More Tommy Montoya Portraits on Kate!

Last year, I met Kate in Penn Station and, what luck! She had some amazing work by acclaimed artist <a href="http://www.tommymontoya.com/">Tommy Montoya</a> (known to many via <a href="http://www.tlc.com/tv-shows/ny-ink">NY Ink</a>). See those portraits <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2012/10/kate-shares-some-amazing-portraits-by.html">here</a>.<br /><br />Much to my surprise, I ran into Kate a year later, just last week, on the subway platform in my neighborhood out in Brooklyn. Initially, I couldn't place her - it is easier to remember people when I see them around the same location, and here we were, a year and a borough apart!<br /><br />Nonetheless, she was generous yet again, and shared her two latest Tommy Montoya portraits of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlon_Brando">Marlon Brando</a> (top) and <a href="http://www.sinatra.com/">Frank Sinatra</a> (bottom) from the 1955 film <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048140/">Guys and Dolls</a>:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk4AlF1ITiqrUtkGgwx3_qztqoL7JT3J7LTnX1EGiTyziS7PuOjv-m9CW0Nz5jWesIu3YMec-0429LQXgOPqRMMPqIFgmLSLtF1s3UkOhkWNNx1GdHdEL1LWO6ErPuKvm_slIDuODBqno/w424-h659-no/IMG_0992.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk4AlF1ITiqrUtkGgwx3_qztqoL7JT3J7LTnX1EGiTyziS7PuOjv-m9CW0Nz5jWesIu3YMec-0429LQXgOPqRMMPqIFgmLSLtF1s3UkOhkWNNx1GdHdEL1LWO6ErPuKvm_slIDuODBqno/w424-h659-no/IMG_0992.JPG" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyKGxSd62xQoaqEZW0W-G6fuFB0RcmBwfU-q6vVdFtz1KAPyeNqE2YR4bpbPXhEM5TfrwBRCiH_wi6OA6YgVr1KBSfguusyA275fZK5N9Ah9xUS3o215ErVGSa87S3DuNcOA8sRyMA2vU/w418-h659-no/photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyKGxSd62xQoaqEZW0W-G6fuFB0RcmBwfU-q6vVdFtz1KAPyeNqE2YR4bpbPXhEM5TfrwBRCiH_wi6OA6YgVr1KBSfguusyA275fZK5N9Ah9xUS3o215ErVGSa87S3DuNcOA8sRyMA2vU/w418-h659-no/photo.jpg" /></a></div><br />I'm guessing this was the source photograph from which Montoya worked:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz5hYUYfBlpO67syrefxffKf5WOD4a4uWCE0qDTGK3RERj6ShcmOTiRWkYtKRAdqqF4IGtsKaW7-V_FVngFEzjiMNqpVfrBIAnmxNQ2OJxbq-vXx48-ZFp7Yc98f_rIm1x2_eOqHBwh68/s1600/mumbles_fs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz5hYUYfBlpO67syrefxffKf5WOD4a4uWCE0qDTGK3RERj6ShcmOTiRWkYtKRAdqqF4IGtsKaW7-V_FVngFEzjiMNqpVfrBIAnmxNQ2OJxbq-vXx48-ZFp7Yc98f_rIm1x2_eOqHBwh68/s640/mumbles_fs.jpg" width="580" /></a></div><br />It's always amazing to see work from a great artist like Montoya, and I thank Kate for once again sharing her tattoos 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-388b3fbd-28d6-0f30-9200-f98d9071877a"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></span><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. 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More Tommy Montoya Portraits on Kate!

Last year, I met Kate in Penn Station and, what luck! She had some amazing work by acclaimed artist Tommy Montoya (known to many via NY Ink...

