Small Hip Tattoos
Hello kitty as angel idea.Small dove on lower abdomen.Three nice red hearts.Simple outline idea.Pretty butterfly ink.arty creation.Much like any other tattoo location, hip tattoos come in all shapes and sizes, but for many potential ink artwork enthusiastic, especially new ones, smaller hip tattoos …
Michael and his Misfits Ink
I met Michael in Bay Ridge, at 92nd and 3rd Avenue, and he offered up these two tattoos on his forearm: I recognized the top piece as a Misfits tattoo and asked why he chose it. He responded: "They are my favorite band of all time and when I say the Misfits, I mean the 1977-1983 Misfits. That to me …
Alex Shares Three Elements of an Amazing Sleeve
I'm not sure why it has taken so long to post Alex's tattoos - when I met him at the end of May in K-Mart @ Penn Station, I was totally stoked by his ink. Perhaps I was just letting the photos simmer as I waited for the right time to share them. Nevertheless, here they are, finally. What we're seein…
Liberty and Justice, Courtesy of Alex
I met Alex a few weeks back in Penn Station. I spotted this familiar face on his right calf: I say a familiar face, because it is clearly the profile of the Statue of Liberty, but something looks slightly different. Alex explained why: "It's the right side of the face, [which] is really hard to find…
Two from Samanatha, Including a Tattoo for Bubbie
I met Samanatha last month in Penn Station and asked her about her many tattoos. She's 26, and has been getting inked since she was 18, and appears to be going at a steady clip, because she has a lot of great work. She was kind enough to share two of her tattoos, both from her right arm. The first p…
Emma's Monarchs, and a Spalsh of Verlaine
At the end of July, a young woman named Emma missed her train in Penn Station and had some time to kill. Her wait was shortened when I chanced upon her and asked about this lovely tattoo she had going on her left arm: She explained the origins of this wonderful body art: "I knew that I wanted a mona…
Gowrish Shares His Blessing, Amma in Ink
There are times when I feel lucky to find a tattoo by an amazing artist and then there are times I find something that is so breathtaking, I feel honored to be able to share work by a true master of the craft. Last week, I was walking down Crosby Street in SoHo when I met Gowrish after spotting a fl…
Kareem's Tattoo is So Brooklyn....
Earlier this year, I met Kareem, one of the many inked employees at the Upper West Side Trader Joe's. I gave him my card when I spotted him in the aisles, and saw him on subsequent visits, but I generally won't trouble people while they're working. Earlier this month, I spotted him on a break in nea…
Three Tattoos from Sabrina
I met Sabrina on Penn Plaza back in June after stopping to admire her tattoos. She has three and talked me through them chronologically. She explained , "I like to get [a tattoo] for every place I lived," and her first one was this butterfly armband: Sabrina is from upstate New York. She went to one…
Emily Picks Her Poison
It's always interesting when I meet someone with a lot of tattoos, trying to guess, when you ask them to pick just one, which piece they will choose to share. A couple weeks ago, I met Emily, who has two full sleeves, along with her chest and back tattooed. She selected this tattoo on her right fore…
Ryan's Tattoo Commemorates the Life of Dolly
Earlier this month I met Ryan, who has a whole host of tattoos. We were working on a project together, so we spent a bit of time chewing the fat, and he wanted to share this particular tattoo, which is on his right forearm: Ryan explained how he was raised by his grandmother, whose name was Dolly, b…
Daniel Gives Us a Lady Liberty Update
Last May, we featured this great tattoo, courtesy of Daniel: Read the original post here. Daniel recently sent me updated photos of his sleeve, which I thought we'd share here. This work is all by the amazing Guido Baldini. He tattooed Daniel during a recent stint at Brooklyn Tattoo here in New York…
Sean's Garnish, Inspired by a Friend
When I met Sean last month, he had several tattoos to choose from. We ended up selecting this piece, on his left wrist:Granted, there's two tattoos in this photo, but I was fascinated by the pineapple and cherry tattoo. That's not something you see every day. Sean, who is a hairdresser from the Bost…
Alison's Violet Lotus
I spotted Alison's tattoo as in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, back at the beginning of July. She was kind enough to share this lovely lotus tattoo: This lotus has a spiritual meaning for Alison, and she pointed out the third eye at the center of the flower. This was also a cover-up of an older tattoo. Craig …
Anthony and Evolver, Interpreting the Anatomy of Time
I spotted this unusual tattoo on the back of Anthony's arm in a Borders and just had to ask about it: He explained that this image, called "Evolver," is his interpretation of the "anatomy of time". The design is from an album that Anthony's band, Dsciphire, recently released. Dsciphire is hard rock,…
A Panel's Worth a Thousand Words
A few weeks ago, I ran into Steve in the Trader Joe's on the Upper West Side. He has this striking tattoo on his upper right arm, and he kindly agreed to share it with us: Steve explained that this tattoo is based on a panel from Love and Rockets, a comic by the Hernandez Brothers. "I just love the …
Mike Illustrates His Passion for DC Comics
Last month, I had it all laid out, and was doing a weekend of comic-themed posts coinciding with the opening of Comic-Con 2011 in San Diego. Alas, one such post went awry when the pictures I took of Mike's tattoos went AWOL on my computer, leaving me with a photo-less entry. Mike has since sent me p…
Ariel's Elm: Rising Upward, but Steadfast
I met Ariel last month in the soon-to-be-shuttered Borders bookstore on Penn Plaza and of her three tattoos, she shared this tree on her upper right biceps: Ariel explained that this tattoo "was originally an actual photograph of a maple tree, but it was too difficult - you can see the shading is r…
Jacqueline's Blood Rose
Two weeks ago I spotted Jacqueline and knew I had to ask her about this large tattoo in the center of her back: Jacqueline explained that she and her older brother got this same tattoo in the same spot. "We just wanted to get a matching tattoo," she told me, "and, you know, we're both blood relative…