Thursday, July 23, 2009
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Daniel's Back Piece Begins...
In my previous post, I described meeting Daniel and Katte. And, although Katte's work was what initially prompted me to stop the couple, Daniel offered up the bigger surprise.I have yet to come up with a term for the phenomenon, but anyone who responds to an inquiry about a visible tattoo with an unprompted unveiling of a covered one, earns a place in Tattoosday lore.(See some memorable examples
Katte's Memorial for the Artist, Gone Too Soon
I met Daniel and Katte as they were about to go into the subway station at 34th Street and 7th Avenue.Although Katte had a lot of visible work that was interesting, she rolled up her left pant leg to show me this interesting collage on her calf:The tattoo, along with much of her work, was inked by her step-father, who works out of his home.The piece is a memorial for an ex-boyfriend, who was hit
Friday, July 17, 2009
Crow and Mouse
A few minutes after talking to Brian (here), I ran into Tony, a tattoo artist at Gotham City Tattoo in Bay Ridge.Tony estimates he is 50% covered, so choosing a nice tattoo to offer up for Tattoosday was no easy task.Until he showed me his inner left bicep:This incredible work was done by Simone, a visiting artist from Como, Italy, who did a guest spot at Gotham.Tony, who has been tattooing for
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Magdalena's Peacock Struts Through Penn Station
Last week I was passing through Penn Station when Magdalena walked by me.She had this absolutely stunning peacock tattoo on her left shoulder:This was a "purely decorative" choice she said. It's a custom piece and took about five hours for Nik Moore at Scarab Body Arts in Syracuse, New York to tattoo. Great detail to this beautiful bird:Lucky for us, Magdalena had missed her train and had some
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Izzy's Ink: A Tatt-alog, Part 1
On occasion here on Tattoosday, we go a little ink-wild. Someone I meet will show me piece after piece of great body art, and I will snap away and scribble notes as quickly as I can.And when I share a half dozen or more tattoos from one person, in one post, I call it a tatt-alog.I was heading home later than normal, having attended a New York City open house on applying to public high schools
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Tiffany's Tree of Life
I was walking through Penn Station back on July 3 when I noticed the woman ahead of me had an interesting-looking tattoo on her inner left bicep.But it was rush hour and I was off to a small birthday gathering so, when we went separate ways at the turnstiles, I sighed and thanked the tattoo deities for letting me meet two other people earlier in the day.A few minutes later, however, while pacing
Monday, July 13, 2009
Doug's Geisha
I met Doug on Penn Plaza on my birthday.He has 14 tattoos and was, by chance headed down to Rising Dragon Tattoos in Chelsea later that day to get more work on a traditional Japanese piece by Horisei (see his work featured previously here).The goal is to eventually cover his whole upper body with traditional Japanese tattoo art. He already has foo dogs, demons and kite masks. The favorite piece
Sunday, July 12, 2009
A Darling Skull
I spotted Stacey from Washington D.C. in Penn Station, waiting for her train home.She had this remarkable skull tattoo on her right bicep, which she said, was a tribute to her girlfriend:It's the first piece of what she says will eventually be a sleeve.There's something extraordinary about the tattoo, with a surreal paint-splatter effect that I have not seen before.The colors, in addition,
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Xavier's Pocket Watch Flies Through Time
I knew my birthday was going to be a good one when I not only spotted ink first thing in the morning, but I talked tattoo and got a story before 7:00 A.M. on the R train at 95th Street.Xavier has a dozen or so tattoos which he wears with pride. All are inked by Joe Maggs at Brooklyn Ink. Just by virtue of my close proximity to the shop, Brooklyn Ink's work has appeared on the blog more than any
Friday, July 10, 2009
Mari's Unusual Ink
Every so often, a Tattoosday post goes bust.Despite amazing potential, the subject is in a hurry and, for whatever reason, I am never able to fully follow-up with the individual and we are left with a skeleton of a post.This one's not so bad, however. I met Mari in Herald Square. I believe she is a photographer, hailing from Brazil, but now living in New York.I took two pictures of her tattoos
Thursday, July 9, 2009
A Viking Design Commemorates Brian's Ancestry
Back on June 29, while pacing the 59th Street platform in Brooklyn, waiting for an R train, I spotted this interesting design on the right calf of Brian:According to Brian, the piece is based on an ancient Viking symbol representing land. He had this tattooed to commemorate his Swedish ancestry.The piece was done by Rob (who appeared on Tattoosday here) at Brooklyn Ink.Thanks to Brian for sharing
