from: Austin F.to: tiangotlost@gmail.comdate: Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:26 AMsubject: Tattoo meaningTian can you tell me what this means. Feel free to blog it, my email omitted? thanks Top character is upside down 物, followed with poor attempt at "free spirit" with 無料精, although 無料 means "free; no charge", with is completely different...

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Tattoosday Goes to L.A. - Max's First Tattoo for Mom

On my way back to the airport last week, my father and I had lunch at La Sirena Grill in El Segundo.The meal was delicious, and I'll certainly be raving about their spicy BBQ duck tamale for quite some time.As an added bonus, our waiter, Max, had plenty of visible tattoos and, even better, he shared one with me to post here on Tattoosday:Max explained...

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Tattoosday Goes to L.A. - Javie's Sublime Tattoo

On my recent trip to Los Angeles, I popped in and talked to a few of the artists in San Pedro's Ace of Hearts Tattoo.Fortunately for me, they were also in the sharing mood. Check out this piece on the upper right arm of artist Javie Dev:This awesome tattoo was an appropriate one to feature, as Southern Californians would attest. The work refers to...

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Japanese TATTOO Horimitsu Style PEONY

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Tattoosday Goes to L.A. - Vanessa's Sugar Skull by Joe Truck

On my recent trip to Los Angeles, even though I was in town for only a few days, I wanted to find some time to visit a tattoo shop. Of course, with L.A. being one of the "most tattooed cities in America," the challenge wasn't finding a shop, but deciding from among several to visit nearby. I was staying on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, and there are...

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Tattoosday Goes to L.A. - Jonathan Shares a Winged Dandy

I recently took a quick trip to California and had a chance to do some inkspotting along the way. There's nothing like breaking a winter slump like going to warmer climes!My luck started at the airport, JFK Terminal 2, where I met Jonathan, who was happy to share this piece from his forearm:The piece wraps around the arm a bit, so I did my best to...

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Japanese TATTOO Horimitsu Style D!!!

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Re-Post: Happy Birthday Edward Gorey!

To those of you who pay attention to this sort of thing, today's Google doodle honors the artist and illustrator Edward Gorey. Over the years, we've featured four people with Gorey tattoos and I wanted to re-post one of them in honor of what would have been Gorey's 88th birthday. Here, from 2010, is my favorite post of the ones we've featured:I met...

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Japanese TATTOO Horimitsu Style Milano business trip

Thank you very much for everything to my MASTER HORITOSHI Frist and All friends!!Thank you for waiting to Japanese customers!!!!!I appreciate to everything!...

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Japanese TATTOO Horimitsu Style

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My Anatomical Heart Dog Tag from Eddystone Designs!

Just got my Anatomical Heart Dog Tag in the mail from Eddystone Designs and thought I'd share:They even personally engraved it for me!We here at Tattoosday and the good folks at Eddsytone wanted to thank everyone again for entering the giveaway we ran last week.As a token of thanks to Tattoosday readers, Eddystone is offering a discount for anyone...

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Re-Post: Sweethearts for My Sweetheart

Back in 2010, Valentine's fell on a Sunday, which provided a excellent opportunity for my lovely wife Melanie to add to her tattoo collection. A lot of shops do special day promotions for the budget-minded, although the trend seems to be moving away from that. On this Valentine's Day, we here at Tattoosday are re-visiting that occasion three years...

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Re-Post: The Day Before St. Valentine's Day

Actually, this post from 2009 was originally called Happy Valentine's from Tattoosday! But, it's the 13th, so we can't really use the same title now, can we? In fact, this is a re-post of a re-post from July of 2008, and it is one of my favorite tattoos from over the years. I'm happy to be re-sharing it with new readers...~ ~ ~Lacking any new...

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Re-post: Here's to You Joe DiMaggio...

In a re-posting sort of mood and, with pitchers and catchers reporting soon, here's a piece from February 2009:Living in New York City, a metropolis known for its die-hard sports fans, it is not unusual to see tattoos honoring and celebrating the rich athletic tradition that exists here.On Friday, during my lunch hour, I spotted a New York City Fire...

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Brian Shares a Freddy Corbin Sugar Skull

As snow was falling on the Northeast Friday evening, I was gathered with friends at 5 Ninth in the Meatpacking District in Manhattan, celebrating our friend Nadyne's birthday.It didn't take me long to notice that our bartender, Brian, had quite a few tattoos and it was only a matter of time before I drummed up a conversation.Brian indicated that...

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DAVID.

Here is a progress report on the brother David's back piece. We started with this Jesus and planned to add some cherubs around it. David has been collecting some of the best work from some of the greatest tattoo artist in the game and it's always a pleasure and honor to work on his collection. Check it out…&nb...

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More Links for Your Weekend Consumption

This will be the third Saturday in a row that I've posted links of a tattoo-related nature. No one's complained yet, so we'll keep doing this until  we don't.On Sunday, a few of us were watching a football game. The tattoo gag in one spot was one of the brighter moments of the advertising that broke out during the game:Long live Goldblatt!On Monday, I finally clicked on a Facebook link to a site...

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Eddystone Design Winners Announced!

Thanks to everyone for their participation in the Eddystone Designs contest!We plugged everyone's names into Randomized.com and the winners are:Winners will be contacted so we can arrange for the prizes to be shipped.Thanks again!This entry is ©2013 Tattoosday.If you are seeing this on another website other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please...

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Remember: Enter to Win the Eddystone Designs Contest!

As if you needed an extra incentive to enter to win one of the cool pieces of colorful laser-engraved pendants from Eddystone Designs, check this out - the prizes are personalized with Tattoosday's name:Remember, all you need to do to enter is post a comment on this or the original post (here).Or "like" the status on Tattoosday's Facebook page and...

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Tattoosday Giveaway! Eddystone Designs' Tattoo-Engraved Charms!

Occasionally, we here at Tattoosday like to partner up with folks and give away goodies, just to keep things interesting.We've been working with the good folks over at Eddystone Designs and we've come up with a contest to promote their new products that have a tattoo-like theme, using these really cool laser-engraved colors on titanium jewelry.With...

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