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Jeffrey's Jimi Hendrix Portait (at the NYC Tattoo Convention)

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvbxhlikoroiD_RE8-oRAKNV7wTgtuRi9THkAvFbVOXfFcB4wnganwbq4Nw73VCAjs8ejV73mekIZyTDA3AYcdvfFnX8oRSuXJAVW-ztxjvbObDbvYq172CkH6Iv08jpdgjs-1M28dCrM/w408-h659-no/IMG_0968.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvbxhlikoroiD_RE8-oRAKNV7wTgtuRi9THkAvFbVOXfFcB4wnganwbq4Nw73VCAjs8ejV73mekIZyTDA3AYcdvfFnX8oRSuXJAVW-ztxjvbObDbvYq172CkH6Iv08jpdgjs-1M28dCrM/w408-h659-no/IMG_0968.JPG" width="396" /></a></div><br />I met Jeffrey at this year's <a href="http://www.nyctattooconvention.com/">New York City Tattoo Convention</a> last weekend, and he shared the above tattoo, one of a dozen famous portraits he has adorning his body.<br /><br />That is, of course,<a href="http://www.jimihendrix.com/us/home"> Jimi Hendrix</a>.<br /><br />Jeffrey told me, "I just love black and gray portraits," and that the shading was so intense on this piece, that at one point he passed out in the middle of getting it, which took about nine hours to complete.<br /><br />He credited the artist Kris Busching at <a href="http://www.undeadinkny.com/">Undead Ink</a> in Oceanside, New York.<br /><br />Thanks to Jeffrey for sharing this amazing portrait with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><br /><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-d645-7182-2b72-41b1bdc72db1" style="font-weight: normal;"></b><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-d645-7182-2b72-41b1bdc72db1" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2013 Tattoosday.</span></span></b></div><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-d645-7182-2b72-41b1bdc72db1" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><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/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline; 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></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></b>

Jeffrey's Jimi Hendrix Portait (at the NYC Tattoo Convention)

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The Tattooed Poets Project: Justin Petropoulos

