Andrea's Half-Sleeve with Mermaid

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf2PqFH1r79II94v_Blm4n5u1h2d1FhKI72B56nQnqlDSMkShOqjjPbb-vOK8NU6l0bpu13nJiBYLJkSVFmp-Rzy1D6CGnrhPfD8x0NVUZd9gIoEpaAk823cgo2Wyds5ANgNUmUzmBpzU/s1600/Mermaid+R+detail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf2PqFH1r79II94v_Blm4n5u1h2d1FhKI72B56nQnqlDSMkShOqjjPbb-vOK8NU6l0bpu13nJiBYLJkSVFmp-Rzy1D6CGnrhPfD8x0NVUZd9gIoEpaAk823cgo2Wyds5ANgNUmUzmBpzU/s400/Mermaid+R+detail.jpg" width="218" /></a></div><br /> Today we are checking out an awesome traditional half-sleeve by Charlie Foos at Reade Street Tattoo Parlour. I spotted it on Andrea outside of the Fuse studios on Seventh Avenue in Manhattan:<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7t6ncVtBw1ohO6WTcifUjkCrTxEwBU8aXj0lynXQnjREHqqg5nfM0neaqmZvU1cWiqB2qY1fgZUIL3gNGPKvnBI209GWvUXeYVBFUrd6qz9lOSwTqAXe5q4wIb6yuITg_XFGrmmbZGCQ/s1600/mermaid+collage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7t6ncVtBw1ohO6WTcifUjkCrTxEwBU8aXj0lynXQnjREHqqg5nfM0neaqmZvU1cWiqB2qY1fgZUIL3gNGPKvnBI209GWvUXeYVBFUrd6qz9lOSwTqAXe5q4wIb6yuITg_XFGrmmbZGCQ/s320/mermaid+collage.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> Andrea told me this was completed in three sessions of three and a half hours each and was inspired by s piece of jewelery. "I bought this pendant of a ship," she said, "and I decided I wanted a half-sleeve of something traditional." The rest is history.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS91AFwJ7fx0GS4AiPKOS0UmwCNles5MHQ0g9NiVVOjoSFnxYJHC09fmsUKbfIYL7Xt0M0OJ5UVLH6fyeZ0QlmywdS8AB3hrS9ZOeqH4NYhMo-evNx6uKp1vBHM3p68zWKlKKQApygRLA/s1600/mermaid+L+detail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS91AFwJ7fx0GS4AiPKOS0UmwCNles5MHQ0g9NiVVOjoSFnxYJHC09fmsUKbfIYL7Xt0M0OJ5UVLH6fyeZ0QlmywdS8AB3hrS9ZOeqH4NYhMo-evNx6uKp1vBHM3p68zWKlKKQApygRLA/s400/mermaid+L+detail.jpg" width="282" /></a></div><br /> <br /> Thanks to Andrea for sharing this great tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

Andrea's Half-Sleeve with Mermaid

Today we are checking out an awesome traditional half-sleeve by Charlie Foos at Reade Street Tattoo Parlour. I spotted it on Andrea outside...

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All At Sea

<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457677472919151618" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DOhWkqwiJhY/S72Qvt__ZAI/AAAAAAAADH8/oOEJtnd61SM/s400/jason+lambert+mermaid.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 244px;" /><br /> Nice mermaid from Jason Lambert

All At Sea

Nice mermaid from Jason Lambert

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Themetacular

<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472939527009585138" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DOhWkqwiJhY/S_PJgMCZx_I/AAAAAAAADTs/Zw8KSRfEd8g/s400/joe+capobianco+nurse.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 352px;" /><br /> <img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472939521565873778" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DOhWkqwiJhY/S_PJf3whVnI/AAAAAAAADTk/Pv_arP-47u0/s400/joe+capobianco+cave+lady.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 189px;" /><br /> <img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472939518671771490" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DOhWkqwiJhY/S_PJfs-g12I/AAAAAAAADTc/uvtt0tFcpHE/s400/joe+capobianco+devil.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 206px;" /><br /> <img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472939510387889490" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DOhWkqwiJhY/S_PJfOHe1VI/AAAAAAAADTU/8vzJL5MuoN8/s400/joe+capobianco+mermaid-back.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 273px;" /><br /> Some recentish Joe Capobianco girls...

