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Finding the right tattoo is obviously very important since you'll be wearing it for life. Finding that tattoo can be challenging, and exhausting if you don't look in the right places. A tattoo gallery can actually take many forms. From print, to online, to outdoors. Here are three forms of a tattoo gallery where you can find your ideal tattoo.

1. The Parlor. Naturally there is going to be a decent tattoo gallery in a tattoo parlor. Here you can go through books of various designs and photos. The walls should also be covered with various tattoo design ideas. The disadvantage is you're not in a library where you can sit down and scour through the books for hours or check them out to bring home. You may need numerous visits to a tattoo parlor to look at your favorite designs over and over before making that important decision.

2. The Outdoors. Here's a tattoo gallery one doesn't generally think of. But the outdoors provides a vast assortment of tattoo ideas and if you can develop your eyes to see in tattoo imagery, the outdoors can be a great tattoo gallery. Areas of specific interest are graffiti areas where you can view not only potential tattoo images, but murals as well. I personally have a whole graffiti mural picked out which has inspired a tattoo design. Be sure to bring a camera and photograph any ideas.

3. Print books or Online Catalogues. Perhaps the best place to see a tattoo gallery is in the comfort of your own dwelling, alone, sifting through a printed book or an online catalogue. Here you can really feel out your tattoo design, let it sit with you for a few weeks and then come back to it and see if it's personally the real deal for you. Many guides or books can cut to the chase and show you the latest and best designs available as well as older, classic, tattoo designs.

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Tribal Art using vector graphics

If you liked the first and second set of Tribal Art Graphics, you will enjoy this third pack. This third set of tribal drawings was inspired by traditional and oriental style patterns. Tribal graphics are popular as tattoo drawings and decorative elements. Use these vector graphics on your next grunge design and add an edgier look to your composition. Also check out the first set of tribal art for more design ideas.

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Urban Art

Get some ideas for your next urban art project. Use these free vector graphics and add a little youth and city culture to your designs. The free vector shapes can be used as decoration elements or can be tweaked and incorporated into larger collages. This set of urban graphics include paint drips, graffiti markers and symbols, many variations of arrows, and a city landscape. Many people associate music with urban art, and different music icons were incorporated as well, such as vinyl records, speaker icons and sound waves. If you think of an urban cityscape, you also think of city structures, such as buildings, brick walls and chain link fences. Download this set, or come up with your own urban design and get some street cred.

Decorative Line Art designs

Need new decorative ornaments or futuristic line art for your next illustration? Try these abstract and geometrical designs on your next graphic design project. Easily combine the line drawings and create your own floral composition. Add some colorful circles, swirls and distress graphics to create a cool retro corner graphic. Included in this set are geometrical line art, line patterns, stars, swirl objects and floral elements, all in vector art.

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Art Collection

Volcom's First All Female Featured Art Collection!

Like roots made of lightning bolts the Volcom Featured Artist Series has been alive and growing for over ten years. Its purpose of providing vast and expansive new canvases for artists to spread their vision is alive with vigor. Since 1995, Volcom has lent its fabric and ink to artists with imagination and foresight to add color, depth and contrast to a planet that can never have enough.

For Spring 2009 Volcom is proud to present our first ever all female Featured Art Collection. This collection incorporates female artists from around the world creating featured art designs using their creative freedom to develop a unique Volcom piece.

Volcom Girls Spring 2009 Featured Artist are: Foi Jiminez, Mel Kadel, Lori D, Dashenka, Emily Hoy, Imok, Niki Kelce and Susan Maddux. This collection is now in finer stores everywhere!

illusions art

Many of us think we are in perfect control of what our minds believe to be true or false. But what happens when your mind is unable to determine what is impossible? Imagine what would happen if your mind suddenly overrides your conviction that something is false.

That is exactly how the mind perceives optical illusions! So just how do these intriguing illusions work? Your brain is constantly interpreting everything you see, feel and hear.



You rely on your mind for everything you do in your life from complex decision making and logic to the simplest tasks such as eating with a spoon. We take its incredible abilities for granted.



So how are we fooled? Well, it's because we learn to process certain images automatically. This is because our early development "hard wired" our perceptions. As a result, we learn to subconsciously interpret the images we see every day.


As a result, our minds learn to recognize and automatically process images and associate them with meaning and identity. For instance, young children learn to distinguish unique features in individual faces early in life. The same is true for animals. Each species can detect subtle differences in their peers that can not be detected by other types of animals.



However, optical illusions defy this hard wiring of logic, creating numerous camouflage, ambiguous, and flip flop illusions.



Because of this, no matter what type the illusion may be, it relies on the mind struggling with image overcoming logic patterns ingrained in our thought process.



The human brain is very capable of processing millions of bits of information simultaneously. Normally, this process occurs without a hitch, but optical illusions are images that are presented in such a way that deprives our minds eye of enough information to prevent it from processing it correctly.



Because of these automatic interpretations, we often see objects in otherwise random arrangements as something else entirely. In the case of the the picture above, we assume we see the shape of a spider emerging from the building.





One type of optical illusion is called a "flip flop" illusion. Although the dynamics of this type of illusion is unclear, they are truly intriguing.



The meaning of this image flip flops between a skull and a couple sitting at a table. This 1920's French postcard image titled "L'Amour de Peirrot" was a popular motif throughout the 20th century and inspired such artists as surrealist Salvador Dali. The artist who created the image, ironically, is unknown.



A scene's context and what you expect to happen can dramatically influence your perception in many fundamental ways. Over the years, there have been many studies demonstrating how a person's perception of an event can be dynamically controlled through priming and context.



A major contributing factor to why illusions occur is attributed to "priming" Priming is suggestion that influences judgments and in fact, the entire marketing industry relies on this type of influence in their advertising.



Although scientists can describe the different types of perceptual priming, there is still no real understanding on any level of why these perceptions occur.



Architecture has its share of illusions as well. In fact illusions have been used in architecture thousands of years and an example of that can be seen in the Parthenon. Ironically, the Parthenon contains no straight lines in its architecture.



There are seven eagles in this painting, can you find them all? As in this type of an illusion, the images are hard to see at first, but after your mind's eye sees them, the brain reorganizes the information so you are able to see them more easily in the future.



Imagine trying to dance on this floor.

Of course, with the advent of the technological age, the venues for our human expression have multiplied. Here are examples of new ways we have discovered to play these delightfully visual pranks on each others minds.

Body Art

Body art is a fairly new form of optical illusion. In this image, the hand is easy to see, but the mind ignores it and focuses on the painted image.

This is painted on the back of a hand!



This Russian body art is amazing!!





Whatever the reason, optical illusions will continue to amaze and fascinate us as well as make us wonder just how they really do manage to fool us.

More Optical Illusions

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Ahem! Designer Kim Joon from Korea has come with the body art. The above is the bird land-batman, one of the body arts. More pictures after the break.