Tattoosday (A Tattoo Blog)

Ryan Shares Two Tattoos by "Brooklyn P"

I often wonder how may Tattoosday encounters would have been lost had my apartment come with its own laundry facilities. I raise this point because, yet again, I met someone cool with tattoos at my local laundromat and he was generous enough to share his ink with us here on Tattoosday.<br /><br />In fact, Ryan, who is this particular contributor, and I share a common bond, which is that we have both been tattooed by the same artist, Peter Caruso a.k.a. "Brooklyn P," who originally shared his work with us here on the site way back in 2008 <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2008/06/peter-carusos-ink-old-school-brooklyn.html">here</a>.<br /><br />Ryan currently has a back piece in progress, but he shared two tattoos from his legs. First, on his right leg, is this work:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3K1U60xrEO1OGD_JfZmnlxXZ8v-gT3TlJuNU42nZ0aa3XJN7puuo7laRQ_iw11ufRX2oXiVT_AJ_ofiXyQ2CNYZGmvWnDE91phlTz8vr8iNlKiJSRi5jpUEGoYODsVctOa5lid8UYBsE/s1600/Polito+Caruso+r.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3K1U60xrEO1OGD_JfZmnlxXZ8v-gT3TlJuNU42nZ0aa3XJN7puuo7laRQ_iw11ufRX2oXiVT_AJ_ofiXyQ2CNYZGmvWnDE91phlTz8vr8iNlKiJSRi5jpUEGoYODsVctOa5lid8UYBsE/s640/Polito+Caruso+r.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><br />This pin-up girl is classic old school Brooklyn ink, based on flash by the legendary artist Tony Polito. Brooklyn P is an admirer of Polito, and even shared a piece that Tony did on him <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2010/08/small-world-tattoosday-style.html">here</a>.<br /><br />Ryan also has this tattoo of butterflies on his left leg, which is based on a original design by Brooklyn P:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpnofX1gfXiG3deKRX7oL745gXFgeOk87EffWXRLYZ9q__mAbMUAIkt-vZ1anInuPHCWYitp-wkJiAXVbjk2LCDcrNa7ZF_rdZ_lz0SJ2CKVQB0xCijPpFE9XNP6fycKP62UYCzYZIUE8/s1600/butterflies+caruso+r.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpnofX1gfXiG3deKRX7oL745gXFgeOk87EffWXRLYZ9q__mAbMUAIkt-vZ1anInuPHCWYitp-wkJiAXVbjk2LCDcrNa7ZF_rdZ_lz0SJ2CKVQB0xCijPpFE9XNP6fycKP62UYCzYZIUE8/s640/butterflies+caruso+r.jpg" width="272" /></a></div><br />Ryan estimates he has about fifteen tattoos in all.<br /><br />My tattoo from Brooklyn P is documented <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2009/06/my-third-tattoo-hand-steeped-in-faith.html">here</a>.<br /><br />Thanks to Ryan for sharing his tattoos with us here on Tattoosday! And thanks again to Brooklyn P, who continues to work hard at keeping that old school style of Brooklyn tattooing alive!<br /><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2012 Tattoosday. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</a> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span></div>

Ryan Shares Two Tattoos by "Brooklyn P"

I often wonder how may Tattoosday encounters would have been lost had my apartment come with its own laundry facilities. I raise this point ...

3:40 AM

Repost: Keikikalani

Today my daughter Shayna had her bat mitzvah. In honor of Shayna, and in light of the rabbi commenting on angels and cherubim during the service, my sister Alicia suggested I repost my second tattoo, in honor of my youngest daughter.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPmhfwqV_mLH8Wbm2BhknOxnnB71W7Fkf53Wu4zz9bqf-lAKJGLcP1XU3IHl-uIB6w50ZweNX2TK-9VjUnpzWXo27f17es4FXw21DiwSzPeA-qhyphenhyphenLIYQ8rDPb9TUOBkDtB2ysuEtmcV5_q/s1600-h/100_0903.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218733889519704066" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPmhfwqV_mLH8Wbm2BhknOxnnB71W7Fkf53Wu4zz9bqf-lAKJGLcP1XU3IHl-uIB6w50ZweNX2TK-9VjUnpzWXo27f17es4FXw21DiwSzPeA-qhyphenhyphenLIYQ8rDPb9TUOBkDtB2ysuEtmcV5_q/s400/100_0903.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><br />You may recognize this from the bottom of the page (or for long-time readers, it once served as the masthead).<br /><br />This is my second tattoo, inked in July 2005, by Peter Cavorsi at <a href="http://www.bodyartstudios.com/">Body Art Studios</a> in Brooklyn. I brought him this art as  reference, and he ran with it, customizing it to more closely reflect my younger daughter's blonde hair, and her affinity for Green Day, at the young age of six.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii4z15XIkXzG18aGiznTKa784u23JEsloT9xR27IslGPDI-MCUSUwADV-gvTueQCzYVzh2VOKztpRKLCajCHrLZe6SQPx96HjX8LFzpCGK78p7-tZuImUkDW4LVmlnmGH9DSVqkT7ZulZK/s1600-h/CherubGuitar.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218734466683112066" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii4z15XIkXzG18aGiznTKa784u23JEsloT9xR27IslGPDI-MCUSUwADV-gvTueQCzYVzh2VOKztpRKLCajCHrLZe6SQPx96HjX8LFzpCGK78p7-tZuImUkDW4LVmlnmGH9DSVqkT7ZulZK/s400/CherubGuitar.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>Thanks for reading Tattoosday!

