A Spot of Hawaiian Ink on the New York City SubwayEarlier this week, I posted about my experience on Ink Master, getting a tribal tattoo that was inspired by my upbringing in Hawai'i. Do note that I have not referred to this as a Hawaiian tribal piece, which is a whole different thing altogether.Just to illustrate, one of my "leftover" posts from 2…
Tattoosday Goes Tribal on Ink MasterWhat’s the hardest thing about being an ink-blogger and getting a tattoo on a televised competition show? Keeping my mouth shut for almost six months about the experience. This is the tattoo that I received back in August in the course of my stint as a "human canvas" on the set of Spike TV's In…
Wesley Shares Two Significant BlossomsI met Wesley in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, earlier this month, and she shared these two tattoos from her forearms:These two flowers are (pictured from left to right) a Cherokee Rose, which is the state flower of Georgia, and a Nile, or Egyptian Lotus.Wesley explained that the Cherokee Rose is generally wh…
Will Is Well-Armed for the OperaOccasionally, one of my posts will fall through the cracks and I only discover it by chance.For example, earlier this week I was passing through K-Mart in Penn Station when it struck me: the guy I had met several months earlier in there never ended up on the site! How did that happen? I'm still scra…
Ink Master Premieres Tonight!Regular readers of Tattoosday may recall this post, last July, when I mentioned that a production company was looking for volunteers to get tattoos on a new reality tattoo competition series.That was six months ago and the first installment of that project, Ink Master, is scheduled to debut toni…
Meister's Memorial SparrowsLast month, I was leaving the Muhlenberg branch of the New York Public Library when I spotted a woman with two birds on the backs of her calves:These two sparrows belong to Meister, who is also known as The Nervous Cook.I love how these are not your typical tattoo sparrows, but are more lifelike tha…
Tattoosday Loves Friday the 13th!How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.....My lovely bride is a Friday the 13th baby, so it's a lucky day for me, in general.As for Tattoosday, my visit stats have already been robust since December, but this week they have shattered the records, with yesterday being the best ever. My sitemeter p…
Little Darling's Ink: Pinups for PitbullsLast spring, I met Deirdre, aka Little Darling, as she was leaving Penn Station to cross Seventh Avenue.I snapped these pictures of her upper right arm:Deirdre explained that she is the president and founder of a non-profit organization called Pinups for Pitbulls.The two pups pictured are portraits …
Meghann's Ink Inspired by Nikki McClureThis past November, I met Meghann in Penn Station and spotted this tattoo on her arm:Meghann explained that this work is based on a paper-cut by an artist from Olympia, Washington named Nikki McClure.There's no real deep meaning behind this. Meghann is just appreciates the art for art's sake: "I jus…
Cecelia's Trio of Bats, or, The Girl with the Dragonlance TattooBack in October, I met Cecelia on the D train in Brooklyn, and she shared these tattoos on her left forearm:Those three bats, named, from top to bottom, Ralph, Roberto, and John, were a birthday present from her friend Dan. Roberto, in the middle, was named after a fruit bat that appears in a couple…
Cleaning Out My Inbox: January EditionOne of my New Year's resolutions is to share more of what gets sent to me from various parties looking to promote their tattoo-related projects. What follows are a few items that have been lingering in my inbox, and may be of interest to our readers:This is "Pencil and Ink: A Film About Justin Klein…
Tattoorism: Naveed's CobraOccasionally we'll post a reader submission, referring to it as "tattoorism," as this is, for the most part, a New York City site. There are plenty of websites that cater solely to reader submissions but, I figure, once in a while, it's nice to see someone making the effort to send me a photo with a…
Michael and The Legend of ZeldaI was walking up Seventh Avenue back in August when I spotted Michael, taking on break on the sidewalk, soaking in the summer pedestrian traffic.He is a video game programmer who works for a firm called Atom Apps and has his own company called Broken Home Studios.I noticed he had tattoos and, given …
Escher, Anyone?I met Justin in Penn Station last month and snapped this quick photo of his right forearm:Justin said he was familiar with Tattoosday because I had previously featured work by his friend Erick Lynch at Redemption Tattoo. He was likely referring to this post.This work on his sleeve is based on the wo…
Jenn's Lily of the ValleyI stopped Jenn outside of Madison Square Garden when I noticed the cool floral tattoo wrapping around her right ankle onto her foot:Jenn identified the artist only as Roland, at a shop in the Pacific Beach neighborhood of San Diego. "I had the idea for the design and he drew it," she explained. The …
Tattoosday at the Cincinnati Airport: Patrick’s InkHappy New Years from us here at Tattoosday! We still have some old 2011 encounters to recall which, for one reason or another, got postponed until now.Regular readers may recall that I went briefly to Covington, Kentucky at the end of April and I spotted a few tattoos in my travels.On my way back to…
