Black Link: October 2009

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Halloween Bonus: Zombie Pinup

Back in September I posted Little Dead Riding Hood, courtesy of Amy, who I met in Penn Station.

Amy has a new tattoo, which she generously shared:

It's a zombie pin-up girl, and appropriate for the holiday today.

Like the previous piece, this was created by T.J. Mcinnis at Mcinnis Tattoo Company in Providence, Rhode Island.

Thanks again to Amy for sharing her tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!

Have a safe and ghoulishly fun Halloween!

Friday, October 30, 2009

tattoo

tattoo design Butterfly

sexy girl full arm tattoo,lower back tribal and dragon tattoo, back body japanese tattoo, lower back butterfly tattoo, foot tribal tattoo picture

full tattoo on arm tattoo for sexy hot girl tattoo picture

cat women tattoo on sexy girl thigh tattoo picture

tribal tattoo and dragon tattoo on lower back sexy hot girl tattoo

japanese tattoo on back body sexy girl tattoo picture

butterfly tattoo on lower back sexy girl tattoo picture

small tattoo on buttock sexy girl with bikini picture

tribal tattoo with small tattoo on the foot sexy girl tattoo picture

flower tattoo on the foot sexy girl picture

sexy girl tattoo with fairy tattoo, rose tattoo on the foot and thigh,name tattoo on chest tattoo,star tattoo on thigh tattoo,full tattoo on back pict

sexy girl with flower tattoo on chest tattoo, and arm tattoo with full tattoo picture

angel tattoo on sexy girl on stomach tattoo picture

combination star tattoo and angel tattoo on sexy girl back body tattoo picture

rose tattoo on sexy girl with name tattoo on chest tattoo picture

star tattoo with 3 symbol tattoo on sexy girl thigh tattoo picture

name tattoo on sexy girl chest tattoo picture

fairy tattoo on sexy girl foot and thigh tattoo picture

Choose the Right Tattoo

Matt has twenty-three (23) tattoos and he offered up this simple trio of letters:

The CTR represents the expression "Choose the Right," a common thread in the ideology of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, more commonly referred to as the Mormon church.

In essence, Matt explained, it means "follow the right path". Its akin to a mantra eschewing sinful activities frowned upon by the church like drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, doing drugs, and, yup, you guessed it: getting tattooed.

Matt finds great power in this tattoo because it represents an oxymoron: the letters CTR stand for a way of life that is contradicted by the fact that they have been tattooed on flesh. It would be like a Jewish person having the phrase, in Hebrew, "You shall not make gashes in your flesh for the dead, or imprint markings upon you: I am the Lord" tattooed on them. As a tattooed Mormon, this is Matt's way of addressing,and coming to terms with, the disparity between faith and his love of tattoos.

This was tattooed by a friend of his in Ogden, Utah.

Thanks to Matt for sharing his ink with us here on Tattoosday!

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Feed Skull Tattoos For Girls

Skull rose tattoo on chest

Shiri's Logos

"Excuse me," I called, loudly, on the 34th Street train platform, "Can I ask you about your tattoo?"

Anyone reading this who has been featured here may recognize this as my opening salvo. Most people are open to my questions. Very few dismiss me. For this I am thankful.

Shira was the woman to whom I was speaking, and she was very welcoming to my inquiries.

Here is the best of the many tattoos I saw she had:

It's a fairly intricate (and extremely well-done) replica for one of the album designs for a band named Sponge. Shiri had a matching t-shirt, but taking a picture of that would have been borderline creepy, in my opinion. Unfortunately, the only image online I could find was small:

On her left arm she had two other band designs:

The one on the right is from the group Gogol Bordello, which surprised me as I had seen a similar tattoo several weeks before (and recounted here).

The logo on the left was from a group called Spookey Ruben.

Obviously, Shiri is a big fan of all these groups. The tattoos were all inked by her brother Ron.

You can see other band-related tattoos by clicking on the appropriate tag at the bottom of the post.

Thanks to Shiri for sharing her cool tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

"You Gotta Go There to Come Back": Sarah Shares Three Tattoos

Sarah's half-sleeve jumped out at me in Penn Station as I was quietly bemoaning cooler weather and the dwindling of my blog backlog.

I was pleased to find Sarah more than accommodating, as she shared several perspectives of the ink tattooed on her upper right arm.

Visiting from Newcastle, Australia, her tattoos revolved around this piece at the center of her bicep:

I asked if there was any significance to these two women, but Sarah noted that they were just two pretty girls.

This fluid script is on the outside of her arm:

It states "You gotta go there to come back..." or, in her words, you have to "understand how shitty it can be, before how good it can get".

On her inner arm is the following tattoo:

Sarah says that this design of an angel on a cigarette break is based on the work of a popular London graffiti artist named "Banksy".

All of her work was done by Pat, the owner of 2012 Tattoo Studio in Newcastle.

Thanks very much to Sarah for sharing her incredible tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!