Themetacular

Some recentish Joe Capobianco girls...

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Lori Shares Some Peonies, and a Fairy Mermaid

<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><img src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/video_object.png" style="background-color: #b2b2b2; " class="BLOGGER-object-element tr_noresize tr_placeholder" id="ieooui" data-original-id="ieooui" /> <style>st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) }</style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";}</style> <![endif]--> <br /><div class="MsoNormal">When I post here at Tattoosday, there is no definite chronological order. I tend to follow a variety of factors, which can often result in older encounters waiting in the wings for a very long time.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Take Lori, for example. At the beginning of May, while my wife was at Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn, fighting a bout of appendicitis, I walked over to a pizzeria on 50^th Street and Fort Hamilton Parkway for a quick bite for lunch. On my way out, I noticed <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>two women at a table, one of whom, Lori, had some pretty nice ink. Generally, one of my unwritten rules is not to bother people while they are eating, so I handed the woman my card and asked her to contact me if she was interested in contributing to Tattoosday.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Lori e-mailed me shortly thereafter, and a few weeks later, she sent me some photos. Since then, she has been patiently waiting for the post. E-mailed submissions tend to get a little lost in the shuffle but, finally, thanks to a little nudge on our Facebook page, we’re finally seeing them here on the site.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">I’ll let Lori explain what we’re seeing: </div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPYw6czsfpIo19VuJXPVgptxR9uAYLhZcE_3LtmUFucfl6YzlEuK4tdbD3cDryecwz4yyNUdj6Le7i1LrLedHXQs9tRjpV4hx54ktZw8jZQHYohyteNqYRhK5KrGmRDzfTTI8PIJwKh3Y/s1600/peony+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPYw6czsfpIo19VuJXPVgptxR9uAYLhZcE_3LtmUFucfl6YzlEuK4tdbD3cDryecwz4yyNUdj6Le7i1LrLedHXQs9tRjpV4hx54ktZw8jZQHYohyteNqYRhK5KrGmRDzfTTI8PIJwKh3Y/s400/peony+2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhze2-DwdOp79NvT7iu05aKNQhoUyjFItsqsK8HFjbff7LGoVdWDxouSzn9R2bdyH50xj5-pFEpZeKvlriJFZYg48CbzVJXIVZ-otbsSUi7QbaBIkHWwtyjT8gAwehqOsupJZrlGuAoOIs/s1600/peony+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhze2-DwdOp79NvT7iu05aKNQhoUyjFItsqsK8HFjbff7LGoVdWDxouSzn9R2bdyH50xj5-pFEpZeKvlriJFZYg48CbzVJXIVZ-otbsSUi7QbaBIkHWwtyjT8gAwehqOsupJZrlGuAoOIs/s400/peony+1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal">“Here are 2 peonies, one is a flash stencil, done by Mike B. at <a href="http://www.studioenigma.com/">Studio Enigma</a> on Avenue U [in Brooklyn] .... the other peony (my favorite), was hand drawn by <a href="http://www.baradastattoos.com/artista_pablo.html">Pablo Barada</a>, who is from Argentina [also at Studio Enigma] …</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFDZZxVhMwGHKdHsCr3YMuH1AiuqGSMWg9Vt9MptZ0jd9Q9z4yABaalCQWYdwUPXnAqxHnJyneDmuUFRPy9IMpA7rrucs-9pG1mLK-drW0dRSZunZigomt3JmIJNZ7hfZZBBCxf8J-cxE/s1600/mermaid.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFDZZxVhMwGHKdHsCr3YMuH1AiuqGSMWg9Vt9MptZ0jd9Q9z4yABaalCQWYdwUPXnAqxHnJyneDmuUFRPy9IMpA7rrucs-9pG1mLK-drW0dRSZunZigomt3JmIJNZ7hfZZBBCxf8J-cxE/s640/mermaid.jpg" width="316" /></a></div><br /><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiesnoXv0csTtd1tf888egaOOAl5TavzMxB4ANbXs0gqHZQJqzUhe3rYA27BytfXB5z9UF_02a8mRLgCHkqHGqGNu-tYkc3gzYcI5Rdl4dImsFDUDlqDFGM-ijYrUOkIAb6KxprawjWLRA/s1600/mermaid+closeup.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiesnoXv0csTtd1tf888egaOOAl5TavzMxB4ANbXs0gqHZQJqzUhe3rYA27BytfXB5z9UF_02a8mRLgCHkqHGqGNu-tYkc3gzYcI5Rdl4dImsFDUDlqDFGM-ijYrUOkIAb6KxprawjWLRA/s200/mermaid+closeup.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal">The Fairy mermaid was a picture I found just surfing the internet,  so I printed it out. I wish I still had the black and white photo before Mike B. colored it in. Now that I look at it, I think the B&W was much prettier. By the way, she took 18 hours to do, six three-hour sittings.” </div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal">Thanks to Lori for sharing some of her tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!</div><div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";}</style> <![endif]--><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2011 Tattoosday. </span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</a> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br /></span></div>

