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Yuga Mikado: the traffic light turns green exactly as you step onto the road, maybe you know more than you should at the age you are, still waiting aren't you for the window to dry off after you scrubbed it clean, sparkly, transparent. nothing is bright but that's ok because you are enough. you glow brighter than lanterns. confident strides; how have you grown so fast, my child? you know all about living in someone's shadow but you have mint on your breath and we will go into the light with no regrets. aut inveniam viam aut faciam. "being around you is the most fun thing I can imagine!"

Ranma Kakogawa: and where would I have found myself if you had not been there in my time of need? ache of always being caught on your own. wouldn't it be nice to be crowded around for once, someone born to shine as bright as a fire. but sweetheart, should you ever have been held up to the right kind of mirror, you would have seen that you are the lens of a camera; seen and seen through, needed, loved, held. caramel latte art and a full English breakfast. can you hear the way the helicopter whirrs over the fields in the morning? praeterita mutare non possumus. "We're going to make it. I'll do whatever I have to to make it happen."

Subaru Hoshiyomi: could I believe in your courage the same way you trust in others? hesperus or venus, there is no difference in my eyes. a rose by any other name smells as sweet, the confidence you exude is a charisma of its own that you wield with ease. so selfish in your own way, unable to see beyond your own nose. wisdom and knowledge are different, but you will learn with time. you could call out the birds and sing down the mountain dawn with that compelling honesty of yours. brazen, tongue-in-cheek luceo non uro. "Even I can't fully understand you. However, that may not...be such a bad thing after all."

Masato Rikuo: strong chai tea topped with leaves and cinnamon. whatever are you waiting for? your boundless energy is more than an inspiration, at the heart of it, it's an innocent desire of a child. you've listened to those who poured out their ideals and that is all that can be expected from you. sometimes I think you do too much. concentration, additives, you may taste of all these, but you're au natural. never lose heart, dear one, never turn back or away. they will come to their senses in time. aut insanity homo, aut versus facit. "with you here, I could conquer the universe!!!!!! we're invincible!"

Light Kurouzu: seeing your face in a thousand and three copper whistling kettles steamed up with condensation. too many things you can't run from. videos without the ads because you paid for premium when you were down and now you can't waste it. yet another reason to dodge another batch of questions. there is roadwork and a ladder and a black cat on your daily journey home and you have made peace with every one of them. some things shouldn't be hidden inside superstition, you believe, rubbing at scratches. nec spe, nec metu. "You're going to be famous in a foreign city."

Seiji Kido: and again you pound your hands on the keys. There are no melodies, only different languages, and your inability to comprehend them frustrates you to no end. perhaps the beauty you've been seeking is in the openness of not knowing. can you wait a little longer to be accompanied in the empty concert halls? i promise there is someone waiting in the wings for their cue. faith is something terribly complicated to cultivate, but I give it to you now without charge. go forth again with your gifts and lay bare your heart. you have been heard and perhaps we were never lost, merely searching. semper ad meliora, "I'm right here, moron. Talk to me."

Daijirou Kurayashiki: conundrums again. You bear the weight of capital letters in your shoulders, raised to be a king, born to be a soldier, yet susceptible to the notions of poets that you request to be removed from a distance; they are not yours and never will be. so many possibilities yelling your name that you ignore as if you were deaf. I'm not sure whether I shall call you resolved or witless. Mountains will tremble when they are in your presence and countries will bow before your feet. I just hope the hurt is worth it, dear liege, I have seen the heart you hold like a pen as you sign your edicts in blood. si vis pacem, para bellum. "I rule for you alone."

Alexandre Ankh: scornful crown; you do not rule, you are a ruler and few can tell the difference. easy to read as palm lines, running fingertips over the intercrossed veins, as shallow and as deep as the surging currents of the parted Red Sea beneath Moses's staff. forever I would entrust the burdens to you because you do not see them as burdens but responsibility and that could be a curse or a birthright, I would not know. tear apart the lies for I give you my signet ring; take it and guide the people. you have the strength to be who you are, endure and admonish the lost. littera scripta manet. "You need never kneel when you are with me."

