Before the 200-m butterfly final in the 2016 Rio Olympics, the then 25-time Olympic Medallist put on a pretty mean game face.

The face itself had shades of and evil Anakin Skywalker about to slay young Jedi or an upset teenager who had his iPad taken away. While that made the internet go crazy, Phelps would go on to put on yet another golden performance...

The 12th London International Tattoo Convention, the most exciting, anticipated, spectacular and resoundingly successful celebration of body art in the world, has been confirmed for the weekend of 23/24/25 September 2016 at Tobacco Dock, 50 Porters Walk, London E1W 2SF.

Over 200 of the world’s finest, most prestigious elite tattoo artists have already been accredited to showcase their sensational talents in public at this exhilarating extravaganza, including stars such as Tim Hendrix of NY Ink fame and Japanese legend Shige. Check out www.thelondontattooconvention.com/artists/2016 for the full list of prominent artists already announced to be working in a dazzling diverse range of styles over the weekend...

Remember your first cell phone? Aside from making a phone call, it likely didn’t really do all that much. Today our smartphones are capable of thousands of different functions and sometimes we can even forget they make phone calls.

Every day the power of our smartphones are taking advantage of newer technology, with the newest trend for tattooing being augmented reality tattoo apps, helping us become more and more addicted to our cellular devices. Augmented reality involves a technology that blends CGI graphics into a user’s view of the real world, providing a composite view. Perhaps you’ve tried to virtually place IKEA furniture into your room using this technology, or have noticed the heavy increase of the “face swap” feature on Snapchat utilized in your facebook feed. More recently the art of getting a tattoo has started to see augmented reality increase in prominence...