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Leigh's Skull with a Mouthful of Blossoms

Last month, I ran into Leigh, getting off the C train at 34th Street in Manhattan. She estimates she has 40% of her corporeal canvas covered, and she offered me this tattoo on her left forearm:<br />
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We've had  a lot of sugar skulls here on Tattoosday, but everyone is different and unique. This one, inked by Myles Karr at Three Kings Tattoo in Brooklyn, stands out from the bow at the top of the skull, and the open jaw full of cherry blossoms, both items not generally associated with the traditional sugar skull design.<br />
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"I'm always talking," Leigh told me, "and it's always positive, so I wanted something that would keep the mouth open." She collaborated with Myles on the piece, saying she wanted a skull, but didn't want a "cliche," and pointed out it's also "kind of a take on the Suicidal Tendencies skull."

Leigh's Skull with a Mouthful of Blossoms

Last month, I ran into Leigh, getting off the C train at 34th Street in Manhattan. She estimates she has 40% of her corporeal canvas covered...

9:23 AM

Two Peacocks for a Tuesday

Back in June, I met two women on separate days who had peacock tattoos.<br />
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First was Charlotte, a filmmaker who I spotted on the uptown 3 train. I snapped these pictures when we got off the subway at 72nd Street:<br />
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</div>Charlotte credited Daniel Albrigo as the artist, who did this when he worked at Brooklyn Adorned. He now tattoos out of Three Kings in Brooklyn.<br />
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She explained that she "wanted something beautiful to offset the Kali tattoo on her right shoulder".<br />
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A week later I met Emily near Penn Station, who had this different perspective on the peacock, inked on her calf:<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Emily explained: </span></span><br />
<blockquote><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">"My mother used to work at a school in Dallas, Texas, where I'm from, that has peacocks that roam wild on campus ... when I was a child I used to go play with them (or just watch them)."</span> </span></blockquote><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Emily told me she "drew it and designed it with the help of Dave Wallin." Dave tattooed this when working at Tattoo Culture in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, but he now works out of Eight of Swords Tattoo Studio.</span></span><br />
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Two Peacocks for a Tuesday

Back in June, I met two women on separate days who had peacock tattoos. First was Charlotte, a filmmaker who I spotted on the uptown 3 tra...

1:16 PM

Ashley's Scarabs

I met Ashley a couple months ago, over the summer, on a Friday afternoon at the Broadway-Lafayette subway station.<br />
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She had two tattoos on her upper left arm that jumped out at me:<br />
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These two scarabs were tattooed by Jason June, from Three Kings Tattoo, in Brooklyn.  Why scarabs? Ashley explained that they have "a family significance from the scarab bracelet that I have." She showed me the bracelet and two of the stones matched the colors in the tattoos. Pretty neat.<br />
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Ashley's Scarabs

I met Ashley a couple months ago, over the summer, on a Friday afternoon at the Broadway-Lafayette subway station. She had two tattoos on ...

