Crystal's Ice-Bat and Gloomy Bear (with a Nod to The Academy Is)

<span id="internal-source-marker_0.36276135681059196" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">These tattoos, belonging to Crystal, date back to an encounter I had with her on the R train in Brooklyn back in June. She has 14 tattoos, and first shared this one, on her inner right forearm:</span><br /><br /><span id="internal-source-marker_0.36276135681059196" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-DWKz7VLRGbtese4_XOM1s2J49kgs-gBvi9zkMwNvP95leKt_3e-CFq1PFGQNLNTx2PrcfuazM2qqtWjRY4kBlxZaRQCK55UP02wE_lx4Uv1hr7ZK3OowS9acQSnKR5oIFgqFTfgcVf0/s1600/ice+bat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-DWKz7VLRGbtese4_XOM1s2J49kgs-gBvi9zkMwNvP95leKt_3e-CFq1PFGQNLNTx2PrcfuazM2qqtWjRY4kBlxZaRQCK55UP02wE_lx4Uv1hr7ZK3OowS9acQSnKR5oIFgqFTfgcVf0/s640/ice+bat.jpg" width="434" /></a></div><span id="internal-source-marker_0.36276135681059196" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br /><span id="internal-source-marker_0.36276135681059196" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What is this? I'll let Crystal explain: </span><br /><blockquote><span id="internal-source-marker_0.36276135681059196" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“It’s an <a href="http://www.uglydolls.com/products/productdetail/Ice-Bat/part_number=10071/322.0.1.1.19427.0.0.0.0?pp=16&">Ice-Bat</a>  [one of the <a href="http://www.uglydolls.com/home/index/322.0">Uglydolls</a>] with the words ‘Dream of demons / while you sleep / that make you / stutter / when you speak’ – they’re lyrics from a song [“Down and Out”] by <a href="http://www.theacademyis.com/">The Academy Is</a>, a Chicago band. My best friend and I actually have the same words, different design on her arm. We met in Chicago … it’s kind of a way to show our support for the band but also for our friendship to each other.”  </span></blockquote><span id="internal-source-marker_0.36276135681059196" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Incidentally, The Academy Is announced just last week that, after eight years, they were breaking up.</span><br /><span id="internal-source-marker_0.36276135681059196" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><br /><span id="internal-source-marker_0.36276135681059196" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This piece was done at <a href="http://chicagotattoo.com/home.html">The Chicago Tattooing and Piercing Company</a>, but Crystal doesn't recall the name of the artist who did the tattoo.</span><br /><span id="internal-source-marker_0.36276135681059196" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><br /><span id="internal-source-marker_0.36276135681059196" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">She also shared this chest piece:</span><br /><span id="internal-source-marker_0.36276135681059196" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiShRuZWVyzWD6If705bf8RAtRuuMGZvjBjswmEW1NebNW5a9mulpEJtabRS0ZVg2DZDesQU22bgqXKCnKpYdgJTPImNVHS66OHEe_zO3dpcrX0UVQlG48JhsfTE239_qAKpuwIWVWKd4E/s1600/chest+piece.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiShRuZWVyzWD6If705bf8RAtRuuMGZvjBjswmEW1NebNW5a9mulpEJtabRS0ZVg2DZDesQU22bgqXKCnKpYdgJTPImNVHS66OHEe_zO3dpcrX0UVQlG48JhsfTE239_qAKpuwIWVWKd4E/s640/chest+piece.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span id="internal-source-marker_0.36276135681059196" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><br /><span id="internal-source-marker_0.36276135681059196" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Again, Crystal explains it best:</span><br /><blockquote><span id="internal-source-marker_0.36276135681059196" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> “I got started on it when I was 19 and I was in Atlanta and had just started college and went through a rebellious phase. … I’m in love with the main character which is <a href="http://www.ningyoushi.com/Gloomy_Bear_Ningyoushi_com_s/48.htm">Gloomy Bear</a> … Gloomy Bear is kind of the doll that controls the boy…..”</span></blockquote><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">More on Gloomy Bear can be learned on its designer Mori Chack's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mori_Chack">wikipedia page</a>. </span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thanks to Crystal for sharing her ink with us here on Tattoosday!</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br /><br />Here's a little bonus, The Academy Is performing "Down and Out" at an in-store event:<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/GQQNSMJ6me8" width="640"></iframe><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. 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Crystal's Ice-Bat and Gloomy Bear (with a Nod to The Academy Is)

These tattoos, belonging to Crystal, date back to an encounter I had with her on the R train in Brooklyn back in June. She has 14 tattoos, a...

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