tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57641192664106827352024-03-04T21:24:23.033-08:00free update trend tatto style gratisfree update trend tatto style gratishadir untuk berbagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09790709753127283852noreply@blogger.comBlogger2801125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764119266410682735.post-37155421081138755122013-05-07T04:01:00.000-07:002013-05-07T14:28:23.568-07:00Amazing New Site! Check Out Fellowship Supply!Last month I reviewed the amazing book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3791346636/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=3791346636&linkCode=as2&tag=bill03-20%22%3ESkin%20Graf:%20Masters%20of%20Graffiti%20Tattoo%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=bill03-20&l=as2&o=1&a=3791346636%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E">Skin Graf</a>, co-written by Michael "Kaves" McLeer and Billy Burke. Revisit the review <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-tattoosday-book-review-skin-graf.html">here</a>.<br /><br />The day after my review appeared, I was fortunate enough to attend a talk about the book and graffiti tattoo, I met several of the artists featured in the book, and also had a chance to speak to both authors, including Billy Burke.<br /><br />We resumed our conversation several days later when Kaves held a book-release party at his shop in Bay Ridge, <a href="http://www.brooklynmadetattoo.com/index.html">Brooklyn Made Tattoo</a>.<br /><br />Burke told me about his latest project, working with <a href="http://www.fellowshipsupply.com/">Fellowship Supply Company</a>, "Purveyors Of Creative Tools For The Tattoo Artist."<br /><br />He urged me to check out the website <a href="http://www.fellowshipsupply.com/">here</a>, and spoke with great excitement about Fellowship's vision, embodied in this statement:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"Fellowship exists to promote craftsmanship while furthering the artistry of the tattoo community. We honor the dedication of artists before us through dedication of our own, shunning shortcuts in favor of sacrifice. For those who find joy in creating, the role of a maker is a life, not a living. In the art of tattooing, we blur lines between timelessness and mortality, between skin and canvas, between outcast and visionary."</blockquote>Aside from a whole section of tattoo supplies, there is a lot of great content featuring the words, wisdom, and talent of some of the greatest tattooists and machine builders working today, like <a href="http://www.shamrocktattoo.com/artist_fn2.html">Freddy Negrete</a>, <a href="http://www.shamrocktattoo.com/artist_mm.html">Mark Mahoney</a> and <a href="http://www.timmytatts.com/">Timmy Tatts</a>, to name just a few.<br /><br /><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="http://www.fellowshipsupply.com/media/union/backimg.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://www.fellowshipsupply.com/media/union/backimg.png" width="476" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An amazing back piece by Timmy Tatts</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><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="http://www.fellowshipsupply.com/media/union/man_img.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://www.fellowshipsupply.com/media/union/man_img.png" width="375" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Work by Mark Mahoney</td></tr></tbody></table><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="http://www.fellowshipsupply.com/media/union/donmachine.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="278" src="http://www.fellowshipsupply.com/media/union/donmachine.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail of a machine part by Dan Dringenberg</td></tr></tbody></table>And check out this tutorial clip from Negrete on the art of black and grey:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/63708827" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="400"></iframe><br /></div><br />That's just the tip of the iceberg.<br /><br />Tattoo artists, aficionados, and fans can get lost in the site, which just launched in the last two weeks. I can hardly wait to see what other rare treats visitors to the site will be getting in the future.<br /><br />I'm looking forward to seeing how Fellowship grows and expands its amazing collection of articles, biographies, and tutorials. Readers should certainly bookmark this site for exploration in the weeks and months to come!<br /><br /><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-7ea5-ae26-d2d2-cd9b4dbee8b0" style="font-weight: normal;"></b><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-7ea5-ae26-d2d2-cd9b4dbee8b0" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">This entry is ©2013 Tattoosday.</span></span></b></div><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-7ea5-ae26-d2d2-cd9b4dbee8b0" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-7ea5-ae26-d2d2-cd9b4dbee8b0" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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. 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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></b></div><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-7ea5-ae26-d2d2-cd9b4dbee8b0" style="font-weight: normal;"></b><br /><div><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-7ea5-ae26-d2d2-cd9b4dbee8b0" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b></div><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-7ea5-ae26-d2d2-cd9b4dbee8b0" style="font-weight: normal;"></b>hadir untuk berbagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09790709753127283852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764119266410682735.post-88802617294545088662013-05-06T20:14:00.000-07:002013-05-07T14:22:21.702-07:00DOODLES.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">I have been so busy lately in between tattooing and working on designs for D9 Reserve. That's why when I have a chance to draw, it's either free handing things on skin or doodling on whatever stands in front of me. Here is some characters I drew with a ball point pen on some brown paper bags. I'm going to try to do more of them so I can build up a collection and one never knows do a little art show.</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQmgFW56ZMMS2Hr9pbtuFdZE1ZgbdaGfVTkpdL_4PZ8g-B1YbXRIfxe6hqfrKZHKDU9VSWOetoTG3nzeHWDF5b-eb-lrHmChj6oMYwLmv2EjmyiDNahDq_FKDgi1ecl9RoDOSj3KinCq1a/s1600/doodle1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQmgFW56ZMMS2Hr9pbtuFdZE1ZgbdaGfVTkpdL_4PZ8g-B1YbXRIfxe6hqfrKZHKDU9VSWOetoTG3nzeHWDF5b-eb-lrHmChj6oMYwLmv2EjmyiDNahDq_FKDgi1ecl9RoDOSj3KinCq1a/s640/doodle1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-UpVBB0NoKatSQfOkfo0bRMGsURdq1Bjc5dRLcfc317A8_XOr1LSSRNwDj-x8IbyORTZNpjYUrDJ-BYrPvKjIDNtItYXd5nL-8bFJhhsqsntp_CgGU58efwd0FVXTs1D5Z5vGdydSXIOs/s1600/doodle2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div>hadir untuk berbagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09790709753127283852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764119266410682735.post-1344045530002630742013-05-06T05:55:00.000-07:002013-05-07T14:28:23.666-07:00Tattoosday in Massachusetts: Ariel and Her F-HolesOn our way back to New York after a brief stint in Boston, we stopped in Northampton to visit our friends, Anne and Liz.<br /><br />At their house, I met their friend Ariel.<br /><br />At one point in the conversation, I asked Ariel if she played the violin.<br /><br />Initially, she looked surprised that I would ask, but I pointed to the tattoo on her inner forearm, which had tipped me off:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bdayzEBWacg/UW6Qq6EKEqI/AAAAAAAAYHM/fuZrjfOCTNQ/w436-h615/IMG_0870.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bdayzEBWacg/UW6Qq6EKEqI/AAAAAAAAYHM/fuZrjfOCTNQ/w436-h615/IMG_0870.JPG" width="282" /></a></div><br />Ariel explained that these are, indeed, representative of a violin's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_hole">sound holes</a>, commonly referred to as the "F holes." She elaborated:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"I play the violin. I love violin music and fiddle music and this is exactly where, if you h0ld the violin ... if the sun were shining through ... the violin, I feel it would pierce right there, while you were playing ... It's just a good spot that always reminds me of it, but it's also not very visible and ... these are abstractions of it, they're not perfect, I drew them myself. They're not traced from an actual violin."</blockquote>Ariel had this tattoo done at <a href="http://www.luckystattoo.org/">Lucky's Tattoo & Piercing</a> in Northampton.<br /><br />Thanks to Ariel for sharing her musical tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><br /><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-79e7-f6c6-2951-0e4c72a25942" style="font-weight: normal;"></b><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-79e7-f6c6-2951-0e4c72a25942" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2013 Tattoosday.</span></span></b></div><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-79e7-f6c6-2951-0e4c72a25942" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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. 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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></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></b>hadir untuk berbagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09790709753127283852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764119266410682735.post-1121866396790005962013-05-05T09:23:00.000-07:002013-05-08T08:38:00.975-07:00Star...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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One of the samhain shots again, a dream became true...<br />
Thanks again to Christina: <a href="http://h2fotografie.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">h2fotografie.blogspot.com</a></div>