1:00 AM

Kyle's Industrial Sunflowers

Riding uptown on the 3 train, I see a sleeve half way across the car that just looks amazing. I can't make out the specifics, but the color and detail tell me it's a fantastic piece.<br /><br />The problem is, it's a crowded express train during rush hour, and unless this guy gets off when I get off, I won't get a chance to talk to him.<br /><br />As luck would have it, he does xit the train at the same stop, and as I am trying to catch up with him as he heads upstairs, and across Broadway, I recognize his left sleeve. His name is Kyle, I interviewed him in 2008 (using a borrowed camera, no less) and his post appeared <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2008/05/kyles-take-on-heaven-and-hell.html">here</a>.<br /><br />This is new ink, however, and when I finally catch Kyle on the north side of 72nd, it takes a moment, but he remembers me, and is happy to share his new work, which bears a similar theme to the tattoo I spotted last time our paths crossed:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnr10h-1YRq_3Z-huqYXbLvZMHDX65c9o6InRHz3bXMYC5iGaNiKur7qPxSQUBvX4ygmbd_MAY1riIS4OOWNK4NqI2nV5tZbV1p4jsg5FFyOcR8Y3l6JJcHrhDcO1sEms9JtBHQAA1QUI/s1600/industrial+.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnr10h-1YRq_3Z-huqYXbLvZMHDX65c9o6InRHz3bXMYC5iGaNiKur7qPxSQUBvX4ygmbd_MAY1riIS4OOWNK4NqI2nV5tZbV1p4jsg5FFyOcR8Y3l6JJcHrhDcO1sEms9JtBHQAA1QUI/s1600/industrial+.jpg" /></a></div><br />It is by the same artist, <a href="http://myleskarr.tumblr.com/">Myles Karr</a>, who had done the tattoo from the  original post when he was at <a href="http://www.savedtattoo.com/">Saved Tattoo</a>. Myles is now at <a href="http://www.threekingstattoo.com/site/">Three Kings</a>,  also in Brooklyn.<br /><br />Like the prior encounter, from over three years ago (May 2008), the  right sleeve is a dichotomy. The left sleeve is a city vs country  tension. This piece is dominated by a burst of sunflowers, which travel  down the arm and circle the elbow.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP1f9FMmtXLGr-Ft6V5vk6mTm_WiQ39ygYkfEg2sgxlQZSTYKlMlXJfU7XB2ll8ZwgFhxpRATC6Tw_Wf84_JvXdczVOFAkOT0NYj4X86Hqh2LU4ZVrIooawdsJJ31JimtOH-v6rufpqv4/s1600/industrial+elbow+detail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP1f9FMmtXLGr-Ft6V5vk6mTm_WiQ39ygYkfEg2sgxlQZSTYKlMlXJfU7XB2ll8ZwgFhxpRATC6Tw_Wf84_JvXdczVOFAkOT0NYj4X86Hqh2LU4ZVrIooawdsJJ31JimtOH-v6rufpqv4/s640/industrial+elbow+detail.jpg" width="292" /></a></div><br />On the flip side is another cityscape, this time more silhouetted, and  he explains that his near-pastoral umbringing was punctuated by the  sunflowers he and his mother harvested. This, juxtaposed by the  industrial city, is the center of the tension between the two aspects of  the tattoo.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi2HXHc2ZegGkmndwkbP-mq3h7NlEYWV0MTUQCttI9CgaCaebXj1BEmAFuU6v_YOaSpzTFo8aofzAuWJH21rZKdgsXXwtFcScvTGpMPnOq0hcqfTiv4kEsr5oGvEqXdmbi_9G3xfXdOnU/s1600/Indsutrial+detail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi2HXHc2ZegGkmndwkbP-mq3h7NlEYWV0MTUQCttI9CgaCaebXj1BEmAFuU6v_YOaSpzTFo8aofzAuWJH21rZKdgsXXwtFcScvTGpMPnOq0hcqfTiv4kEsr5oGvEqXdmbi_9G3xfXdOnU/s640/Indsutrial+detail.jpg" width="389" /></a></div><br />As an afterthought, I snapped a shot of the murder of crows lining the inside of his arm. "I just love crows," he told me.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOMU_7tn4OLzoxLvNA1HRiqvYwpW5xPT6NX-AHUvBtQODkRWoV_ymdtlIpZ-AcoqP4jXUq3VtFCkjfrBKR9NFhouTDjmQWSY0FmF7yf9-2lBCVSwEKhw-RS7EVrvoFCGg5imPOrJL61sE/s1600/Crows.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOMU_7tn4OLzoxLvNA1HRiqvYwpW5xPT6NX-AHUvBtQODkRWoV_ymdtlIpZ-AcoqP4jXUq3VtFCkjfrBKR9NFhouTDjmQWSY0FmF7yf9-2lBCVSwEKhw-RS7EVrvoFCGg5imPOrJL61sE/s640/Crows.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />He also offered up this shin piece, also by Myles Karr:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYDWx9cB9KGOanDn557w54R_GlUDV4QfsH9zkeCqH_H5DMt01rVlwSux9xvu21SwGLBmoWsyt2tAldBmWf_UBWWc3wpLy-epwL5bAMTZO5P72hdfKb7Qez-LAQHtrCgYTmgsjvFXm8EKI/s1600/circus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYDWx9cB9KGOanDn557w54R_GlUDV4QfsH9zkeCqH_H5DMt01rVlwSux9xvu21SwGLBmoWsyt2tAldBmWf_UBWWc3wpLy-epwL5bAMTZO5P72hdfKb7Qez-LAQHtrCgYTmgsjvFXm8EKI/s1600/circus.jpg" /></a></div><br />He explained it is an old-time traditional circus strongman, as old circus  and sideshow imagery being another style of designs that he likes.<br /><br />It was great seeing Kyle again and appreciating the amazing work he had added since our paths last crossed three years ago. Thanks to Kyle for sharing his tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><br />  <br /><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><span style="font-size: x-small;">  </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span>

