All Portal, all the time (t-shirt and tattoo edition)

Portal-themed t-shirt and temporary tattoo by Ian Leno. You can preorder it here, it'll be tomorrow's Tee Fury t-shirt, and Ian's giving away a few tattoos, as described here.

In other Portal news, Kotaku apparently got scammed into promoting a band when the band sent them an email claiming to be part of the Portal ARG. The post originally linked to the band's website and encouraged downloading the band's song at iTunes, but they scrubbed the post to largely eliminate any mention of the scam.

*Portal 2 is $35 at Amazon.

Illustration roundup

A backstage look at Thomas Allen's illustration for this weekend's edition of the Wall Street Journal.



Spock + tentacles = Spoctopus tattoo by Daniel Limon. Via.



Ouroboros dog by David Creighton-Pester up for vote at Threadless.



Gogo Yubari by Dave Greco for Spoke Art's upcoming Tarantino and Coen Bros-themed show.



Three-headed tiger by Josh Keyes.



Paul Komoda and Miyo Nakamura work their magic on a blackboard at Menchie's (I hate Menchie's).

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A tattoo artist Lane Jensen, 30, came up a creative idea to give silicone breast implants to his cowgirl tattoo in order to make “her” looks shapely. Unfortunately two weeks later, his body rejected them.

“My body just rejected it. I guess my girl wasn’t meant to have 3D breasts,” he said. “I thought it would make for good promotion. Augmenting tattoos with implants is becoming very popular,” said Jensen.

Lane Jensen, who is the co-owner of Dragon FX tattoo and body piercing shop at Kingsway Garden Mall, has more than 20 tattoos on his body and the sexy cowgirl tattoo on his left leg was done three years ago.

A friend of Jensen, Brian Decker, who is also a New York-based micro-dermal surgeon, performed the implant procedure on him. But two weeks later, the sutures split and lymphatic fluid drained from Jensen’s leg.

Jensen said, “there was so much fluid in there. I went back to the studio and pushed on it gently – the implant shot right out. The surgery was done in ideal conditions and Decker did a perfect job. It just goes to show you some people’s bodies won’t tolerate foreign objects.

“The body rejects 20% of them, no matter what kind of implant it is, how safely it’s done, or how skilled the surgeon or artist is. A lot of places won’t tell you rejection rates before you buy $10,000 implants to stuff inside your body.

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Brian Cummings is a Creative Director turned photographer from Saint Louis, MO.
The Bodies of Work series is an exploration of the art of tattooing explored through the artist and the human canvas.
Over the past year, Brian photographed tattoo artists and some of their clients. Special thanx goes out to all who helped.
Bodies of Work by Brian Cummings Photography.

























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