Shroomtastic!

Yesterday I was walking around Penn Station during lunch, as is my normal workday routine. I saw quite a few tattoos, but nothing seemed to impress. I was hoping to chance upon something a little more original than flowers, dragons and skulls.<br /><br />I spotted a young woman talking to a few other people and a few of them had tattoos. I sauntered on over, figuring between them, I'd see something interesting. I wasn't disappointed.<br /><br />Among the group was Mark, who shared this tattoo on the back of his calf:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyQO6yc4PZFFofpcf9dPkoqI0mF9udPQfdLvrFcRYaWpdTXF047Wm6bJzHKuK7ugt9jI26DBTW3LDjGt8biA8Q4rUhOHymTN-V_S9nnBYjkgBIqfJ9enXphIskoHPmsSsW3b7PVldwlxI/w547-h1217-k/IMG_0285.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyQO6yc4PZFFofpcf9dPkoqI0mF9udPQfdLvrFcRYaWpdTXF047Wm6bJzHKuK7ugt9jI26DBTW3LDjGt8biA8Q4rUhOHymTN-V_S9nnBYjkgBIqfJ9enXphIskoHPmsSsW3b7PVldwlxI/w547-h1217-k/IMG_0285.JPG" width="287" /></a></div><br />Those are mushrooms. More specifically, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybin_mushroom">psilocybin</a> mushrooms, which have hallucinogenic properties.<br /><br />The artist was the woman I initially spotted, a freelance "underground" tattooist from Oakland, California who gave her name as Steiner Ella.<br /><br />Thanks to Mark and Steiner for sharing this cool tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.3212289712391794"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This entry is ©2012 Tattoosday.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; 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="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; 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></b></span><br /><br />

Shroomtastic!

Yesterday I was walking around Penn Station during lunch, as is my normal workday routine. I saw quite a few tattoos, but nothing seemed to ...

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