Relentless

Is an series of shorts. Or as the website puts it - “Everyone Forever Now is an episodic motion-based media project. It is an examination of the collective wisdom and expression of human actions.”

The project originates from Everyone, an LA based video production company. Their work has a gritty, unkempt but truly authentic feel. Watching an episode leaves you with the kind of feeling you get when exposed to something very honest. They are disturbing in an insightful and not an emotional way.

If you’ve got 15 minutes to kill and fancy a bit of journey we recommend you check them out.

www.everyoneforevernow.com/

This is the third blog post about tattooing we at Relentless have written in as many weeks. It's not that we have any special affinity to the art form over any other, it's just we celebrate those who approach life with a No Half Measures attitude and of late, coincidently, many of those type have been tattoo artists.

One such individual who is famed for living his life his way is Sailor Jerry. Formally known as Norman Keith Collins, Jerry was an American tattooist who is more comonly described as a big brute with a dirty mouth.But his uncompromising approach to life and eye for design made him pivotal in establishing America's - and in some respect the Western World's - tattoo culture.

Hi art was so striking and significant that today he is a brand. He has his own range of rum and many many other products all bearing his creations.

Now he is the subject of a documentary which realsed soon it looks set to be incredible, not bad for a guy who is famed for knocking his own teeth out with chopsitcks.

Look at the above picture. Looks like a nice enough oil painting, right? Wrong. It's actually a photograph of a real life situation with objects, people and places covered in acrylic paint.

Alexa Meade has innovated a Trompe-L’Oeil painting technique that can perceptually compress three-dimensional space into a two-dimensional plane. Her work is a remarkable fusion of installation, painting, performance, photography and video art, and is a truly unique subversion of a centuries-old formula.

More people now have tattoos than ever before.

What once was a marker of originality is now one of conformity. But, there are tattoos and there are TATTOOS.

At Relentless, when we talk tats, we are not talking about tramp-stamps or your average crotch dwelling cartoon character. We are referring to the latter. TATTOOS.

The type that adorned ancient warriors as symbols of superiority, success and sacrifice.

The type that were administered by hand with a tiny chisel in unsanitary conditions. Ancient markings that meant you have suffered and would suffer for what it is you believe in.

Whether you believe beauty is only skin deep or real only confidence comes from within, there is no arguing with how impressive can be.

We were reminded of this when we found this little gem online. It's a video about Japanese tattoo master, Horiyoshi III.

A picture is worth a thousand of them, and apparently actions speak much louder than them, but whatever your thoughts for us at Relentless, when we are searching for inspiration, there is nothing better than a good quote.

Here a few gems we unearthed online earlier.