Tattoosday Goes to L.A. - Javie's Sublime Tattoo

On my recent trip to Los Angeles, I popped in and talked to a few of the artists in San Pedro's <a href="http://www.aceofheartstattoo.com/index.html">Ace of Hearts Tattoo</a>.<br /><br />Fortunately for me, they were also in the sharing mood. Check out this piece on the upper right arm of artist <a href="http://www.aceofheartstattoo.com/Javie_gallery.html">Javie Dev</a>:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLH7lX1tERTrlZqzRN6ev1f6msUjStOFgqZ8MQg57se7Rr3gothM0MbvnlrFMRSiQuD3HqsG3QmBF_JpSXgkfvJDVaZXDgapOuyk5cPI9-bJ-EevsHhwr5ey1OskUaUQPnVUO3o1mKeQs/s572/photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLH7lX1tERTrlZqzRN6ev1f6msUjStOFgqZ8MQg57se7Rr3gothM0MbvnlrFMRSiQuD3HqsG3QmBF_JpSXgkfvJDVaZXDgapOuyk5cPI9-bJ-EevsHhwr5ey1OskUaUQPnVUO3o1mKeQs/s640/photo.jpg" width="420" /></a></div><br />This awesome tattoo was an appropriate one to feature, as Southern Californians would attest. The work refers to the ska/punk band <a href="http://sublimelbc.com/">Sublime</a>, who hail from neighboring Long Beach.<br /><br />Their debut album, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40oz._to_Freedom">40 Oz. to Freedom</a>, featured this cover art:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://groundctrl.s3.amazonaws.com/clients/groundctrl/media/12/05/large.3vgh54x7l4z4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="398" src="http://groundctrl.s3.amazonaws.com/clients/groundctrl/media/12/05/large.3vgh54x7l4z4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br />What makes this tattoo particularly special is that Javie got it from <a href="http://www.opieortiz.com/">Opie Ortiz</a>, the artist who designed the album cover. Opie was one of Javie's mentors and did the tattoo at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AmericanBeautyTattoo">American Beauty Tattoo Parlor</a> in Sunset Beach.<br /><br />Thanks to Javie for sharing this awesome tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><b id="internal-source-marker_0.6684094211086631" 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 ©2013 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>

Tattoosday Goes to L.A. - Javie's Sublime Tattoo

On my recent trip to Los Angeles, I popped in and talked to a few of the artists in San Pedro's Ace of Hearts Tattoo . Fortunately for m...

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