Body Type: Intimate Messages Etched in Flesh is the first book devoted entirely to typographic tattoos. This book is not only for tattoo aficionados, but also for all lovers of typography, exploring the ideas and emotions behind this indelible commitment. (Click on images to see bigger)

Using LED glowsticks, flashlights, even fireworks, combined with time-lapse photography, light graffiti artists create a unique tagging that wraps around objects dimensionally, allowing them to tag in a way they’d never be able to with spraypaint. Although some street artists and taggers are not too fond of “Light Graffiti” being referred to as a real form of graffiti because it doesn’t have a physical presence or staying power.

Here is a collection of photos and a tutorial on how to make your own light graffiti photos from a crew in Germany who call themselves LICHTFAKTOR (Light Factor).

Joana Linda has kept an on going self-portrait project for the past 5 years which initially began as ’somewhat of a joke’ and has now become a very important part of her life. In her own words:

“It’s a documentation of moods, required and un-required love stories, lucky days and rainy ones. It’s also a form of psychoanalysis, catharsis and self-knowledge. This is my way of dealing with problems, indecisions, impossibilities. Each person has its own universe, its own imaginary, more important than the mundane day-to-day routine.”

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As I mentioned in a previous post about our day trip to Costa del Sol, a beautiful beach in El Salvador, here are some of the polaroids I took that day.