Sierra's Mayflower in June

Last month, I found myself at the corner of 86th Street and 5th Avenue in Manhattan, waiting for the crosstown bus.<br /><br />I looked over to my right and saw a tattoo with incredible line work:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSWQCqo1HdMcY9bMNm3uHYAMbzlzIVT8CnsYtvC1KQGM2PmSXVko4Wmk79ldZn6b4TqITfNZM_c2uYCP-MZGk8xpu6vOd64CjyUtiblcmOioz-e1IkYteVmlyd5nnLDO4L36LoKpGKrGc/s320/photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSWQCqo1HdMcY9bMNm3uHYAMbzlzIVT8CnsYtvC1KQGM2PmSXVko4Wmk79ldZn6b4TqITfNZM_c2uYCP-MZGk8xpu6vOd64CjyUtiblcmOioz-e1IkYteVmlyd5nnLDO4L36LoKpGKrGc/s400/photo.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />This tattoo belongs to Sierra, who was kind enough to send me a photo of the tattoo later that evening. She also told me a little more about the piece:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">My tattoo is of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower">Mayflower</a>. My parents took me to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth,_Massachusetts">Plymouth</a> a lot as a child and it fostered a great love of American History. I wanted something to commemorate that. I chose this scale drawing because I wanted something 'antique-ish' and not to 'pirate-y'."</span></blockquote><span style="background-color: white;">Sierra credits the talented <a href="http://markharada.com/">Mark Harada</a> at <a href="http://eastsideinktattoo.com/">East Side Ink</a> with this amazingly well-lined work. "I love [his] work," she wrote me, "and </span>do plan to have him do another for me in the future."<br /><br />Thanks to Sierra for sharing her Mayflower with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><br /><b id="internal-source-marker_0.3607417030725628" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This entry is ©2012 Tattoosday.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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><a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; 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>

Sierra's Mayflower in June

Last month, I found myself at the corner of 86th Street and 5th Avenue in Manhattan, waiting for the crosstown bus. I looked over to my righ...

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Michael and his Misfits Ink

I met Michael in Bay Ridge, at 92nd and 3rd Avenue, and he offered up these two tattoos on his forearm:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_1K0QJg0Fy79pX6pnZAJ8y-JopY3ywlc20xgE3xgFRzd0BXgPRY_d-zfBFIb8mVjwQa87RNNQ70iTsuM0qukRb4pg2rrO8czM5xLAaNbj2EkJjIK1zhUHd4gOZHK1slXyAOIpwE26gws/s1600/Misfits.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_1K0QJg0Fy79pX6pnZAJ8y-JopY3ywlc20xgE3xgFRzd0BXgPRY_d-zfBFIb8mVjwQa87RNNQ70iTsuM0qukRb4pg2rrO8czM5xLAaNbj2EkJjIK1zhUHd4gOZHK1slXyAOIpwE26gws/s640/Misfits.jpg" width="284" /></a></div><br />I recognized the top piece as a <a href="http://www.misfits.com/">Misfits</a> tattoo and asked why he chose it.<br /><br />He responded:<br /><br /><blockquote>"They are my favorite band of all time and when I say the Misfits, I mean the 1977-1983 Misfits. That to me is one of the greatest bands of all time and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Danzig">Glenn Danzig</a> is my favorite singer of all time."</blockquote><br />He credited <a href="http://markharada.com/">Mark Harada</a>, currently at <a href="http://www.eastsideinktattoo.com/">East Side Ink</a>, with tattooing this back in 2002.<br /><br />The <a href="http://www.the7thhouse.com/">Danzig</a> skull below the Misfits piece was done, he told me, by <a href="http://christorrestattoos.com/">Chris Torres</a> in 2010.<br /><br />Here's a little classic Misfits to get you going today:<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="405" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/vu4VeAzx8HI" width="500"></iframe><br /><br />Thanks to Michael for sharing his tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2011 Tattoosday. </span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><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><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span>

Michael and his Misfits Ink

I met Michael in Bay Ridge, at 92nd and 3rd Avenue, and he offered up these two tattoos on his forearm: I recognized the top piece as a Misf...

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