Our next tattooed poet is Justin Petropoulos.<br /><br />Justin sent us this literary-themed tattoo:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzX8Ddt5881TYv5cuw_SjHSsW-5EkLXOUkaDfRaqmXpSm9KzS3m61Sy465AjRXiN9aLvgm_v_Rg6afJ97c4tS5EYYCKXqE5HedTnFIc7i2UXdgKYvbd6d3Kbp7nmYnO6Zlt_2x-NqhwyY/s572/Petropoulos+Tattoo_Gabriel+Garcia+Marquez.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzX8Ddt5881TYv5cuw_SjHSsW-5EkLXOUkaDfRaqmXpSm9KzS3m61Sy465AjRXiN9aLvgm_v_Rg6afJ97c4tS5EYYCKXqE5HedTnFIc7i2UXdgKYvbd6d3Kbp7nmYnO6Zlt_2x-NqhwyY/s640/Petropoulos+Tattoo_Gabriel+Garcia+Marquez.jpeg" width="424" /></a></div><br />Justin explains:<br /><br />"The tattoo is of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Garc%C3%ADa_M%C3%A1rquez">Gabriel García Márquez</a>. I got it in 2002 after binge reading <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307389731/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0307389731&linkCode=as2&tag=bill03-20%22%3ELove%20in%20the%20Time%20of%20Cholera%20(Oprah's%20Book%20Club)%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=bill03-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0307389731%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E">Love in the Time of Cholera</a>, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006112009X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=006112009X&linkCode=as2&tag=bill03-20%22%3EOne%20Hundred%20Years%20of%20Solitude%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=bill03-20&l=as2&o=1&a=006112009X%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E">One Hundred Years of Solitude</a>, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060882867/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0060882867&linkCode=as2&tag=bill03-20%22%3EThe%20Autumn%20of%20the%20Patriarch%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=bill03-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0060882867%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E">The Autumn of the Patriarch</a>, and <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/140003471X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=140003471X&linkCode=as2&tag=bill03-20%22%3EChronicle%20of%20a%20Death%20Foretold%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=bill03-20&l=as2&o=1&a=140003471X%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E">Chronicle of a Death Foretold</a>. I’m really not certain, but I think the shop was called <a href="http://www.genuinetattooco.com/">Genuine Tattoo</a> and the artist’s name, at least what everyone called him, was Peanut. I remember two things about him. First, before turning to a life of ink, he worked in local bread bag factory. Second, he had a tattoo of a rubber chicken strung up by the neck on his right leg. I remember it because he would tell everyone that walked into the place that he had a cock that hung past his knee."<br /><br />Justin sent us this prose poem:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">[digression on the corn trade]<br /><br />A peanut vendor sleeps beneath our uncanny resemblances, chews the brim of an old hat made of cellophane near the gates. A refugee camp should be setup on sloped terrain that provides natural drainage.<br /><br />Someone will discover her there, as if she were a theory or its half versed deck of flashcards. This is an economy of light weapons—you know: it remembers nothing about its course. Some sell part of their rations for rice, at the expense of caloric intake. Scurvy is a constant. Strangers pass a blush grown through quietly. Mission bells with grass. Spongiform, the refinery bloats. Phyllode or nematode, as with us a chance cleaving.<br /><br />“If you build your boat from this, it will float,” she promised them, with a blowzy stonefly and fire-eater’s tremble, extending them a weight of seed in her palm. In exchange, they offered odes to point/non-point source pollution, runoff: bits of hair and salt, manure, slurry of paper dolls flushed from the mine. “It’s not a question of food,” he said. “If we had the chance, we would walk even tonight.”<br /><br />As the corn grows a girl scrapes jacks by twos followed by pink impacts. Bread bags caucus. We collect the copper jackets now, lozenges nested in the mud‐throats of loons. Melt them down. Beyond the fence a scorched earth policy town sutured by a lattice of clotheslines.</blockquote><div style="text-align: center;">~ ~ ~</div><br />Justin Petropoulos is the author of the poetry collection <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0984117792/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0984117792&linkCode=as2&tag=bill03-20%22%3EEminent%20Domain%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=bill03-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0984117792%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E">Eminent Domain</a>, selected by <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/anne-waldman">Anne Waldman</a> for the 2010 <a href="http://www.marshhawkpress.org/Contests_and_submissions.htm">Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize</a>. His poems have appeared in <a href="http://www.amletters.org/">American Letters & Commentary</a>, <a href="http://www.colum.edu/columbiapoetryreview/">Columbia Poetry Review</a>, <a href="http://www.litline.org/mandorla/">Mandorla</a>, and most recently in <a href="http://www.spinning-jenny.com/">Spinning Jenny</a>. Justin co-curated <a href="http://www.triptychreading.com/">Triptych Readings</a> from 2010 to 2011 and was a guest blogger for <a href="http://www.bryantpark.org/">Bryant Park's</a> summer poetry reading series, <a href="http://www.bryantpark.org/plan-your-visit/wordforword.html">Word for Word</a>. He holds an MFA from the<a href="http://www.indiana.edu/"> Indiana University</a>. Justin an adjunct faculty member at <a href="https://www.njcu.edu/home.aspx">New Jersey City University</a>. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his partner in crime, digital artist <a href="http://www.carlagannis.com/">Carla Gannis</a>. Visit him on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/redactioneer">@redactioneer</a> or at <a href="http://www.marshhawkpress.org/">Marsh Hawk Press</a>.<br /><br />Thanks to Justin for his contribution to the Tattooed Poets Project on Tattoosday!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2=1&bg1=FFFFFF&fc1=000000&lc1=0000FF&t=bill03-20&o=1&p=8&l=as4&m=amazon&f=ifr&ref=ss_til&asins=0984117792" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2013 Tattoosday. The poem and tattoo are reprinted with the poet's permission.</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><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>

The Tattooed Poets Project: Justin Petropoulos

Our next tattooed poet is Justin Petropoulos. Justin sent us this literary-themed tattoo: Justin explains: "The tattoo is of Gabriel Ga...