hadir untuk berbagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09790709753127283852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764119266410682735.post-29290815614347232092013-05-05T09:10:00.000-07:002013-05-07T14:08:35.969-07:00Die Niedertracht Gottes (Loki Tattoo)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQjKC-o6rZW1X-EZqaeEmtcfVevdiwb6BqL2amSx1HxwUJPrUkfuEbhVxl-OdgxWTVvklWDSmhszSuSVLwgSxxj0LsRvBaIl8UhAvhvQCmzBXEJm6WLO2Ne_t8iKGD_iNnT9wY7270BVQ/s1600/bis+14+dez.2012+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQjKC-o6rZW1X-EZqaeEmtcfVevdiwb6BqL2amSx1HxwUJPrUkfuEbhVxl-OdgxWTVvklWDSmhszSuSVLwgSxxj0LsRvBaIl8UhAvhvQCmzBXEJm6WLO2Ne_t8iKGD_iNnT9wY7270BVQ/s400/bis+14+dez.2012+004.JPG" width="237" /></a></div> This is Loki, the malicious one, depicted here in classic viking age weaving with his mouth sewn shut, perfest solution for people, who talk too much bullshit...<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuZg1fRaKPas53Fye5wsl3v1PRSs2ukeqMlyIXKG3oTDZIYf_3v10haBpSO_t6cs17EaFntHS3k_0yrtAApUvNKThSKW6ovQLJqHqqqE6srfWZdyZfv4fESCsU8KNXuUJLnesNuq40X0I/s1600/Weihnachten+zuhause+032.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuZg1fRaKPas53Fye5wsl3v1PRSs2ukeqMlyIXKG3oTDZIYf_3v10haBpSO_t6cs17EaFntHS3k_0yrtAApUvNKThSKW6ovQLJqHqqqE6srfWZdyZfv4fESCsU8KNXuUJLnesNuq40X0I/s400/Weihnachten+zuhause+032.JPG" width="300" /></a></div>...and off course Fenriz, his son and one of the great beasts, in his mouth he has the hand of Tyr, the god of justice and war.<br />This is just a part of a whole tigh design, wich will contain at the end Loki and his offspring.<br />As you can see, it's still work in progress...</div>hadir untuk berbagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09790709753127283852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764119266410682735.post-23952651598069609272013-05-05T08:50:00.000-07:002013-05-07T14:08:35.977-07:00Tattoo Convention Faroe Islands<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTVTFD5bH-cYpPAVDbby5ApRgOfRJoU5nd_2sUizKyCR2vzHoCVRE_mAnkisnfRcW57cmY-AT4zPNvMYQZZtEP-g_k1Z5gCZQewaor5YkvjhAGu41bi03rwU8Y5n1lbwWloASocC7MDjQ/s1600/11941_494967167237047_29404514_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTVTFD5bH-cYpPAVDbby5ApRgOfRJoU5nd_2sUizKyCR2vzHoCVRE_mAnkisnfRcW57cmY-AT4zPNvMYQZZtEP-g_k1Z5gCZQewaor5YkvjhAGu41bi03rwU8Y5n1lbwWloASocC7MDjQ/s400/11941_494967167237047_29404514_n.jpg" width="221" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuNqXxlpIPmOeynLdwafWNRFuQZ4ZwJHccnVwHBG8Cj58GsZ-ZKO1PeUUA8v6tlUEm5n0pjeBdk_QfWqqvDlfD1hdQxDW-YJhyQ9M0FkpyVQDR_WbtoyCy4eFGtLbKW9HD8C3ZB8XbFQc/s1600/292268_484214064979024_163918316_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuNqXxlpIPmOeynLdwafWNRFuQZ4ZwJHccnVwHBG8Cj58GsZ-ZKO1PeUUA8v6tlUEm5n0pjeBdk_QfWqqvDlfD1hdQxDW-YJhyQ9M0FkpyVQDR_WbtoyCy4eFGtLbKW9HD8C3ZB8XbFQc/s400/292268_484214064979024_163918316_n.jpg" width="285" /></a></div>As you can see, hairy me will be at the Tattoo Convention at the Faroe Islands, look forward to be out there with you, guys:)<br /><br />Check out the website: <a href="http://www.fotattfest.com/" target="_blank">http://www.fotattfest.com/</a><br /><br />See you...</div>hadir untuk berbagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09790709753127283852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764119266410682735.post-19345182202049519002013-05-05T08:32:00.000-07:002013-05-07T14:08:35.984-07:00Copenhagen Ink Festival<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAOZ7PwVuR83YrfE-H5fnxdqWEFBFks18lgbaIYJ2o5ksDk99aexZml1BSEH5dj6LpCwDH4qNMsac9EmdaFs_9iKjz-UIApgUkgcmyWsbLonLV8PmSMbK6UQ7b1-w3bHu-t2NNmt0k6Ro/s1600/Cph+Inkfest.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAOZ7PwVuR83YrfE-H5fnxdqWEFBFks18lgbaIYJ2o5ksDk99aexZml1BSEH5dj6LpCwDH4qNMsac9EmdaFs_9iKjz-UIApgUkgcmyWsbLonLV8PmSMbK6UQ7b1-w3bHu-t2NNmt0k6Ro/s1600/Cph+Inkfest.jpg" /></a></div>Off course we will participate in the Copenhagen Ink Festival, come by, say hallo and if you have a nice piece from me hop on stage and show it :)<br /><br />Check out the website: <a href="http://www.inkfest.dk/" target="_blank">http://www.inkfest.dk/</a><br /><br />Vi ses...</div>hadir untuk berbagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09790709753127283852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764119266410682735.post-31663927930535552462013-05-05T04:32:00.000-07:002013-05-07T14:28:23.761-07:00Michelle Shares A Pin-Up Modeled After Her Passion for PoolLast month I was hanging out with some friends at a bar called <a href="http://www.nilesnyc.com/">Niles</a> across the street from <a href="http://www.thegarden.com/">Madison Square Garden</a>.<br /><br />It was a gathering of old work friends, actually, and my friend Brooke (who last appeared on Tattoosday <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2012/03/never-say-never-and-never-ever-give-up.html">here</a>) and her husband were going to <a href="http://www.crossroadsguitarfestival.com/">Eric Clapton's Crossroads Festival</a> concert at MSG.<br /><br />At some point in the evening, I spotted a woman near the front of the bar, standing with several people, including a gentleman wearing a jacket from the <a href="http://www.buddyguy.net/">Buddy Guy</a> band.<br /><br />What jumped out at me, however, was the tattoo on the woman's left calf. As she was leaving the bar, I approached her and was thrilled when she agreed to let me photograph her work:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eSp0dmztFbE/UW6Qry5tJ_I/AAAAAAAAYFo/3o36A7ol13Q/w280-h615/IMG_0880.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eSp0dmztFbE/UW6Qry5tJ_I/AAAAAAAAYFo/3o36A7ol13Q/w280-h615/IMG_0880.JPG" width="291" /></a></div><br />When I asked her why the woman on her calf was holding a pool cue and an eight ball, she explained that she was a competitive pool player.<br /><br />It turns out I was talking to <a href="http://www.nwpatour.com/players/michelle_hughes.htm">Michelle Hughes</a>, a member of the Northwest Women's Pool Association and their 2009 Rookie of the Year.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></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="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8302/7828900140_72d0c6c140_z.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8302/7828900140_72d0c6c140_z.jpg" width="257" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michelle Hughes in action, from Flickr</td></tr></tbody></table><br />The tattoo was inked by Paula Hathaway at <a href="http://industrytattoo.com/">Industry Tattoo</a> in Bellingham, Washington.<br /><br />Thanks to Michelle for sharing this cool pin-up with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-71a2-ac1b-1e7c-31bfc2ecb93c" style="font-weight: normal;"></b><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-71a2-ac1b-1e7c-31bfc2ecb93c" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2013 Tattoosday.</span></span></b></div><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-71a2-ac1b-1e7c-31bfc2ecb93c" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-71a2-ac1b-1e7c-31bfc2ecb93c" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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. 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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></b></div><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-71a2-ac1b-1e7c-31bfc2ecb93c" style="font-weight: normal;"><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></b><br /><br />hadir untuk berbagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09790709753127283852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764119266410682735.post-27327057290409950032013-05-05T01:30:00.000-07:002013-05-07T14:04:46.191-07:00Japanese TATTOO Horimitsu Style step by step!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnaX2jUVOjycTKnjciK-X3XLQTBtCOqmek6s0di7n-tMYo43kXwyBH8JkQ3QxP53kiPxjlpcCe3gqmmnpHJhLpl2EPtjZ3BOIaClr3GdCGqdcCZyiFylLhh4MgfvwKYDYvFBGH5mA2MOP8/s1600/DSC_0625.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnaX2jUVOjycTKnjciK-X3XLQTBtCOqmek6s0di7n-tMYo43kXwyBH8JkQ3QxP53kiPxjlpcCe3gqmmnpHJhLpl2EPtjZ3BOIaClr3GdCGqdcCZyiFylLhh4MgfvwKYDYvFBGH5mA2MOP8/s1600/DSC_0625.JPG" /></a></div><br />hadir untuk berbagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09790709753127283852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764119266410682735.post-37050237125946152682013-05-05T01:28:00.000-07:002013-05-07T14:04:46.197-07:00Japanese TATTOO Horimitsu Style A customer from Sweden!!!!Thank you for coming always! see you again soon.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsMuyMktUTMX_18XyhyphenhyphenB7QwKTfjggmSC4BEZ8lvS8RNNAGQKJh7d6cjcNIH4P4mXMngbg7hEDexh_x4Sst6WuvNiD2y9tpOZuFFM1wXsFpb8p7SmJ5Emceq994NWgWDUIsk-jxe_tfpM55/s1600/DSC_0653.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsMuyMktUTMX_18XyhyphenhyphenB7QwKTfjggmSC4BEZ8lvS8RNNAGQKJh7d6cjcNIH4P4mXMngbg7hEDexh_x4Sst6WuvNiD2y9tpOZuFFM1wXsFpb8p7SmJ5Emceq994NWgWDUIsk-jxe_tfpM55/s1600/DSC_0653.JPG" /></a></div>hadir untuk berbagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09790709753127283852noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764119266410682735.post-85578898436516706912013-05-04T01:07:00.000-07:002013-05-07T14:28:23.855-07:00The Return of Saturday LinksIt has been a while since we posted about the tattoo-related items we browsed on the web over the last week, so here's a few to whet your weekend appetite.<br /><br />One of those not-so-often-discussed benefits for getting tattooed?<br /><br />It's easier for the authorities to identify your body, like this John Doe whose ink helped the powers-that-be identify him. Full story <a href="http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/20130503_Medical_Examiner_tentatively_identifies_man_found_in_Keehi_Lagoon.html?id=206001591">here</a>.<br /><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="http://media.staradvertiser.com/images/300*297/20130502_eagle_tattoo_23230.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://media.staradvertiser.com/images/300*297/20130502_eagle_tattoo_23230.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: left;">The Department of the Medical Examiner (Hawaii) released a photo of an eagle or phoenix tattoo found on the body of a man recovered from the ocean off Sand Island Thursday morning. (Courtesy Department of the Medical Examiner)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;">~ ~ ~</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">On the flip side, if you get a unicorn tattooed on your butt, you might still be regretting it thirty+ years later, as this writer recounts in the <i>New York Times </i><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/booming/forever-the-girl-with-the-unicorn-tattoo.html?