Trash Polka?

[smiling.politely]

prime example of a style that would look okay on canvas, or as a t-shirt design (and in those cases only sparingly), but not as a tattoo. even if applied in a way that's technically sound... eh.

[durtyxsanchezz]

I personally this is a badass style.. Xoil (Needles Side tattoo) calls his style photoshop and its sick as hell

[Joe Shit]

As bad as i can draw,i could put a better tattoo in than this guy.

GALLERY - Fuzi UVTPK

[Graeme]

As bad as i can draw,i could put a better tattoo in than this guy.

GALLERY - Fuzi UVTPK

That guy kind of fascinates me because he's such a bullshit artist and seemingly manages to at least some of the time pull it off. It takes a lot of balls (or maybe just a sociopathic lack of self-awareness) to do that.

[Shannon Shirley]

As bad as i can draw,i could put a better tattoo in than this guy.

GALLERY - Fuzi UVTPK

holy sh*t,that is some garbage,packaged as art,amazing.

[shinobi]

As bad as i can draw,i could put a better tattoo in than this guy.

GALLERY - Fuzi UVTPK

That shit looks awful.

[durtyxsanchezz]

That shit looks awful.

dudes graff. is pretty good, he shoulda never picked up a tattoo machine tho lol

[DJDeepFried]

I don't even think his graffiti is that good.

[Stacy]

Those tattoos look like the tattoos that Ninja, the singer from Die Antwoord have.

[ian]

dudes graff. is pretty good, he shoulda never picked up a tattoo machine tho lol

his graffiti is garbage as are his tattoos.

[JAllen]

Its still my favorite part of this style, the fact that everyone hates it so much.

[Dennis]

As bad as i can draw,i could put a better tattoo in than this guy.

GALLERY - Fuzi UVTPK

Holy Big Dogz Batman!

[durtyxsanchezz]

his graffiti is garbage as are his tattoos.

his attempt at bombing is alot better than his attempt at tattooing

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that FUZI UVTPK isnt trash polka,, its trash period.... Xoil does some awesome ass work check out some of his "photoshop" style

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Xo%C3%AFl-Needles-Side-TattOo/117449854938676?sk=photos_stream

[Dumpleton]

An Australian doing some of this style if it is what you are looking to get. Not really into it myself, each to their own.

Ran Maclurkin Designs

[YOMONEY]

As bad as i can draw,i could put a better tattoo in than this guy.

GALLERY - Fuzi UVTPK

what the shit! looks like somebody gave neckface a tattoo gun.

my tumblr feed has been full of this trash polka stuff, and everyones liking it. i dont get it..

[smiling.politely]

Its still my favorite part of this style, the fact that everyone hates it so much.

Only the ones that have eyes.

[Dan S]

Good ol' Fuzi...one tattoo done twenty different ways, each of them scuking harder than the last.

His tattoos suck, his graf sucks harder, his "fine art" is a Hoover, and his posing is world-class.

[Petri Aspvik]

The last two pages have looked like an issue of tattoo time. Seriously.

[Kurse]

I guess I'm a bit of a sucker for some of this stuff - it just looks so different. I didn't know it had a label so I googled trash polka when I saw that. Is trash polka commonly done in red & black ink? Seems everything that came up on google images was red & black.

Thanks to reading this thread I'm wondering if I'd still like this style 10 years down the road... perhaps not. Thinking I will stick to some of my more traditional ideas.

[Lance]

Apologies if this might have been said before. Good or bad, the Buena Vista stuff always reminds me of the graphics from an out of print magazine publication from the '90's called "Raygun", so it may be (or not really) quasi interesting to see something different that I would not get, personally for myself, this stuff is not cutting edge or artsy at all but dated, defunct, and done before.

I can see how some sub-cultures (goth) might find this cool though. To each their own.

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I guess I'm a bit of a sucker for some of this stuff - it just looks so different. I didn't know it had a label so I googled trash polka when I saw that. Is trash polka commonly done in red & black ink? Seems everything that came up on google images was red & black.

Thanks to reading this thread I'm wondering if I'd still like this style 10 years down the road... perhaps not. Thinking I will stick to some of my more traditional ideas.

If I'm not mistaken, "trash polka" is specifically the term coined by Buena Vista Tattoo for their style of work. Their work if memory serves, tends to be black and red or black and orange or some such.

[Johannes]

fuzi....could we please never mention him again on this forum? i kinda wanna punch him in the eye for doing what he does. skin molester! he's in sweden now i read somewhere...should i go and punch him in the eye?

[CultExciter]

@Lance, a David Carson reference! You're spot on with the comparison.

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As bad as i can draw,i could put a better tattoo in than this guy.

GALLERY - Fuzi UVTPK

Shit reminds me of Herbert Hoffman flash. The bad stuff.

[William Bergen]

Whether you like it or hate it, at least there's some artists out there that are willing to push the limit of what people may find tasteful. Tattoo's are all about self expression and power to those that feel this style does the job for them, especially if it's an artist and technically sound tattoo.

Here's a couple examples I found locally:

[rocketfish344]

I love 'em!!!

[Colored Guy]

The term is actually a play on words: Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka. Look it up.

I actually like some of it... good solid art work that you usually see in galleries, but on skin. If its executed into solid tattoo work, I can see it catching on.

Rob