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A Chance Encounter with an Amazing Artist (with Brando and Lady Day)

I was getting off of the subway at Bryant Park last June when I spotted <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlon_Brando">Marlon Brando</a>:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHOb7VCba-5haqDV6ZU5amCRtAmDvW04P0jQLLOOkTLo-f_-lwdQFG5JHX0lKay77wrQjaydofTtayaKb0pQJHF50CLQcbUJ_niOhv9U7AayCJ8y2ZqreQkaMUiojRUDryL9J3UHyqxqw/s615/photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHOb7VCba-5haqDV6ZU5amCRtAmDvW04P0jQLLOOkTLo-f_-lwdQFG5JHX0lKay77wrQjaydofTtayaKb0pQJHF50CLQcbUJ_niOhv9U7AayCJ8y2ZqreQkaMUiojRUDryL9J3UHyqxqw/s640/photo.jpg" width="322" /></a></div><br />This amazing portrait graces the arm of <a href="http://www.daviniatattoo.com/Davinia/Home.html">Davinia Do Santo</a>, a tattoo artist from Spain who was visiting New York City and doing a guest spot at <a href="http://whiterabbittattoostudio.com/home.html">White Rabbit Tattoo</a> in the East Village.<br /><br />She credits this portrait of Marlon Brando to <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.xavitattoo.com/links/?lang=en">Xavi <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">García </span>Boix</a>, another artist from Valencia, Spain. This iconic image is of a young Brando in the film <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_One">The Wild One</a></i>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.american-vintage.net/picsx/1444b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.american-vintage.net/picsx/1444b.jpg" width="304" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">When I stopped Davinia, she wasn't alone. Another young woman was accompanying her, and Davinia permitted me to photograph this tattoo, which she had done:</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsIaqumRHbjm9NOVunBb1bwoI4G15MmJBsJYDT3U8rfOweP-8BAVFQAJbpKycSV21MS49ZR3IIxYrfJPrehps_257WbjQTls6dbl8rEOGidhVePZL0HB8XriI2PjjlYLYNG0kBPjnld-8/s614/photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsIaqumRHbjm9NOVunBb1bwoI4G15MmJBsJYDT3U8rfOweP-8BAVFQAJbpKycSV21MS49ZR3IIxYrfJPrehps_257WbjQTls6dbl8rEOGidhVePZL0HB8XriI2PjjlYLYNG0kBPjnld-8/s1600/photo.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">That's the legendary <a href="http://www.billieholiday.com/">Billie Holiday</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">You can check out more of Davinia's amazing work on her website <a href="http://www.daviniatattoo.com/Davinia/Home.html">here</a> or on her Facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/DAVINIA-DO-SANTO-TATTOO/82118836548">here</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Muchas gracias</i> to Davinia Do Santo for sharing her work with us here on Tattoosday!</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><b id="internal-source-marker_0.592736950609833" 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>

A Chance Encounter with an Amazing Artist (with Brando and Lady Day)

I was getting off of the subway at Bryant Park last June when I spotted Marlon Brando : This amazing portrait graces the arm of Davinia Do S...

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Kate Shares Some Amazing Portraits by Tommy Montoya

