Andrea's Dancing Bears Show Her Dead-ication to Her Favorite Band

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">A couple months back, I met Andrea, on 3rd Avenue in Bay Ridge, and she shared these bears which are one of the many graphic representations of the band, </span><a href="http://www.dead.net/" style="text-align: left;">The Grateful Dead</a><span style="text-align: left;">:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvUBxvJG2KrOtZlQjn57gRMnYy7UWz_TON9iOSz5c3L91WFu1vamViOyw3KdCimHYibRgYJHnEwPbobqIaAj8tIilMMfIUuYGLlQqETDhoWVOnhu90U84wk9EJxE3VSgfExeGh6Q_OIR8/s1600/bears+tattoosday.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvUBxvJG2KrOtZlQjn57gRMnYy7UWz_TON9iOSz5c3L91WFu1vamViOyw3KdCimHYibRgYJHnEwPbobqIaAj8tIilMMfIUuYGLlQqETDhoWVOnhu90U84wk9EJxE3VSgfExeGh6Q_OIR8/s640/bears+tattoosday.JPG" width="460" /></a></div><br />I recognized the design right off, so I asked Andrea why she chose a Dead tattoo. She responded, "because they were my favorite band ever since I was a little kid." She added, "my dad used to listen to them, so I kinda got into 'em that way."<br /><br />When I asked how many times she had seen them, she told me, "I've only seen Bob Weir and Phil Lesh. I saw them two summers ago."<br /><br />She initially credited this tattoo to Jim Palmer at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Moon-Gravel-Arts-Tattoo/137259779685395">Moon Gravel Arts</a> in Milford, Pennsylvania, but later corrected me, via e-mail:<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">i actually did that one it was the first tattoo i ever did as practice... jim did ...all of my other tattoos however ... he has great work ... u should still check him out, jim palmer is his name and moon gravel arts ... is his shop ... have a grateful day:)"</span></blockquote><br />Thanks to Andrea for sharing her self-inked dead-icated tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br /><div class="normal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2013 Tattoosday.</span></span></div><div class="normal"><br /></div><br /><div class="normal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">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/"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none;"> </span></a><a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc; line-height: 115%;">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"> 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><br />

Andrea's Dancing Bears Show Her Dead-ication to Her Favorite Band

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Ryan and the Aristocants

I met Ryan back in July outside of Penn Station. He had a bunch of tattoos. I interviewed him and took some pictures. He was with friends.<br /><br />I'd love to dub this an orphan post, but all the required elements are here. It just didn't sit right with me.<br /><br />After blogging about tattoos for more than five years, I have pretty good instincts about people. I can tell when they're interested in the project and I can tell when they're not, usually within the first ten or fifteen seconds of my starting up a conversation with them.<br /><br />With apologies to Ryan if I misread him, but I felt like he really wasn't very interested in talking to me. But to give him credit, he did. This is one of the reasons that this piece didn't show up until almost five months after the fact.<br /><br />That said, let's proceed.<br /><br />Ryan shared this tattoo:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNgz8jU4GOMSiYIKGcBR2GI7sh6CmwpNE43LSlr2ZQIhyphenhyphen5-ueIJY5cp9HV67i-hn2CNMk6o2Ouq-INOPEX6HoWowhltGqmlYzQDrj_Mr3m4Hyc0jDx9Z-hNPh6vgc1RH-d79ERof_E_f8/s615/IMG_0540.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNgz8jU4GOMSiYIKGcBR2GI7sh6CmwpNE43LSlr2ZQIhyphenhyphen5-ueIJY5cp9HV67i-hn2CNMk6o2Ouq-INOPEX6HoWowhltGqmlYzQDrj_Mr3m4Hyc0jDx9Z-hNPh6vgc1RH-d79ERof_E_f8/s640/IMG_0540.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><br />Note that it's hard to see from the shot that this heart has wings that roll back around the arm:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicm1EPrnPu4nYhW32M6JhxegVBdyZcXijGG6E9KjODFlrVjPnDG0fRe6hoFBT5T962-q1ThsNcit_pU6X8oWa_0G1vJr69xZKYq0h7pkabVUaOXFmzFg9qy9cM1TOJl1kr2FjDMnf7oIM/s615/IMG_0541.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicm1EPrnPu4nYhW32M6JhxegVBdyZcXijGG6E9KjODFlrVjPnDG0fRe6hoFBT5T962-q1ThsNcit_pU6X8oWa_0G1vJr69xZKYq0h7pkabVUaOXFmzFg9qy9cM1TOJl1kr2FjDMnf7oIM/s640/IMG_0541.JPG" width="486" /></a></div><br />Ryan explained that he once was in a band called the Aristocants. Perhaps it is because they have added an "n" to Aristocats, but I am unable to find anything about them online.<br /><br />What I gathered from Ryan about this tattoo was this: He was in a band called the Aristocants from 2002-2006. In the band with him were bass and guitar players Chad and Brandon who designed the logo on which the tattoo is based. ("They drew it up together ... mixed and matched and collaborated.")  Ryan took the design to another friend, Chris Hudgins, who worked at a shop in Nevada called House of Pain. The rest is history.<br /><br />I am unable to find anything on the artist, the shop and, as previously mentioned, the band.<br /><br />Thanks to Ryan for sharing this interesting tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><b id="internal-source-marker_0.8412873784545809" 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 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/"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: initial; 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>