_r=0">here</a>. Thanks to Marisa at <a href="http://needlesandsins.com/">Needles and Sins</a> for pointing that gem out to me. There's no photo, but if you're jonesing for one, it might look like this:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://inkedinspiration.com/wp-content/gallery/tattoo-ideas-photos/unicorn-fantasy-tattoo-design.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://inkedinspiration.com/wp-content/gallery/tattoo-ideas-photos/unicorn-fantasy-tattoo-design.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Or perhaps not, but you can see more like that one on Holy Taco's gallery of <a href="http://www.holytaco.com/30-awesomely-bad-unicorn-tattoos-gallery/">30 Awesomely Bad Unicorn Tattoos</a>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />Then again, Buzzfeed always rocks out with their awesome lists, like this one I saw late Friday: "47 Cringeworthy Tattoos Being Regretted As We Speak" <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicamisener/47-tattoos-being-regretted-as-we-speak?sub=2182890_1123318">here</a>.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">~ ~ ~</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The big news this week in New York was <a href="http://www.rapidnyc.com/">Rapid Realty's</a> promise to give significant raises to any employee who got their logo tattooed on them. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><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="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1333116.1367511946!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/tattoos3n-4-web.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1333116.1367511946!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/tattoos3n-4-web.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">via CBS</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;">Read about the deal <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-agents-15-raises-tattoos-firm-logo-article-1.1333124">here</a> (among others).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">~ ~ ~</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">And my favorite link of the week came from those mammoth sources of all thing tattoo, Inked Magazine.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Among other goodies, they feature <a href="http://www.inkedmag.com/features/article/best-tattoos-movies-ever-pt1">"The Best Tattoos in Movies <i>Ever"</i></a> in three parts. One of my favorites:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.inkedmag.com/static/images/articles/pages/bestmovie-bluesbros.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://www.inkedmag.com/static/images/articles/pages/bestmovie-bluesbros.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Gotta love those <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080455/">Blues Brothers</a>!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">That should whet your appetites for the weekend!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-6c01-7044-f878-aa9daae3ec40" style="font-weight: normal;"></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-6c01-7044-f878-aa9daae3ec40" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2013 Tattoosday.</span></span></b></div><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-6c01-7044-f878-aa9daae3ec40" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b> <br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-6c01-7044-f878-aa9daae3ec40" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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. 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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></b></div><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-6c01-7044-f878-aa9daae3ec40" style="font-weight: normal;"> </b><br /><div><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-6c01-7044-f878-aa9daae3ec40" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b></div>hadir untuk berbagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09790709753127283852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764119266410682735.post-54447138309123542942013-05-03T11:46:00.000-07:002013-05-07T14:22:21.713-07:00LATE NIGHT.<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Jeff came from New Jersey to start a half sleeve. I was really happy with the ideas he bought to the table as we managed to come up with a really strong, meaningful piece. I enjoyed working on this tattoo BUT it was one hell of a long night! By 4:30am, we managed to get it finished!</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Enjoy!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgI9T2tuaj6d5V6Huedj8T30CUfcQGh0Vh1QDi8GtPTafk23RYIeCMhzEl3sheNMBOoqq1fOXadtWrce_PxEo4J2L5bvMt_qlHB3qJ_yc_-bqFQARBwWXNi1mhQBrsIKsD8rYQPk4hlIUC/s1600/jeff2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgI9T2tuaj6d5V6Huedj8T30CUfcQGh0Vh1QDi8GtPTafk23RYIeCMhzEl3sheNMBOoqq1fOXadtWrce_PxEo4J2L5bvMt_qlHB3qJ_yc_-bqFQARBwWXNi1mhQBrsIKsD8rYQPk4hlIUC/s1600/jeff2.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjumbsLdxCWP70XHR_HdIbgnhvKiKxUn9GhmwyqW7MNrrSdy0XByfUoX3PcyERqJ4WYlfw0DPC0m15qKe9MuCgUBkXclWHT0zf0SklN9KFwo7Aj0PM1Oyfnn7DUNW39KkVG6wWLj-4-DHut/s1600/jeff1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjumbsLdxCWP70XHR_HdIbgnhvKiKxUn9GhmwyqW7MNrrSdy0XByfUoX3PcyERqJ4WYlfw0DPC0m15qKe9MuCgUBkXclWHT0zf0SklN9KFwo7Aj0PM1Oyfnn7DUNW39KkVG6wWLj-4-DHut/s1600/jeff1.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2ZuU-87z6AxmKfgHU8SIxmJNCTFXpSAMomCMxkoi0TS3XaHO_kPTn2fEW77X3VxUR7tDck6zkEjLkOQiLeBa-lfIbpJpK0ayJMpA2oJ_KuXSjsLHO-bJEKt4mj6ImHdNFEB8knxOH-gEZ/s1600/jeff3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2ZuU-87z6AxmKfgHU8SIxmJNCTFXpSAMomCMxkoi0TS3XaHO_kPTn2fEW77X3VxUR7tDck6zkEjLkOQiLeBa-lfIbpJpK0ayJMpA2oJ_KuXSjsLHO-bJEKt4mj6ImHdNFEB8knxOH-gEZ/s1600/jeff3.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiroOrZ0mA5wEsLVJsKL6tWKxSIJBahycbEXS0Kza84gTAH7E3ksD_VPKY0ENkKu6x5vU26nKuBi9xP5BWgQpxIGP-6Vk2MNx_vAoMgWh5v_dX6IyIDggHDN9FqiXz0HFND2mDKSpQvAqpu/s1600/jeff4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiroOrZ0mA5wEsLVJsKL6tWKxSIJBahycbEXS0Kza84gTAH7E3ksD_VPKY0ENkKu6x5vU26nKuBi9xP5BWgQpxIGP-6Vk2MNx_vAoMgWh5v_dX6IyIDggHDN9FqiXz0HFND2mDKSpQvAqpu/s1600/jeff4.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br /></div>hadir untuk berbagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09790709753127283852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764119266410682735.post-74744301126704074592013-05-03T04:34:00.000-07:002013-05-07T14:28:23.950-07:00Tattoosday in Massachusetts: Katie's Candle Illuminates Her ArmOn our last full day in Massachusetts, we stopped to visit friends in Northampton and ended up at <a href="http://woodstarcafe.com/">Woodstar Cafe</a> for some delicious coffee and afternoon snacks.<br /><br />The cashier, Katie, had tattoos, and shared this one:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KcuaepoR8CY/UW6R0DqS8GI/AAAAAAAAYDg/w3Y_i9dyndw/w461-h615/IMG_0871.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KcuaepoR8CY/UW6R0DqS8GI/AAAAAAAAYDg/w3Y_i9dyndw/w461-h615/IMG_0871.JPG" width="298" /></a></div><br />She told me that this piece, on her upper right arm, was based on an old illustration from a history book. The idea, she explained, was "something I'd been carrying around for a while and it just felt right to me."<br /><br />She credited the work to Jeff Ash at <a href="http://horseshoesandhandgrenadestattoo.com/about.html">Horseshoes & Hand Grenades Tattoo</a> in Chicopee, Massachusetts.<br /><br />Thanks to Katie for sharing her tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><br /><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-6a28-abbb-68eb-15b2ba5a7c78" style="font-weight: normal;"></b><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-6a28-abbb-68eb-15b2ba5a7c78" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2013 Tattoosday.</span></span></b></div><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-6a28-abbb-68eb-15b2ba5a7c78" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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</span><a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 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></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></b><br /><br />hadir untuk berbagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09790709753127283852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764119266410682735.post-18174045286304355322013-05-02T05:37:00.000-07:002013-05-07T14:28:24.044-07:00Tattoosday in Massachusetts: After a Good Meal, Danny Shares His Costa Rican HeritageWe're back from our Poetry Vacation and we have some tattoos to catch up on. The family and I were up in the Boston area at the end of March, and while staying with cousins in Swampscott, MA, we decided to go out for brunch on Easter Sunday.<br /><br />We ended up at <a href="http://www.mildredscornercafe.net/">Mildred's Corner Cafe and Old Soul Gift Shoppe</a> in neighboring Lynn, MA, and I enjoyed this amazingly delicious dish with chorizo and poached eggs:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB5IlqHspooQlZBFT2zcERIPGBukUYeZoLvaLaeLQrfJ6YzGalBNBDyR4-2tVKzZ-FeCjLd4Cahy4gVIC5NY24q8jexhBgkF6CThlDcEzbWBJxGFgVVjh8tY7KTMbOtyW9da5YWeSKfrc/s1600/20130331_124001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB5IlqHspooQlZBFT2zcERIPGBukUYeZoLvaLaeLQrfJ6YzGalBNBDyR4-2tVKzZ-FeCjLd4Cahy4gVIC5NY24q8jexhBgkF6CThlDcEzbWBJxGFgVVjh8tY7KTMbOtyW9da5YWeSKfrc/s640/20130331_124001.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />Not only was the food great but, as an added bonus, our waiter Danny was heavily-tattooed, and he was kind enough to share the work on his left arm:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-S4Ox5iQ2NYo/UYGD0ICZoHI/AAAAAAAAYC8/8u4JSytlsx4/w338-h614/20130331_130759.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-S4Ox5iQ2NYo/UYGD0ICZoHI/AAAAAAAAYC8/8u4JSytlsx4/w338-h614/20130331_130759.jpg" width="352" /></a></div><br />The emblem in the center of this sleeve is from the Costa Rican flag, which he had tattooed to honor his country of birth. He has lived in the U.S. for about nine years.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.bobnormand.com/GGC/Images/Costa%20Rica%20National%20Seal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.bobnormand.com/GGC/Images/Costa%20Rica%20National%20Seal.