Sometimes I hang on to the great tattoo photos for a rainy day.<br /><br />Well, it's not rainy today, but I thought I'd release these portraits from Kate, who I was fortunate enough to meet in Penn Station back in May.  Kate credited the work to the phenomenal <a href="http://tommymontoya.com/">Tommy Montoya</a> (one of the artists from <i><a href="http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/tv/ny-ink">N.Y. Ink</a></i>) out of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Inkslingers-LA/143403015718624">Inkslingers L.A.</a><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd_kqZPCReTQxro2blSl08ausrKfFZ4nym-j32-Fu9G4PBhRgy6c8_YkLafma8y8SgpdKVDr_1w_G3hZgmLP0UdfhsKJ4hwoCFaEs45LfBRRA9F7KIBOGQlsDIyGcEYiOlHQo4buvpBvA/s503/photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd_kqZPCReTQxro2blSl08ausrKfFZ4nym-j32-Fu9G4PBhRgy6c8_YkLafma8y8SgpdKVDr_1w_G3hZgmLP0UdfhsKJ4hwoCFaEs45LfBRRA9F7KIBOGQlsDIyGcEYiOlHQo4buvpBvA/s640/photo.jpg" width="227" /></a></div><br />That's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dillinger">John Dillinger</a>, <a href="http://marilynmonroe.com/">Marilyn Monroe</a> on the outside of Kate's left arm, and on the inside:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig-X-8hyphenhyphenZvrz65kY9Kle46JgoYzYpmQbYSiq3hFi0DI6aNRZZG9zqWrj322EcD-36w411GXItWCav5yLkK5K2FutqZQ6MIFX-e2nI3FShmD7LXNdgtaUtH_-jdhstjhF0omAWTBu8AlvU/s489/photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig-X-8hyphenhyphenZvrz65kY9Kle46JgoYzYpmQbYSiq3hFi0DI6aNRZZG9zqWrj322EcD-36w411GXItWCav5yLkK5K2FutqZQ6MIFX-e2nI3FShmD7LXNdgtaUtH_-jdhstjhF0omAWTBu8AlvU/s640/photo.jpg" width="291" /></a></div><br /><a href="http://www.billieholiday.com/">Billie Holliday</a> and <a href="http://www.jamesdean.com/">James Dean</a>.<br /><br />Thanks to Kate for sharing these amazing portraits by one of the best in the business!<br /><br /><b id="internal-source-marker_0.2920736074447632" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-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>

Kate Shares Some Amazing Portraits by Tommy Montoya

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Panic in New York - A Visit from Victor

I always like visits from old friends of the site, but when I bumped into Victor in the Penn Plaza Borders back in May, I realized I hadn't seen him in a while. Turns out he had moved out of New York and has been residing in Pennsylvania.<br /><br />Before we go further, perhaps you should reacquaint yourselves with Victor's "tat-alog". He first appeared <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2008/06/heeeeeeeeeres-victors-tattoos.html">here</a>, showing off eight tattoos, then we checked out five more cinematic tattoos <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2009/08/return-of-victors-ink.html">here</a>, and then, last year, an iconic piece <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2010/05/update-from-victor.html">here</a>.This will mark the fourth consecutive year Victor has appeared on the site, so we'll make it a good, no, <u>great</u> one:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYkoiQjuE9am8KxPEpNdRcF4soWRR9VPS061lqZqMJV_vRUslMb1DbGOcAh3J6OiGxxQiHWMNsy0v1JOqEomoFMuFvExlIsjGqnOqAEe0zyMxPSLZn4F4FLjxqZMk7OC2uX7hVrxQerp0/s1600/bowie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYkoiQjuE9am8KxPEpNdRcF4soWRR9VPS061lqZqMJV_vRUslMb1DbGOcAh3J6OiGxxQiHWMNsy0v1JOqEomoFMuFvExlIsjGqnOqAEe0zyMxPSLZn4F4FLjxqZMk7OC2uX7hVrxQerp0/s640/bowie.jpg" width="258" /></a></div><br />This incredible David Bowie tattoo was inked by Victor's brother, Eddie Bonacore, at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/5-7-0-Tattooing-Co/70637454612">5-7-0 Tattooing Co.</a> in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.<br /><br />The image above, of course, is from the iconic Bowie album <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin_Sane">Aladdin Sane</a></i>.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVxKoU99HMMJ7iMCuySYuDRh5tym3aAUZY72SYpdsarJZ9qjvG6NEpCNpP7PhZtYGOCowgGHzr30-k2tSL1Jl-RWTDMwC1sQQ8ReF_ztYGlf4EuP1iNa7QbtuvgX9CMlfv_WPgm1-6vys/s1600/David+Bowie+Aladdin+Sane.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVxKoU99HMMJ7iMCuySYuDRh5tym3aAUZY72SYpdsarJZ9qjvG6NEpCNpP7PhZtYGOCowgGHzr30-k2tSL1Jl-RWTDMwC1sQQ8ReF_ztYGlf4EuP1iNa7QbtuvgX9CMlfv_WPgm1-6vys/s320/David+Bowie+Aladdin+Sane.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Victor told me that Eddie's Bowie portrait had garnered three awards at a recent tattoo convention.<br /><br />It was a pleasure seeing our old friend Victor after a year, and we thank him, and his brother Eddie, for sharing this amazing tattoo 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"><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>

