HAND POKED / NO ELECTRICITY Stick and Poke Tattoo Culture

HAND POKED / NO ELECTRICITY Stick and Poke Tattoo CultureHAND POKED NO ELECTRICITY Sarah Lu Hardback 192 pages Hand Poked No Electricity is a love letter to stick and poke tattoo culture. It is a work of art in itself. Not only artists handbook but a resource book, a history book and a visual feast of everything single colour. Since the dawn of time people have been using needles and sticks, whatever comes to hand, to push ink into their skins to make tattoos. Away from the cul de sac of reworked tattoo

RAYNOR IS SO FAR AHEAD of his time there are rumours he CAME HERE FROM OUT OF SPACE to liberate us from BLAND CULTURE

Hardback 256 pages

The pathos

1976 – BOY is opened by Stephane

whatever the mission

Photography and Contrapublicity in Urban Art (VINZ ED

designers and truth bomb detonators

Every one pulled from the page and placed in the world is an act of resistance against bland

or even change the world

Peter Gravelle

Youth cultures never die

Although these urban explorers usually work solo or in small teams