Thursday, August 26, 2010

Tattoo-Art


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Tattoo-Art


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tattoo is the most popular in this era.. there are many people place tattoo on their body to get some feeling.. there are many king of tattoo art.. like tattoo design, Mexican tattoo, animals tattoos and the others.. usually this tattoo used by people in the west..

Friday, August 20, 2010

Ying Yang Tattoo


Zodiac Tattoo Designs


About Tattoos and Tattoo Artists

Tattoo-Lettering


Tattoo-Lettering
Tattoo-Lettering


Tattoo-Lettering


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Tattoo-Lettering


Tattoo-Lettering


Tattoo-Lettering


Tattoo-Lettering


Tattoo Lettering is the one of tattoos who used letter in their art or design.. this is different from another tattoos who used animal or flowers or the others to template on their body.. this is special tattoo you can see.. its so cool..

Tattoo-Girl


Tattoo-Girl
Tattoo-Girl


Tattoo-Girl


Tattoo-Girl


Tattoo-Girl


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Tattoo-Girl


the Tattoo not only special for man.. but Girl in the world also use tattoo.. check these pictures.. there are many tattoos on her body.. usually girl use flowers or butterfly tattoo design on her body, because the beautiful art and design tattoos to girl are flowers or butterfly tattoo..

Friday, August 6, 2010

In a city of 8 Million...

Three days in a row I ran into previous Tattoosday contributors in different locales.



On Wednesday, I ran into Leyna at the Barnes & Noble in Union Square. I had first encountered her ink back in June fifteen blocks uptown coming out of Borders. I spotted her hot air balloon tattoo and had to say hi.



Yesterday, after a Trader Joe's run for salsa, I saw Kat getting on the F train, seven blocks from where I first spotted her.



I know, I know, it's all in pretty close proximity. However, today I approached Mike at the Penn Plaza Borders and knew, once the flicker of recognition crossed his face, that he was the same guy I had met in Brooklyn on 86th Street on April 4.



If you don't recall their ink, click their names which will magically transport you to their original posts.



Shaina's Back Piece Blooms

A post-work errand had me walking down 6th Avenue to 23rd Street where, to my delight, I ran into Shaina, whose large back piece stopped me dead in my tracks. Lucky for me, and all of our Tattoosday readers, she had no problem sharing it with us here:





This piece is a cover-up (more on that later) and initially was born out of a desire for a large bunch of purple flowers. Shaina explained that, at six feet tall, her size can sometimes take the edge off of her feminine side. "I try as hard as I can to be girl-y," she said, and she embraced her floral design as "a sign of girliness".





As time passed, the whole tattoo, which Shaina estimates was composed in five four-hour sessions totaling twenty hours, took on additional elements. When her grandmother passed away, she added a memorial line for her ("In Loving Memory of Eleanor Vespie) along with the red carnations, which were her favorite flowers.



She later added the additional memorial on her neck, for her cousin Tasha.



The tattoo was created by Cliff Evans at Fuzion Ink in Norfolk, Virginia.



Of course, I had to ask about the tattoo she covered up. Shaina looked at me, and I'll give her points for honesty, she confessed, the original tattoo had been a portrait of the Icelandic singer Björk.



She looked at me. I looked at her. "Don't take this the wrong way," I cautioned her, but what would possess you to do that?" Shaina had good humor about it. Like a lot of eighteen-year olds, what seemed cool at the time, in retrospect seemed ill-chosen. But there are many amazing tattoos out there that might not exist had they not been needed to cover up an earlier, less memorable piece.



Thanks kindly to Shaina for not only sharing her lovely back tattoo with us here at Tattoosday, but for taking the time to chat so candidly about her body art.



Thursday, August 5, 2010

Two Rocking Tattoos from Joe

I met Joe last month outside of Penn Station and he shared two tattoos with us.



First is this hellcat:





Why this cat? It's a design, Joe says, inspired by the band Rancid, whose music appears on Hellcat Records.



Not to mention, he likes cats. Need he have more reasons? That's on his upper left arm.



I'm more excited to share this photo, which actually is a rare Tattoosday shot in which one can see the contributor's face. I could have cropped it out, but I think it's a cool shot.





This tattoo arose out of Joe's desire to have some body art made with red ink. The design is based on the album art for a disbanded musical act out of Washington called Isa.





The two tattoos are among five Joe has in total and were done by Milton Sillas at Tattoo Royale in the Pacific Beach section of  San Diego, California.



Thanks to Joe for sharing his ink with us here on Tattoosday and for waiting so patiently for me to get to his tattoos. The summer backlog is both a bane and a blessing.



As a postscript, readers familiar with the site will notice that I've watermarked these photos. I've grown tired of seeing Tattoosday content appropriated elsewhere on the web, without attribution. This is an attempt to maintain credit of our content here at Tattoosday.