Lori Shares Some Peonies, and a Fairy Mermaid

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Our 1000th Post! David's Mermaid and Seahorse Blow Us Away......

Pardon the royal "we," but this is our 1000th post, and we feel a little celebratory.<br /><br />To honor this milestone, we are sharing this amazing half sleeve belonging to David:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu37tWngBU3uZx2qPzPTLLDQAJv8CWwR7LFTm7drF0FmIDAq0G8E0PMKHvmAA-kmOwo3SUpB2z8HtDonuna1GzVp0VQ_iJOgqHa3L5N7iDX4_F0FjQm4beJrlJx4ZOmPL_WitEaTlvX2o/s1600/mermaid+collage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu37tWngBU3uZx2qPzPTLLDQAJv8CWwR7LFTm7drF0FmIDAq0G8E0PMKHvmAA-kmOwo3SUpB2z8HtDonuna1GzVp0VQ_iJOgqHa3L5N7iDX4_F0FjQm4beJrlJx4ZOmPL_WitEaTlvX2o/s400/mermaid+collage.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />This astonishing work is the creation of artist <a href="http://www.redemptiontattoo.com/2/GalleryMain.asp?GalleryID=71208&AKey=XAPSX3K7">Erick Lynch</a> at <a href="http://www.redemptiontattoo.com/2/Artist.asp?ArtistID=28105&Akey=XAPSX3K7">Redemption Tattoo</a> in Cambridge, Massachusetts.<br /><br />David said that he had wanted a mermaid, as his wife loves mermaids, and that Lynch's work reflects a traditional Japanese style, thus the female figure appearing as a pearl diver, which is more in line with Japanese artistic tradition.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6IdyVkZa1COb37h1laL47s8qJIHluaqOKhaIgWFP2n65JcDH3vAxJ4yYQByJXYIBpmoqOqLkUQO52qtORc1CE34AO9jVkdvvWrrNf7PZKQvl88tK3EYj9dEkWVysKr6dl4PjbRVIdquM/s1600/mermaid+detail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6IdyVkZa1COb37h1laL47s8qJIHluaqOKhaIgWFP2n65JcDH3vAxJ4yYQByJXYIBpmoqOqLkUQO52qtORc1CE34AO9jVkdvvWrrNf7PZKQvl88tK3EYj9dEkWVysKr6dl4PjbRVIdquM/s640/mermaid+detail.jpg" width="434" /></a></div><br />The whole of the half sleeve represents about 12 hours of work, in David's estimation, which includes the inside of the biceps, and this phenomenally vivid seahorse:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLlihY1iA0iKKEhy3pmsPoCGGHIFUwICsuw6t-dN49qIaIkxKG5WW2m56CgOpgItkjoA_W-DqOXS4Otlw9QiFh7dh1RB2NlB1_UUkY_joBKcU0B8h2fvNsbR3Lob0aSSTkoTE-4QW0fzo/s1600/seahorse+big.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLlihY1iA0iKKEhy3pmsPoCGGHIFUwICsuw6t-dN49qIaIkxKG5WW2m56CgOpgItkjoA_W-DqOXS4Otlw9QiFh7dh1RB2NlB1_UUkY_joBKcU0B8h2fvNsbR3Lob0aSSTkoTE-4QW0fzo/s400/seahorse+big.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />David points to Erick Lynch's use of white highlights in the seahorse, which really makes it "pop".<br /><br />All in all, this is a remarkable piece of work that we are honored to have as our 1000th post here at Tattoosday. Thanks to David for sharing it and to Erick Lynch for his mastery of the art form!<br /><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";}</style> <![endif]--> <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2011 Tattoosday. </span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</a> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span>

Our 1000th Post! David's Mermaid and Seahorse Blow Us Away......