Ryan and the Aristocants

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Saturday Housecleaning - Chef Misfit at Your Service

My system for Tattoosday is to try and go chronologically, but that never works out. I generally jump all over the place. I keep a list of all my pending posts, with the date associated with them, so I know where I am in my quest for a relatively normal timeline.<br /><br />Although not my oldest "pending post," this one is from a guy named Austin, who I met in Penn Station back in April:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJz57GmuLRpRZYg9S8QFiNShizWVFaKTV2qf54lF0MSWwkfTCcjKmaJczFzTPvxwnuPHjm1ABbqczlxfrAhBV50Z3eP9Q541681xRs07xDRNBd6BJyD7011jPIQlyK6x1NDrvVxL2TLsA/s1600/Chef+Misfit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJz57GmuLRpRZYg9S8QFiNShizWVFaKTV2qf54lF0MSWwkfTCcjKmaJczFzTPvxwnuPHjm1ABbqczlxfrAhBV50Z3eP9Q541681xRs07xDRNBd6BJyD7011jPIQlyK6x1NDrvVxL2TLsA/s640/Chef+Misfit.jpg" width="282" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This tattoo, on Austin's left arm, had to have a great story about it, right? Especially, with the food at the bottom of the piece?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZzW8J44nX3g3hLKKkIFF_ieoM4D8VjqK0Di495m3H-YoHSPQ332ccs2t8uTV0aIEUKJ9inOSdi2sLc4SeuyVAWHqW6j5lBM3GvR1v_EBxATQ0JqifaEiu0Nt9NWWUTNYhArUOdmA_iiY/s1600/Chef+Misfit+Detail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZzW8J44nX3g3hLKKkIFF_ieoM4D8VjqK0Di495m3H-YoHSPQ332ccs2t8uTV0aIEUKJ9inOSdi2sLc4SeuyVAWHqW6j5lBM3GvR1v_EBxATQ0JqifaEiu0Nt9NWWUTNYhArUOdmA_iiY/s320/Chef+Misfit+Detail.jpg" width="238" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">That is the logo from the <a href="http://www.misfits.com/">Misfits</a>, complete with chef's hat and various ingredients for something.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I stopped Austin at a dining establishment in Penn Station, and didn't want to disturb him too much, so I snapped photos, got some basic info, and figured I'd fill in the blanks with him via e-mail.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Unfortunately, he didn't respond to my e-mail inquiries and, his credit of the work, citing Chris Brewer at Seventh Saga as the artist, left me with a cold trail.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I know he is/was a culinary student and a fan of the Misfits, but that's all folks. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So, let's just enjoy what we see and know, and perhaps I can update you with more information later.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thanks to Austin for sharing the tattoo with us!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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 ©2011 Tattoosday. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><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>

Saturday Housecleaning - Chef Misfit at Your Service

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Alex Shares Three Elements of an Amazing Sleeve

