Last year we got a pleasant surprise from a reader named Patti, who shared a stunning floral sleeve, which we posted in September.
One of the problems with interviewing people with sleeves is that it is hard to document the great work, especially when I've met them on the street. Even a collage of sleeve segments doesn't always do justice to the amazing workmanship and detail that goes into the hours of creating a sleeve.
Fortunately for me, and by extension, you the readers of Tattoosday, Patti has stayed in touch, and she just sent me the link to a YouTube video chronicling her new peacock sleeve. Check it out:
Patti's amazing work was done by Ben Reigle (who also composed the music in the clip) at Blueprint Gallery in Hadley, Massachusetts.
Thanks to Patti for keeping me posted on her new sleeve!
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Thursday, December 6, 2012
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Jon's Molten Flesh Tear
Well, we seem to be taking care of a lot of our orphan posts earlier in the month than later, as I expected. Our next piece is from Jon, who I met in Herald Square back in June. He was visiting New York from England, and his travelling companion, Marjo, shared her tattoo with us back in July here.
Jon let me snap a photo of his leg, which is a take on one of those torn flesh motifs:
Note you can see Marjo in the background, rocking a pretty cool leg piece.
I don't have much more to say about Jon's tattoo, which I dubbed "Molten Flesh Tear," other than he credited to an artist named Mick J at Blue Dragon Tattoo in Brighton, England. I did find the following reference pictures on Mick J's MySpace page:
Thanks to Jon for sharing with us here on Tattoosday!
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Jon let me snap a photo of his leg, which is a take on one of those torn flesh motifs:
Note you can see Marjo in the background, rocking a pretty cool leg piece.
I don't have much more to say about Jon's tattoo, which I dubbed "Molten Flesh Tear," other than he credited to an artist named Mick J at Blue Dragon Tattoo in Brighton, England. I did find the following reference pictures on Mick J's MySpace page:
Thanks to Jon for sharing with us here on Tattoosday!
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Jason's Chicago Tattoos
Here's another set of photos in our Orphans category.
Back in August, as my company was closing down, our new parent company had a few guys from Chicago visit our digs, looking for assets to transfer to their office in the Chicago area.
They spent several days in Manhattan and we interacted during the day as we all went about our work.
On one particularly warm day (it was August in New York City, after all), one of the guys, Jason, was wearing a tank top, and I spotted some ink on his arm. He consented to my taking pictures for the site, and was supposed to get back to me to discuss further and properly credit the artists involved. As the saying goes, I never heard from him again.
First off, he had the Chicago skyline tattooed on his upper arm:
The script at the bottom says "South Side," referring to the area of the city where he was from.
Like many Chicagoans, Jason is a huge sports fan, thus the collage of his allegiances on his biceps:
For the unitiated, those are logos, from left to right, of the Chicago White Sox (baseball), The Bears (football), the Bulls (basketball), and the Blackhawks (hockey).
He credited the work to Firehouse Tattoos in Chicago. As I mentioned earlier, I was unable to get the name(s) of any artist(s) affiliated with the work, nor was I able to get any additional comments or back story from Jason.
Thanks to Jason for sharing these tattoos with us here on Tattoosday. It's nice sharing a bit of the Windy City here on our Big Apple blog!
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Back in August, as my company was closing down, our new parent company had a few guys from Chicago visit our digs, looking for assets to transfer to their office in the Chicago area.
They spent several days in Manhattan and we interacted during the day as we all went about our work.
On one particularly warm day (it was August in New York City, after all), one of the guys, Jason, was wearing a tank top, and I spotted some ink on his arm. He consented to my taking pictures for the site, and was supposed to get back to me to discuss further and properly credit the artists involved. As the saying goes, I never heard from him again.
First off, he had the Chicago skyline tattooed on his upper arm:
The script at the bottom says "South Side," referring to the area of the city where he was from.
Like many Chicagoans, Jason is a huge sports fan, thus the collage of his allegiances on his biceps:
For the unitiated, those are logos, from left to right, of the Chicago White Sox (baseball), The Bears (football), the Bulls (basketball), and the Blackhawks (hockey).