Kei Jinguji: paralysed worse than a paraplegic. who was the soul who ripped out your joy and replaced it with such numbing fear? I will readily admit that shame is not a medicine I wish to taste, yet the way you shudder in fear makes me want to swallow it for you. take a look at how I am making my words fall softer on your ears than light, and think to yourself that maybe the purpose of imperfection is to help us understand what grace is; what love is, that you need not be so desperate for something that requires nothing of you. the rainclouds are blocking out all your monsters, you are safe here. memento vivere. "It's my loss to you."

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i recently finished kamen rider ooo with my bestie @asteroidarts555 and it's safe to say my brain has been taken hostage by this series and ESPECIALLY by this zesty ass bird greeed 😭😭 had to paint him as alexandre cabanel's "fallen angel", it scratched my brain JUST right

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Maldición by JOSERRA MONE

This looks at though the uraeus is spitting fire into the face of the mummiform figure, but it’s not the “curse” it appears to be. The accompanying text explains that the figure is receiving the rays of Re, the sun. (You can just see that the figure behind him is receiving fiery rays from a star.) This mysterious afterlife text, etched onto the side of the second shrine of Tutankhamun, is called the Enigmatic Book of the Netherworld. (My source on this is the book The Shrines of Tut-Ankh-Amon by Alexandre Piankoff.)

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Meet France's Best Tattoo Artists in a Short Documentary Series

Tattooing is a global phenomenon, yet there aren’t many windows into each country’s tattoo subcultures. But French tattoo enthusiasts and filmmakers Erwan Roudaut and Alexandre Gamot have been blowing France’s tattoo culture wide open with their web series Color My Skin, which covers the scene's artists and artworks through various intersection points like conventions, concerts, and exhibitions.

Roudaut and Gamot’s documentary coverage of conventions—both in and outside France—gives the series an international flavor, allowing them to showcase the art but also dig into each artist’s aesthetic approaches and motivations. They are also in the midst of finishing an ambitious, feature-length Color My Skin documentary titled In Memoriam, a 90-minute peek into the world of iconic French tattoo artist Mikael de Poissy.

Romain from Hand In Glove tattoo shop in Paris. Images courtesy of Color My Skin

Gamot, the main filmmaker behind Color My Skin, got his first tattoo—an Egyptian ankh symbol on his forearm—at 18 years old while an exchange student in Ontario, Canada. It was a tribute to a friend who had wanted to be an Egyptologist but had passed away. As a young kid, Gamot was always fascinated with the Japanese style of tattooing, and he believes this is the origin of his interest in tattoo art and culture.

“Cinema has been my true great passion since childhood,” he tells The Creators Project. “And what I really want for Color My Skin is to develop a full feature documentary series like the one we're about to release but with more budget and ‘cinema quality.”

Roudaut's first tattoo also came at the age of 18. He says the discovery of tattoos was quite natural for him, since his cousin was heavily inked, his mother wanted one, and he was listening to metal music in which most band members had tattoos.

Tattoo artist Emy Blacksheep

“After my first tattoo it was a revelation, and I spent an important part of my time watching videos and reading about tattoo culture,” he says. “I was hanging around with some artists, [so] I decided to do something for this culture.”

The initial inspiration for Color My Skin came by way of Roudaut's girlfriend, whose hobby involved interviewing metal bands who were playing Paris venues. Roudaut decided he wanted to do something similar for tattooing.

Gamot, it seems, recognized that Roudaut’s idea had far more potential than mere video interviews. He envisioned a series that could be good enough for television or the internet, exploring what the world of tattoos is like, both in France and beyond.

