During tonight's Newaukee Night Market, OnMilwaukee will administer free temporary tattoos by a newfangled device called The Prinker.
The Prinker, a hand-held printer that quickly converts any drawing or design to a temporary tattoo, is from a South Korean company called SketchOn. The cost is $500, which includes the machine, ink cartridges and prep spray. Each cartridge prints up roughly 1,000 tattoos.
Visitors of OnMilwaukee's Night Market booth can select from a gallery of Milwaukee-themed LocaMojis created by OnMilwaukee art director Jason McDowell. The chosen image is sent to the Prinker device. Then, with one smooth stroke, the tattoo is painlessly printed onto the person's skin with cosmetic ink.
The tattoo lasts about 24 hours and can be easily removed with soap and water.
"Simpler designs work better, but it's been fun to mess around with different creations and test the levels of complexity that are possible with the Prinker," says McDowell. "Check it out at the Night Market."
But please, no "Prinker? I don't even know her" jokes.
Where: West Wisconsin Avenue, between Plankinton and Vel R. Phillips Avenues
Hours: Wednesday nights, June 12, July 10, Aug. 14 and Sept. 11, from 5-10 p.m.
Admission: Free
Highlights: All the local art, craft, food vendors, live art creation and music you could want, as well as a beer garden.
For more information: Visit NEWaukee's website.
Molly Snyder started writing and publishing her work at the age 10, when her community newspaper printed her poem, "The Unicorn.” Since then, she's expanded beyond the subject of mythical creatures and written in many different mediums but, nearest and dearest to her heart, thousands of articles for OnMilwaukee.
Molly is a regular contributor to FOX6 News and numerous radio stations as well as the co-host of "Dandelions: A Podcast For Women.” She's received five Milwaukee Press Club Awards, served as the Pfister Narrator and is the Wisconsin State Fair’s Celebrity Cream Puff Eating Champion of 2019.