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><strike>He credited the work to Ryan Murray at the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheBlackVeilStudioOfTattooAndArt">Black Veil Studio of Tattoo & Art</a> in Lynn, Massachusetts.</strike></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><strike><br /></strike></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><strike>UPDATE: Although Ryan has done work on Danny, I was notified by the shop after this posted, that he was not the artist responsible for this particular piece. I'm waiting to hear back from Danny for the corrected information.</strike></div><br />He credited the work to Jeffrey Brito, a free-lance artist that did it out of his house. Although initially credited to Ryan Murray at the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheBlackVeilStudioOfTattooAndArt">Black Veil Studio of Tattoo & Art</a> in Lynn, Massachusetts, we should point out that Murray has done work on Danny, not just this particular piece.<br /><br />Thanks to Danny for sharing his tattoo with us here on Tattoosday and thanks to the good folks at Mildred's for a delicious meal!<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-634e-814a-3d75-db6d6d573864" style="font-weight: normal;"></b><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-634e-814a-3d75-db6d6d573864" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2013 Tattoosday.</span></span></b></div><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-634e-814a-3d75-db6d6d573864" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-634e-814a-3d75-db6d6d573864" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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</span><a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 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></b></div><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-634e-814a-3d75-db6d6d573864" style="font-weight: normal;"></b><br /><div><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-634e-814a-3d75-db6d6d573864" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b></div><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-634e-814a-3d75-db6d6d573864" style="font-weight: normal;"></b>hadir untuk berbagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09790709753127283852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764119266410682735.post-62409570789791054182013-05-01T23:40:00.000-07:002013-05-07T14:22:21.721-07:00SISTINE CHAPEL.<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Horacio was back at the studio for a second session. I worked on the gap he had at the back of his arm. I can't wait to finish the entire sleeve. Here is my interpretation of a section of the Sistine Chapel ceiling from Michael Angelo.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfvWJvNVfnfby_WWaToBJmy_EhtynsLzjh0oKtizdehUZe917GBwg7Uo7HxAZMwyKh1FgAxbYkUW7dhU76uTYo2pTpFpUyGu_wgjF7tZHuI_mFIUchWFgO2Y7s4vAycp8x5tdeoN9o7Yh9/s1600/horacio3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfvWJvNVfnfby_WWaToBJmy_EhtynsLzjh0oKtizdehUZe917GBwg7Uo7HxAZMwyKh1FgAxbYkUW7dhU76uTYo2pTpFpUyGu_wgjF7tZHuI_mFIUchWFgO2Y7s4vAycp8x5tdeoN9o7Yh9/s1600/horacio3.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhUJygKdAbcyk0mY9GjHUDAByBqRFB9GYpytAPsvmeB76Y7rrb17GqYm6iLknMXl0g_XbWhIoXapISARiSPPyMVfUBCFI5TY-T7tNGr6YJW5TBPHAhXThszD2RZKbi3LubzKoKu-1tlGJb/s1600/horacio2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhUJygKdAbcyk0mY9GjHUDAByBqRFB9GYpytAPsvmeB76Y7rrb17GqYm6iLknMXl0g_XbWhIoXapISARiSPPyMVfUBCFI5TY-T7tNGr6YJW5TBPHAhXThszD2RZKbi3LubzKoKu-1tlGJb/s1600/horacio2.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><div style="text-align: center;">''Genius is eternal patience'' -Michelangelo</div></div><div><br /></div>hadir untuk berbagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09790709753127283852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764119266410682735.post-24710205174579059612013-05-01T07:25:00.000-07:002013-05-07T14:28:24.138-07:00The Tattooed Poets Project, Volume 5, A Postscript<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/AVvXsEgXF-7EIENsMGlRQAoXhOxaStdx4k9YF2bZiDK5lDvljWLFNpT2P4_w3XL3kDcaUgxc3AKr46WF_Wu4Roj2jukx_Tr-soLdlQlpC15gZDWs5QJFIPJhgdxbj8Cro6Tr2aIKlN7SqSRxB7U/s1600/beautiful.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="149" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXF-7EIENsMGlRQAoXhOxaStdx4k9YF2bZiDK5lDvljWLFNpT2P4_w3XL3kDcaUgxc3AKr46WF_Wu4Roj2jukx_Tr-soLdlQlpC15gZDWs5QJFIPJhgdxbj8Cro6Tr2aIKlN7SqSRxB7U/s200/beautiful.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cheryl Maddalena's <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2009/04/cheryl-maddalenas-beautiful-tattoo.html">Beautiful tattoo</a> from 2009</td></tr></tbody></table>As I look back at the fifth installment of the April tattooed poets extravaganza, I am astonished by the amazing array of talented poets who have contributed to Tattoosday over the years.<br /><br />This year's contributors totaled 35, and we had even more than that many who had previously expressed interest and did not submit their work in time.<br /><br />That said, I have high hopes for the 2014 edition, which is only 11 months away. Also, I am going to attempt to add more tattooed poets throughout the year, contributing in non-poetry months. Just to keep our collective appetites whetted.<br /><br />The list of people I would like to thank grows each year. I'd start with directing readers to the Tattooed Poets Project <a href="http://tattooedpoets.blogspot.com/">here</a> and expressing my appreciation to the 155 poets who have appeared on Tattoosday over the past five years.<br /><br />I am also deeply indebted to Stacey Harwood and David Lehman at the <a href="http://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/">Best American Poetry blog</a>. Their continued support over the years has been immeasurable and they have been nothing but encouraging.<br /><br />I still maintain that the wonderful writer, <a href="http://doriannelaux.com/">Dorianne Laux</a>, is also someone to whom I am deeply indebted. She referred me to a slew of tattooed poets in the first year of this project, and each year sends me more subjects.<br /><br />I want to thank all the poets who answered my initial inquiries, especially those without tattoos, who often directed me to poets who they knew to be inked.<br /><br />And finally, I want to thank all of my readers, in and out of the poetry community, who have continued to support and read Tattoosday, and have encouraged me each year to come up with thirty posts (or more) to help celebrate the wonders of the written word and the beauty of tattoos.<br /><br />Bill Cohen<br />5/1/2013<br /><br /><br />hadir untuk berbagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09790709753127283852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764119266410682735.post-56995636678523971812013-05-01T00:42:00.000-07:002013-05-07T14:08:35.991-07:00Reenactors needed !<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKGo_aQ4Al_0_FOl6grsXWiylMXCK_moEqkbvVZi4JokI4zWCRtt8VW-x5AA5_PDAmp2clMWioUFtfHW7y5EY_MGS70EwMZKbGoUwJZsSHa-zGsoSDLa_kDEfJ2QBzLxwI6JIZQmBdWLQ/s1600/gotland+picture+stone.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: large;">For what?</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Great midsummer ritual / fotoshoot.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Where?</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Near Copenhagen.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">When?</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"> 21. Juni 12:00 (Midsummer)</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">What is happening?</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Like so many sources show (Adam from Bremen, Thietmar of Merseburg, Picture stones, tapestrys) the vikings had some kind of sacrifical ritual, that included suspending people in trees.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">That s what we want to do. In cooperation with <a href="http://bodyextremes.com/" target="_blank">bodyextremes.com</a> and <a href="http://h2fotografie.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">h2fotografie.blogspot.com</a> nine volunteers will get pierced and hanged during a midsummer ritual.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">What do we need you for?</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">We need you as the crowd of warriors and people participating, watching and cheering up the"victims" and as perfect background for an event, that didn't take place around 1000 years!</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Off course in the dress of the vikings.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">What do you gain from it?</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">There will be a tombola for all participants, where you can win some tattoo time with Kai and other attractive things.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">There will be free mead and a nice gathering afterwards.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Musicians welcome!</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">There will be unfortunately no fonds for accomodation etc.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">So, if you and your group want to come, just drop me a mail: <a href="mailto:tattookai@live.dk" target="_blank">tattookai@live.dk</a> to receive all further informations.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">DO NOT TRY TO MAKE CONTACT VIA FACEBOOK!!!</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Hope to see a lot of you for a great time:)</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Kai</span><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></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/AVvXsEhETpxrq__tyuTcQb3IFotoOgIsYny9tDjXKJd2pQxghyopKRXYzCz2yGpCcGW46vZA7csAe1dfiKpvztdsmprlZ9D2u1xU85Zjg-ajSviCX6VcO25tewb16Bf48TZhmfbQBCWPD-lYv7k/s1600/oseberg+tapestry.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhETpxrq__tyuTcQb3IFotoOgIsYny9tDjXKJd2pQxghyopKRXYzCz2yGpCcGW46vZA7csAe1dfiKpvztdsmprlZ9D2u1xU85Zjg-ajSviCX6VcO25tewb16Bf48TZhmfbQBCWPD-lYv7k/s640/oseberg+tapestry.