Fate Leads Me to Abundance
Sometimes Fate sends me to interesting tattoos.My commute home generally starts at the 34th Street subway station, on a Brooklyn-bound N Train.Sometimes, if the train is in the station when I come down the stairs, it is not clear if it's an N train or a Q train. Generally, if it doesn't matter completely, I hop on and sort it out later. Hesitation can cause me to miss the right train.So I jumped
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Website Review: Print Tattoos Online
As tattooing becomes even more popular, the proliferation of sites dedicated to the art is amazing.I was recently made aware of a new site called Print Tattoos Online that caters to the tattoo customer seeking designs for their next tattoo(s).People seeking tattoos in the past used to have the sole option of going into a shop, poring through the flash art is books or on the walls, and going with
Caroline's Sabre-Toothed Skull
Back on June 23, I spotted Caroline walking in Penn Plaza, with this fascinating tattoo popping off of her right thigh:This is Caroline's second tattoo and is based on a sketched she drew of a sabre-toothed tiger skull. She is a visual artist whose website can be seen here.The tattooer in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, did a phenomenal job in under an hour, "capturing the cross-hatches and lines that
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Horror Goulash with a Side of Power Mushrooms
I was passing through Century 21 Department Store when I spotted Jason, a web designer who estimates he is 50% covered in tattoos.He offered up this sleeve, which he worked on for six sessions with the tattoo artist Sean Sweeney at Lola's Tattoos in Bogota, New Jersey:Sean has subsequently moved to Virginia.They called this piece "Horror Goulash" as it was a big pot of ideas for a sleeve, with an
Monday, July 6, 2009
A Duel on Christian's Arms
Christian is one of the rare Tattoosday subjects with whom I got greedy.My normal modus operandi is to ask people for an offering of one of their multiple tattoos. I let them choose and I am happy to capture one piece and move on.But in the course of photographing Christian's choice, I saw his other two tattoos, and requested to include them in the post, as well.Christian is a filmmaker and the
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Cody's Message of Recovery
These arms belong to Cody, who I stopped outside of Madison Square Garden on June 23.What caught my eye was a beautiful religious piece on his forearm, but it was still healing, so we went with these tattoos instead.Cody explained to me that he is in recovery, and that the strength he gets from this message, "Dealing with the Cards Life Dealt Me," is invaluable. "No matter what life throws at you
Saturday, July 4, 2009
A Traditional Sailor Jerry Pin-up for the 4th of July
When I saw Paul standing in Borders, inked up with nineteen tattoos, I couldn't help but ask to take a picture.Not much of a story here, but a hell of a tattoo:This is an old school Sailor Jerry pin-up design that Paul had always loved. So, he finally had it inked by J.P. at Rising Dragon Tattoos in Manhattan. Work from their shop has appeared previously on Tattoosday here.Thanks to Paul for
Friday, July 3, 2009
Joe's Martini Girl
I spotted Joe outside of Madison Square Garden after work last week.Joe is not sure how many tattoos he has, but offered up this one, on the back of his right forearm:Joe said that this tattoo is "the first one I ever wanted to get, but the last one I ended up getting."The piece was inked by Tom Yak at New York Adorned. Tom did add a bra and panties to the pin-up reclining in the martini glass,
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Mason's Gypsy, with a New Orleans Twist
I met Mason at the 7th Avenue Street Fair in Park Slope on Father's Day.He has "twenty or so," tattoos, mostly accumulated from different artists from different places he has visited.His offering for Tattoosday, however, was inked here in New York. It is a take on the traditional gypsy tattoo which I have been seeing a lot of lately:Mason went to Kings Avenue Tattoo in Massepequa, Long Island,
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Elvis and the Saint
I met Kristin and Jason at the 7th Avenue Street Fair in Park Slope on Father's Day.Street fairs in New York City generally occur in the summer months and, to an inkspotter like me, they are heaven on earth.Well, perhaps I exaggerate. They are also hot, crowded, and dangerous. I have seen many a fair-goer clipped by a slowly-moving baby stroller. But I digress.There were tattoos aplenty at the
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