Repost: Keikikalani

Today my daughter Shayna had her bat mitzvah. In honor of Shayna, and in light of the rabbi commenting on angels and cherubim during the ser...

12:55 PM

Orphans

<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Call them what you will, what I will go with is “Orphans”.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I have a handful of posts that have lingered “on deck,” so to speak, that are, by themselves, sad little bits that were never completed, or, for whatever reason, didn’t pass muster with Tattoosday’s editorial board.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">However, by packaging them together, I can cross them off my list once and for all, and move on. A Spring Cleaning, if you will.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">So let’s get down to business:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Last March 25, I posted <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2011/03/home-is-where-star-is.html">this New York’ish piece</a> on Jonathan. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A few days later, Jonathan got another tattoo and sent me a preliminary photo:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaN6xhLKgOEsizih6TOcvuWUUwy9UB8CQkms2ibsJSk4rDIWwt20pdYjKN6_a5oMP5rvJwhY0o_sSMAE6qjlG_py82ZNCEg6WcCGkJL1xLu_9mX8LzLUn3BSi7xH4keMqegJpmh9xykkw/s1600/owl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaN6xhLKgOEsizih6TOcvuWUUwy9UB8CQkms2ibsJSk4rDIWwt20pdYjKN6_a5oMP5rvJwhY0o_sSMAE6qjlG_py82ZNCEg6WcCGkJL1xLu_9mX8LzLUn3BSi7xH4keMqegJpmh9xykkw/s400/owl.jpg" width="312" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I asked him if he could send me a better photo of this pretty awesome owl tattoo. I asked again at the end of April, and again at the end of May.  I followed up again in October, at which point Jonathan said he would send me a new photo soon.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Look, things happen, and I hardly see Tattoosday as the center of the universe. There comes a time, however,  when I’m going to have to assume that it’s fallen by the wayside, and move on. This means, of course, that Jonathan will email me a crisper photo tomorrow. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">~~<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">At the end of last April, I ran into a guy named Nick on the West 4<sup>th</sup> Street subway platform. I snapped this photos:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ_NWTWqlE7HmiNEXi-HWFHDkeeQJkkoJU8QpGl02mHS6G4vNpcDFNtXWHpQSkPTREPrc1_YZzW1WcmLJeuexILayNBT-y1Jmdz1t0_SX2R0yNpD2s3gf7_YC7kX_9-n22acyEs9zQ5xw/s1600/nick+coverup.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ_NWTWqlE7HmiNEXi-HWFHDkeeQJkkoJU8QpGl02mHS6G4vNpcDFNtXWHpQSkPTREPrc1_YZzW1WcmLJeuexILayNBT-y1Jmdz1t0_SX2R0yNpD2s3gf7_YC7kX_9-n22acyEs9zQ5xw/s640/nick+coverup.jpg" width="330" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The reason I balked at posting this originally was because the piece is a cover-up of a cross, and the original tattoo is fairly visible in its new incarnation.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I was concerned that a stand-alone post would incur the wrath of the tattoo purists and the story that this was a memorial piece for Nick’s grandfather would be lost. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thus, it ended up in Tattoosday’s home for Orphan Tattoos.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thanks to Nick, nonetheless, for sharing it with us.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">~~<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Also last April, I met a guy named Johnny in Penn Station. I noticed as I was passing by  that he had script peeking out from under his shirt at the top of his chest and I handed him a flier and a card. In May, he sent me the following two photos and the accompanying description:</span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hey Bill,</span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We met in Penn Station a couple of weeks ago. I finally got some pictures of a couple of my tattoos. Both of these were done by Krista at </span><a href="http://www.empire-ink.com/live/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Empire Ink</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> in Akron, OH.</span> </blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinur6JZcxgq-i13z95rEIxKq5BokUHZZW7FK6tgAPLySZRmONHrrusewUBLmBdAxfvUPoW4UTu1Z1sVF_uwiY2K_GL2sS2Xohs0ktIi5SW7Lu2qCWnDUgeEH4v-nUu_lPXJlxnjo-0XVg/s1600/pinup+1+flip.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinur6JZcxgq-i13z95rEIxKq5BokUHZZW7FK6tgAPLySZRmONHrrusewUBLmBdAxfvUPoW4UTu1Z1sVF_uwiY2K_GL2sS2Xohs0ktIi5SW7Lu2qCWnDUgeEH4v-nUu_lPXJlxnjo-0XVg/s400/pinup+1+flip.