About

My name is Arthur Lacoste. Most of the time, I sign Arthak.

I tattoo, I code, I make objects, I record conversations, I build small tools, then I start another idea before the previous one is perfectly finished.

This site is a small map of all that. Readable, hopefully.

Make first, understand after

I understand things by making them.

A tattoo. A website. A 3D printed object. A podcast episode. An open source tool. A tiny app that solves one annoying problem and creates two new ones.

"Make things fast, break things, fix things" is pretty much my mantra. It is never perfect, but it is my way of understanding.

Tattooing and Studio Pixel

I tattoo in Grenoble, at Studio Pixel.

Studio Pixel is a private tattoo studio and a collective space. Artists pass through, with different styles, different habits, different ways of seeing images.

I like that tension. Enough structure to work properly. Enough freedom to keep the place alive.

My tattoo work moves around bold lines, strong shapes, sketches, symbols, cartoon, abstraction and visual experiments.

Cellophane & Vaseline

With Cellophane & Vaseline, I talk about creativity in French.

Not the clean and inspiring version. More the real version: how people work, learn, doubt, find tricks, lose time, and start again anyway.

I like the backstage part. The method behind the image. The weird routine behind the clean result.

Code, tools and open source

I also build tools. Most of them are available on GitHub.

Winegold, MCPRelay, Listme, a 3D model parser, old tests, half-finished ideas, small systems that help me understand the bigger ones.

Open source speaks to me because it leaves the door open. You can look, reuse, improve, or just learn from the mess.

That feels healthier than pretending everything arrived perfectly polished from the sky.

Objects, 3D and bricolage

I also like making physical things.

3D objects, tests, small builds, practical things, useless things, forms somewhere between tool, toy and excuse to learn a new process.

The good thing with matter is that it does not care about your concept.

Too big, too fragile, badly thought out, impossible to print. It tells you fast. Then you adjust.