Nick's Tattoo Combines Sociology and Astrology

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiW_bm8SkKPlm2ZjsUOreYmUpP7xkAgHMETv3_Dal1a4Z2vZm6MC_95zxBmy14r9SEEThKqZqNrcSqHUwQLEKXbAVLrKbcjkAvg23_jThGOiCGJVfjNvsHdu_BY_qK5gwNM_wmlza4r2I/s614/IMG_0313.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiW_bm8SkKPlm2ZjsUOreYmUpP7xkAgHMETv3_Dal1a4Z2vZm6MC_95zxBmy14r9SEEThKqZqNrcSqHUwQLEKXbAVLrKbcjkAvg23_jThGOiCGJVfjNvsHdu_BY_qK5gwNM_wmlza4r2I/s640/IMG_0313.JPG" width="393" /></a></div><br />Today's tattoo comes to us courtesy of Nick, who I met in Penn Station back in May.<br /><br />He explained that this piece on the inside of his arm was done by two artists.<br /><br />The first part of it was done by "a friend of a friend in his apartment."<br /><br />Nick elaborated:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"...I had just turned eighteen and I haven't seen him since then and I had it touched up by another artist's shop in Syracuse, New York [<a href="https://www.facebook.com/biographixtattoo">Mike Haines</a> at <a href="http://www.scarabbodyarts.com/">Scarab Body Arts</a>]. He was a tattoo artist there for a very short time.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">...I'm a sociology major and I'm a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libra_(astrology)">Libra</a> so I have the scales for the Libra and justice and balance....[the] brain outline is taken from a book, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_Rising">Prometheus Rising</a>,  out of one of the chapter beginnings ... [the] image of three women holding it up is actually from the artist's stamp collection of almost like a three graces depiction of them doing various things ... I kinda view it as these three women are Society to me, and they hold up ... my brain and how I think ... and it's all masked by my interpretation as a Libra in this world."</blockquote>As to how he originally got the piece, Nick said "it originally looked like a prison tattoo, I'm not gonna lie. The guy who did it, I didn't look at his portfolio, really. So, the guy who touched it up [Mike Haines], he actually did a great job of filling in the shadow to kind of smooth out the rougher edges that were originally made into it...".<br /><br />Thanks to Nick for sharing this cool tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><br /><b>UPDATE</b>: Nick followed up with me and wrote, "Mike Haines ... left Scarab Body Arts shortly after my tattoo and started his own business called <a href="https://plus.google.com/110477341343786099870/about?gl=us&hl=en">BioGraphix Tattoo</a> in Syracuse."<br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><b id="internal-source-marker_0.9739615528378636" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This entry is ©2012 Tattoosday.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you are reading 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/"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; 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></b>

Nick's Tattoo Combines Sociology and Astrology

Today's tattoo comes to us courtesy of Nick, who I met in Penn Station back in May. He explained that this piece on the inside of his ar...

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Phoenix's Sleeve is Out of This World

Back on August, I met a man named Phoenix in Penn Station who shared the sleeve on his right arm.<br /><br />The work starts near his shoulder, with a traditional-style pin-up girl straddling a rocket in an outer space motif:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWiDlArQN8yIfnukJYPUi4VBNWdtKXURms1Scf-xzwlsqPJY2dWau_DLuXblFatPTjR3V0kyY-zGnkRLjEpFVHko2kuBKCg6xtl7B5s3S8r2gP2eFDXIuwC3DTM0AtyHzUjYABMBIBipE/s1600/Astrological.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWiDlArQN8yIfnukJYPUi4VBNWdtKXURms1Scf-xzwlsqPJY2dWau_DLuXblFatPTjR3V0kyY-zGnkRLjEpFVHko2kuBKCg6xtl7B5s3S8r2gP2eFDXIuwC3DTM0AtyHzUjYABMBIBipE/s640/Astrological.jpg" width="275" /></a></div><br />The cat perched on the rocket in front of the woman represents Phoenix's love of animals.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglebUOfu5D4dHoDgy7oa5JXkNQTFI34Rv7Gvbrihih7t8Kx-YyvCClerttSVxHXvZNSfjP9aonS66Bm7qpQTsqIHKGag6ah39Ot9XaRHy0WmT_sMkbx8aZ8qKjH7PadixAwA2SJlJjB9g/s1600/Astrological+detail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglebUOfu5D4dHoDgy7oa5JXkNQTFI34Rv7Gvbrihih7t8Kx-YyvCClerttSVxHXvZNSfjP9aonS66Bm7qpQTsqIHKGag6ah39Ot9XaRHy0WmT_sMkbx8aZ8qKjH7PadixAwA2SJlJjB9g/s640/Astrological+detail.jpg" width="508" /></a></div><br />The centerpiece of the sleeve, however, is lower on the arm and represents his love of astrology:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi_HyXTE2ruOQbcDHHfI3QQ5-iHTArQkCv2d3mo8IyifYbshVikhvig8kkj2ExLdsGPghi37q6GQP-Jm0LJFAxMZqGjp3Bpcr4sXuEi3Vu9ZtZnobuI-Fo7nh3HaQixGLnMr2Smos8z8c/s1600/atro+chart+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi_HyXTE2ruOQbcDHHfI3QQ5-iHTArQkCv2d3mo8IyifYbshVikhvig8kkj2ExLdsGPghi37q6GQP-Jm0LJFAxMZqGjp3Bpcr4sXuEi3Vu9ZtZnobuI-Fo7nh3HaQixGLnMr2Smos8z8c/s640/atro+chart+1.jpg" width="166" /></a></div><br /><br />From a practical purpose, he had his natal astrological chart wrapping around his limb. In theory, he told me, anyone who knows astrology could come up and read his arm and gain insight into his astrological makeup.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9U1UMqbdUR0uTxlyYTsehl12-vMFVhyphenhyphenpMN-qC7B5cCPfBjoQaIN2urn46F1GF1XFt6RzOeCkz1kaT9lSZKq0MfvrWDCVm5hegfhf2i3Fdcb2m1ipsTB_Q1jBq4ioFjPpz1xjjOvMTyqU/s1600/astro+chart+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9U1UMqbdUR0uTxlyYTsehl12-vMFVhyphenhyphenpMN-qC7B5cCPfBjoQaIN2urn46F1GF1XFt6RzOeCkz1kaT9lSZKq0MfvrWDCVm5hegfhf2i3Fdcb2m1ipsTB_Q1jBq4ioFjPpz1xjjOvMTyqU/s640/astro+chart+2.jpg" width="276" /></a></div><br />Phoenix was born with the Sun in Aries rising in Leo and with his moon in Gemini.<br /><br />This work was done by Lou at <a href="http://www.thirdeyetattoo.com/">Third Eye Tattoo</a> in Park Slope, Brooklyn, about six years ago. Lou's handiwork has been featured many times over the years here on the site and can be seen <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/search/label/Third%20Eye%20Tattoo">here</a>.<br /><br />Thanks to Phoenix for sharing his spectacular sleeve with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><br /><!--[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]--> <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2011 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. 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Phoenix's Sleeve is Out of This World

Back on August, I met a man named Phoenix in Penn Station who shared the sleeve on his right arm. The work starts near his shoulder, with a ...

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