Monday, September 10, 2012

A Monday Mermaid from Mandy

Back in July, I met a woman in Penn Station named Mandy. She has a lot of ink, estimating between 16 and 17, but surprised me when she revealed this cool mermaid on her back:


Mandy explained that the original artist of this piece was the late Jason Guilbault, who worked at Addiction NYC, Their friend Eric finished the piece, adding the color and Guilbault's name at the bottom of the piece. Jason's MySpace is still active here, where you can see some of his work and see messages left in memory of him.

"Why the mermaid?" I asked.

"I've always wanted to be a mermaid," Mandy told me, "and now I'm going to be a professional mermaid." I asked if she was going to Florida to live out this dream, but she said she is going to stay in New York, since there are no professional mermaids in New York City.

Thanks to Mandy for sharing her mermaid with us here on Tattoosday, and helping us keep the memory of Jason Guilbault alive!

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Sunday, September 9, 2012

BRINCANDO COM OS DEUSES



Um documentário sobre a infância 

num terreiro de Candomblé.







NOTA DO BLOG:

SENSACIONAL ESSE DOCUMENTÁRIO, AINDA MAIS NARRADO PELAS CRIANÇAS..

LINDISSIMO E EMOCIONANTE.


SÓ AS CRIANÇAS PARA NOS ENSINAREM DE UM JEITO SIMPLES E PRÁTICO.

BEM VINDA NOVA SEMANA

A MULHER QUE MANDAVA NO MUNDO CRISTÃO



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FORÇA VONTADE + CORAGEM = VITÓRIA


Swallowing the Sun(day)

As I mentioned a couple days ago, back in July, I attended the 2nd Annual New York City Poetry Festival on Governor's Island. One of the people I met was Anthony, who shared this tattoo on his arm:


Anthony explained that this is an eagle, swallowing the sun. It represents being part of the earth and the sky, being one with the universe.

He credited the work to Flying Ace! Scotty Lowe at Shotsie's Tattoo in Wayne, NJ

Thanks to Anthony for sharing this cool tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

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Saturday, September 8, 2012

FLAMENCO ESPANHOL


Mari Paz Lucena ministra workshop de flamenco em Porto Alegre





LEIA TUDO NA ÍNTEGRA, DIRETO NA FONTE:

PROBLEMAS, NÃO SABE O QUE FAZER? CLIQUE AQUI

Tattoosday: Five Years and Counting

Thanks to Nathan @ KnuckleTattoos.com for This Image

I'll be honest with you, Dear Readers, when I managed only six posts in August, despite a backlog of over fifty subjects, I feared the worst. The fact that I only had 1 (one) reader inquiry asking if everything was okay certainly deepened my concern.

You see, July 31, marked the fifth anniversary of this post, over on my original site, BillyBlog. That was 1997, and I had my most fruitful year as a blogger. Within six weeks, my idea to highlight someone's tattoo, be it a friend's or a stranger's, had exploded. I had more material than I expected, and I loved it.

So, on Saturday, September 8, 2007, after six Tuesday posts, I spun off Tattoosday into a stand alone entity. And BillyBlog hung around, and still exists, in theory, although I posted exactly three times in 2011 and three (so far) in 2012.

Five years for a blog is past middle aged for this type of media. For, you see, for every HuffPo or other serious, amazing, SUCCESSFUL blog, there are thousands that don't make a year, or two.

But here we are, five years old, celebrating our anniversary. And even though we officially first posted on July 31, 2007, I neglected to celebrate back then.

Like I mentioned earlier, last month was bleak. My job of fifteen years ended on August 31st and I was distracted by the closing of our company which was located across from Penn Station, where there was a prolific supply of tattooed commuters and tourists.

But September, which often marks the beginning of the end of summer, prime inkspotting season, brought me renewed faith in the site, and the desire to continue through this mid-blog-life crisis.

You will be seeing the standard sights from my fellow tattooed New Yorkers. My backlog, as is generally the case, stretches back several months. However, I will be expanding a bit in the format department, adding more news and media.

I've been documenting tattoos in New York City (and beyond) for five years. This is our 1317th entry into that little experiment I started way back in 1997 as a once-a-week feature.

