photos here.

The things people will do for free shit. This guy is a huge goof, he got a Gateway tattoo to try and win a contest for a new Gateway computer.

Last Rites Gallery’s first exhibition is called Transgression, and will feature an astounding array of work from highly regarded artists including: John Abrahamson, Shawn Barber, Jon Beinart, Rachel Bess, Matthew Bone, Paul Booth, Patrick Byers, Vincent Castiglia, Colin Christian, Christopher Conte, Daniel Martin Diaz, HR Giger, Naoto Hattori, William B Hand, Fred Harper, Nikko Hurtado, Michael Hussar, John John Jesse, Stephen Kasner, Kevin Llewellen, Fabrice Lavollay, Laurie Lipton, Travis Louie, Jesse Pepper, Karl Persson, Dan Quintana, Celeste Rapone, JL Robbins, David Stoupakis, Heidi Taillerfer, Brian Viveros, and Chet Zar.
More info on Transgression, as well as future Last Rites shows, at www.lastritesgallery.com.

This is when you know Banksy art is getting big, people start getting tattoos of his art.

The graffiti artist Norm from the graffiti crew MSK will be doing some tattooing this week in LA at Spotlight Tattoo. Norm will be tattooing from Dec. 19th to the 24th.

Check out the photos from the event that took place with Kat Von D going for the most tattoos in one day. Check them out here. There’s over 200 photos there.

Kat Von D is attempting a world record at the most tattoos done in one day by one artist. So she is attempting to do 400 tattoos in the span of 24 hours. This is taking place today, December 14th 2007. Starts at noon at goes till noon tomorrow.

Here’s The Rules:

1. Each tattoo is to measure a minimum of 1.25 x 3 inches.
2. Each tattoo must have a minimum of 2 colors.
3. The attempt must be overseen by 2 independent persons, with experience in tattoo techniques. Only tattoos satisfying these 2 judges count towards the total.
4. The event is continuos. Rest breaks may be taken at will, but THE CLOCK DOES NOT STOP.
5. The record is not limited to 1 tattoo per person. (so you can get more than 1 tattoo)
6. Theres is no restriction on the location of each tattoo.
7. The total should not include any tattoo not completed at the end of the time period.
8. All people getting tattooed must be 18 with ID.

Kat has decided to tattoo the same LA logo on everyone that is participating. It only costs $20 a tattoo, to cover material costs. Anyone can participate by showing up and getting a tattoo.

Kat Von D is attempting a world record at the most tattoos done in one day by one artist. So she is attempting to do 400 tattoos in the span of 24 hours. This is taking place on Friday, December 14th 2007. Starts at noon at goes till noon the next day.

Here’s The Rules:

1. Each tattoo is to measure a minimum of 1.25 x 3 inches.
2. Each tattoo must have a minimum of 2 colors.
3. The attempt must be overseen by 2 independent persons, with experience in tattoo techniques. Only tattoos satisfying these 2 judges count towards the total.
4. The event is continuos. Rest breaks may be taken at will, but THE CLOCK DOES NOT STOP.
5. The record is not limited to 1 tattoo per person. (so you can get more than 1 tattoo)
6. Theres is no restriction on the location of each tattoo.
7. The total should not include any tattoo not completed at the end of the time period.
8. All people getting tattooed must be 18 with ID.

Kat has decided to tattoo the same LA logo on everyone that is participating. It only costs $20 a tattoo, to cover material costs. Anyone can participate by showing up and getting a tattoo.

Whats up with this craze of Apple tattoos? Check out this page of bad tattoos. Check it out here.