Travis Barker showcased his body art in an elegant set of black and white photos for the launch of his new jewelry collection.
The Blink-182 drummer and Kourtney Kardashian’s husband, 47, went shirtless in photos he posted to Instagram Thursday decked out in glittery highlights from his new collaboration with punk and heavy metal-inspired jewelry label Clocks. + colors.
Many of Travis’ new pieces seem to be modeled after classic chainrings that looked like they might have locked up a bicycle or served an industrial purpose.
“Design some awesome jewelry pieces with my friends @clocksandcolours ☠️⛓️,” Travis captioned his post, adding a safety pin, skull emoji, and chain.
Shiny: Travis Parker, 47, wore a T-shirt to show off his galore tattoos and his new jewelry collection with Clocks + Colors in an Instagram post from Thursday
In one photo that shows him from the waste up, Travis stared wildly to the side while wearing a thick silver chain around his throat.
He wore a similarly designed bracelet, which had additional links dangling from his wrist.
The rocking chair wore a thick chain around his neck in a picture taken from behind.
The individual links appear to have designs etched into them, and pointed silver nails have also been thrown into the mix.
Low key: many of his necklaces and bracelets featured semi-synthetic chains, though he did color them with pointed silver studs
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Another close-up showed another, smaller chainring with more modest links and similar screws attached to it.
The safety pin has a long legacy with punk rock, as the genre’s creators used it for both functional (to hold tattered clothes together) and purely decorative purposes, so it only made sense that Travis would go back to his roots with safety-pin-inspired designs.
Highlighting the drummer is a series of his set that were made of interlocking safety pins, but instead of the standard lock, the pins are designed with skull-shaped locks for a particularly edgy feel.
Images of the skull are reproduced in much greater detail with the silver ring most notable in close-up.
Travis reached up to adjust his black sunglasses to show off the jewelry, which featured a smiling skull on his index finger surrounded by patterned flames.
Scary: The safety pin has a long legacy with punk rock, so it only made sense that Travis would go back to his roots with safety pin-inspired designs. He wore a single pendant with skulls instead of the standard locks
Edgy: Images of the skull have been replicated in much greater detail with the silver ring most notable in close-up
Going for a car ride: Like his sisters-in-law Kendall and Kylie Jenner, Travis is a major car enthusiast, so he included a shot of himself behind the wheel to show off a variety of new items, including a simple chain necklace, his dangling bracelet and his skull ring chain
Like his sisters-in-law Kendall and Kylie Jenner, Travis is a major car enthusiast, so he included a shot of himself behind the wheel to show off a variety of new items, including a simple chain necklace, his signature dangling bracelet and his skull ring.
To commemorate Travis’ Clocks + Colors collection, the popular YouTuber Peter McKinnon He shared a video on Thursday documenting the photo session that resulted in the black and white photos.
McKinnon, who joked about how nervous he was to meet Travis, got some shots of the drummer posing with Shane Vitaly Foran, owner of Clocks + Colors.
The two posed against Travis’ car before the rocker flipped out for the camera.
Meeting of the Minds: Travis posed with Shane Vitaly Foran, owner of Clocks + Colors, in a video posted by popular YouTuber Peter McKinnon the same day
Having fun: The two posed in front of Travis’ car before the rocker panned for the camera
Jealous: During filming, McKinnon handed some jewelry to Travis to be photographed in, but he joked that he hoped Travis wouldn’t pick those pieces so he could keep them for himself
During filming, McKinnon handed some jewelry to Travis to be photographed in, but joked that he hoped Travis wouldn’t pick those pieces so he could keep them for himself.
“You can take it between takes,” Travis replied with a laugh, though he later gave McKinnon one of the skull rings as a gift after the shoot wrapped.
Travis concluded the video by showing the camera one of his favorite classic cars, of which he only boasted 700 miles, of which 400 miles he and his wife, Courtney, drove to dinner.
After McKinnon complimented the fuzzy dice dangling from his rearview mirror, Travis added that one of Kourtney’s sisters had gifted them to him, though he didn’t specify which member of the Kardashian-Jenner clan it was.
Kareem: “You can take it in between takes,” Travis replied with a laugh, though he later gave McKinnon one of the skull rings as a gift after the shoot wrapped.
The present: After McKinnon complimented the fuzzy dice dangling from his rearview mirror, Travis added that one of Kourtney’s sisters had gifted them to him, though he didn’t specify which member of the Kardashian-Jenner clan it was.
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