Tattoosday in the Berkshires: Sean's Corpernican Title

<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I met Sean last month at <a href="http://www.shakespeare.org/">Shakespeare & Company</a>, in Lenox, Massachusetts.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BFR6PvOqUPg/UiOW8sO-rII/AAAAAAAAbH4/0gqUjyUxdPQ/w603-h659-no/IMG_1198.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BFR6PvOqUPg/UiOW8sO-rII/AAAAAAAAbH4/0gqUjyUxdPQ/w603-h659-no/IMG_1198.JPG" width="584" /></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sean was working at the snack bar at the Tina Packer Playhouse, but I had seen him earlier in the week in an amazing performance as Trufaldin in an adaptation of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moli%C3%A8re">Molière's</a> <i><a href="http://www.shakespeare.org/ai1ec_event/les-faux-pas-or-the-counterplots-2/?instance_id=">Les Faux Pas</a></i>.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://ads.harvard.edu/books/1543droc.book/" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.15;">De revolutionibus orbium coelestium</a><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.15;"> is the title of a book published in 1543 by the Renaissance astronomer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus">Copernicus</a>. The title, translated from the Latin, is <i>On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres.</i></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.15;"><i><br /></i></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.15;">Sean elaborated about the origins of this tattoo, which he had done at a shop in Seattle:</span></span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.15;">"I was looking at the root of the word <i>revolt</i> or <i>revolution</i> and it comes from Copernicus ... so I was wanting something that had ... the idea of revolt and revolution ... I became curious as to where the word came from ... [and] I started reading about his theory."</span></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.15;">As regular readers of this site can tell you, I love textual tattoos, and the idea of inscribing the title of a book almost 500 years old is fascinating, because it's not just about the title, but about the ideas espoused therein.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.15;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.15;">Thanks to Sean for sharing this cool tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!</span></span><br /><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">This entry is ©2013 Tattoosday.</span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-29ec20c0-db1d-2279-5c20-0c27bc975233"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span> <br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you are seeing this on another website other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. 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Tattoosday in the Berkshires: Sean's Corpernican Title

I met Sean last month at Shakespeare & Company , in Lenox, Massachusetts. Sean was working at the snack bar at the Tina Packer Playhouse...

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Re-Post: Paul's Memorial

<span style="font-style: italic;">I posted this originally in 2008 and re-posted it again in 2009 and 2011. As I've said in the past, it only seems appropriate to re-run it again today:<br /></span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihR-iUID3iVZT27rJROwhhgKxtcOOJYl_0eQBSsxonl3BqctXxSfG4gwEa-904oVu0YigmIzHWUTj5GHwnMHFEKmEQArMy0CsgS2z8nfoWWjkCFlNqf9HuE5lDmTCH8Buv08BjJ0mRI2dA/s1600-h/PICT0567.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" height="640" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244545006085718850" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihR-iUID3iVZT27rJROwhhgKxtcOOJYl_0eQBSsxonl3BqctXxSfG4gwEa-904oVu0YigmIzHWUTj5GHwnMHFEKmEQArMy0CsgS2z8nfoWWjkCFlNqf9HuE5lDmTCH8Buv08BjJ0mRI2dA/s640/PICT0567.JPG" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="408" /></a><br /><br />Earlier this month, I mentioned meeting Paul <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2008/09/verrazano-redux.html">here</a>, on the bike path that runs along the southern tip of Brooklyn.<br /><br />I saved the other tattoo photo I took of Paul's work for today, the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.<br /><br />What I didn't mention in the previous post is that Paul is a federal agent who grew up in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenpoint,_Brooklyn">Greenpoint, Brooklyn</a>.<br /><br />From his vantage point there, he watched the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wtc">World Trade Center</a> being built in the late 1960's. He was working in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6_World_Trade_Center">6 World Trade</a> seven years ago for the U.S. Customs Department when the towers came down, and he spent four months at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_zero#World_Trade_Center">Ground Zero</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresh_Kills_Landfill">Fresh Kills Landfill</a> on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staten_Island">Staten Island</a>, searching for remains.<br /><br />The tattoo is a poignant piece, with the sun shining between the towers. Below is Paul's badge from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Homeland_Security">Department of Homeland Security</a>, which has evolved into <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement">U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)</a>. Particulatly unusual is the depiction of 9/11 in Roman numerals:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">IX XI.<br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br />I don't believe I had ever seen it represented that way before.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></div></div><br />Like the tattoo in the earlier post, this piece was inked by <a href="http://www.myspace.com/joemags">Joe</a> at <a href="http://www.myspace.com/brooklyninktattoo">Brooklyn Ink</a>.<br /><br />Thanks to Paul for sharing this WTC memorial piece with us here on Tattoosday.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">~ ~ ~</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">We here at Tattoosday send our thoughts and prayers to all the families of  people who died on 9/11, and to the families of all of the men and women who have died since then, serving our country.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is © 2008, 2011, 2013 Tattoosday. </span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><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 <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 style="text-align: left;"></div>

Re-Post: Paul's Memorial

I posted this originally in 2008 and re-posted it again in 2009 and 2011. As I've said in the past, it only seems appropriate to re-run ...

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Tracy's Owl for Jamie

I ran into Tracy last month in a drugstore in Penn Station.<br /><br />She agreed to share this tattoo on her arm:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rsXoX01Ujno/UiOYd-eRMtI/AAAAAAAAbHo/K5-0o8WBHYo/w421-h658-no/photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rsXoX01Ujno/UiOYd-eRMtI/AAAAAAAAbHo/K5-0o8WBHYo/w421-h658-no/photo.jpg" width="408" /></a></div><br />The name "Jamie" refers to her son. This is a mother owl with a protective wing over a baby owl, whose head can be seen resting in the middle of the mama owl's chest.<br /><br />This was inked by the talented <a href="http://www.johnreardontattoos.com/">John Reardon</a> at <a href="http://greenpointtattoo.com/site/">Greenpoint Tattoo Company</a> in Brooklyn. Reardon's work has appeared countless times on Tattoosday, and it's always an honor to feature his work on the site. Readers may remember this <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2013/06/ashley-shares-narwhal-of-tattoo.html">narwhal</a> by him which we featured back in June.<br /><br />Thanks to Tracy for sharing this lovely tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2013 Tattoosday.</span></span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-29ec20c0-db1a-85b4-a54f-e2b481c36338"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you are seeing this on another website 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</span><a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 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></span></div>

Tracy's Owl for Jamie

I ran into Tracy last month in a drugstore in Penn Station. She agreed to share this tattoo on her arm: The name "Jamie" refers to...

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