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The pin-up girl was drawn by my grandmother when she was 16 for my grandfather while they were dating. The other was an original design. </span></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPVUhMtPRlzTfoO1nWlNkqesGvUOo2dFbpGDYI-4AsnEj0YV8SplSDCMdJWlcmSfXjZ-0GIiXmXu0n5nR-HWEnoc6HUkaDWRFaLg6ViwvzWgnyeQfADWUgo0chK0crz6GfULtHBvcUevg/s1600/chest+heart+flip.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPVUhMtPRlzTfoO1nWlNkqesGvUOo2dFbpGDYI-4AsnEj0YV8SplSDCMdJWlcmSfXjZ-0GIiXmXu0n5nR-HWEnoc6HUkaDWRFaLg6ViwvzWgnyeQfADWUgo0chK0crz6GfULtHBvcUevg/s400/chest+heart+flip.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Latin quote at the top of the heart is a quote from Julius Caesar. It translates to "From the bottom of my heart". Thanks for the interest in the tattoos and letting me share. </span><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Johnny</span></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">Honestly, I don’t know why I didn’t post these originally. As time passed and the e-mail </span>traveled<span style="font-size: small;"> to the bottom of my inbox, it became an out-of-sight, out-of-mind submission. Thanks to Johnny for sending these in originally, and for waiting so patiently to see them appear on the site.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">~~<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">At the end of June 2011, I met a woman named Christina in Penn Station, whose ink did make the site a couple months later, <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2011/08/christinas-frankenstein-girl.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">here</a>. At the time, she was accompanied by two other people, one whose name was Damion. I took a picture of Damion’s tattoo, but it never made the site, until now. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Part of the reason Damion’s work never went live was due to the fact that it is an unfinished work, an orphan in more ways than one. Here’s the shot.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiErdkIywc27bGbcMurCpp5pSOtkn9_NX3owD95qq91oE70LFsM46lEuQL2hRukHLygPg2YVtYs_jkbSmA3jiRWd-w1HvcEVfe_ruzdIE2U6ms5aXIchdY6-rTE7MvyK8oXhIXyr0YpbGU/s1600/Damion+Wings.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiErdkIywc27bGbcMurCpp5pSOtkn9_NX3owD95qq91oE70LFsM46lEuQL2hRukHLygPg2YVtYs_jkbSmA3jiRWd-w1HvcEVfe_ruzdIE2U6ms5aXIchdY6-rTE7MvyK8oXhIXyr0YpbGU/s320/Damion+Wings.jpg" width="309" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Damion loves these wings, calling them his “prize possession”.  Why are they unfinished? He credited the artist Carlos Alfonso at <a href="http://www.risingdragon.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Rising Dragon Tattoo</a>, formerly located under the <a href="http://www.hotelchelsea.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Hotel Chelsea</a> on 23<sup>rd</sup> Street. But, Damion informed me, Carlos passed away. It’s not so easy to have another artist finish the work of a deceased tattooist. Damion’s not the only one who was so affected, as you might imagine. The story rang a bell with me, as I had also featured Carlos’ work in a 2009 post with the ink of performance poet Jackie Sheeler <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2009/04/jackie-sheelers-swirling-tribal-tattoos.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A belated thanks to Damion for baring his back and showing off his wings in Penn Station!<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">~~<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As summer waned, I had a couple of unsuccessful encounters in September, in which the quality of the photos I took were substandard, and e-mails to the contributors went unanswered.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">For example, Chris shared this cool octopus on his leg:</span> <span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKdUJpxYYdrYfjjz0vo60DWttYkpZwRWEL-b_CLYYfVc1PUzhyphenhyphenDQF3RdRzs-9oNsSz2Ncowy4a91jrGkEDrTI9JstZxT1mlhiHl6dqaE68re16FTQWtZGZmOgk06PPFqpyiRRkLDmMdd4/s1600/octopus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKdUJpxYYdrYfjjz0vo60DWttYkpZwRWEL-b_CLYYfVc1PUzhyphenhyphenDQF3RdRzs-9oNsSz2Ncowy4a91jrGkEDrTI9JstZxT1mlhiHl6dqaE68re16FTQWtZGZmOgk06PPFqpyiRRkLDmMdd4/s640/octopus.jpg" width="312" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Can you tell it’s an octopus? There’s the issue. Chris’s leg hair and the glare of the sun renders this poor octopus almost invisible. It was inked by a Thai artist named<a href="http://www.myspace.com/supertong" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Tong</a>, working out of <a href="http://www.tatudharma.