Kyle's Industrial Sunflowers

Riding uptown on the 3 train, I see a sleeve half way across the car that just looks amazing. I can't make out the specifics, but the co...

3:36 AM

Jenna Shares Two - A Lionfish and a Gustav Klimt

<div class="MsoNormal">I met Jenna last month outside of Penn Station last month and took a few pictures of her tattoos, one of which is based on the work of the Austrian painter <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Klimt">Gustav Klimt.</a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">As today is the anniversary of Klimt's birthday, 149 years ago in 1862, I felt it would be a good day to share Jenna's work.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">This tattoo is on her upper left arm:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh11gugUteA9ib1bCuDUm6BCfnBTdBtW-ai1d1mrOu1dS81lgIXMUZQzFguHRRVfr-InBJQi5jjXO1u0rLjctMpApOW9v-M7NbrY10vMwYpP3wClAyNG-sFaMvawvJ7JtjQWw7zpV_cDLs/s1600/klimt+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh11gugUteA9ib1bCuDUm6BCfnBTdBtW-ai1d1mrOu1dS81lgIXMUZQzFguHRRVfr-InBJQi5jjXO1u0rLjctMpApOW9v-M7NbrY10vMwYpP3wClAyNG-sFaMvawvJ7JtjQWw7zpV_cDLs/s640/klimt+1.jpg" width="454" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">This is based on a work called "The Blood of Fish" (1898):</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6OqzAtgG2zX8-V1r26ECU6ksw0C_MuWwIq2GpIqW9OCz8oqoJbzKd3Su1AK2dOKt9XJVmT-om4L8LUyATZBvz9b_M6Mi5aXZPCWZbvPdxWU8qfOkc-wEb_c18TSh-xlD1Czi0MjgKGXo/s1600/fish+blood+1898+gustav+klimt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6OqzAtgG2zX8-V1r26ECU6ksw0C_MuWwIq2GpIqW9OCz8oqoJbzKd3Su1AK2dOKt9XJVmT-om4L8LUyATZBvz9b_M6Mi5aXZPCWZbvPdxWU8qfOkc-wEb_c18TSh-xlD1Czi0MjgKGXo/s400/fish+blood+1898+gustav+klimt.jpg" width="395" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Jenna explains: <br /><blockquote>"...The print is a pen and ink done by  Klimt called <i>The Blood of Fish. </i>I've always been a very big fan of Klimt's work but alot of it has all been done before in terms of tattoos. When I saw <i>The Blood of Fish</i>  I just kind of knew that it was for me, there was something very  beautiful and fluid about it and I knew I wanted it to be a part of me ...</blockquote></div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwxSb7TnvETTVV4WwNgkqxtfGrGGafs88K11PPptP_fMzsmxCwBS50WPZEGZ1fy-SOlXB3UrY1EaB5MHv8ONsfEdzzMxAq4DXMnb1DWP52thO2FKtJvhujZu3c_SWl7J8K8eprwu1YeSI/s1600/Klimt+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwxSb7TnvETTVV4WwNgkqxtfGrGGafs88K11PPptP_fMzsmxCwBS50WPZEGZ1fy-SOlXB3UrY1EaB5MHv8ONsfEdzzMxAq4DXMnb1DWP52thO2FKtJvhujZu3c_SWl7J8K8eprwu1YeSI/s640/Klimt+2.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div></blockquote><br /><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal">...The only adjustments added were the little feet at the bottom  and I opted out of nipples on the women, I babysit and am around kids  alot I'd rather keep things PG. Either way my mother and grandmother had  a heart attack, supposedly women arent supposed to get naked women  tattoos, I didn't get that memo." </div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal">She credits <a href="http://danieltrocchio.com/">Dan Trocchio</a> at <a href="http://www.threekingstattoo.com/site/">Three Kings</a> in Brooklyn with this incredible tattoo.<br /><br />Jenna also shared another phenomenal piece, on the upper right portion of her back:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7R_WFiZ179fkGojwuQi-2ROVjaYEc7nCYuMQZW3dQXmVTuxtm7zVduZqSn6zrD9VwL-zZCAaCiZc6-W1bV2ZolIbJETvilGQkWkeSPFO4HJwa43ztflXO-wqsiZ-lJWDdUon0h22B8nI/s1600/lion+fish.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7R_WFiZ179fkGojwuQi-2ROVjaYEc7nCYuMQZW3dQXmVTuxtm7zVduZqSn6zrD9VwL-zZCAaCiZc6-W1bV2ZolIbJETvilGQkWkeSPFO4HJwa43ztflXO-wqsiZ-lJWDdUon0h22B8nI/s400/lion+fish.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />This <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterois">lionfish</a> tattoo was inked by <a href="http://kingsavenuetattoo.com/artists_view.asp?id=2">Grez</a> at <a href="http://kingsavenuetattoo.com/">Kings Avenue Tattoo</a> in Massapequa, New York.<br /><br />Again, I'll let Jenna explain:<br /><br /><blockquote>"The Lion Fish was my first real tattoo. For years I had wanted a Lion  Fish. I used to sit the marine biology lab during middle and high school  and just draw and paint fish. Like all of the creatures on the earth,  saltwater fish are really remarkable and incredibly beautiful. My father  (who originally got me into salt water tanks) used to tell me that god  hand painted every stripe on the lion fish. While I'm not a very  religious person, it doesn't change just how much of a miracle that the  oceans and the beauty they hold are. I just feel like sometimes people  don't stop and look at how amazing these creatures are. My lion fish  isn't only a symbol of my passion for marine life but also a piece of  art that was originally hand painted by god."</blockquote>Thanks again to Jenna for sharing her amazing tattoos with us here on Tattoosday, and for taking the time to share her thoughts about the work. And a happy 149th birthday to Gustav Klimt!<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2011 Tattoosday. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><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>