He credited the work to Firehouse Tattoos in Chicago. As I mentioned earlier, I was unable to get the name(s) of any artist(s) affiliated with the work, nor was I able to get any additional comments or back story from Jason.
Thanks to Jason for sharing these tattoos with us here on Tattoosday. It's nice sharing a bit of the Windy City here on our Big Apple blog!
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Monday, December 3, 2012
Michelle's Mermaid Under Manhattan
Here's another orphan post from earlier this year. I snapped this mermaid tattoo on Michelle back in August:
I spotted Michelle in the passageway under the south end of the 2/3 platform at 34th Street.
It was rush hour and Michelle handed me her card so I could follow up and get more details on her tattoo.
Alas, Michelle did not respond to my inquiries, so all we are left with is this cool picture.
Thanks to Michelle, wherever you are, for sharing this mermaid tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!
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I spotted Michelle in the passageway under the south end of the 2/3 platform at 34th Street.
It was rush hour and Michelle handed me her card so I could follow up and get more details on her tattoo.
Alas, Michelle did not respond to my inquiries, so all we are left with is this cool picture.
Thanks to Michelle, wherever you are, for sharing this mermaid tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!
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Sunday, December 2, 2012
Kate's Owl in Penn Station
As I indicated yesterday, we're showcasing some of our "orphans" - posts that were just not quite perfect. Today we have another one, this one having been separated from its original group.
Back in October, we wrote about Kate's amazing portraits by Tommy Montoya here.
When I spotted her in Penn Station, however, it was this owl on the back of her thigh that caught my attention:
So why wasn't this in the original post?
Kate originally attributed the owl to an artist named Sailor. However, she wasn't able to give me further details about the artist, so I didn't include it in the original.Unfortunately, googling "tattoos by Sailor" results in a lot of naval tattoos, but not much indicating who may have done this piece.
Thanks anyway to Kate for sharing this with us here on Tattoosday!
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Back in October, we wrote about Kate's amazing portraits by Tommy Montoya here.
When I spotted her in Penn Station, however, it was this owl on the back of her thigh that caught my attention:
So why wasn't this in the original post?
Kate originally attributed the owl to an artist named Sailor. However, she wasn't able to give me further details about the artist, so I didn't include it in the original.Unfortunately, googling "tattoos by Sailor" results in a lot of naval tattoos, but not much indicating who may have done this piece.
Thanks anyway to Kate for sharing this with us here on Tattoosday!
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Saturday, December 1, 2012
Shannon's Gramophone
Well, it's December 1st and, at the end of every year, I have a handful of posts that do not live up to my normally rigorous standards of blogworthy quality. I call them "orphans". Whether it is due to missing information, or an unresponsive contributor, I have found that, rather than holding the posts in perpetual purgatory, it is much more therapeutic to release them all at the end of the year.
Throughout the month I'll be attempting to clear my 2012 inventory, and I will be mixing in these orphans with some regular posts.
The first of the 2012 orphans is this tattoo, which belongs to Shannon:
I met Shannon and her husband, Zachary, back in April. Zachary's ink appeared on Tattoosday here. Zachary and Shannon told me that this tattoo was done by an artist in Chicago.
They were going to e-mail me the artist's name and I asked again after posting Zachary's tattoo, but I never heard back. Still a pretty cool tattoo, despite my not being able to properly attribute it to the artist.
Thanks to Shannon for sharing with us on Tattoosday!
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Throughout the month I'll be attempting to clear my 2012 inventory, and I will be mixing in these orphans with some regular posts.
The first of the 2012 orphans is this tattoo, which belongs to Shannon:
I met Shannon and her husband, Zachary, back in April. Zachary's ink appeared on Tattoosday here. Zachary and Shannon told me that this tattoo was done by an artist in Chicago.
They were going to e-mail me the artist's name and I asked again after posting Zachary's tattoo, but I never heard back. Still a pretty cool tattoo, despite my not being able to properly attribute it to the artist.
Thanks to Shannon for sharing with us on Tattoosday!
This entry is ©2012 Tattoosday.
If you are seeing this on another website 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 http://tattoosday.blogspot.com 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.
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