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Tatudharma</a> in Sydney, Australia. Chris was travelling and he “likes octopi,” recognizing that, “as far as invertebrates go, [they are] probably the most intelligent of them.”</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span><br />In a weird twist of this orphan post, the Tatudharma web site indicates that the shop is closed permanently, a result of it having been firebombed last April. The artists can still be contacted through the website, however.<br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A couple weeks later, my camera was programmed on the wrong setting, so I ended up with these two washed-out shots of interesting tattoos:<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibdgnMyYXOhWuuSEG6lgeI4vlhZaHc0qqXDHqUgAZW1oDktTYJ8SS2jsz4Ds0ooBCMSUy5ryVXn-laWAsolTKptv5s4QkB_Nx7vCdR3Dnhrd9taSw8TZ5hMuHh4rg_dlqLnaZHzqp61zA/s1600/Lindsay+plant.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibdgnMyYXOhWuuSEG6lgeI4vlhZaHc0qqXDHqUgAZW1oDktTYJ8SS2jsz4Ds0ooBCMSUy5ryVXn-laWAsolTKptv5s4QkB_Nx7vCdR3Dnhrd9taSw8TZ5hMuHh4rg_dlqLnaZHzqp61zA/s400/Lindsay+plant.jpg" width="186" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpozyXhYTQ_OP-m6IG5_hImMH5jaSTBEcWa7KX4-KILg-Q_PvU2lu2ijkrZMUWHffF8OGT6xiyDsoy1Bmr0Skry0uC_FHfOGuDjd4en54K5GrI0Dj7r_D_Jut4i1wsnm3wTNguuJsMx_o/s1600/lindsey+bird.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpozyXhYTQ_OP-m6IG5_hImMH5jaSTBEcWa7KX4-KILg-Q_PvU2lu2ijkrZMUWHffF8OGT6xiyDsoy1Bmr0Skry0uC_FHfOGuDjd4en54K5GrI0Dj7r_D_Jut4i1wsnm3wTNguuJsMx_o/s320/lindsey+bird.jpg" width="248" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The host of these pieces is Lindsey, a Southern Californian who had both tattoos inked in San Diego.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The plant was done about 8 or 9 years ago by an artist named Alethio.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6058251288236499429&postID=8974985518998789005" name="id.903e1982040c" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;"></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“I had my boyfriend draw it,” she explained, “I told him I wanted a dictionary-style type of flower, so he kinda came up with a design, so it’s not an actual plant, it’s fictitious … I wanted something organic to be represented on me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The bird on her other arm was done by Gary at <a href="http://www.acetattoo.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Ace Tattoo</a>. “That was the beginning of a sleeve that never happened,” Lindsey said with a sigh.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thanks to Chris and Lindsey for sharing their tattoos and for hopefully forgiving  my camera for betraying them.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">~~<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">And last, but not least is this piece from December:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv887CzktMsgvfVZCFcywfi7H1vfV0Y2yrzQdVOFyuWeOORpzHdyxqs3EVcpLmcmoUza-0paq8E0MObCpZLMoz4ZqPJMaIzgCWsI7zHxk78mDqXqRMcnffMeZ_D9mzZZERJQja4BXALX8/s1600/wanderlust.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv887CzktMsgvfVZCFcywfi7H1vfV0Y2yrzQdVOFyuWeOORpzHdyxqs3EVcpLmcmoUza-0paq8E0MObCpZLMoz4ZqPJMaIzgCWsI7zHxk78mDqXqRMcnffMeZ_D9mzZZERJQja4BXALX8/s1600/wanderlust.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px;"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Jen acknowledged that it wasn’t done very well, but she said she had a good reason for getting it. I did send an email as a follow-up, but more than one reeks of desperation. Maybe one of these days Jen will find my card or flier and finally e-mail me back to </span>explain<span style="font-size: x-small;"> what <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanderlust" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">wanderlust</a> means to her. Until then, we’re left with this orphan.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /><div style="text-align: center;">~~</div></div><div class="MsoNormal">Believe it or not, we still have a few 2011 photos left in the tank, but this entry takes out a good chunk of our backlog. Thanks for giving these orphans a home, even if its just for a minute or two.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">This entry is ©2012 Tattoosday.</span></div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br />If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</a>and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span><br /></div></div></div>

