Sunday, September 20, 2009
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A Ship and An Owl Sail in from California
I ran into Lindsay and her friend Tessa as they were coming out of Penn Station last month.
Between them they have seventeen tattoos, many of which are fairly amazing. Lindsay shared two of her pieces with us here at Tattoosday.
First up is a traditional ship tattoo on the front of her upper left arm:

Aside from the aesthetics, and the nod to the classic style of traditional tattooing, Lindsay told me that this piece is a steady reminder for her to "stay the course" in her life.
It was inked by Shawn Phelps at Integrity Tattoo in Campbell, California.

The back of Lindsay's arm hosts this incredible owl tattoo:

Owl tattoos are a popular tattoo motif. I've mentioned before this great blog dedicated solely to Owl Tattoos. On the far side of her upper left arm, she says her owl, aside from its decorative strengths, "watches [her] back". This great tattoo was done by Karl Fisher at Tattoo 13 in Oakland, California.


I humbly thank Lindsay for sharing her a little bit of her body art with us here on Tattoosday!
Be sure to check here to see what amazing piece Lindsay's friend Tessa offered up to the blogosphere!
Between them they have seventeen tattoos, many of which are fairly amazing. Lindsay shared two of her pieces with us here at Tattoosday.
First up is a traditional ship tattoo on the front of her upper left arm:

Aside from the aesthetics, and the nod to the classic style of traditional tattooing, Lindsay told me that this piece is a steady reminder for her to "stay the course" in her life.
It was inked by Shawn Phelps at Integrity Tattoo in Campbell, California.

The back of Lindsay's arm hosts this incredible owl tattoo:

Owl tattoos are a popular tattoo motif. I've mentioned before this great blog dedicated solely to Owl Tattoos. On the far side of her upper left arm, she says her owl, aside from its decorative strengths, "watches [her] back". This great tattoo was done by Karl Fisher at Tattoo 13 in Oakland, California.


I humbly thank Lindsay for sharing her a little bit of her body art with us here on Tattoosday!Be sure to check here to see what amazing piece Lindsay's friend Tessa offered up to the blogosphere!
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Christina's Flawed Tattoo is Just Right
I spotted this interesting tattoo while in Penn Station last month:

Christina, to whom this piece belongs, called this a "reverse tattoo," in that the main focal point of the piece is the word "Flawed".
The word is empty of ink and is created by the artist using negative space.
But why "flawed?" Christina explained that "we all have a weakness" and that "only God is perfect." It"s a reminder that "everyone has need for improvement" and that no one is ever perfect.
This is one of four of Christina's tattoos.
Thanks to Christina for sharing this with us here on Tattoosday!

Christina, to whom this piece belongs, called this a "reverse tattoo," in that the main focal point of the piece is the word "Flawed".
The word is empty of ink and is created by the artist using negative space.
But why "flawed?" Christina explained that "we all have a weakness" and that "only God is perfect." It"s a reminder that "everyone has need for improvement" and that no one is ever perfect.
This is one of four of Christina's tattoos.
Thanks to Christina for sharing this with us here on Tattoosday!
Friday, September 18, 2009
Nine Little Foot Tattoos and a Prayer for Peace
It is embarrassing to admit, I don't remember the name of today's contributor.
Normally, regular readers may know, I'm a bit more diligent about contributors to the site, but in this case, Z, as I will refer to her, gave me her card, which included her email address and website (she's an artist that works mostly in oils), and I subsequently put it somewhere safe. So safe, I forgot where.
In other words, I lost it.
But let's talk about how I met Z and came to know her tattoos.
Fate spilled me out on the 36th Street platform in Brooklyn. An express train (N) came before the local, so I hopped on, with the intention of riding to 59th, one stop away, and then grabbing an R train.
Standing on the N, I looked down and saw a tattooed foot. Not your normal tattooed foot, with a rosary (like this one), or flowers, or whatnot, but a foot with tattooed marks on it. Just the right foot. The left foot was bare, although there were symbols circumnavigating the calf, just above the ankle.
As luck would have it (Luck loves Tattoosday), Z exited the train at 59th Street and I started talking to her on the platform.
We both caught the R and talked tattoos all the way to 95th Street. Upstairs, at street level, I snapped some photos.
This is her foot:

Up close, one can see that the marks are ants.
Z grew up in New Orleans and always remembers the big, black ants that scurried about.
One day, she was bored, and drew some ants on her foot with a Sharpie. She went several days with her foot be-speckled by these ants, and they grew on her. She wandered into Cherry Bomb Tattoo in Brooklyn, and had them permanently tattooed.
There are nine ants in all.
The following tattoo is above her left ankle:

The Tibetan prayer is "om mani padme hum". She told me that this is the prayer for universal peace.
Thanks to Z for sharing her tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!
UPDATE: It took a while, but our paths crossed again, on July 2, 2010, I was hanging outside of the laundromat near home when I saw a woman with black spots on her foot crossing the street across the avenue from me. When I saw the ring of Tibetan around her left ankle, I knew it was the same person. I scurried across the street and re-introduced myself. The subject formerly known as "Z" is actually named Jeanette, and I was finally able to update this post, with her proper name attached.
Normally, regular readers may know, I'm a bit more diligent about contributors to the site, but in this case, Z, as I will refer to her, gave me her card, which included her email address and website (she's an artist that works mostly in oils), and I subsequently put it somewhere safe. So safe, I forgot where.
In other words, I lost it.
But let's talk about how I met Z and came to know her tattoos.
Fate spilled me out on the 36th Street platform in Brooklyn. An express train (N) came before the local, so I hopped on, with the intention of riding to 59th, one stop away, and then grabbing an R train.
Standing on the N, I looked down and saw a tattooed foot. Not your normal tattooed foot, with a rosary (like this one), or flowers, or whatnot, but a foot with tattooed marks on it. Just the right foot. The left foot was bare, although there were symbols circumnavigating the calf, just above the ankle.
As luck would have it (Luck loves Tattoosday), Z exited the train at 59th Street and I started talking to her on the platform.
We both caught the R and talked tattoos all the way to 95th Street. Upstairs, at street level, I snapped some photos.
This is her foot:

Up close, one can see that the marks are ants.
Z grew up in New Orleans and always remembers the big, black ants that scurried about.
One day, she was bored, and drew some ants on her foot with a Sharpie. She went several days with her foot be-speckled by these ants, and they grew on her. She wandered into Cherry Bomb Tattoo in Brooklyn, and had them permanently tattooed.
There are nine ants in all.
The following tattoo is above her left ankle:

The Tibetan prayer is "om mani padme hum". She told me that this is the prayer for universal peace.
Thanks to Z for sharing her tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!
UPDATE: It took a while, but our paths crossed again, on July 2, 2010, I was hanging outside of the laundromat near home when I saw a woman with black spots on her foot crossing the street across the avenue from me. When I saw the ring of Tibetan around her left ankle, I knew it was the same person. I scurried across the street and re-introduced myself. The subject formerly known as "Z" is actually named Jeanette, and I was finally able to update this post, with her proper name attached.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Cenk's Skeleton Tattoo Pays Homage to Yukio Mishima and St. Sebastian
I met Cenk where I meet so many Tattoosday volunteers, outside of Penn Station on the plaza adjacent to Madison Square Garden.
He shared this, one of his four tattoos:
This is an interpretation of the depiction of St. Sebastian, as seen by the Japanese author Yukio Mishima, one of Cenk's favorite writers. A variation of the St. Sebastian imagery graced one of the many covers of Mishima's Confessions of a Mask:

Mishima even posed for a publicity photo as the martyred St. Sebastian:

This piece was tattooed by Myles Karr at Saved Tattoo in Brooklyn. According to his website, he has since left Saved, and opened Three Kings Tattoo Parlor. Mr. Karr's work has appeared previously on Tattoosday here and here.

Thanks to Cenk for sharing this tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!
He shared this, one of his four tattoos:
This is an interpretation of the depiction of St. Sebastian, as seen by the Japanese author Yukio Mishima, one of Cenk's favorite writers. A variation of the St. Sebastian imagery graced one of the many covers of Mishima's Confessions of a Mask:
Mishima even posed for a publicity photo as the martyred St. Sebastian:

This piece was tattooed by Myles Karr at Saved Tattoo in Brooklyn. According to his website, he has since left Saved, and opened Three Kings Tattoo Parlor. Mr. Karr's work has appeared previously on Tattoosday here and here.

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