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oseberg tapestry, showing people hanging in trees</td></tr></tbody></table><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;"><img border="0" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKGo_aQ4Al_0_FOl6grsXWiylMXCK_moEqkbvVZi4JokI4zWCRtt8VW-x5AA5_PDAmp2clMWioUFtfHW7y5EY_MGS70EwMZKbGoUwJZsSHa-zGsoSDLa_kDEfJ2QBzLxwI6JIZQmBdWLQ/s640/gotland+picture+stone.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stora Hammar picture stone, showing suspended and sacrificed people, warrior crowd</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><a href="http://tattoodk.blogspot.dk/2012/12/ohne-schmerzen-keine-freude.html" target="_blank">http://tattoodk.blogspot.dk/2012/12/ohne-schmerzen-keine-freude.html</a></div></div>hadir untuk berbagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09790709753127283852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764119266410682735.post-11609220116752494992013-04-29T23:14:00.000-07:002013-05-07T14:22:21.730-07:00ST JOSEPH.<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Today Joseph came in tho get his ST. Joseph piece done.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEPrtjTCFGeDjZTI3fbDwcPkPZNxCW9pFZr_u5T6EQ3WAGbUzOm9kuXnetnxE4cAu_DWdLRObXpfVzQ2s3RsY_D1rDt3dbRD4goV13rt4ZpplUTrQmP2uzSvkcEE8BJHOzHA__LPO6y6wB/s1600/STjoseph.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEPrtjTCFGeDjZTI3fbDwcPkPZNxCW9pFZr_u5T6EQ3WAGbUzOm9kuXnetnxE4cAu_DWdLRObXpfVzQ2s3RsY_D1rDt3dbRD4goV13rt4ZpplUTrQmP2uzSvkcEE8BJHOzHA__LPO6y6wB/s1600/STjoseph.jpg" /></a></div>hadir untuk berbagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09790709753127283852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764119266410682735.post-60560032721829968192013-04-29T21:46:00.000-07:002013-05-07T14:28:24.233-07:00The Tattooed Poets Project: Carl PhillipsWe're closing out this year's Tattooed Poets Project with <a href="http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/247">Carl Phillips</a>. I've had the pleasure, over the years, of meeting Carl and hearing him read on at least two different occasions at the <a href="http://www.newschool.edu/">New School</a> in Manhattan, in conjunction with the <a href="http://www.bestamericanpoetry.com/">Best American Poetry</a> readings. Needless to say, when Carl agreed to participate, I was thrilled.<br /><br />Here's a photo of Carl's tattoo:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CnqNWPNsLjw/USVRRCpCdGI/AAAAAAAAXdk/52qKKkDqe9M/s503/photo+(1).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CnqNWPNsLjw/USVRRCpCdGI/AAAAAAAAXdk/52qKKkDqe9M/s640/photo+(1).JPG" width="478" /></a></div><br />Carl explains:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"I got the tattoo after seeing a compass on a map in my copy of <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1853260088/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1853260088&linkCode=as2&tag=bill03-20%22%3EMoby%20Dick%20(Wordsworth%20Classics)%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=bill03-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1853260088%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E">Moby Dick</a>. I chose not to include the N,S,W,E part, to suggest that I lack direction, though the compass itself suggests the desire for direction ... it's on my left upper arm. A guy named Barber did it, at a place here in St. Louis called <a href="http://ironagetattoo.com/wordpress/">Iron Age</a>."</blockquote>Carl pointed me to a few poems online that he said we could share here, and I chose this one:<br /><br /><b>Leda, After the Swan</b><br /><br />Perhaps,<br />in the exaggerated grace<br />of his weight<br />settling,<br /><br />the wings<br />raised, held in<br />strike-or-embrace<br />position,<br /><br />I recognized<br />something more<br />than swan, I can't say.<br /><br />There was just<br />this barely defined<br />shoulder, whose feathers<br />came away in my hands,<br /><br />and the bit of world<br />left beyond it, coming down<br /><br />to the heat-crippled field,<br /><br />ravens the precise color of<br />sorrow in good light, neither<br />black nor blue, like fallen<br />stitches upon it,<br /><br />and the hour forever,<br />it seemed, half-stepping<br />its way elsewhere--<br /><br />then<br />everything, I<br />remember, began<br />happening more quickly.<br /><br />~ ~ ~ <br /><br />You can hear Carl read the poem <a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16180">here</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/247">Carl Phillips</a> is the author of twelve books of poetry, most recently <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374261210/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0374261210&linkCode=as2&tag=bill03-20%22%3ESilverchest:%20Poems%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=bill03-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0374261210%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E">Silverchest</a> (2013). He's a professor of English at <a href="http://english.artsci.wustl.edu/Carl_Phillips">Washington University</a> in St. Louis.<br /><br />Thanks to Carl for sharing his tattoo and poem with us here on the Tattooed Poets Project on Tattoosday!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2=1&bg1=FFFFFF&fc1=000000&lc1=0000FF&t=bill03-20&o=1&p=8&l=as4&m=amazon&f=ifr&ref=ss_til&asins=0374261210" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2013 Tattoosday. The poem and tattoos are reprinted with the poet's permission.</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><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 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.</span>hadir untuk berbagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09790709753127283852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764119266410682735.post-13818881013174327582013-04-29T12:00:00.000-07:002013-05-07T14:28:24.327-07:00The Tattooed Poets Project: Susan BrianteOur next tattooed poet is <a href="https://ahsahtapress.org/product/susan-briante/">Susan Briante</a>:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vuWxnqmZ9lM/UTCe7Am2MeI/AAAAAAAAXnw/X_b8hXW2c-U/s572/Photo1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vuWxnqmZ9lM/UTCe7Am2MeI/AAAAAAAAXnw/X_b8hXW2c-U/s320/Photo1.jpg" width="238" /></a></div><br />Susan explains the origins of this tattoo:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"I got my tattoo in Albuquerque although its origins can be found in Oklahoma, where I took my first job out of collage working for the now defunct <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_Tribune">Tulsa Tribune</a>. I was making $13,000/year as a reporter covering public education. I rented a room in house with a view to the <a href="http://hesreport.sunocoinc.com/fw/main/Tulsa-Refinery-144.html">Sunoco</a> refinery. I was in love with two men, the closest of whom lived almost 700 miles away. Tattoo shops were illegal in Oklahoma at the time, so a friend told me about a tattoo artist from Arizona who would fly into Tulsa and tattoo after hours in the beauty parlor where her mother worked.<br /><br />I picked out the design from a Mexican <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milagro">milagro</a>, (literally 'miracle') a small metal charm usually in the shape of body part (eyes, lungs, arms) that could be pinned to the robe of a religious statue as offering. They were supposed to concretize the prayers of the faithful. A lung-shaped milagro, for example, might be pinned to the robe on a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Guadalupe">Virgin of Guadalupe</a> statue along with prayers for the health of a family member with a cough. For my tattoo, I chose a milagro heart with a dagger through it that I thought was supposed to ward off a broken heart.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">We awaited the arrival of the tattoo artist from Arizona. And when he didn’t show, I drove with my friend to Albuquerque—and got my tattoo there—where I’d met one of the men I had fallen in love with. The one I would marry and with whom I’d move to Mexico City. The one I would divorce.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">I came back to the states, became a poet and started grad school, fell in and out of love a few more times. Early in an intense courtship with the poet Farid Matuk, we took photos of each other’s tattoos and started using them as screen savers on our cell phones. In the ten years since, we’ve moved in together, moved to Dallas, had a baby, got married in copula of a Marfa, Texas, courthouse, switched cell phones and numbers, but we still have the same tattoo photos as screen savers.<br /><br />A few month ago I figured out what my next tattoo will be (Farid already has his) a copy of the birthmark that our daughter has on the inner arch of her right foot."</blockquote>Farid's tattoo appeared earlier today on Tattoosday.<br /><br />Susan directed us to her poem "Parking Space," which appeared <a href="http://www.versedaily.org/2007/parkingspace.shtml">here</a> on <a href="http://www.versedaily.org/">Verse Daily</a>:<br /><br /><b>Parking Space</b><br /><br />Billboards yield to burdened cloud,<br />a sulfur pink of population, supply-side chorus<br />in the static between stations<br /><br />while the evening sits with its shirt unbuttoned,<br />while the engine sings bones and armor,<br />thin legged ponies and miles for water.<br /><br />Jagged as sleep the sudden breech of elements,<br />rain scrubs stone, halogen rusts the sky.<br />You find the country pricked with neon,<br /><br />spread across the windshield like a centerfold,<br />until you smell the buckshot, watch the scout<br />who parts branches with a lover's rough fingers.<br /><br />As if there might be a place for us:<br />porch towns between the relay towers,<br />a folding chair just inside the garage,<br /><br />a bed of lottery tickets or a fistful of keys.<br />A bowl at the table. A parking space.<br />A window full of shallow hills.