Orphans

Call them what you will, what I will go with is “Orphans”. I have a handful of posts that have lingered “on deck,” so to speak, that are, by...

5:44 AM

Cleaning Out the Inbox - Post-Valentine's Day February Edition

Occasionally I will post a handful of items that came my way, in one form or another, that may be of interest to our readers.<br /><br />For example, the other day my mother-in-law gave me a clipping from the <i>New York Daily News</i> that appeared back on Sunday, November 2011.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.979345.1321566335!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="424" src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.979345.1321566335!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/image.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><h4 class="credit" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase;">TODD MAISEL/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS</h4><h4 class="caption" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="color: #4e4e4e; margin-bottom: 0.8em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Michael McLeer of Brooklyn Made Tattoo on 93rd St. in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, designed the label for the new Beaujolais Nouveau and has his vintage 1976 Cadillac decorated the same way.</div></h4><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Readers of Tattoosday and/or residents of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, where we are based, will recognize "Kaves," as he is known. I first encountered his work back in 2008 <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2008/08/under-verrazano-narrows-bridge.html">here</a> and, last May, he shared a piece on his own canvas, a portrait by Mark Mahoney <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2011/05/mr-kaves-shares-mark-mahoney-portrait.html">here</a>. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Kaves is a true artist  on multiple fronts, and the photo above showcases his latest project, a wine label he designed. Read more about him and his Beaujolais in the full article <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/eats/bay-ridge-tattoo-artist-michael-kaves-mcleer-designs-label-2011-beaujolais-nouveau-article-1.979346#ixzz1mG5pDeFR">here</a>. </span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;">~</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />Check out this tattoo-themed wallpaper:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://ffurious.com/images/_covers/feb_2012/fF_Heart-on-Your-Sleeve.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="398" src="http://ffurious.com/images/_covers/feb_2012/fF_Heart-on-Your-Sleeve.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">So it's not Valentine's Day any more, but it's still pretty cool. You can grab this on the fFurious website here: <a href="http://ffurious.com/index.html?latest.html" style="text-align: center;">http://ffurious.com/index.html?latest.html</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">~</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Speaking of Valentine's Day, I missed the opportunity to post this love-related tattoo video. Needles and Sins beat me to it, but I'll share it anyway.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="284" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/pJmUqn2G5ME" width="500"></iframe><br /><br />That's from Brooklyn comedian <a href="http://www.ucbcomedy.com/talent/view/1390/boris-khaykin">Boris Khaykin</a>. Pretty funny!<br /><br />~<br /><br />Normally, I like to stay positive on Tattoosday, so I've avoided posting all those "10 worst tattoos" lists and other such web features that mock the less-fortunate in the inked nation. However, this link, is actually pretty clever. It's called "10 Horrible and Unexpected Tattoo Consequences" and can be read <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/10-horrible-and-unexpected-tattoo-consequences/molly-mahan">here</a>. Writer Molly Mahan elicited several chuckles from this here jaded inkblogger. Besides, you can learn a bit about " the first case of nonischemic priapism following penile tattooing". That's worth the price of admission right there.<br /><br />~<br /><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2012 Tattoosday. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: left;">If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</a> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</div></span><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div>

Cleaning Out the Inbox - Post-Valentine's Day February Edition

Occasionally I will post a handful of items that came my way, in one form or another, that may be of interest to our readers. For example, t...

6:57 AM

Ivan Shares an Amazing David Sena Tattoo

This post is a straggler from 2011 and readers may wonder why it took so long to appear here on the site.<br /><br />First, take a gander:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOzXtK5zyiPwUXQupdXbkBxavd12vivRnC9_I2Nadf8W19HdoOBZBKQJt4I7pmX3_jbo0XgLeh__sUjHg6laIQqYo07qR7dtFekAMzPIUDU3lQZyFJNmESSMAYHrP_UkwzRZlhb0lQpuw/s1600/ivan+cena+piece.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOzXtK5zyiPwUXQupdXbkBxavd12vivRnC9_I2Nadf8W19HdoOBZBKQJt4I7pmX3_jbo0XgLeh__sUjHg6laIQqYo07qR7dtFekAMzPIUDU3lQZyFJNmESSMAYHrP_UkwzRZlhb0lQpuw/s640/ivan+cena+piece.jpg" width="312" /></a></div><br />Pretty cool, isn't it?<br /><br />Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of information on it, as I snapped this on the subway one evening last June, and I wasn't able to record a lot of details. This is what I do know: the host of this tattoo is Ivan, and the piece  took 2 sessions and approximately 15 hours to complete. The talented artist behind this is <a href="http://senaspace.com/">David Sena</a> from <a href="http://northstartattoo.com/">North Star Tattoo</a> in New York City.<br /><br />The detail in the piece is wonderful:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQJl7LvopEnay-s6WTwi9xtbUOx5IBcYLrTwq7OF5QDFviUEVsa9ip2uldmdk8d-f71tjAVvfTkaoqNaJqseGZqXOy3c4laDwIKk_jwYMN-t6k8grMIm95RV-m9ON5Ni_vuIiw1NR9KsM/s1600/ivan+cena+detail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQJl7LvopEnay-s6WTwi9xtbUOx5IBcYLrTwq7OF5QDFviUEVsa9ip2uldmdk8d-f71tjAVvfTkaoqNaJqseGZqXOy3c4laDwIKk_jwYMN-t6k8grMIm95RV-m9ON5Ni_vuIiw1NR9KsM/s400/ivan+cena+detail.jpg" width="292" /></a></div><br />And the scale of the tattoo as it wraps around the arm is impressive:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRcSY18HxPRxaRwD1mRKgC5MouYSL3gaMl9XoJWxJpL_TcifCkPTu5RIbNdQWldR6urqVA6BYgm5YokeiEP8mWC1tJSbwBTGzG4-j2qhmfM4ivkcruImGNHvPQ4pwQfl-dXB4ZmXVOui8/s1600/ivan+cena+side.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRcSY18HxPRxaRwD1mRKgC5MouYSL3gaMl9XoJWxJpL_TcifCkPTu5RIbNdQWldR6urqVA6BYgm5YokeiEP8mWC1tJSbwBTGzG4-j2qhmfM4ivkcruImGNHvPQ4pwQfl-dXB4ZmXVOui8/s640/ivan+cena+side.jpg" width="262" /></a></div><br />Unfortunately, there's not much more I can provide in terms of what went into the work, but the quality of the tattoo speaks for itself.<br /><br />Thanks to Ivan for allowing me to snap these shots on the subway and consenting to sharing them here on Tattoosday!<br /><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2012 Tattoosday. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</a> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span></div>

Ivan Shares an Amazing David Sena Tattoo

This post is a straggler from 2011 and readers may wonder why it took so long to appear here on the site. First, take a gander: Pretty cool,...