Jenna Shares Two - A Lionfish and a Gustav Klimt

I met Jenna last month outside of Penn Station last month and took a few pictures of her tattoos, one of which is based on the work of the A...

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Four from Christine

I met Christine at the <a href="http://www.yelp.com/topic/new-york-trader-joes-uws">Trader Joe's</a> on the Upper West Side yesterday evening and she shared these four tattoos:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhzezYSOdFwoLXrk3eQU3tBMfkRhYLYwUGtbf1Ezrq3lcot-xD7WX6gEKNYR2N8bH3nnaRYLTRKd5nfEvoxovetg8a9HA71GRI_LgQRn0qPznJdxcK_RstxUkMpwUFVrXszFBATKtbouU/s1600/Christine.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhzezYSOdFwoLXrk3eQU3tBMfkRhYLYwUGtbf1Ezrq3lcot-xD7WX6gEKNYR2N8bH3nnaRYLTRKd5nfEvoxovetg8a9HA71GRI_LgQRn0qPznJdxcK_RstxUkMpwUFVrXszFBATKtbouU/s400/Christine.jpg" width="335" /></a></div><br />Moving clockwise from the upper left in the photo above, we start with  an outline of <a href="http://brooklyn.com/">Brooklyn</a>, in honor of the borough in which Christine was  born and raised.<br /><br />At the top of the other forearm is an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Om">om</a> symbol, which captures her focus and has occasionally "helped with panic attacks."<br /><br />The two butterflies on opposite arms were inked in honor of her nieces,  who both love these colorful insects. The shade of each represents their  favorite colors.<br /><br />The Brooklyn piece was inked at <a href="http://asylumtattoostudios.com/">Asylum Studios</a> in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. The om and  the butterflies were done by artists at <a href="http://www.threekingstattoo.com/site/">Three Kings Tattoo</a>. Both shops  are in Brooklyn and have had work appear on Tattoosday previously <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/search/label/Asylum%20Studios">here</a> (Asylum) and <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/search/label/Three%20Kings%20Tattoo">here</a> (Three Kings).<br /><br />Thanks to Christine for sharing these four of her eleven (!) tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><br />  <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2011 Tattoosday.<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: x-small;"><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>