I want to thank all of our readers and contributors for their support and participation in Tattoosday. Your existence, as subjects and fans, makes my life richer, and I am humbly appreciative of your existence.

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Friday, September 7, 2012

TOP BLOG 2012

LIBERDADE

ANDRÉ LUIZ

GRATIDÃO

Tattoo Age, Season Two, is Coming!

Loyal readers who don't read any other tattoo blogs, I apologize, I may have let you down.

There is a great on-line tattoo feature from a site called VICE that produces a fantastic tattoo series called Tattoo Age.

They told me about it last year but, because I was more involved with my man-on-the-street posts, and because my good friends over at Needles & Sins posted about it, I made a mental note, but didn't talk much about it here on Tattoosday.

But we're evolving here, and as there may be readers who don't read Needles & Sins, I would be remiss in not plugging this great series that, in its first season, highlighted the work of such amazing artists like Freddy Corbin, Mike Rubendall (of Kings Avenue Tattoo), Troy Denning and Grime.

Season Two is upon us, and they will be featuring Valerie Vargas, from the UK, Mutsuo from Japan, and New York City's Thom DeVita. Each artist's spotlight is broken into three parts and, if season one is any indication, highlights their talents and skills in a great documentary style.


For a sneak peak at the upcoming season, here's a taste:


What's nice about this series, among other things, is that they are devoid of faux-reality drama. It's just about tattooing, and by very talented folks, to boot.

We here at Tattoosday will do our best to keep readers updated as to when new episodes appear online.

Enjoy!

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Thursday, September 6, 2012

Caitlin Shares an Undersea Cover Up

Back in July, I attended the 2nd Annual New York City Poetry Festival on Governor's Island. Not only did I meet some great tattooed poets, I met a lot of other folks too. The festival had a few of Brooklyn's famous food trucks lined up, serving people hungry for grub and verse.

One of these vehicles was the Kimchi Taco Truck, and Caitlin, one of the truck's employees, shared this cool cover-up on her back:


Caitlin got this tattoo at East Side Ink from Patrick Conlon, who she picked because he was from San Francisco, which is where she is from as well.

She explained that the piece is a cover-up. "I had a really janky tattoo of a star back there," she said, "that's where the starfish is." She had Patrick do the whole design and turn it into a seascape.

Patrick also works at Graceland Tattoo in Brooklyn, His work has been featured previously on Tattoosday here and here.

Thanks to Caitlin for sharing her work with us here on Tattoosday!

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Wednesday, September 5, 2012

ORIXÁS

PRETO VELHO

HUMOR,PORQUE NÃO?


ACHEI JACARÉ BANGUELA

ORIXÁS

MAHATMA GANDHI

Megan Shares a Floral Sleeve from Edmonton

Back in May, I met Megan in Penn Station. She was visiting New York City from Edmonton, Alberta. Her lovely full sleeve caught my eye:


I mean, it really is spectacular:


With "love" and "faith" inscribed on her wrists, her arm is a bloom with roses, chrysanthemums, calendulas, and a bright sunflower at her shoulder, with a hummingbird fluttering on her back:


The pink flowers below the hummingbird are gladiolas. It's really quite an extraordinary sleeve.


Megan elaborated:
"It's all the birth flowers of the people in my family. The butterfly represents change, the rose represents love, and the hummingbird is for my grandma. The sunflower is for my mom."
She estimates that she has spent about 55 hours under the needle for this sleeve.

Megan credited Jessica Adler at Crimson Empire Tattoo in Edmonton.

Thanks to Megan for sharing her beautiful sleeve with us here on Tattoosday!

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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Work by Rev. Jorell Elie on Tattoosday

Trying to not to talk about the scarcity of posts back in August, we're expanding a little here, and sharing work by Rev. Jorell Elie.


I am told Elie "is an incredibly talented artist out of West Hollywood, CA, who happens to travel to Brooklyn, NY quite often (this month in fact)."

No arguments there. The photos were sent along to highlight the Rev.'s work.

Our readers are invited to check out the website here to see some of the bigger pieces that are works in progress.


Looks like the artist Rev. Jorell Elie works out of  The Honorable Society in West Hollywood, CA.