3:30 AM

Dmitry's Sleeve and Invader Zim

We still have a handful of posts from 2011, including this one, which features a sleeve from a guy named Dmitry who I met in Penn Station back in July. Take a look:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik7AGc8eTElucWpbPHSn_HoQ25-GJL4nauj1S_6ynKfX2MyjP4lWXyz1pzI_ysFBGkNWWO_BX3JydVdrR9Ipc1JvX_8d1LN0JyfzL4PQ_rICJZS5Rdk6Z9ljQI6-rNU6yOiuXsyx5Fw7U/s1600/Dmitry+1+and+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik7AGc8eTElucWpbPHSn_HoQ25-GJL4nauj1S_6ynKfX2MyjP4lWXyz1pzI_ysFBGkNWWO_BX3JydVdrR9Ipc1JvX_8d1LN0JyfzL4PQ_rICJZS5Rdk6Z9ljQI6-rNU6yOiuXsyx5Fw7U/s1600/Dmitry+1+and+2.jpg" /></a></div><br />This sleeve is a collaborative effort with Dmitry and his tattoo artist, <a href="http://tattooculture.net/skill-type/residents/gene">Gene Coffey</a>, from <a href="http://tattooculture.net/">Tattoo Culture</a> in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.<br /><br />He explained that he has spent a long time working on it, and that it is based on a animated series called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invader_Zim">Invader Zim</a>, which was created by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jhonen_Vasquez">Jhonen Vasquez</a> and originally aired in 2001.<br /><br />Dmitry told me "I've always been a big fan of [the show] and I've always loved the artwork." He brought Gene "a few pictures from the show and we put together the piece".<br /><br />The sleeve starts on the upper arm, featuring Zim at the very top, <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9o4e-LrkIbfXM6qBrUkHkPIRh00x3iroid4JJrfBHy-nnzXFaHG4_GJQLGULM3knXLPUl4Fn69aoHuTtldAFIp2I0y4mDC20yfJnPTXXz9IjtrmMq2u5h57P2q32e8nS6qxqZuLuH_3Y/s1600/Dmitry+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9o4e-LrkIbfXM6qBrUkHkPIRh00x3iroid4JJrfBHy-nnzXFaHG4_GJQLGULM3knXLPUl4Fn69aoHuTtldAFIp2I0y4mDC20yfJnPTXXz9IjtrmMq2u5h57P2q32e8nS6qxqZuLuH_3Y/s640/Dmitry+1.jpg" width="289" /></a></div><br />The bottom section of the sleeve features other characters from the show, as well.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-vaourBdIhb-dYAj0o_CBzoFHS-7YSp00tPf7q8F0YF3mB7xIRY1b1Rhn5MPA0yY-4i4S1LFY1gaMOqxz3bAuTST93fOp1gOmXZqRlpOM6v0h7efQRK9Dn1pIrjYpZR_tspcOgnYdJ3o/s1600/Dmitry+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-vaourBdIhb-dYAj0o_CBzoFHS-7YSp00tPf7q8F0YF3mB7xIRY1b1Rhn5MPA0yY-4i4S1LFY1gaMOqxz3bAuTST93fOp1gOmXZqRlpOM6v0h7efQRK9Dn1pIrjYpZR_tspcOgnYdJ3o/s640/Dmitry+2.jpg" width="226" /></a></div><br />The back of the lower section of the arm has this illustration:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh99KMvsIjpTmu-o8IW6PC3-echqkQDM5PeyctphXLyCGO1GcUgbaMepq2EW2cZIwBFg9F6KxttCk1-fbrUTi3KgxnUOIjWqMx-k0EHZegw2t__H7pNdqYs8JtbCcoE7jyBq4UA2ibfvDg/s1600/Dmitry+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh99KMvsIjpTmu-o8IW6PC3-echqkQDM5PeyctphXLyCGO1GcUgbaMepq2EW2cZIwBFg9F6KxttCk1-fbrUTi3KgxnUOIjWqMx-k0EHZegw2t__H7pNdqYs8JtbCcoE7jyBq4UA2ibfvDg/s640/Dmitry+3.jpg" width="196" /></a></div><br />There's a whole catalog of the characters from the show listed <a href="http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Characters_from_Invader_Zim">here</a>. I'd venture to try and identify every one seen in Dmitry's canvas, but I would most likely misname one or two. He told me the show has achieved a kind of cult following so, if any fans would like to add comments below, feel free to do so.<br /><br />Thanks to Dmitry for sharing his fantastic tattoo sleeve with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2012 Tattoosday. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</a> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span> </div>

Dmitry's Sleeve and Invader Zim

We still have a handful of posts from 2011, including this one, which features a sleeve from a guy named Dmitry who I met in Penn Station ba...