Panic in New York - A Visit from Victor

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The Tattooed Poets Project: Stephen Roger Powers

Today's tattooed poet is <a href="http://www.stephenrogerpowers.com/">Stephen Roger Powers</a>, who is sharing this tattoo of an iconic figure from the music industry:<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM8tzpMuobxnqTAY7CXuFShFIErcyO_q3eJfnQbOaPEfVPQBvwHaA7pTr90mOPDWlsd6LINMduUSwpc5lOZrzCtPLjgipX5DDOsFsKOE0ZgXAJ0uyQDl1t22iO4BHVnIwsoFaWyHVvCZE/s1600/Dolly+Tata.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM8tzpMuobxnqTAY7CXuFShFIErcyO_q3eJfnQbOaPEfVPQBvwHaA7pTr90mOPDWlsd6LINMduUSwpc5lOZrzCtPLjgipX5DDOsFsKOE0ZgXAJ0uyQDl1t22iO4BHVnIwsoFaWyHVvCZE/s400/Dolly+Tata.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo by James Morton</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Stephen explains:<br /><br /><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">I've been a <a href="http://www.dollyparton.com/">Dolly Parton</a> fan since my family took a road trip to </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Tennessee</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> in 1987.  We stopped at <a href="http://www.dollywood.com/">Dollywood</a>, and I fell in love.  When I was in college I wanted a Dolly tattoo, but I never went through with getting one.  I kept the thought of it in the back of my mind for years, and when I started writing poems about Dolly and my frequent trips to Dollywood to see her perform benefit concerts for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollywood_Foundation">Dollywood Foundation</a>, the idea slowly crept forward again.  Then <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1907056203/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=bill03-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1907056203%22%3EThe%20Follower%27s%20Tale%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=&l=as2&o=1&a=1907056203%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">my book of Dolly poems</a> came out in 2009, and I knew it would soon be time.  One day last year my friend Liz, who has 14 tattoos herself, told me to stop thinking about it, stop talking about it, and just do it.  Sounded reasonable to me.  So Liz drove me to <a href="http://www.libertytat2.com/">Liberty Tattoo</a> in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Atlanta</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> and introduced me to <a href="http://www.libertytat2.com/tattoos/michael-shack-shackleford/">Michael "Shack" Shackelford</a>, the artist who'd done most of hers.  Shack drew up a stylized, cartoonized version of Dolly from the cover of her 1977 album <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_You_Come_Again">Here You Come Again</a>, taking some creative license by adding pokey nipples, which was fine with me. </span></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2-cwipB01ATwgBx31oP6pbjI5b-P2a9UqE8jRqbk8uAc4Is5Mvh1k2KcZkedfPysW7S4CM1VqYKtNkCGTiVtJ5XJGdJvt6jcoeWeHqKUS9oni3cpzPwhyphenhyphenIMU3-IidfjyvO-eH3ArBm3o/s1600/Hereyoucomeagain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2-cwipB01ATwgBx31oP6pbjI5b-P2a9UqE8jRqbk8uAc4Is5Mvh1k2KcZkedfPysW7S4CM1VqYKtNkCGTiVtJ5XJGdJvt6jcoeWeHqKUS9oni3cpzPwhyphenhyphenIMU3-IidfjyvO-eH3ArBm3o/s1600/Hereyoucomeagain.jpg" /></a></div><br /><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Liz kept saying she wasn't going to let me back out of it now that she'd driven me there and gotten pulled over for an illegal u-turn on the way, so Shack sat me down, we got started, and today I have Dolly Parton inked on my forearm.  While the tattoo is based on a full body shot of Dolly and it runs down my entire right forearm from elbow to wrist, the photo here is a close-up of just her face and torso, which I think makes Shack's details easier to see.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> Accompanying this Dolly tattoo is Stephen's poem, "Dolly and the Frog Strangler," which appeared originally in <a href="http://www.wlu.edu/x31904.xml"><i>Shenadoah</i></a> and can be found in his book <a href="http://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=168&a=164">The Follower's Tale</a> (available <a href="http://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=168&a=164">here</a>):<br /><br /><b style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Dolly and the Frog Strangler</b></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I was writing a song with Dolly when we ran out of gas</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">near exit 201 going south through a sudden downpour in Indiana.