Roudaut says that France has come a long way since the cultural arrival of tattooing. Before the 1990s, he says that tattoos were popularly associated with “bad guys, criminals, hookers, or gangs of bikers.” But in the late 90s and early 2000s, things started to change as a new wave of artists were born.

“These were real artists coming from les Beaux Arts or art schools,” he says. “They gave a new impulse to the art, and made it more visual. And some artists like Tin-Tin helped to democratize this art. They made conventions, the very famous Mondial du Tatouage, and created legal structures to talk about tattoos.”

The most famous one is the SNAT, as Roudaut explains, an association that works to develop tattoo culture in France. The efforts have apparently paid off. Roudaut says that 1 in 10 people are now tattooed in France, and even more when looking at the 18-35 demographic.

“We have an artistic culture, and a really open minded way of approaching art,” he explains. “[So], I think it affects the way they work, and where they take their inspiration.”

A still from In Memoriam, a feature-length documentary on iconic tattoo artist Mikael de Poissy.

Gamot points to veterans like Tin-Tin, known for his realism and freehand work, and de Poissy, whose work is inspired by France’s stained glass history, as two of the best in France. He’s also fond of Easy Sacha and Dark Manu’s traditional Japanese styles of tattooing, and Robert Darwin—an artist known for his vibrant use of colors—who has tattooed Gamot himself.

“[Robert] created one of Paris' most famous and best tattoo parlors which is now co-owned by Yannick, a great piercer, and El Patman, whose dotwork and mandalas I love,” Gamot says. “Of course, Dimitri HK is part of them as well, he's been tattooing for more than 25 years in the new school style. More than a great artist he's also a very kind person who would genuinely talk about tattoo to anyone interested.”

Gamot also points to Emy Blacksheep, an artist based in the French Alps who blends new and old styles in original ways, as well as the crew at Alchemink Studio, as particularly impressive artists. The studio’s Leon Lam, Lam's younger brother, Travi, and Leon’s wife, Namiko, are currently making a six-hands tattoo on Gamot’s right arm. “Their style is quite unique—lots of black, looks like a sketch or an Asian stamp for some,” he says.

Erwan Roudaut in conversation with Louis Lacourt of Ravenink Tattoo Club.

While Gamot likes many older tattoo artists, Roudaut fixates on the newer, up-and-coming generation. Currently, Roudaut is a big fan of the young artist Strange Dust, who he says does beautiful black ink work (blackwork). Roudaut is also into guys like Nikki Bold and Olivier Poinsignon, two artists with unique styles based on geometry, blackwork, and the tattoo’s position on the body.

“There are plenty of them—I couldn't quote them all without making a huge list, but I want to give a shoutout to every artist that has tattooed me so far, because they all, in their way, are the best tattoo artists in France,” says Roudaut. “Boris (French Graffiti) did my right arm. Faustink (Le Phylactère) did two pieces on my left arm. Bichon (Golden Rabbit) did my ribs and my left foot. Eddie (23 Keller) did a piece on my left arm. Norako (Regards Noirs) started my left leg and will finish it. And El Patman (Art Corpus) is working on my back and left arm.”

For those wanting a more detailed look into the French world of tattooing, both Gamot and Roudaut recommend watching the episodes shot at Mondial du Tatouage 2016. A big international event, Roudaut says that these three episodes feature many French artists, showcasing their approach to tattoos.

Tattoo artist Yome One

Gamot and Roudaut’s In Memoriam, the 90-minute documentary on de Poissy, will also be essential viewing. Fully subtitled in English, the duo hope this documentary will be seen far and wide outside of the Francophone world.

“My hope is that people really consider tattooing like a piece of art, not something you buy like a pair of shoes,” says Gamot. “Yes, it is expensive but again, so is your smartphone; yet, you'll probably buy another one in two years or so, but your tattoo will be there forever.”

“This is more than just another wearable,” adds Roudaut. “This is something that can be meaningful, or just aesthetic, but which, in every way, needs to be thought about.”

Click here to watch more episodes of Color My Skin.

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