Four from Christine

I met Christine at the Trader Joe's on the Upper West Side yesterday evening and she shared these four tattoos: Moving clockwise from t...

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Megan's Empress Impresses

I spotted Megan at the end of September walking down West 23rd Street in Chelsea.<br /><br />She has an amazing sleeve-in-progress but, because it is still unfinished, she offered up this tattoo, on her upper right arm, instead:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcO4coICJUm8J-AqVibD8Xb1CMKGdwiag9eX_vGKd66b4fG6gkq2Yk-jlp56kZ8MQTG4YlBPCh006eRwsAyFuVDC8-FCDpN9NYFRAuk0-qzekt0-_8PtC3zq9rCpui5CkkX17Sexwg6Bo/s1600/Tarot+Card+wm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcO4coICJUm8J-AqVibD8Xb1CMKGdwiag9eX_vGKd66b4fG6gkq2Yk-jlp56kZ8MQTG4YlBPCh006eRwsAyFuVDC8-FCDpN9NYFRAuk0-qzekt0-_8PtC3zq9rCpui5CkkX17Sexwg6Bo/s640/Tarot+Card+wm.jpg" width="352" /></a></div><br />This <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot_of_Marseilles">tarot card</a> is significant because her mother is from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carribean">Caribbean</a>  and she grew up with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santer%C3%ADa">Santerían</a>  religion in her household.<br /><br />She has a profound respect for tarot cards and based on the time and  date of her birth, has what she refers to as a "weird numerology".<br /><br />This card is known as L'Impératrice,or <a href="http://www.tarotpedia.com/wiki/Empress">The Empress</a>, and has a very positive meaning. As interpreted by one site (<a href="http://tarotcardsreading.blogspot.com/2007/10/limpratrice-impress-arcana-iii-3.html">here</a>):<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Empress seems to be sure of herself, calm, intelligent, worthy.</span>  <span style="font-family: verdana;">This major arcana represents the capacity, the Empress clothing is luxurious and invaluable.</span>  <span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br />This arcana is extremely positive...</span>  <span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span>...<span style="font-family: verdana;">In  the right position the Empress represents the intelligence, dignity,  the authority, the mother, the wife, the right decisions.</span></blockquote><br />The detail in this tattoo is amazing:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPJOhPQhHGnN8nbG_UpP4xOsT83QmyBJBLjv3OMFxdvwV_pGUv8GHCIcS2Azn-OHpVlJW9jFReTqty5s80FaRwQJzLU79-wmUrEox7Wf3aSPhdzh_q7lCEeeCXJpa32XdkTgN6MDnhl0w/s1600/Tarot+Card+detail+2+wm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPJOhPQhHGnN8nbG_UpP4xOsT83QmyBJBLjv3OMFxdvwV_pGUv8GHCIcS2Azn-OHpVlJW9jFReTqty5s80FaRwQJzLU79-wmUrEox7Wf3aSPhdzh_q7lCEeeCXJpa32XdkTgN6MDnhl0w/s400/Tarot+Card+detail+2+wm.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />The art was inked by <a href="http://www.threekingstattoo.com/site/artistpage.php?artistid=7&picid=420&page=1">Annie Lloyd</a> at <a href="http://www.threekingstattoo.com/site/index.php">Three Kings Tattoo</a> in Brooklyn. Work from Three Kings has appeared previously on Tatoosday <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/search/label/Three%20Kings%20Tattoo">here</a>.<br /><br />Thanks to Megan for sharing this lovely tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

Megan's Empress Impresses

I spotted Megan at the end of September walking down West 23rd Street in Chelsea. She has an amazing sleeve-in-progress but, because it is s...

