Anna's Amazing Half-Sleeve Honors Her Brothers and Where They Have Lived

Yesterday we saw work from an Italian artist, today we are admiring ink I spotted on the subway last month that originated in Sweden.<br /><br />I met Anna on the West 4th Street platform and hopped on the F train toward Brooklyn just to have a moment to talk to her and find out a little about her tattoos:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWy9CO6tmKPtpGTWA9kzseN0aNfe0LkUrqBGdzQsXKai4D5wTa6XJakbetXyib5FBxk7U17qwdEH89mFfXIOduwqfa7lZs-E0gID12MYgwEczYSzpT7jjyU0ApAtHGpuLLk2o5LcFU1PE/s615/photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWy9CO6tmKPtpGTWA9kzseN0aNfe0LkUrqBGdzQsXKai4D5wTa6XJakbetXyib5FBxk7U17qwdEH89mFfXIOduwqfa7lZs-E0gID12MYgwEczYSzpT7jjyU0ApAtHGpuLLk2o5LcFU1PE/s640/photo.jpg" width="278" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib5ZjLj9CtxtVtDQ974ZhuHjDO11hwubOWfkU11rSaf1yMDKFWgAF0iXu4dbXSbmS3QfSlih1i7xF2SOF5XqYU14KFXaCWId135_lENcezbrG5_cL4bUrsnC6wXKMNZnwksrhBs-CFP_U/s615/photo.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib5ZjLj9CtxtVtDQ974ZhuHjDO11hwubOWfkU11rSaf1yMDKFWgAF0iXu4dbXSbmS3QfSlih1i7xF2SOF5XqYU14KFXaCWId135_lENcezbrG5_cL4bUrsnC6wXKMNZnwksrhBs-CFP_U/s640/photo.jpg" width="286" /></a></div><br />Anna explained the concept as a family-related sleeve. The two faces that are featured in the hot air balloons are portraits of her brothers, Mike and John. The maps that appear as background represent many of the places they have lived, like Japan, Peru, and Puerto Rico.<br /><br />She credited this stunning work to Vilda Nordström at <a href="http://www.vildaart.com/">Vild@art</a> in <span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.2em;"><a href="http://xn--vrgrda-iuac/">Vårgårda</a>, Sweden. Check out their Facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Vilda-Art-Tatuering/143863275654058">here</a>. Vilda's work is very impressive!</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk2gfBv51bjBnoHllM8I4RE46OR9pGjA82e-bQjgmxorbz5LiTfmxVWFwcdR1ojgoFBuMLZL3sq0N7xI9ShBVNvfBBxnpXcz5vf06wxhNhiWrC86eRTTXNq0-a4YXjtzEI_zDrKP4xuBs/s0-d/IMG_0459.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk2gfBv51bjBnoHllM8I4RE46OR9pGjA82e-bQjgmxorbz5LiTfmxVWFwcdR1ojgoFBuMLZL3sq0N7xI9ShBVNvfBBxnpXcz5vf06wxhNhiWrC86eRTTXNq0-a4YXjtzEI_zDrKP4xuBs/s0-d/IMG_0459.JPG" width="456" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.2em;">Thanks to Anna for sharing her tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.2em;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span><br /><b id="internal-source-marker_0.3969519571401179" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This entry is ©2012 Tattoosday.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you are reading 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="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; 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>

Anna's Amazing Half-Sleeve Honors Her Brothers and Where They Have Lived

Yesterday we saw work from an Italian artist, today we are admiring ink I spotted on the subway last month that originated in Sweden. I met ...

