MEXICO: Spray Paint and Tattoo Ink – Murals, Canvas and Piel Ritual – Visual Artist POSK

The Mexican visual artist POSK creates fantastic creatures with a mix of mythology and abstract on canvas, on house walls in urban spaces or as a tattoo artist with his project PIEL RITUAL on human skin. The artworks inspire dreams of another world and are breathtaking and fascinating on both a large and small scale. We spoke with POSK in an interview about his great art and his interesting projects.

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CYPRUS: Colorful upcycling fashion from Limassol – The Sour Sisters Project

We live in a throwaway society, yes, but you can do something about that. Clothing in particular is discarded far too quickly, even though you could still do very interesting things with it. But often there is simply a lack of ideas. That’s what the sisters CRISPI and KAT from Limassol thought and started their creative upcycling venture: The SOUR SISTERS PROJECT!

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IRELAND: Creative colorful freak out fashion – Ashley Byrne & AB Design

Sometimes if you don´t like what’s available, you have to create something new by yourself. This can happen in many different areas of course, in this article it will be about fashion and clothing. The Dublin designer Ashley Byrne always wanted more color, more intense styles, more creativity, but the products you can get in the average stores are just too boring, mostly unified standards, mass production and without specialty. So Ashley started to create her own fantastic cloth and built up the label called AB Design.

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MEXICO / GERMANY: Mujer Gato – Dark Elegance and Steam Punk Fashion

I followed the photos of this fascinating artist lady on Instagram or Facebook for quite a while and always I thought those pictures are just damn cool, also very weird and often like from another world. The actress and creator of these scenarios with super stylish portraits is Dulce Ramirez. She currently lives in Heilbronn in Germany, but is actually from Mexico City. When she left her country about ten years ago, she did not only bring the cultural memory of the “Dia de los Muertos”, that means the “Day of the Dead”, but she also incorporated this theme into her art projects out of missing her home and from these first sparks of artistic development she designed a complete fashion queen of another kind. Namely herself: Mujer Gato. She’s weird, dark, interesting, different.

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CHILE: Bore Namazu Tattoos – Arica – Visit at BORE’s studio

In Arica on the northern Pacific Coast we made a little stop to do some surfing. The beaches and the waves are quite nice for several month. Next to the harbor we passed the Tattoo-Studio of the artist BORE, who showed us the shop and gave one of our colleagues an ear-piercing-plug for free. So we thought why not write an article about the tattoo studio. In the link you will find an interview with Bore and a video of a tattoo session and his shop.

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