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Garrett's Peacock Recalls the South

I met Garrett back in June in Penn Station when I was still reeling from the loss of <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2008/07/hello-polaroid-goodbye-kodak.html">my camera</a>.<br /><br />I had yet to replace my photographic equipment and I had yet to receive the loaner from my awesome friend Jill.<br /><br />So, I did the best I could with a flash-less BlackBerry camera to capture Garrett's awesome sleeve:<br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmspRTlyeJRsJGpFELvKdSNLuisdWkBxLCIs6F64utIcrzW63FVMDCNISY0ZGT3JgrsaopQncasnUk_fkmbPODEKgvfR-aHtT44yTp8gi2CK2PZDw43gMe8lp0-HOY67lHFJ3zUZV3/s1600/garrett+peacock.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmspRTlyeJRsJGpFELvKdSNLuisdWkBxLCIs6F64utIcrzW63FVMDCNISY0ZGT3JgrsaopQncasnUk_fkmbPODEKgvfR-aHtT44yTp8gi2CK2PZDw43gMe8lp0-HOY67lHFJ3zUZV3/s640/garrett+peacock.jpg" width="216" /></a></div><br />Yes, folks, it's another peacock in our midst, in a summer during which we have been treated to a variety of peafowl.<br /><br />Garrett's choice to get this tattoo stems from his love of these birds, combined with an appreciation of fashion, and how the peacock speaks to that sensibility. He also likes how the males are the fairer of the two sexes.<br /><br />What's especially remarkable is that this is a black and gray tattoo, with no plans to take on any color ink.<br /><br />The inclusion of magnolias, azaleas and violets, all in homage to the South, make this potentially dizzyingly colorful tattoo more remarkable in its basic palette. Rather than explosions of color, we are rewarded with subtleties of shading.<br /><br />Credit goes to <a href="http://myleskarr.com/">Myles Karr</a> at <a href="http://www.threekingstattoo.com/site/index.php">Three Kings Tattoo</a> in Brooklyn. Work from Myles has previously appeared <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/search/label/Myles%20Karr">here</a> on Tattoosday.<br /><br />Thanks to Garrett for sharing his amazing tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

Garrett's Peacock Recalls the South

I met Garrett back in June in Penn Station when I was still reeling from the loss of my camera . I had yet to replace my photographic equipm...

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Recap of Matty No Times Fundraiser at Yes Gallery