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Jon Paul's Three Cities

Last August, I met Jon Paul,  writer and content producer for the web site <a href="http://www.poptimistic.com/">Poptimistic </a>(<a href="http://www.poptimistic.com/">http://www.poptimistic.com</a>). He shared this tattoo, one of three he has, from his upper right arm:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVF1nheJHqBKX8PPO_XgpP4cQvfx-WT1gBeuw__eonctXfQFs64P6rmpM8RKtH0L4ywoR-cQNIVLa9885jdhmbqDK7rdgMx0h6Aaux41RXhiA_akSmXz2ZnBEwB6XxkkmMpU_Qr4xVHDw/s1600/3+cities.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVF1nheJHqBKX8PPO_XgpP4cQvfx-WT1gBeuw__eonctXfQFs64P6rmpM8RKtH0L4ywoR-cQNIVLa9885jdhmbqDK7rdgMx0h6Aaux41RXhiA_akSmXz2ZnBEwB6XxkkmMpU_Qr4xVHDw/s640/3+cities.jpg" width="407" /></a></div><br />Jon Paul's focus on Poptimistic is travel and food. He credits the work to the artist <a href="http://www.fridayjones.net/studio.html">Friday Jones</a>, who does custom tattoo work out of <a href="http://sensesny.com/">Senses New York Salon & Spa</a> in the Flat Iron District. I mentioned Ms. Jones back on Tattoosday in 2009 <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2009/06/tattoos-in-news-friday-jones-fifth.html">here</a>.<br /><br />Jon Paul explained that he originally met Ms. Jones in New Orleans when she did "the very first tattoo [he] got ... the compass that the rest of the tattoo is built around." About a year later, he elaborated, "I went back to her and said, 'Now I want you to build a whole piece around my three favorite spots in the world.' So she designed it custom from that." She did it over three sessions.<br /><br />Represented among Jon Paul's three favorite places are New York City, where he calls home:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIrDs60taGz8orWb4tONe5NnwzSNsTU0iVU3RdEwC-FNmDAuXgLoJTLH3ccmGBYGWo7dF2krvTMhH54k06gaz67RE58GxkWeMtBcKDNV1pbMhRmY0VEnon_ezADSEiAFHSwAUd6fX9roQ/s1600/3+cities+-+ny.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIrDs60taGz8orWb4tONe5NnwzSNsTU0iVU3RdEwC-FNmDAuXgLoJTLH3ccmGBYGWo7dF2krvTMhH54k06gaz67RE58GxkWeMtBcKDNV1pbMhRmY0VEnon_ezADSEiAFHSwAUd6fX9roQ/s640/3+cities+-+ny.jpg" width="344" /></a></div><br />The Big Apple is represented by the Statue of Liberty and by the iconic Art Deco style of the landmark <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Building">Chrysler Buillding</a>. <br /><br />Paris is represented by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower">Eiffel Tower</a>:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd8fa4rdoa1zFFlvyT2C6AUxUB2HYvOXVkQQiUfon1uzFPQgirOt20Urs55VOe5jXli3U3wdwxAUrTdNgQYGnNsEJqHKiDGgiuZJKM94hlDgYgFtUCxss1Yvhy6oFhGxJXDRBi_-rBREE/s1600/3+cities+Paris.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd8fa4rdoa1zFFlvyT2C6AUxUB2HYvOXVkQQiUfon1uzFPQgirOt20Urs55VOe5jXli3U3wdwxAUrTdNgQYGnNsEJqHKiDGgiuZJKM94hlDgYgFtUCxss1Yvhy6oFhGxJXDRBi_-rBREE/s640/3+cities+Paris.jpg" width="324" /></a></div><br />Sydney, Australia is represented by it's recognizable <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Opera_House">Opera House</a>:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiapjxRhc5BZpkG1z21ZMQt4EyVsDZiwHiJfDpYUwQV8wMi_3N28Ks9lWfE1WVIeXAFTo5E_DGDR2ixHlwN1ax_3PpI30KGZ0sTRT0oHSmcDjkmi52w9TaCipY0go-kOJB9L2NQ61X1NuQ/s1600/3+cities+-+sydney.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiapjxRhc5BZpkG1z21ZMQt4EyVsDZiwHiJfDpYUwQV8wMi_3N28Ks9lWfE1WVIeXAFTo5E_DGDR2ixHlwN1ax_3PpI30KGZ0sTRT0oHSmcDjkmi52w9TaCipY0go-kOJB9L2NQ61X1NuQ/s400/3+cities+-+sydney.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Jon Paul said " Sydney I love just for the sheer beauty of it and the people ... are lovely." Jon Paul elaborates further on why he loves Australia in <a href="http://poptimistic.com/2011/08/destination-down-under%E2%80%94aussie-inhospitality/">this post</a>, which includes another photo of his tattoo.<br /><br />Thanks to Jon Paul for sharing his tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2012 Tattoosday. </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br /><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. Please feel free to visit http://tattoosday.blogspot.com 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>

Jon Paul's Three Cities

Last August, I met Jon Paul,  writer and content producer for the web site Poptimistic ( http://www.poptimistic.com ). He shared this tattoo...

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