<br /><div style="text-align: center;">~ ~ ~</div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times; font-size: xx-small;">Copyright © 2007 Susan Briante All rights reserved<br />from <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FPioneers-Study-Motion-Susan-Briante%2Fdp%2F0916272931%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1180295283%26sr%3D1-1&tag=versedaily-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325">Pioneers in the Study of Motion</a></i> <br /><a href="http://ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu/">Ahsahta Press</a> <br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">Reprinted by Tattoosday with permission</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;">~ ~ ~</div><a href="https://ahsahtapress.org/product/susan-briante/">Susan Briante</a> is the author of <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0916272931/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0916272931&linkCode=as2&tag=bill03-20%22%3EPioneers%20in%20the%20Study%20of%20Motion%20(Ahsahta%20Press:%20the%20New%20Series)%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=bill03-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0916272931%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E">Pioneers in the Study of Motion</a> (2007) and <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1934103195/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1934103195&linkCode=as2&tag=bill03-20%22%3EUtopia%20Minus%20(The%20New%20Series)%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=bill03-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1934103195%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E">Utopia Minus</a> (2011) both published by <a href="https://ahsahtapress.org/">Ahsahta Press</a>. Her chapbook, <a href="http://dulcetshop.ecrater.com/p/11838297/susan-briante-the-market-is-a">The Market is a Parasite that Looks like a Nest</a>, part of an on-going lyric investigation of the stock market, was recently published by <a href="http://dulcetshop.ecrater.com/">Dancing Girl Press</a>. She is an associate professor of literature and creative writing at the <a href="http://www.utdallas.edu/">University of Texas at Dallas</a>. She lives in east Dallas with the poet Farid Matuk.<br /><br />Thanks to Susan for sharing her tattoo and her poem with us here on the Tattooed Poets Project on Tattoosday!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.5939753004349768" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2=1&bg1=FFFFFF&fc1=000000&lc1=0000FF&t=bill03-20&o=1&p=8&l=as4&m=amazon&f=ifr&ref=ss_til&asins=0916272931" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></span></b></div><b id="internal-source-marker_0.5939753004349768" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></b><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.5939753004349768" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.5939753004349768" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2=1&bg1=FFFFFF&fc1=000000&lc1=0000FF&t=bill03-20&o=1&p=8&l=as4&m=amazon&f=ifr&ref=ss_til&asins=1934103195" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></span></b></span></span></b></div><b id="internal-source-marker_0.5939753004349768" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />This entry is ©2013 Tattoosday. The poem and tattoo are reprinted with the poet's permission.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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><a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 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></b>hadir untuk berbagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09790709753127283852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764119266410682735.post-31451270300019534892013-04-29T00:22:00.000-07:002013-05-07T14:28:24.421-07:00The Tattooed Poets Project: Farid MatukOur next tattooed poet is Farid Matuk.<br /><br />Check out this photo he sent:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6gFMRqXEEwU/USvvsZ0q2oI/AAAAAAAAXlk/Psqye4CTPtA/s572/photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6gFMRqXEEwU/USvvsZ0q2oI/AAAAAAAAXlk/Psqye4CTPtA/s640/photo.jpg" width="476" /></a></div><br />That's Farid's foot on the bottom. He explains:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"I had this piece done at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Suffer-City-Tattoos/338515920754">Suffer City Tattoos</a> in Dallas, TX on New Year's day 2013. I believe the artist's name is Robert. I chose to replicate a freckle my daughter has on side of her right foot. I wanted to place a crown atop the freckle to suggest the special place she has in my heart.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8ath7H9KnjQ/USvyOIcxT4I/AAAAAAAAXlw/0REGfVlLVz4/s327/photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8ath7H9KnjQ/USvyOIcxT4I/AAAAAAAAXlw/0REGfVlLVz4/s400/photo.jpg" width="305" /></a></div></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">She's also bossy in an endearing way, and I often feel I'm in training not to serve her needs (as the martyr model of parenting would have it), but to definitely make a place for her needs and agendas in my otherwise self-directed life. I guess this is typical of most parent/toddler relationships and the crown helps me commemorate this dynamic. I took the stylized crown design from a tattoo I saw show up on one of the many tattoo boards I follow on Pinterest. The original design has the crown adorning the top of a bird's head."</blockquote>Farid sent us his poem, "My Daughter All Yourn," which, he explained, "is one of a series of sonnets [he] wrote after studying the sonnets of <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/bernadette-mayer">Bernadette Mayer</a>. It appears (<a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/23291">here</a>) on the <a href="http://www.poets.org/">Poets.org/Academy of American Poets website</a>."<br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">My Daughter All Yourn</span></b><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 22.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">will she be closer to the falling away of the gaze of things than others? <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 22.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">hands on the water she calls scene setting<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 22.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">hands on the table water over the houses and hills swimming<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 22.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">not the ocean or the sea but the frame of time she’ll tell of<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 22.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">wild happy yeses in her hands<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 22.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">she bites through in rage when rage<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 22.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">comes to her or we do and she’s too small a flag<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 22.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">what does our house say? these borrowed things solid and whole<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 22.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">fabric lost to her a greasy boy speaks fast at the pizza stand<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 22.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">more available to be seen the young in their concerns<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 22.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">amidst the old artifice paint a boat and it will mean a dream<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 22.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">put names of your dear ones in it all yourn standing up<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 22.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">these little soft hands she bites through the bright white light of summer <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 22.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">shines off sand and vinyl siding itself composed against the salt<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 22.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">~ ~ ~</div><br />Farid Matuk is the author of <a href="http://www.lettermachine.org/thisisa.html">This Isa Nice Neighborhood</a> (<a href="http://www.lettermachine.org/">Letter Machine Editions</a>, 2010) and the chapbooks <i>Is It The King? </i>(<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Effing-Press/114745625205825">Effing Press</a>, 2006) and <i>Riverside</i> (<a href="http://www.longhousepoetry.com/">Longhouse</a>, 2011). New poems have appeared recently or are forthcoming online at <a href="http://poets.org/">Poets.org</a> and in print in <a href="http://bwr.ua.edu/">Black Warrior Review</a>, <a href="http://www.thirdcoastmagazine.com/">Third Coast</a>, <a href="http://iowareview.uiowa.edu/">Iowa Review</a>, <a href="http://www.litline.org/mandorla/">Mandorla</a>, <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291467-8705">Critical Quarterly</a> (UK), <a href="http://thebaffler.com/">The Baffler</a>, and other journals. <u>This Isa Nice Neighborhood</u> was a finalist for the <a href="http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/annual/winners/?mode=award#nor_far_fir_boo_awa">Norma Farber First Book Prize</a>, and received honorable mention in the 2011 <a href="http://www.arabamericanmuseum.org/bookaward">Arab American Book Award</a>. Matuk is a contributor to <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1848611846/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1848611846&linkCode=as2&tag=bill03-20%22%3EScubadivers%20and%20Chrysanthemums:%20Essays%20on%20the%20Poetry%20of%20Araki%20Yasusada%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=bill03-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1848611846%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E">Scubadivers and Chrysanthemums: Essays On the Poetry of Araki Yasusada</a> (<a href="http://www.shearsman.com/">Shearsman</a>, 2011) and to the poetry anthologies <a href="http://www.vilcek.org/prizes/american-odysseys/index.html">American Odysseys: Writing from New Americans</a> (<a href="http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/">Dalkey Archive</a>, 2013) and <u>Beyond the Field</u> (<a href="http://counterpathpress.org/">Counterpath</a>, forthcoming). His new chapbook, <a href="https://ahsahtapress.org/product/my-daughter-la-chola/">My Daughter La Chola</a>, is forthcoming from <a href="https://ahsahtapress.org/">Ahsahta</a> in March, 2013.