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijp62fwxS1QDrAkh9JozMvFni6tUSQ_ytROQ4ceVUpFduH5V6K5qLDd-R-W814DgxdEskdaX1AUuofIBaGaS4sEUUkQOdCSh2NOBrM2eN4kk3t_mjouGoxCxyT_8TZwf_Wxmzhn-ly/s1600/scan0002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijp62fwxS1QDrAkh9JozMvFni6tUSQ_ytROQ4ceVUpFduH5V6K5qLDd-R-W814DgxdEskdaX1AUuofIBaGaS4sEUUkQOdCSh2NOBrM2eN4kk3t_mjouGoxCxyT_8TZwf_Wxmzhn-ly/s400/scan0002.jpg" width="275" /></a></div><br />My trip to the <a href="http://yesgalleryyes.com/">Yes Gallery</a> in Williamsburg on Saturday for the launch party of the Matty No Times benefit was complicated by the weekend suspension of the <a href="http://www.mta.info/nyct/service/gline.htm">G train</a>.<br /><br />Rather than a 1-transfer commute from South Brooklyn, the trip involved a lengthy trip on the <a href="http://www.mta.info/nyct/service/rline.htm">R train</a> which took me through Manhattan and into Queens, where a shuttle bus skirted me back to Brooklyn. Are you kidding me?<br /><br />But I didn't want to miss this event, not only because it was for a good cause as the NY tattoo community rallied to help one of their own, but because it would give me the chance to see some amazing art and possibly meet some of the artists behind the work. <br /><br />I shed my backpack and just brought my notebook, stuffed with fliers, although I didn't necessarily expect to do the Tattoosday thing at the event. But you never know, and it was a long (1 hour, 28 minutes, according to <a href="http://www.hopstop.com/">HopStop</a>) trek. Who knows who I might meet along the way?<br /><br />I arrived relatively early, just in time to catch <a href="http://meditationsinatrament.com/">Thomas Hooper</a> exiting the gallery. I have long admired Mr. Hooper's work (even <a href="http://meditationsinatrament.com/">his web site</a> is art) and was hoping to meet him.<br /><br />I introduced myself and he was soft-spoken and polite. I would have loved to chat with him further, but he was headed elsewhere and seemed to be in a hurry to go.<br /><br />Inside, the Yes gallery's air conditioning was a welcome relief, as I started looking at the hundred-plus works of art that had been donated by artists from all over to help <a href="http://www.threekingstattoo.com/site/">Three Kings'</a> artist <a href="http://www.threekingstattoo.com/site/artistpage.php?artistid=5&picid=449&page=1">Matty No Times</a> recover from staggering bills that resulted from an emergency liver transplant last Fall.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfOgLpyPxizhfmB41v3L4jglck7yPMaybkJr7vjhv0OeyD8aCUtuaF527T-nUtqI5jK43rVs_R8egJFvcJ5LiUdouLwrOjoWrX9Kkt6ukemRGX8DkD62zoDurwJ94bZOXlQq9pfAVC/s1600/Yes+Gallery+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfOgLpyPxizhfmB41v3L4jglck7yPMaybkJr7vjhv0OeyD8aCUtuaF527T-nUtqI5jK43rVs_R8egJFvcJ5LiUdouLwrOjoWrX9Kkt6ukemRGX8DkD62zoDurwJ94bZOXlQq9pfAVC/s400/Yes+Gallery+1.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br />I introduced myself to Matty (Mr. No Times sounds weirdly formal) and chatted briefly as he ran the table where people paid for the art, left donations, and entered the raffle. He is a very nice guy and seemed genuinely appreciative of the turnout.<br /><br />The list of artists who contributed their work was staggering. Check it out:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEO_aQpefmo_ziX5PxJKOj1GDeHJKkfX-n9juSIH68Jwrj-t5n7813hXuRfcD9ETH8mfkaLGZixACN5jALzTn5yY3TMzmnqPUTTUzOEJow16FevK0M8i5OJykiLBOiCHH1iX20psKu/s1600/scan0001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEO_aQpefmo_ziX5PxJKOj1GDeHJKkfX-n9juSIH68Jwrj-t5n7813hXuRfcD9ETH8mfkaLGZixACN5jALzTn5yY3TMzmnqPUTTUzOEJow16FevK0M8i5OJykiLBOiCHH1iX20psKu/s400/scan0001.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br />One of the bonuses in going to the event, for me at least, was seeing the work donated by Peter Caruso, who is the artist who created  <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2009/06/my-third-tattoo-hand-steeped-in-faith.html">my third tattoo</a>. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU6xTIa61HhBC1U93EZItT_py7MqYnxOE3BTUr8XlOpf22XTW_HiE6vOxhSyenWRb7Wa0dzGqcDjGbQW-3pnSVYlay6tx37EQiq3M21C9WEliTnxcCAP8Y_apca2_Be_58rjetbRJL/s1600/Caruso+Painting.