Pardon the royal "we," but this is our 1000th post, and we feel a little celebratory. To honor this milestone, we are sharing this...

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The Tattooed Poets Project: Puma Perl

<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: small;">It is with great pleasure that we present another tattooed poet, <a href="http://pumaperl.blogspot.com/">Puma Perl</a>. She offered up this beautiful tattoo:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJvH8vhCo2N6wFArMkqVZVGiodYo_TNdcBKWqUmbF6Whs6KhEb1GfVY9YkOdxqI7CMMnciotlj3OeFm8c0QKZiJ5hvmmnUH3tf02Y2CfSNdsAW2Xd5G6tsshONUt-33QAwkrI-RuVS_yQ/s1600/mermaidstas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJvH8vhCo2N6wFArMkqVZVGiodYo_TNdcBKWqUmbF6Whs6KhEb1GfVY9YkOdxqI7CMMnciotlj3OeFm8c0QKZiJ5hvmmnUH3tf02Y2CfSNdsAW2Xd5G6tsshONUt-33QAwkrI-RuVS_yQ/s400/mermaidstas.jpg" width="375" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tattoo by Emma Griffiths, Photo by Stas Nuke</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">We'll let Puma talk about this great piece: </span></span></div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal">"Everything of importance in my life has involved <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coney_Island">Coney Island</a>. As the developers moved in and the city became more and more a playground for wealthy transplants, I knew I wanted to pay homage with a tattoo. I love the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coney_Island_Mermaid_Parade">Mermaid Parade</a> and the <a href="http://www.wonderwheel.com/">Wonder Wheel</a>, so envisioned a mermaid with the Wonder Wheel in the background. A friend of mine happened to give me a magnet that she had bought at <a href="http://www.lolastar.com/">Lola Starr</a> on the boardwalk (<a href="http://www.lolastar.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">http://www.lolastar.com/</span></a>) and I used that as the basic shape, changing the tattoo on the mermaid’s arm to a tiny replica of one of mine. I’d wanted to add my eyeglasses, but it was too tiny a detail. I contacted the amazing <a href="http://www.porcupinetattoo.com/emma.html">Emma Griffiths</a>, <a href="http://www.porcupinetattoo.com/about.html%20">Porcupine Tattoo</a>, 31 Norman Avenue, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, <a href="http://www.porcupinetattoo.com/about.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;"></span></a>and made an appointment for a consultation. I brought the magnet and a photo of the Wonder Wheel and we collaborated. Emma drew our vision of the Wonder Wheel in the background and modeled her mermaid on the magnet."</div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Puma, as is the custom, also shared a poem. She commented that her poem is "</span></span>about the Mermaid Parade, which also mentions <a href="http://www.chachasofconeyisland.com/">Cha Cha’s</a>, which was slated to be torn down but was recently granted one last season, along with 8 other unofficial Boardwalk landmarks." She also noted that "this poem was previously published in the<a href="http://www.examiner.com/coney-island-in-new-york/nikki-jo-grossman"> Coney Island Examiner</a>, along with several other poems about Coney Island." You can read all of them <a href="http://www.examiner.com/coney-island-in-new-york/poetry-of-puma-perl%20">here</a>.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>The Best Day of the Year</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">We hung out on the roof at Cha Cha’s</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">watching the Mermaid Parade. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>This is my favorite day of the year</i>,</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">said Danny, snapping pictures</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">with a camera recently lifted</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">from the trunk of a Buick.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>They need Mambo Mermaids</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">I said, as Zombie Mermaids,</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">and Vampire Mermaids</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">sauntered by. He ignored me,</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">entranced by glittery pasties</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">and hundreds of tits.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">I had met Danny at the Siren Festival.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>You can be my Coney Island Baby</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">was the first thing he told me,</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">while the New York Dolls played.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">We danced straight down Surf Avenue,</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">all the way to Seagate where he rented</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">a room from a bunch of rabbis.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">We’d been together almost a year.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">You don’t need calendars on the boardwalk,</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">time is measured by cyclone screams,</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">sideshows, and wooden horses,</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">by two shadows on the sand,</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">by memories of striped chairs,</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">and thunderbolt rides.