One of these good newsfeed days when more than just a few links proved to be interesting!

Let’s start with some history: ‘a secret story of women and tattoos’ focuses on such women as Nora Hilderbrandt, Betty Broadbent and others.  From Germany an interview with an iconic figure of the tattoo scene, Henk schiffmacher.

Very odd news from Russia: Russian soldiers are encouraged to look for intimate tattoos on each other.

Definitely interesting: ‘sociologists find similarities in meanings behind protestant work ethics and modern religious tattoos’!

‘Do tattoos hurt job seekers?’ from NC and another about ear stretching with some comments pointing out that sooner or later those into ear stretching now will regret it later down the road.

A book focused on Stockholm straight from the Millennium Trilogy (with tattoo parlors covered, too).

A short video of Matt Gone at Venezuela Tattoo Expo (a short slide show here).

And finally an interesting interview with the actress playing the main character in ‘American Mary’ (should I watch this movie???) where she states an interesting thing: The body modification people in this film are the most normal, well-adjusted, happy people, whereas the other people who are socially accepted and are idolised like doctors, surgeons, they’re the most fucked up.