<br /><br />Thanks to Farid for sharing his poem and tattoo with us here on Tattoosday's Tattooed Poets Project!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2=1&bg1=FFFFFF&fc1=000000&lc1=0000FF&t=bill03-20&o=1&p=8&l=as4&m=amazon&f=ifr&ref=ss_til&asins=0981522750" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2013 Tattoosday. The poem and tattoo are reprinted with the poet's permission.</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><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 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.</span>hadir untuk berbagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09790709753127283852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764119266410682735.post-21877304303703908592013-04-28T02:34:00.000-07:002013-05-07T14:08:36.000-07:00Yggdrasil tattoo<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEQx3m_5JCWrlFwQ-K5ygwVTOtDNmGiymofIzQhQEL1j5K-UEwH5YSN_Zrp5ujhQOF-90KrfZ6lA3WbeR6J0J_vjYcjvvwhMyw0x5yHRB8RdRX-wsAuO3gcwh54PeMNTpjJXjpOZ2J86s/s1600/P1000243.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEQx3m_5JCWrlFwQ-K5ygwVTOtDNmGiymofIzQhQEL1j5K-UEwH5YSN_Zrp5ujhQOF-90KrfZ6lA3WbeR6J0J_vjYcjvvwhMyw0x5yHRB8RdRX-wsAuO3gcwh54PeMNTpjJXjpOZ2J86s/s640/P1000243.JPG" width="220" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzErjtKDZigMcsm5y751CMFsCZas5iRKJznXxPP1E6Rz8As-j_sNCjrCrwpNqyO6YoQplMvwR39kRTUmJNyADGfb1W5H7NAFuwh6USte56y2mpqmsArmd1XYF5_YgYaoqJFKwahv5Q8F0/s1600/P1000244.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzErjtKDZigMcsm5y751CMFsCZas5iRKJznXxPP1E6Rz8As-j_sNCjrCrwpNqyO6YoQplMvwR39kRTUmJNyADGfb1W5H7NAFuwh6USte56y2mpqmsArmd1XYF5_YgYaoqJFKwahv5Q8F0/s640/P1000244.JPG" width="520" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFIPl9QQpv-YUUGfe1QGNbP4aWuLbeKy5KMNKsbE4AddpiHyfmWuFusnr5hhkwgpDEWs6zLycSbkTyVc1BM5mQO3XoHDqhXAlibtfkBrn7Lftk1fQvJatUpBsqjampxIn0U3L49Goky_A/s1600/P1000245.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFIPl9QQpv-YUUGfe1QGNbP4aWuLbeKy5KMNKsbE4AddpiHyfmWuFusnr5hhkwgpDEWs6zLycSbkTyVc1BM5mQO3XoHDqhXAlibtfkBrn7Lftk1fQvJatUpBsqjampxIn0U3L49Goky_A/s640/P1000245.JPG" width="380" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH60gtSE7JU2rLW6fJAlFvrFVUIzWML3-gAVuJXsRCpWX5Wa3f2pJ-PRh_XYbC4vWVjMWL5pLlRmuLA6Gh_SzqBiGjAgzFerMHhsV-EHUzmWnHx9_2_6B2jZ0JtGxVzWkCPtjHu5o7lVg/s1600/P1000246.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH60gtSE7JU2rLW6fJAlFvrFVUIzWML3-gAVuJXsRCpWX5Wa3f2pJ-PRh_XYbC4vWVjMWL5pLlRmuLA6Gh_SzqBiGjAgzFerMHhsV-EHUzmWnHx9_2_6B2jZ0JtGxVzWkCPtjHu5o7lVg/s640/P1000246.JPG" width="362" /></a></div>Like so many designs, this one is also very complex, every element has a deeper meaning in it, wich would be too much to write it down here and too personal.<br />The runes are the first line of this poem:<br /><br /><b><i><span style="background-color: black;"><br /></span></i></b><br /><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.81818199157715px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="background-color: black;"><b><span style="line-height: 19.09090805053711px;">Men endelig</span><span style="line-height: 19.09090805053711px;"> </span></b></span></i></span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.81818199157715px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="background-color: black;"><b><span style="line-height: 19.09090805053711px;">Forsto jeg</span><span style="line-height: 19.09090805053711px;"> </span></b></span></i></span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.81818199157715px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;"><span style="line-height: 19.09090805053711px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="background-color: black;"><b>Treets språk</b></span></i></span></span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.81818199157715px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;"><span style="line-height: 19.09090805053711px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="background-color: black;"><b>Og det avslørte sin kjærlighet</b></span></i></span></span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.81818199157715px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;"><span style="line-height: 19.09090805053711px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="background-color: black;"><b>Til vinterens grove favn.</b></span></i></span></span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.81818199157715px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;"><span style="line-height: 19.09090805053711px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="background-color: black;"><b>Forelsket fortalte det</b></span></i></span></span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.81818199157715px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;"><span style="line-height: 19.09090805053711px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="background-color: black;"><b>Og frostens</b></span></i></span></span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.81818199157715px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;"><span style="line-height: 19.09090805053711px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="background-color: black;"><b>Barske kjærtegn</b></span></i></span></span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.81818199157715px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;"><span style="line-height: 19.09090805053711px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="background-color: black;"><b>Som gav det</b></span></i></span></span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.81818199157715px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;"><span style="line-height: 19.09090805053711px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="background-color: black;"><b>Moten og kraften</b></span></i></span></span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.81818199157715px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="background-color: black;"><b><span style="line-height: 19.09090805053711px;">Til sommerens</span><span style="line-height: 19.09090805053711px;"> </span></b></span></i></span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.81818199157715px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="line-height: 19.09090805053711px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>Frodige mirakler</b></i></span></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="line-height: 19.09090805053711px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><u><br /></u></i></span></span></span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="line-height: 19.09090805053711px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><u><br /></u></i></span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15.454545021057129px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15.454545021057129px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Bjørn Richter</span></span></span></div></div>hadir untuk berbagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09790709753127283852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764119266410682735.post-8056020862893702272013-04-28T00:39:00.000-07:002013-05-07T14:28:24.517-07:00The Tattooed Poets Project: Christopher ArigoOur next tattooed poet is Christopher Arigo, who sent us this image from his thigh:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Wnn9nORIpuo/UST6eZjIh_I/AAAAAAAAXkM/-5PWAd16bOY/s572/DSCF0003-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Wnn9nORIpuo/UST6eZjIh_I/AAAAAAAAXkM/-5PWAd16bOY/s640/DSCF0003-2.jpg" width="442" /></a></div><br />He tells us:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Often referred to as “The Shaman” or “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorcerer_(cave_art)">The Sorceror</a>,” my tattoo is based on a sketch by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Breuil">Henri Breuil</a> of a cave painting from a cavern in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trois_Fr%C3%A8res">Trois-Frères</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ari%C3%A8ge">Ariège</a>, France. Breuil, a French archeologist, claimed that the drawing/etching represented a Paleolithic shaman, a kind of happy hunting juju. I’ve always been intrigued by this particular image---I remember seeing a picture of it when I was fairly young, probably in some Time-Life book about cave art or something. For me, it represents a connection to our not-so-distant Paleolithic past and I do hunt, so maybe some of its juju will rub off. I have several other cave art tattoos, so it’s also part of an ongoing theme on my body. There’s something very visceral and ancient about it. There is also the question: why did they make this art?</blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Pintura_Trois_Freres.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Pintura_Trois_Freres.jpg" width="303" /></a></div><br />The tattoo was done by <a href="http://www.pussykat-tattoos.com/riley.html">Riley Baxter</a> at <a href="http://www.pussykat-tattoos.com/">Pussykat Tattoo</a> in Las Vegas.