Mike Bakaty, Rest in Peace

I learned last night of the passing of a legendary NYC tattoo artist, Mike Bakaty. Our friends over at Needles & Sins informed us of the sad news, with <a href="http://www.needlesandsins.com/2014/01/rip-mike-bakaty.html">this touching remembrance</a> .<br /><br />I never met Mike, whose <a href="http://finelinetattoo.com/">Fineline Tattoo NYC</a> is a great shop, thanks to his talent and hard work, along with that of his son Mehai. But, as you would imagine, a couple of his tattoos have appeared on the site over the years. Interestingly, both examples I found were for the Tattooed Poets Project:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgy1AWSvnU-AQWirFMjBXUKgZsmTBn4QaA9T9QOy80H1HJzGZrwHvVCR1ipucSTRhxd-GkPk8zCnemaxLqncKbOZNhOnG2mie7vpkLVg6KNoeAFtW0ymeZTnVWHhoIPuvrQBEz2Me1JFQ/s640/IMG_0895.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgy1AWSvnU-AQWirFMjBXUKgZsmTBn4QaA9T9QOy80H1HJzGZrwHvVCR1ipucSTRhxd-GkPk8zCnemaxLqncKbOZNhOnG2mie7vpkLVg6KNoeAFtW0ymeZTnVWHhoIPuvrQBEz2Me1JFQ/s640/IMG_0895.JPG" width="339" /></a></div><br />That was from Ethan Hom's contribution last year (<a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-tattooed-poets-project-ethan-hon.html">here</a>) and this:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOUhZhW_iLjnVS0X9otCFXZLQD4fWDc2F-GYTZi4c5hGRSijy0Cu0DhPfUCdRyVmyN3u0Ci1s9ukyCiXEt8ccpPmvGyafQ0VqKzqASIbfMY56WxmJOGdXUZRoGbb24WovFacYLTyd0/s400/Hamm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOUhZhW_iLjnVS0X9otCFXZLQD4fWDc2F-GYTZi4c5hGRSijy0Cu0DhPfUCdRyVmyN3u0Ci1s9ukyCiXEt8ccpPmvGyafQ0VqKzqASIbfMY56WxmJOGdXUZRoGbb24WovFacYLTyd0/s400/Hamm.jpg" width="370" /></a></div><br />which is courtesy of Christine Hamm, in 2010 (original post <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2010/04/tattooed-poets-project-christine-hamm.html">here</a>).<br /><br />You can see more examples of some of Mike's work on the Fineline website <a href="http://finelinetattoo.com/staff/">here</a> but I encourage you to head over to <a href="http://www.needlesandsins.com/2014/01/rip-mike-bakaty.html">Needles & Sins</a> to get a true appreciation of the importance of Mike Bakaty and his impact on the tattoo community.<br /><br />It reminds you that every time you see a tattoo, it's often not just a work of art on the skin, but a reflection of the hard work of an artist, with a soul and a life, and that they truly do live on in this world through their work, even after they have passed on to the nect.<br /><br />Rest in Peace, Mike.<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 ©2010, 2013, 2014 Tattoosday.</span></span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-4129709c-e813-8312-1c75-8d3b1c449ad0"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></span><br /><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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Mike Bakaty, Rest in Peace

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