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU6xTIa61HhBC1U93EZItT_py7MqYnxOE3BTUr8XlOpf22XTW_HiE6vOxhSyenWRb7Wa0dzGqcDjGbQW-3pnSVYlay6tx37EQiq3M21C9WEliTnxcCAP8Y_apca2_Be_58rjetbRJL/s640/Caruso+Painting.jpg" width="316" /></a></div><br />And whereas, I had discussed with Matty and several other guests the etiquette of taking close-up photos of the art hanging on the walls, I did have Pete's permission to post his painting, which we were all excited to see sold early on.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs04u3fSstNOvn9BogxK2R6sW5sK9Hvvgbk2a72vYJRCTpfQEWtIqO64P4S4PlIbIkk2RJu8CMuNMVv-AENlRMvuCIKhgudIam_Y6VZClnid4qWzQ79yMpL7sHAcnipbBEzNLKmCvv/s1600/Yes+Gallery+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs04u3fSstNOvn9BogxK2R6sW5sK9Hvvgbk2a72vYJRCTpfQEWtIqO64P4S4PlIbIkk2RJu8CMuNMVv-AENlRMvuCIKhgudIam_Y6VZClnid4qWzQ79yMpL7sHAcnipbBEzNLKmCvv/s400/Yes+Gallery+2.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br />I was pleasantly surprised to run into one former Tattoosday contributor, <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2009/09/elizabeths-alphabetical-ink.html">Elizabeth</a>, along with her husband. We chatted awhile as they made their way around the gallery.<br /><br />I also talked with <a href="http://www.boundforglorytattoo.com/magieserpica.html">Magie Serpica</a>, who I ran into last year at a <a href="http://www.needlesandsins.com/">Needles & Sins</a> event, and who made her own Tattoosday contribution <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2009/10/magies-unique-sugar-skull-inked-by-big.html">here</a>. An artist at <a href="http://www.boundforglorytattoo.com/">Bound for Glory Tattoo</a> on Staten Island, she had contributed a painting, as well:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNWWxY85QmqWm0Nq5DDSgp7ERrBGF8vL9kRT9FIHsCvCMk6MrkLewinJxexIEb-v71zx6lqZnJ5ZjKaeRVbultabwVcmzFkopiOBuzPhyphenhyphenydUWrTpuo5tDU0UMAMCgTVHDyL0-QGvuM/s1600/magie+painting.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNWWxY85QmqWm0Nq5DDSgp7ERrBGF8vL9kRT9FIHsCvCMk6MrkLewinJxexIEb-v71zx6lqZnJ5ZjKaeRVbultabwVcmzFkopiOBuzPhyphenhyphenydUWrTpuo5tDU0UMAMCgTVHDyL0-QGvuM/s400/magie+painting.jpg" width="297" /></a></div><br />As the crowd swelled, I began to become overstimulated. Do I look at the art on the walls? Or do I look at the amazing art on the bodies? Most folks would have assumed I would have gone hog-wild taking photos of peoples' tattoos, but remember, I tend to embrace the random encounter aspect of the Tattoosday mission, and just like one doesn't see a lot of photos from conventions and tattoo shops, I avoided interviewing people about their tattoos. It just didn't seem sporting to do so. I did however, take a couple of shots of Peter's tattoos, to be unveiled at a later date here on the site.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVm1IqxoOFgmsFjU_YP4tn-AoHbodZcgiZRXOm_jQJePPfMzdHbFM-BlYz-xf2m73rpK4cyesy1H3avkwtw-mSbh43vJd8lI49EfsTOStKSqBbFzifVUTEMQfTND2Mx1EFCmdZJ6hl/s1600/Yes+Gallery+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVm1IqxoOFgmsFjU_YP4tn-AoHbodZcgiZRXOm_jQJePPfMzdHbFM-BlYz-xf2m73rpK4cyesy1H3avkwtw-mSbh43vJd8lI49EfsTOStKSqBbFzifVUTEMQfTND2Mx1EFCmdZJ6hl/s400/Yes+Gallery+3.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br />I didn't receive a call from Matty on Sunday, so I will assume I didn't win the raffle. No worries. I wasn't in a position to invest in any art, so I did my part to help raise funds for this worthy cause.<br /><br />You can support Matty through Three Kings Tattoo, where he works, and you still have time to visit the Yes Gallery, at 147 India Street in Brooklyn, and check out the art through Friday, July 23.<br /><br />Thanks to all the artists who participated and made for such a wonderful  visual experience, and to all the extended friends of Tattoosday who made the event more enjoyable for me, especially Pete and his wife Maria, who let me tag along with them at the gallery and spared me the subway after the show with a much-quicker ride home!

Recap of Matty No Times Fundraiser at Yes Gallery

My trip to the Yes Gallery in Williamsburg on Saturday for the launch party of the Matty No Times benefit was complicated by the weekend su...

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