<br /><br />The poem that Christopher sent us keeps with the Paleothic theme:<br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Considering the fossils<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">once sap <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">now combustible <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">stone<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">once called <i>electron</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6058251288236499429" name="_GoBack"></a><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">god-tears<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">carved petrified sun <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">once mixed</span><span style="font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">with rose-oil <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">for failing eyes<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">now eyes <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">warm to the touch<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">burned as incense<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">burning to remember<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">and when you dig <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">it is hard to believe <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">the stone <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">was once wood<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">its rings now ring</span><span style="font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">with a finger's flick<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">no longer <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">ligneous <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">bark and cambium <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">visible <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">in cross-section<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">how to believe <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">that gingko leaves <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">leave behind <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">fan-shapes</span><span style="font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">veins and chloroplasts <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">almost intact <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">no xylem <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">left after rain <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">and pressure <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">and layers <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">and layers <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">of sand and relentless <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">lithography<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Perpetua; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">~ ~ ~ </span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>Christopher Arigo’s first poetry collection <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/188635071X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=188635071X&linkCode=as2&tag=bill03-20%22%3ELit%20Interim%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=bill03-20&l=as2&o=1&a=188635071X%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E">Lit Interim</a> won the 2001-2002 <a href="http://www.pavementsaw.org/pages/transaward.htm">Transcontinental Poetry Prize </a>(selected by <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/david-bromige">David Bromige</a>) and was published by <a href="http://www.pavementsaw.org/index.htm">Pavement Saw Press</a> (2003). His second collection <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1890650315/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1890650315&linkCode=as2&tag=bill03-20%22%3EIn%20the%20Archives%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=bill03-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1890650315%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E">In the archives</a> (2007) was released by <a href="http://www.omnidawn.com/">Omnidawn Publishing.</a> His poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines including <a href="http://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/colorado-review/">Colorado Review</a>, <a href="http://www.newamericanwriting.com/">New American Writing</a>, <a href="http://www.barrowstreet.org/">Barrow Street</a>, and many others. He co-edits the literary journal <a href="http://www.interimmag.org/">Interim</a> with poet <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Keelan">Claudia Keelan</a> and is an Assistant Professor of English at <a href="http://www.wsu.edu/">Washington State University</a>. <br /><br />Thanks to Christopher for sharing his tattoo and poem with us here on Tattoosday's Tattooed Poets Project!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2=1&bg1=FFFFFF&fc1=000000&lc1=0000FF&t=bill03-20&o=1&p=8&l=as4&m=amazon&f=ifr&ref=ss_til&asins=188635071X" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2=1&bg1=FFFFFF&fc1=000000&lc1=0000FF&t=bill03-20&o=1&p=8&l=as4&m=amazon&f=ifr&ref=ss_til&asins=1890650315" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><b id="internal-source-marker_0.18962762784212828" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This entry is ©2013 Tattoosday. 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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></b>hadir untuk berbagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09790709753127283852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764119266410682735.post-23918268878701875122013-04-27T13:08:00.000-07:002013-05-07T14:22:21.739-07:00END OF THE WEEK.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Here we go guys! Here is a little look at some sessions I did this week. Still needs way more work but you can get an idea of what it is so I thought it would be good to show some work in progress too. Also, yesterday I had some of the best sushi ever at KIYOKAWA in Beverly Hills.. Man the food tasted amazing! The presentation was perfect! Everything was on point. It may open your appetite a little though haha...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizFAjlx3jNellM697mtgHlAFGyJPeVZ3mkoxfcqwclvBNAyupGJc5nqAZDuq1pAyN7_TsaOvIlrB83LNefRbKxNLvAfSJf7vRwB7PeCM6NON8XC9l6XuFje-zwNUmbTyt1DUqrJznx3eiB/s1600/LT.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizFAjlx3jNellM697mtgHlAFGyJPeVZ3mkoxfcqwclvBNAyupGJc5nqAZDuq1pAyN7_TsaOvIlrB83LNefRbKxNLvAfSJf7vRwB7PeCM6NON8XC9l6XuFje-zwNUmbTyt1DUqrJznx3eiB/s1600/LT.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFDOz0aLTUdycAiIb3Un93KLNyvErc8fDRzno_h5EaE8MMXPQxgb7hyphenhyphen-xmXQlF0UAvaBPAyu5pg90sSmoMKI-7Y4ctyNShL6LvZ_7o39uIPRrBIeOyrtdU2rnyFp_BGtLeYR_W4888FACA/s1600/LT2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeuebZ1RIBReJdrgPSCoby5nfptBxrmqlR_Yx1SRiZT5NbEReDr72ZzYamTD_jaCM05ixUZqU8NJC6ZxV5w8KlN6kNiZrVVn7kD5xIeKYUKvH7IgjQHlyUd-w-oKFbGNRLv24RZMxhADoM/s1600/sushi4.jpg" /></a></div><br />hadir untuk berbagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09790709753127283852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764119266410682735.post-24883927477115443742013-04-27T12:00:00.000-07:002013-05-07T14:28:24.613-07:00The Tattooed Poets Project: David Jonathan NewmanWe have another returning Tattooed Poets Project alumnus today, David.Jonathan Newman.<br /><br />David's previous contribution appeared two years ago, <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2011/04/tattooed-poets-project-david-jonathan.html">here</a>.<br /><br />This is a collage of a work-in-progress that David sent along for 2013:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N43_jXETjvQ/UW2htjZK3TI/AAAAAAAAXzo/taTLtWNjSkY/s572/splittat+(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N43_jXETjvQ/UW2htjZK3TI/AAAAAAAAXzo/taTLtWNjSkY/s640/splittat+(1).jpg" width="465" /></a></div><br />David explains that this is:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"...a three-quarter sleeve on my left arm by none other than the famous <a href="http://www.larktattoo.com/index.php/artists/bruce/0">Bruce Kaplan</a>, owner of <a href="http://www.larktattoo.com/">Lark Tattoo</a> in Wesbury NY and Albany NY. We've both been very excited about this project and it's been in progress for over a year now; excited to be getting well into the color portion of it. Essentially, the tattoo is Bruce's take on a wicked thunderstorm; tidal waves, thunder and lightning, intimidating clouds and fire. Towards the end of the tattoo down by my forearms, the sun's rays come out through the cloud cover and the storm breaks. I've been through a lot in my life (just like many people) and this tattoo, like many of mine, is meant to remind me that I can get through every hardship I have coming; and that I was able to get through everything that's been thrown at me so far.<br /><br />The quote in script was a previous tattoo that Bruce has been going around... it was done years ago by <a href="http://www.davincitattoo.com/chris-koutsis.html">Chris Koutsis</a> at <a href="http://www.davincitattoo.com/">DaVinci Tattoo</a> in Wantagh NY. It says <i>It's What You Love, Not What Loves You</i> and was inspired by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Kaufman">Charlie Kaufman</a> movie <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptation_(film)"><i>Adaptation</i></a>."</blockquote><br />David sent in this recent poem of his called "the night":<br /><br />the night.<br /><br />night comes<br /><br />night comes exhaled in<br />casually flourishing in the expanse as if we acquiesced to its maturation<br />planting its flag among the corpses of our plans for the day, unaccomplished<br />and the cold<br />glacial, numbing wind searing across flesh and foliage<br />air in your lungs like an icestorm<br />liquid nitrogen eventide<br /><br />the night is isolation<br />abandonment and abated breath<br />a brilliant abattoir of allegiances meant only to separate us and conquer hearts<br />colonize your capillaries with Cimmerian shade<br />circumventing circulation<br /><br />I poured out a little of my drink for her, it froze instantly as it hit the permafrost<br />exhaled into slow smoke, dancing in the lantern light<br />frustrated that something so inanimate could take on such life<br />such alluring life in this ruination and gloom <br />I miss you<br />god, I miss you<br />the way your teeth always backdrop for your smile<br />the way we interlock perfectly before dreams take us<br />the way you shuddershake when you climax<br /><br />you left me<br /><br />and I go unaccompanied into the night<br />with this drink and these thoughts<br />and this lantern<br />and this love <br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">~ ~ ~</div><br />David Jonathan Newman has been a poet and vocalist/lyricist in bands, both on Long Island, NY and in Miami, FL. He is working on a collection of poetry, writes music as a solo artist and has a blog (<a href="http://captainselfdestruct.blogspot.com/">http://captainselfdestruct.blogspot.com</a>) where he posts both his solid works and stream of consciousness ideas. He's been winning poetry contests since 6th grade, but recently he's been featured in online publications including <a href="http://www.haggardandhalloo.com/">Haggard & Halloo Publications</a>, quite a few times - and even the Tattooed Poets Project, back in 2011. 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