9:05 AM

Jon Paul's Three Cities

Last August, I met Jon Paul,  writer and content producer for the web site <a href="http://www.poptimistic.com/">Poptimistic </a>(<a href="http://www.poptimistic.com/">http://www.poptimistic.com</a>). He shared this tattoo, one of three he has, from his upper right arm:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVF1nheJHqBKX8PPO_XgpP4cQvfx-WT1gBeuw__eonctXfQFs64P6rmpM8RKtH0L4ywoR-cQNIVLa9885jdhmbqDK7rdgMx0h6Aaux41RXhiA_akSmXz2ZnBEwB6XxkkmMpU_Qr4xVHDw/s1600/3+cities.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVF1nheJHqBKX8PPO_XgpP4cQvfx-WT1gBeuw__eonctXfQFs64P6rmpM8RKtH0L4ywoR-cQNIVLa9885jdhmbqDK7rdgMx0h6Aaux41RXhiA_akSmXz2ZnBEwB6XxkkmMpU_Qr4xVHDw/s640/3+cities.jpg" width="407" /></a></div><br />Jon Paul's focus on Poptimistic is travel and food. He credits the work to the artist <a href="http://www.fridayjones.net/studio.html">Friday Jones</a>, who does custom tattoo work out of <a href="http://sensesny.com/">Senses New York Salon & Spa</a> in the Flat Iron District. I mentioned Ms. Jones back on Tattoosday in 2009 <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2009/06/tattoos-in-news-friday-jones-fifth.html">here</a>.<br /><br />Jon Paul explained that he originally met Ms. Jones in New Orleans when she did  "the very first tattoo [he] got ... the compass that the rest of the  tattoo is built around." About a year later, he elaborated, "I went back to her and said, 'Now I want you to build a whole piece around my three favorite spots in the world.' So she designed it custom from that." She did it over three sessions.<br /><br />Represented among Jon Paul's three favorite places are New York City, where he calls home:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIrDs60taGz8orWb4tONe5NnwzSNsTU0iVU3RdEwC-FNmDAuXgLoJTLH3ccmGBYGWo7dF2krvTMhH54k06gaz67RE58GxkWeMtBcKDNV1pbMhRmY0VEnon_ezADSEiAFHSwAUd6fX9roQ/s1600/3+cities+-+ny.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIrDs60taGz8orWb4tONe5NnwzSNsTU0iVU3RdEwC-FNmDAuXgLoJTLH3ccmGBYGWo7dF2krvTMhH54k06gaz67RE58GxkWeMtBcKDNV1pbMhRmY0VEnon_ezADSEiAFHSwAUd6fX9roQ/s640/3+cities+-+ny.jpg" width="344" /></a></div><br />The Big Apple is represented by the Statue of Liberty and by the iconic Art Deco style of the landmark <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Building">Chrysler Buillding</a>. <br /><br />Paris is represented by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower">Eiffel Tower</a>:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd8fa4rdoa1zFFlvyT2C6AUxUB2HYvOXVkQQiUfon1uzFPQgirOt20Urs55VOe5jXli3U3wdwxAUrTdNgQYGnNsEJqHKiDGgiuZJKM94hlDgYgFtUCxss1Yvhy6oFhGxJXDRBi_-rBREE/s1600/3+cities+Paris.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd8fa4rdoa1zFFlvyT2C6AUxUB2HYvOXVkQQiUfon1uzFPQgirOt20Urs55VOe5jXli3U3wdwxAUrTdNgQYGnNsEJqHKiDGgiuZJKM94hlDgYgFtUCxss1Yvhy6oFhGxJXDRBi_-rBREE/s640/3+cities+Paris.jpg" width="324" /></a></div><br />Sydney, Australia is represented by it's recognizable <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Opera_House">Opera House</a>:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiapjxRhc5BZpkG1z21ZMQt4EyVsDZiwHiJfDpYUwQV8wMi_3N28Ks9lWfE1WVIeXAFTo5E_DGDR2ixHlwN1ax_3PpI30KGZ0sTRT0oHSmcDjkmi52w9TaCipY0go-kOJB9L2NQ61X1NuQ/s1600/3+cities+-+sydney.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiapjxRhc5BZpkG1z21ZMQt4EyVsDZiwHiJfDpYUwQV8wMi_3N28Ks9lWfE1WVIeXAFTo5E_DGDR2ixHlwN1ax_3PpI30KGZ0sTRT0oHSmcDjkmi52w9TaCipY0go-kOJB9L2NQ61X1NuQ/s400/3+cities+-+sydney.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Jon Paul said " Sydney I love just for the sheer beauty of it and the people ... are lovely." Jon Paul elaborates further on why he loves Australia in <a href="http://poptimistic.com/2011/08/destination-down-under%E2%80%94aussie-inhospitality/">this post</a>, which includes another photo of his tattoo.<br /><br />Thanks to Jon Paul for sharing his tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2012 Tattoosday. </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit http://tattoosday.blogspot.com and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span>

Jon Paul's Three Cities

Last August, I met Jon Paul, writer and content producer for the web site Poptimistic ( http://www.poptimistic.com ). He shared this tattoo...

