Cool Hunting

It was a star-studded week at Needled beginning with the fabulous Margaret Cho and her equally fabulous Ed Hardy tattoo. Marisa spoke with Margaret about her motivation for the tattoo and the response is personal and provacative. The next day, Marisa runs into the World's Most Tattooed Person, Lucky Diamond Rich, on the streets of London, and he offers his thoughts on what it's like to change your skin from white to black with tattoos. One of Lucky's mentors is sideshow great, Captain Don Leslie, who put out a little known record of tunes he wrote about old school tattoo lore. For more body art nostalgia, Needled looks at the photographs of the recently deceased Albert Morse, a man who published one of the first photography books on tattoo art in the US. Also in fine art, is an exhibit of tattoo-inspired art work by 40 artists, most tattooists, at the Beverly Arts Center in Chicago. The week ends with a must-see for interior design fans, the Yakuza table, and for law buffs, a review of the recent federal case that upholds a ban on police officers displaying their spider web tattoos.