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The first verse was something about how hay bales grow</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">darker in the rain and the sides of barns turn from red to brown.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We were also hauling a Dolly Parton pinball machine by Bally.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The backglass was in the backseat. The playfield, with rubber</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">flippers intact, cartoon Dolly barefoot in denim shorts, was too big to go</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">in the trunk all the way.  It hung over the bumper by bungee cords.  Every bump,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">my worn-out shocks groaned and banged like rickety roller coasters.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We waited for a trucker to bring us a gallon.  Hail popped on the roof</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">like too many warped records playing at the same time.  We were bored,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">looking for ways to amuse ourselves.  Dolly tapped her dragon lady nails</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">on the dashboard.  I used my sleeve to wipe away windshield fog.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">After we hummed a middle C we wrote the second verse,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">something about long hair between your lips and mountain berry shampoo</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">scent in your nose when you kiss someone in the wind.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We rolled down the windows to let the storm heat evaporate</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">some of the air conditioning.  Dolly’s wig got tangled and wet.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The strangest thing was happening: The pinball machine</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">kept flashing hot pink and lavender.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Maybe lightning hit the cord trailing behind.  Or else something lit it</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">up from our mind’s eye that saw corn tassels rolling in this gully washer</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">over the fields as applauding hands of cheering crowds.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Our chorus was something about how you look out</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">your rearview mirror and it’s still visible after a mile</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">passes, maybe two if the countryside is flat, but then it fades</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">away and is gone, and you can’t remember anymore what mile</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">marker it was by when you passed it.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> ~~~</span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.stephenrogerpowers.com/">Stephen Roger Powers</a> is the author of <a href="http://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=168&a=164">TheFollower's Tale</a>, available from <a href="http://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=168&a=164">Salmon Poetry</a>.  His work has appeared in <i><a href="http://www.wlu.edu/x31904.xml">Shenandoah</a></i>, <i><a href="http://www.32poems.com/">32 Poems</a></i>, <a href="http://dislocate.umn.edu/"><i>Dislocate</i></a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Margie-American-Journal-Robert-Nazarene/dp/0971904006">Margie</a>.  He divides his time between </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Wisconsin</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Georgia</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, and Dollywood.</span><br /><br />A sincere thanks to Stephen for sharing his poem, tattoo and his love of Dolly Parton here with us on Tattoosday!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2=1&bg1=FFFFFF&fc1=000000&lc1=0000FF&t=bill03-20&o=1&p=8&l=as4&m=amazon&f=ifr&ref=ss_til&asins=1907056203" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2011 Tattoosday. The poem is reprinted here with the permission of the author.<br /><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 </span> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><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>

The Tattooed Poets Project: Stephen Roger Powers

Today's tattooed poet is Stephen Roger Powers , who is sharing this tattoo of an iconic figure from the music industry: Photo by James M...