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">We climbed down the stairs.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Danny tried to steal an antique car</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">but nobody took him seriously.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Coney Island kids paraded in wigs</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">left behind by drunken mermaids,</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">who now littered the street,</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">pasties lost, and breasts drooping.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>This is the best day of the year</i>,</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">said Danny, as we drank warm beer</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">and headed towards the after- parties.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">We were never invited, but it was the best</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">day of the year, and we weren’t worried</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">about a thing.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>© puma perl, 4/13/09</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">~ ~ ~</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: small;">I want to interject that this poem coincidentally hearkens back to a very fortuitous day in the history of Tattoosday. For it was on July 21, 2007, when I attended the Siren Festival, the same day mentioned in the poem, when the first seeds of the Tattoosday concept began to sprout in my brain. For it was on that day, when we saw the New York Dolls, that I spotted a Keith Haring tattoo and started to connect the idea of asking about someone's tattoo, and blogging about it. Ten days later, the <a href="http://oxypoet.blogspot.com/2007/07/introducing-tattoosday.html">first Tattoosday post</a> came to life. My recap of that day in Coney Island is recapped <a href="http://oxypoet.blogspot.com/2007/07/coney-island-siren-festival-sunset.html">here</a>, on <a href="http://oxypoet.blogspot.com/">BillyBlog</a>. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"></div><br /><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Puma Perl is a NYC-based writer, performance artist, and curator. Her poetry and fiction have been published in over 100 print and online journals and anthologies. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #2a2a2a;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIYNiZ9MrXDfkrV2FKII-ks-yi7slvp81PaOUjG2nlBcdOPbw3j5q9NmBW2ldnRmLRhmitv3I18dz8M9Mi1pZ2GrqrmZJf8yXEUL2Lns4ceCvB5YiA83RpAelPck77saKGz37ayQrNdZo/s1600/belinda.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIYNiZ9MrXDfkrV2FKII-ks-yi7slvp81PaOUjG2nlBcdOPbw3j5q9NmBW2ldnRmLRhmitv3I18dz8M9Mi1pZ2GrqrmZJf8yXEUL2Lns4ceCvB5YiA83RpAelPck77saKGz37ayQrNdZo/s1600/belinda.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />She is the author of the award-winning chapbook, <a href="http://www.erbacce-press.com/#/puma-perl/4531745901"><i>Belinda and Her Friends</i></a>, and a full length collection, <i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1906588643/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=bill03-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1906588643%22%3EKnuckle%20Tattoos%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=bill03-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1906588643%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20%21important;%20margin:0px%20%21important;%22%20/%3E">knuckle tattoos</a>.</i>  <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifV5lMCO3GA9EI2JmM8pEbQ1wg8BwObU3vKNw0ux-6-vfyPRpm1nKrnFmtHU4xdNN-kzR2234nNH2xRJ5bNxf9B30FGfq54EiLfHBTiln2ynWJY6eYtTOrxF0TaJCZ5-CRMkmG5pGQX7A/s1600/knuckle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifV5lMCO3GA9EI2JmM8pEbQ1wg8BwObU3vKNw0ux-6-vfyPRpm1nKrnFmtHU4xdNN-kzR2234nNH2xRJ5bNxf9B30FGfq54EiLfHBTiln2ynWJY6eYtTOrxF0TaJCZ5-CRMkmG5pGQX7A/s1600/knuckle.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: small;">She lives and writes on the Lower East Side and has facilitated writing workshops in community based agencies and at Riker’s Island, a NYC prison. She is a founding member of DDAY Productions, which presents poetry and performance events. Link to her blog for info about book purchases and events: <a href="http://pumaperl.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">http://pumaperl.blogspot.com/</span></a></span><span style="color: purple; font-size: small;">.</span><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: purple; font-size: small;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: small;">Thanks to Puma for sharing her awesome tattoo and poem here on Tattoosday, on the Tattooed Poets Project! Remember, all contributors, including those from 2009 and 2010, are indexed <a href="http://tattooedpoets.blogspot.com/2010/03/index-of-tattooed-poets.html">here</a>. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: xx-small;">This entry is ©2011 Tattoosday. The poem is reprinted here with the permission of the author.<br /><br />If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: x-small;"> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span></div></span>