I'm not sure why it has taken so long to post Alex's tattoos - when I met him at the end of May in K-Mart @ Penn Station, I was totally stoked by his ink. Perhaps I was just letting the photos simmer as I waited for the right time to share them. Nevertheless, here they are, finally.<br /><br />What we're seeing are three portions of Alex's left arm sleeve, beginning with this segment which is the most impressive part of the work:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI7XkrW20wENR0ktAfS_3YxQhw-1peAjRY_YyxL9Q5sbPps957JSudiYAVc4hREJgJtbq71VZFJHEfbSFjfez6EIPM_MlfUZrsY4fDLRK9CHdkyojOJp6b1D3WLK4Jf2Zf2vhJffojnyg/s1600/Indra.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI7XkrW20wENR0ktAfS_3YxQhw-1peAjRY_YyxL9Q5sbPps957JSudiYAVc4hREJgJtbq71VZFJHEfbSFjfez6EIPM_MlfUZrsY4fDLRK9CHdkyojOJp6b1D3WLK4Jf2Zf2vhJffojnyg/s640/Indra.jpg" width="164" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As Alex explains, this tattoo is </div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"inspired by the carvings in Cambodia in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siem_Reap">Siem Reap</a> ... it's one of the temples of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indra">Indra</a>, Indian god of thunder ... he's also the god of change and progress ...  </div></blockquote><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4IBMiJAFjwn7rXjYsqSf0pP6M4fOSfFK9i0aapF96yiHuphPjhmsVSFZBzSNj_9a9eYsgTZnPiPKuJZmuSc1VLBcYLTIrBM9scalZcnQR1arpp8uvk9ZvigKkCmWaVlFDO8oaFHnOwXw/s1600/Indra+detail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4IBMiJAFjwn7rXjYsqSf0pP6M4fOSfFK9i0aapF96yiHuphPjhmsVSFZBzSNj_9a9eYsgTZnPiPKuJZmuSc1VLBcYLTIrBM9scalZcnQR1arpp8uvk9ZvigKkCmWaVlFDO8oaFHnOwXw/s640/Indra+detail.jpg" width="254" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div></blockquote><br /><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> ... He's very human-like because he messes up a lot ... he's somewhat of a womanized, so it makes him very original from the rest of the Indian gods..."</div></blockquote>At the top of Alex's arm is this symbol:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitvvsC5tCG-wHG54BNMg_Nq8PZVNNP_oZURJfmlBkTMa6BNFxYf3ngVWvu4YAAyZOYvnUPYbuVv3x6LaHAzykSh-hOxeBDbUdKl6bfD-Cxs0ZW1y5r3eAeJb4LB2UbrPRzEKx35xa87uU/s1600/Life+of+Agony.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitvvsC5tCG-wHG54BNMg_Nq8PZVNNP_oZURJfmlBkTMa6BNFxYf3ngVWvu4YAAyZOYvnUPYbuVv3x6LaHAzykSh-hOxeBDbUdKl6bfD-Cxs0ZW1y5r3eAeJb4LB2UbrPRzEKx35xa87uU/s640/Life+of+Agony.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />He told me that this is the logo of a hard rock group from Brooklyn called <a href="http://www.lifeofagony.com/">Life of Agony</a>.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinA3_gjCCm0QYxp0BVD7KDPYZjZ57IAsJm7CssjZV7FK89Gvj2pNdkIGjxkri7rqcf-LPnHH0_-HlDuzrQMYSG0ARyeqnlVtvfC7FbgwBCRaZ4cdFztpEVJN-c20wzdqwROcGzTHaViVo/s1600/51RItv2N2iL._SL500_AA280_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinA3_gjCCm0QYxp0BVD7KDPYZjZ57IAsJm7CssjZV7FK89Gvj2pNdkIGjxkri7rqcf-LPnHH0_-HlDuzrQMYSG0ARyeqnlVtvfC7FbgwBCRaZ4cdFztpEVJN-c20wzdqwROcGzTHaViVo/s1600/51RItv2N2iL._SL500_AA280_.jpg" /></a></div><br />You can check out their website <a href="http://www.lifeofagony.com/">here</a> or peruse their Amazon catalog <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fentity%2FLife-of-Agony%2FB000AQ07T8%2Fdigital%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ref_%3Dntt_mp3_rdr%26sn%3Dd%23&tag=bill03-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957%22%3ELife%20of%20Agony%20Amazon%20index%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22https://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=bill03-20&l=ur2&o=1%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20%21important;%20margin:0px%20%21important;%22%20/%3E">here</a>.<br /><br />In the photo above, you get a glimpse of the third and final segment of Alex's sleeve which we're seeing today, which features this familiar face:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7XXGTXLsK0L60Pon8PbiO8psiM-MDTZQkqi050il2JwU_9DBo95HbFYBD5IjVBeoHSNW69Yhb4fn0B-gLvoBrVDfsXTmOm_fJvaIAXznqKd55b6hVtoc41GTGJWRRmFbqeLXYnJBbPt8/s1600/Steeplechase.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7XXGTXLsK0L60Pon8PbiO8psiM-MDTZQkqi050il2JwU_9DBo95HbFYBD5IjVBeoHSNW69Yhb4fn0B-gLvoBrVDfsXTmOm_fJvaIAXznqKd55b6hVtoc41GTGJWRRmFbqeLXYnJBbPt8/s640/Steeplechase.jpg" width="290" /></a></div><br />That's the symbolic face of  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steeplechase_Park">Steeplechase Park</a> on Coney Island.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid3hUbXlbihXXpKkEtMri72itl7jKoIJwkQoPXA4WSAdVAxs8I-VTGYDnSrsJ6lzAEx64aoMxQPDozSimygjyIc_B8ryfsWVBiE8MIbyf2ztZ-a6aVSpag_QmCv1mawnrw_0Sj2w2V_vc/s400/CONEY+ISLAND+STEEPLE+CHASE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid3hUbXlbihXXpKkEtMri72itl7jKoIJwkQoPXA4WSAdVAxs8I-VTGYDnSrsJ6lzAEx64aoMxQPDozSimygjyIc_B8ryfsWVBiE8MIbyf2ztZ-a6aVSpag_QmCv1mawnrw_0Sj2w2V_vc/s320/CONEY+ISLAND+STEEPLE+CHASE.jpg" width="232" /></a></div><br />Compare to <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2010/12/two-no-three-from-lisa-marie.html">this tattoo</a>, which appeared here last year.<br /><br />Alex explained about his connection to Coney Island:<br /><blockquote>"...Basically, I grew up there ... I grew up in Bensonhurst, but [Coney Island] is kind of where I became myself, adolescence and all that stuff - that's the <u>old</u> Coney Island..."</blockquote>Alex credited all of his work to a tattoo artist named <a href="http://sethwoodtattoo.com/about">Seth Wood </a>who is currently working out of <a href="http://www.savedtattoo.com/">Saved Tattoo</a> in Brooklyn.<br /><br />Thanks to Alex for sharing this amazing work 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><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><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. 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Alex Shares Three Elements of an Amazing Sleeve

