So ive been considering getting a tattoo for quite some time but im really not into the generic tribal band, my initials etc so when I came across this french guys work via motel de mooka i was inspired to possibly chase him up if im ever in france.

… The good news is, there are a handful of artistically minded inkers at work out there, and if you’re gonna spend anywhere from a few hundred to a few grand on something that will be inked into your flesh until you die, well, don’t you want it to be atypical and dynamic and ingenious? Don’t you want something you can look at every day and go, whoa, what the hell is that, and is that really a part of my skin, and isn’t that just the most fascinating thing?

Don’t you want, in other words, a piece by someone like this French guy named Yann? Sure you do. The newish tattoo blog Needled.com pointed me to this guy’s deliriously cool work, which you won’t find in any of the aggro-trashy American tatt mags. He is, apparently, quite the sensation among tattoo cognescenti in France and Europe. Yann’s work is amazing and odd and childish and beautiful and strange, Egon Schiele meets Edward Gorey meets Picasso in a deep closet of folksy childhood whimsy. You gotta check out his gallery here

It is, of course, not a style for everyone. And you’d have to fly all the way to France to get a piece by him. But it could certainly encourage anyone considering the acquisition of serious ink to maybe think beyond your average dolphin-in-a-rainbow. Please. …

Also check out the needled.com blog for all things tattoo