The Tattooed Poets Project: Puma Perl

It is with great pleasure that we present another tattooed poet, Puma Perl . She offered up this beautiful tattoo: Tattoo by Emma Griffiths,...

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Two-for-Tattoosday, Brazilian-Style

Sometimes, due to a) a language barrier and b) the passage of time, we're not always able to give you the most in-depth story about our subjects' tattoos.<br /><br />Such is the case with Celso and Reginaldo, who I met back in September outside of <a href="http://www.thegarden.com/">Madison Square Garden</a>.<br /><br />Both gentlemen were visiting from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Paulo">São Paolo</a>, Brazil and one of Celso's tattoos caught my eye:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinJMYKV-NgvJI40QT6zTsS0Fo0UCPUf3TCLnxlwk75czJQ0cPmCs9bHsJ-Xu2F3jHNdNGYBZmTOACxk5oKcS39naCGDJNn2VPfg9PpVsx_9M95DBvVlGyOOo_WGXErF4GJ_VXjWtF3FXo/s1600/Dragon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinJMYKV-NgvJI40QT6zTsS0Fo0UCPUf3TCLnxlwk75czJQ0cPmCs9bHsJ-Xu2F3jHNdNGYBZmTOACxk5oKcS39naCGDJNn2VPfg9PpVsx_9M95DBvVlGyOOo_WGXErF4GJ_VXjWtF3FXo/s640/Dragon.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><br />That was on his right arm. He also had this one on his left arm:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOuG1S5x2EF33iliZHc7tCDb_J8LaHba3Vf5WtT5srd3LpK5TODB_H2HVlt5yu6WFN8WZRK5x5QTpjqxs_BrAsaXe_daA5mNmQ9KQ_Z_nHZocuawL91xDtWJ0O6cx1dh1gOFKCH_O4Tk4/s1600/Mermaid.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOuG1S5x2EF33iliZHc7tCDb_J8LaHba3Vf5WtT5srd3LpK5TODB_H2HVlt5yu6WFN8WZRK5x5QTpjqxs_BrAsaXe_daA5mNmQ9KQ_Z_nHZocuawL91xDtWJ0O6cx1dh1gOFKCH_O4Tk4/s640/Mermaid.jpg" width="302" /></a></div><br />Celso's friend Reginaldo pulled his shirt off so I could get the full view of his koi tattoo:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivRS2GUJOIeMQPWHXXl2FXzdImyUUPDkbzCZWa0CIV4Ia0xrIBGT7LVUB1JzBdcmS3LKtvITbEknB6jQ7OuGe-7Y3IRviocPcraTNxxo3_J2s4vWJhUBbxvTncQb9hiPtP9fJ73Mfhoec/s1600/koi+BRazil.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivRS2GUJOIeMQPWHXXl2FXzdImyUUPDkbzCZWa0CIV4Ia0xrIBGT7LVUB1JzBdcmS3LKtvITbEknB6jQ7OuGe-7Y3IRviocPcraTNxxo3_J2s4vWJhUBbxvTncQb9hiPtP9fJ73Mfhoec/s640/koi+BRazil.jpg" width="392" /></a></div><br />Celso credited Artur at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/TRUE-LOVE-TATTOO/107617653333">True Love Tattoo</a> in São Paolo for inking his dragon and his mermaid.<br /><br />Artur also was the artists who did Reginaldo's koi.<br /><br />Thanks to Celso and Reginaldo for sharing their tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!

Two-for-Tattoosday, Brazilian-Style

Sometimes, due to a) a language barrier and b) the passage of time, we're not always able to give you the most in-depth story about our...

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