3:37 AM

Richard's Mayan Calendar Honors His Heritage

Just two weeks ago, back in the first month of the current year, 2012, which as many may have heard, is the last year in the Mayan calendar, I met Richard in Penn Station. He has this amazing tattoo on his upper right arm:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPl5ZOrreO06Z-o6b8WzDNK_HC8Qu8ZnHBf2e4FHDJnQepgcTBaQJDPEsF_0k0dMaLUoAStxgdNMLrBqe08D5plcwLPpc4Q0rW4bvchIMs3QnSk4jhLs_QjSkAvvoAAajrniWvqqyaRzE/s1600/mayan+calendar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPl5ZOrreO06Z-o6b8WzDNK_HC8Qu8ZnHBf2e4FHDJnQepgcTBaQJDPEsF_0k0dMaLUoAStxgdNMLrBqe08D5plcwLPpc4Q0rW4bvchIMs3QnSk4jhLs_QjSkAvvoAAajrniWvqqyaRzE/s640/mayan+calendar.jpg" width="339" /></a></div><br />He had just finished the last section of the tattoo a couple weeks earlier. The piece is a cultural tribute to his and his family's Mexican heritage.<br /><br />This was done by Chuck Bondo at <a href="http://www.stationonetattoo.com/">Station 1 Tattoo</a> in Huntington, New York.<br /><br />Thanks to Richard for sharing this great tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><br />  <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2012 Tattoosday. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</a> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

Richard's Mayan Calendar Honors His Heritage

Just two weeks ago, back in the first month of the current year, 2012, which as many may have heard, is the last year in the Mayan calendar,...

3:40 AM

Kristina's Ambigram - Dream/Believe

It may be warm here in New York today, but last month we had a typical January day where temperatures were seasonably frigid. Not necessarily great inkspotting weather, but I ran into Kristina in Penn Station after seeing this tattoo on her calf:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoGwDPrgg0z_kK2ouaDEcagvxvhJEDqZtCi3hEVAB929A3IaKRgqwo_WaYICCEOqbOmel5dgWw0KjH9kfDyBY6EuLhqHNQ2cTXH1OUXiuEZSbcIiVugRBSjrHGoMaXU2prz9rN1TacCn0/s1600/dream+Ambigram+alt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoGwDPrgg0z_kK2ouaDEcagvxvhJEDqZtCi3hEVAB929A3IaKRgqwo_WaYICCEOqbOmel5dgWw0KjH9kfDyBY6EuLhqHNQ2cTXH1OUXiuEZSbcIiVugRBSjrHGoMaXU2prz9rN1TacCn0/s400/dream+Ambigram+alt.jpg" width="252" /></a></div><br />This is an ambigram, which is a design that reads differently, depending on the way you look at it. It appears as the word "dream"<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; tuext-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4-ZgiwpjmH1ZfYi3COvzDrIG9nuLav9wKtNoZD6iREAp5zCJNh9RAw6zXOd_5aYqcuZGcDRYOYnt1j2U0wNtoomEkh3MGT5RpiMNi1JeKjyHVixKNYY6qIsnrlmwJ3R2SmwQj5R54s7s/s1600/dream+ambigram+horiz+alt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4-ZgiwpjmH1ZfYi3COvzDrIG9nuLav9wKtNoZD6iREAp5zCJNh9RAw6zXOd_5aYqcuZGcDRYOYnt1j2U0wNtoomEkh3MGT5RpiMNi1JeKjyHVixKNYY6qIsnrlmwJ3R2SmwQj5R54s7s/s400/dream+ambigram+horiz+alt.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />If you flip your perspective, you see a similarly-inspiring message:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJu0ro1YUmoFMOuUz-Gl1hmk7QsmqPPel3xNW9QpLBNcvnK8ixpyaxPuqyazrwJHJhPIe5Pv7hqgNKLVmiEXdqW9bv8Xb1ytn62G2ztivpsUx_qJ1uURsyHYeBnDSOy9GxbjWdgUU54YQ/s1600/believe+ambigram+horiz+alt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJu0ro1YUmoFMOuUz-Gl1hmk7QsmqPPel3xNW9QpLBNcvnK8ixpyaxPuqyazrwJHJhPIe5Pv7hqgNKLVmiEXdqW9bv8Xb1ytn62G2ztivpsUx_qJ1uURsyHYeBnDSOy9GxbjWdgUU54YQ/s400/believe+ambigram+horiz+alt.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />That says "believe".<br /><br />Kristina credited an artist named Scott in Farmingdale, New York. <del> I will take a leap and assume this was done by Scott Trerrotola at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tattoo-Ritual/164210323599272?sk=info">Tattoo Ritual</a>. It should be noted that Scott recently opened a new shop in Bellmore called <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Alchemy-Tattoo-Arts/232850266778614?sk=info">Alchemy Tattoo Arts</a>.</del> The artist is otherwise unknown.<br /><br />Thanks to Kristina for sharing this, one of her four tattoos, here with us on Tattoosday!<br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2012 Tattoosday. </span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;">  </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</a> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span></div>

Kristina's Ambigram - Dream/Believe

It may be warm here in New York today, but last month we had a typical January day where temperatures were seasonably frigid. Not necessaril...

4:22 AM