If you're looking for an awesome gift for an ink-loving special someone this holiday season, and you can't afford a budget-buster like Marisa Kakoulas' Black & Grey Tattoo, I'd strongly recommend The Word Made Flesh: [...]
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Showing posts with label Book Reviews. Show all posts
The Tattoosday Book Review: The Word Made Flesh
Posted by Unknown on Thursday, December 16, 2010
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The Tattoosday Book Review: Kat Von D's The Tattoo Chronicles
Posted by Unknown on Monday, October 25, 2010
You can say a lot of things about Kat Von D. She is arguably one of the most well-known tattoo artists in the United States, if not the world. This fact, to old school tattoo enthusiasts, is not necessarily a good thing. [...]
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The Tattoosday Book Review: Driven to Ink, A Tattoo Shop Mystery
Posted by Unknown on Friday, September 10, 2010
Earlier this week, author Karen E. Olson released the third installment of her Tattoo Shop Mystery series, Driven To Ink.For those readers who may not be familiar with Ms. Olson's series, you can check out my reviews of [...]
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The Tattoosday Event and Book Review - Body Type 2: More Typographic Tattoos
Posted by Unknown on Saturday, May 8, 2010
I'll be honest with you. Last year at this time, I had no idea who Ina Saltz was, nor had I ever seen her book Body Type, a volume dedicated to typographic tattoos.Then, I met Elizabeth, a typographer who has all twenty-six [...]
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Tattoosday Goes to Hawai'i: Tricia Allen's The Polynesian Tattoo Today
Posted by Unknown on Monday, May 3, 2010
This is the first of many posts to follow from my recent trip to the beautiful state of Hawai'i....On Saturday, April 24, I had the distinct pleasure of meeting a tattoo artist and writer who I have admired for quite some [...]
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The Tattoosday Book Review: Tattoo Traditions of Hawai'i
Posted by Unknown on Thursday, April 22, 2010
As we wind down through the last third of National Poetry Month and our annual Tattooed Poets Project, I look ahead to the coming week with very mixed emotions.I will focus on the positive, however, and say that Tattoosday [...]
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The Tattoosday Book Review: Pretty In Ink
Posted by Unknown on Sunday, March 21, 2010
Last year, when Karen E. Olson released The Missing Ink, I didn't know what to expect.Here was a mystery writer presenting us with a novel in which the main character was a female tattoo artist who owns her own shop, The [...]
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The Tattoosday Book Review: 7 Tattoos
Posted by Unknown on Monday, November 30, 2009
First and foremost, let me clear something up: 7 Tattoos by Peter Trachtenberg is a memoir and is not a book about tattoos. Oh, there are tattoos within, and stories about them and how they were obtained. But tattoos help [...]
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The Tattoosday Book Review: Tattoo Machine by Jeff Johnson
Posted by Unknown on Sunday, November 22, 2009
First, a point of clarification. I write blog posts with the ideal blog reader in mind. The ideal blog reader being me. And what I have noticed over the years is, despite the interest in the subject matter, it is rare that [...]
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The Tattoosday Book Review: The Missing Ink
Posted by Unknown on Sunday, November 15, 2009
As tattooing has skyrocketed in popularity, the number of ink-related books hitting the shelves has multiplied like rabbits. I picked up a copy of Kat Von D.'s book at Borders the other day (read my review here) and was [...]
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