You can reach out to Elie at tattoosbyjorell@gmail.com, or follow him on Instagram @thejorell.

 
And, as mentioned earlier, you can check out more of this talented artist's work at www.jorellelie.com.


Thanks to Jenna Elie for sending these pictures along and alerting me to Rev. Elie's upcoming trip to New York.

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Monday, September 3, 2012

O QUE É UMBANDA?

FUNDAÇÃO CULTURAL PALMARES

MADRE TERESA DE CALCUTÁ


Kim Shares a Tattoo Inspired by Bathory

I met Kim on the 34th Street subway platform while waiting for the A train.

I thought her goat tattoo was incredible, so I just had to ask about it.


Kim credited Heath Rave from Speakeasy Custom Tattoo in Chicago for this work.

The shading and texture created mostly using black and gray (with the exception of the red for the eyes) is quite excellent.


There's something very sinister about the image so I asked, why the goat? Kim explained that it is "the artist's version of this really famous Black Metal iconography from a band called Bathory."

Bathory is considered one of the bands from the first wave of heavy metal's "Black Metal," subgenre. Kim is a huge fan of the music, and the image on her arm reinforces that passion.

Thanks to Kim for sharing this tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

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Sunday, September 2, 2012

CIGANO WLADIMIR

Zachary's Photographic Ink

Earlier this year, I met Zachary outside of Penn Station. He had a pretty interesting sleeve and I took some photos to share on Tattoosday.









I asked Zachary what the tattoo image was from, he explained:
"... It's actually a friend of mine ...It's a photograph that i took ... in 2003 or 4 and then I fucked up the contrast a little bit, then I brought it into the tattoo artist, handed it to her and she ... I honestly think she's the best tattoo artist I've come into contact with in New York, and I've looked a lot."
The artist in question is Andreana Verona at Supernova Tattoo in Astoria, Queens. There's a nice profile of Andreana here on The Huffington Post blog.

It's a spectacular tattoo, with amazingly lifelike texture, almost as if a frame of film was transposed onto Zachary's flesh. The top border appears as a strip of film folding over on the photo. It is really wonderfully done.

Thanks to Zachary for sharing this cool tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

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Saturday, September 1, 2012

A Brazilian Rooster Goes Shopping in Manhattan

Last month, while shopping at Marshall's on 6th Avenue in Manhattan, I spotted a woman with this cool tattoo on her right arm:


This Japanese-style rooster, accompanied with cherry blossoms, belongs to Janayna.

Janayna was visiting from Brazil.

I didn't get much information, other than that the artist is also from Brazil.

Thanks to Janayna for sharing her tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

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Thursday, August 30, 2012

VOCÊ CHEIRARIA A BÍBLIA?

Pastor Lucinho afirma que intenção é chocar (Foto: Amanda Monteiro/ G1 ES)

A DESCULPA POR ESSA BIZARRICE RELIGIOSA DESSE EVANGÉLICO.
LEIA NA FONTE G1



NOTA DO BLOG:

EU ACHEI UM BAITA DE UM DESRESPEITO E UMA PALHAÇADA O QUE ELE FEZ COM O LIVRO SAGRADO DOS CRISTÃOS.

SE QUER SE APARECER? OU GANHAR MAIS DISCIPULOS E MAIS DÍZIMOS TE DOU UMA DICA.



BOTA UMA MELANCIA NA CABEÇA OU PENDURA NO PESCOÇO.


QUE SACRILÉGIO

CONVITE RECEBIDO PELO BLOG DO MINISTÉRIO DA CULTURA (24 ANOS DA FUNDAÇÃO CULTURAL PALMARES)

Tattoorism: Petrina's Beetle by ZSO

We recently received the following contribution from one of our Canadian readers, Petrina:


Petrina credits the original artwork of this beetle to New York City-based artists and illustrato ZSO, aka Sarah Blake, whose website ZSO highlights her phenomenal work.


The tattoo was created by MelanieWayland of Mel's Tattoos in Goderich, Ontario, Canada.

Thanks to Petrina for sharing her wonderful tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

See more art from ZSO at http://www.hellozso.com.

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