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Jake's Redd Foxx Tattoo Helps Us Celebrate Father's Day!

Last week, I posted about a trio of friends that had recently moved from San Francisco to New York, all of them inked.<br /><br />Jake was the first of the three to share his tattoo with us, and it is such a good piece, I saved it for a special occasion, Father's Day:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw0VpPH6TFlBwm10oyEm826igsiHmbcHxRR7W9vKzy_uJ-W0BbL99-8jKh_GZFIg4gld1Hzff5pyIEaeyH9vdbDyA5lqIreuCefvS33OE1ff19L0XaAOW57BiXYaNgvPFF_wNi7OSeWQ8/s1600-h/redd+foxx.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349555276859513010" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw0VpPH6TFlBwm10oyEm826igsiHmbcHxRR7W9vKzy_uJ-W0BbL99-8jKh_GZFIg4gld1Hzff5pyIEaeyH9vdbDyA5lqIreuCefvS33OE1ff19L0XaAOW57BiXYaNgvPFF_wNi7OSeWQ8/s400/redd+foxx.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 248px; height: 400px;" /></a><br />This is, of course, a portrait of the great comedian <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redd_Foxx">Redd Foxx</a>. People of my generation (X) remember him as the bristling curmudgeon in the sitcom "S<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanford_and_Son">andford and Son</a>".<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTH4ux0XJs_IuX7v-UO8gkdq0zxjs1G96awE3-dD_oV_H0w2Mohydo_abi-wZoYkB2i0K829UVCcWSqMdttHWWFdgWNNXV6XwSY-GaYrEc4cPrxUCmOe5-623-d9x76yQ9AHyzWw7MeJU/s1600-h/sanford-son-photo-autographed-photo.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349557399783273538" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTH4ux0XJs_IuX7v-UO8gkdq0zxjs1G96awE3-dD_oV_H0w2Mohydo_abi-wZoYkB2i0K829UVCcWSqMdttHWWFdgWNNXV6XwSY-GaYrEc4cPrxUCmOe5-623-d9x76yQ9AHyzWw7MeJU/s400/sanford-son-photo-autographed-photo.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 301px; height: 400px;" /></a><br /><br />For those who are unfamiliar with the series, the show is about a widower, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_G._Sanford">Fred Sanford</a> (Foxx), raising his adult son Lamont (played by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demond_Wilson">Desmond Wilson</a>), and their junkyard business. It was a breakthrough show that was one of the first on network television to feature a minority cast.<br /><br />The father-son dynamic is an ongoing theme, and Jake recalls watching the show with his dad and it being a bonding experience.<br /><br />His father passed away about four years ago this month from cancer. The tattoo is not only a tribute to the great comedian, but a reminder of the times Jake spent watching "Sandford and Son" with his dad. Jake added, "I'm pretty sure if [my dad] was still around, he would get a kick out of seeing Redd Foxx on my calf."<br /><br />This amazing portrait was tattooed on the back of Jake's right calf by <a href="http://www.myspace.com/imaketats">Greg Rojas</a> at <a href="http://www.everlastingtattoo.com/">Everlasting Tattoo</a> in San Francisco.<br /><br />As we celebrate Father's Day today, I thank Jake for sharing this awesome tattoo with us here, and invite everyone to revisit the host of tattoos previously posted on Tattoosday that pay tribute to dads. Click <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/search/label/Fathers">here</a> to see the lot.<br /><br />And, as a special treat, in the spirit of the day, I present the following clip:<br /><br /><object height="285" width="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cRyrLQOrL84&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cRyrLQOrL84&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="340" height="285"></embed></object><br /><br />Happy Father's Day from Tattoosday!

Jake's Redd Foxx Tattoo Helps Us Celebrate Father's Day!

Last week, I posted about a trio of friends that had recently moved from San Francisco to New York, all of them inked. Jake was the first of...

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