Will Is Well-Armed for the Opera

Occasionally, one of my posts will fall through the cracks and I only discover it by chance.<br /><br />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 scratching my head over that one, because how could I forget this tattoo?<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmEQXJMOi_JvaqOil_01cGplZeUUwLiFIuv4hURoJE72_fYEPy6lLnh48EBStY-pP5UFdRpzQOjYebfigTkWrcVQuP27ErN-JtAFE4eHbiLv9axDWNsMszb4sbrESmJoY4RaO731E-nrA/s1600/Opera+Arm+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmEQXJMOi_JvaqOil_01cGplZeUUwLiFIuv4hURoJE72_fYEPy6lLnh48EBStY-pP5UFdRpzQOjYebfigTkWrcVQuP27ErN-JtAFE4eHbiLv9axDWNsMszb4sbrESmJoY4RaO731E-nrA/s640/Opera+Arm+1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Will explained to me that he has the signatures of twenty-seven female opera singers that have, in some way, touched his life. The photo above is only a fragment of the whole array, which covers his left arm and runs down the side of his chest.<br /><br />"I'm a big opera fan ...[it's] just a form of music and expression that has always meant a lot to me," Will told me. He explained how he had waited for two hours for a singer to emerge from a venue after a performance, but she never came out. That missed autograph opportunity gave him the idea to recreate the signatures of an array of great singers on his flesh.<br /><br />Among the names visible in the photo above are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Callas">Maria Callas</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Bumbry">Grace Bumbry</a>.<br /><br />The signatures were inked by <a href="http://www.dcwallin.com/">Dave Wallin</a> at <a href="http://www.8ofswords.com/">Eight of Swords Tattoo</a> in Brooklyn.<br /><br />Thanks to Will for sharing his operatic arm 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 ©2012 Tattoosday. </span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><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 <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>

Will Is Well-Armed for the Opera

Occasionally, one of my posts will fall through the cracks and I only discover it by chance. For example, earlier this week I was passing th...

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