Going Ape for Josean's Ink

Earlier this month, I met Josean, who was sitting waiting for a downtown express train at the 72nd Street subway stop on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.<br /><br />Josean is pretty much covered in tattoos (70-80%, by his best estimate) and so I sat down to talk to him about his work.<br /><br />As it turns out, he is currently the piercer at <a href="http://powerhousetattoo.com/home.html">Powerhouse Tattoo Company</a> in Montclair, New Jersey. Work from the artists at Powerhouse have appeared previously on Tattoosday <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/search/label/Powerhouse%20Tattoo%20Company">here</a>.<br /><br />Josean offered up this colorful baboon tattoo on his left forearm:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxfmN3liz1YGi6AFXxujlR8tzyLlUpUod8LGEyBKkzdLqMOpR3ZPoaWnt7sRs8mFY3cR-VNUG07oMNuoLacwYeSb70VZLdPt0fdWrfBYkuzf4E7cOaJLD4Og_6yQi6ZvW0FrEUxdF9v6c/s1600/joseans+ink.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxfmN3liz1YGi6AFXxujlR8tzyLlUpUod8LGEyBKkzdLqMOpR3ZPoaWnt7sRs8mFY3cR-VNUG07oMNuoLacwYeSb70VZLdPt0fdWrfBYkuzf4E7cOaJLD4Og_6yQi6ZvW0FrEUxdF9v6c/s640/joseans+ink.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />At the center of this piece is the monkey that screams out from his arm:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBVBYxXbXBnbed4sE1j5XlBITxLYHeV-0DJz_ylwkqwfB2tfmtefETiL8jioxCabb83tWmkXc88BiGibvEGe-bxKNuNYhfhh2WUDIKikGeIaHKrNQzjOHVFY2K25fPjum8U6cePLtMCPY/s1600/baboon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBVBYxXbXBnbed4sE1j5XlBITxLYHeV-0DJz_ylwkqwfB2tfmtefETiL8jioxCabb83tWmkXc88BiGibvEGe-bxKNuNYhfhh2WUDIKikGeIaHKrNQzjOHVFY2K25fPjum8U6cePLtMCPY/s640/baboon.jpg" width="330" /></a></div><br />Josean likes monkeys and figured this design would "look cool for a tattoo." He's absolutely  right. This was done by <a href="http://www.facebook.com/juansalgadoart">Juan Salgado</a>, a great artist in Puerto Rico. Josean worked at <a href="http://www.senzala-tattoo.com/">Senzala Tattoo</a> in P.R. before moving up to Powerhouse.<br /><br />Thanks to Josean for sharing his awesome ink 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. 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>

Going Ape for Josean's Ink

Earlier this month, I met Josean, who was sitting waiting for a downtown express train at the 72nd Street subway stop on the Upper West Side...

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