I'm not sure why it has taken so long to post Alex's tattoos - when I met him at the end of May in K-Mart @ Penn Station, I was tota...

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Rob Shares a Handful of Dust

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAFNcG4LIvQtasIFpwgNh_CtPx23PXjkMGzH8HEsI2beQWobjeNIG76NVBtpbTgE5Ckome583GEi-w-uk6yHOfw1Jh9T5g5I3nfqqkSScJqu0MA9YmIC5sxF1kJHf6yWYWNawscOuri6w/s1600/handful+of+dust.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAFNcG4LIvQtasIFpwgNh_CtPx23PXjkMGzH8HEsI2beQWobjeNIG76NVBtpbTgE5Ckome583GEi-w-uk6yHOfw1Jh9T5g5I3nfqqkSScJqu0MA9YmIC5sxF1kJHf6yWYWNawscOuri6w/s640/handful+of+dust.jpg" width="234" /></a></div><br />Today's tattoo comes to us from Rob, who I met in Penn Station last month.<br /><br />Rob has fifteen tattoos, and he offered up the one above (two, if you count "This too shall pass" on his wrist).<br /><br />He explained that the logo is from his friend's band called Handful of Dust. I wasn't able to track down a band site, but I thought I'd post it anyway, since it looks cool.<br /><br />This is a video of the band performing out on Long Island:<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="314" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/kqSlag4Ttvk" width="500"></iframe><br /><br />That tattoo was inked at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Salvation-Tattoo-NY/166860099992699?sk=wall">Salvation Tattoo</a> in Oceanside, New York.<br /><br />Thanks to Rob for sharing his tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2011 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>

Rob Shares a Handful of Dust

Today's tattoo comes to us from Rob, who I met in Penn Station last month. Rob has fifteen tattoos, and he offered up the one above (two...

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