Last Sunday, I found myself unexpectedly in my weekday stomping grounds, outside of Penn Station. I saw a couple sitting on the steps in Penn Plaza and noticed the gentleman had a remarkable tattoo on his outer left calf.We [...]
Showing posts with label Hawai'i. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hawai'i. Show all posts
Hawai'i and Germany Meet Halfway in Manhattan
Posted by Unknown on Sunday, September 5, 2010
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Tattoosday Goes To Hawai'i - Aloha to the Islands
Posted by Unknown on Thursday, June 3, 2010
I wasn't sure how many tattoos I would meet on my five and a half day trip to Hawai'i, but my last day there exceeded all expectations.As reported before, I met five separate people with tattoos at Pearlridge as I did some [...]
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Tattoosday Goes to Hawai'i - Sylvia's Back Piece
Posted by Unknown on Monday, May 31, 2010
The one day in Hawai'i when I didn't take any tattoo pictures, I did pass out a few fliers. One I handed to a woman sitting in a chair at the Safeway Center on Kapahulu Avenue.She had what appeared to be an incredible back [...]
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Tattoosday Goes to Hawai'i - Honu Thursday
Posted by Unknown on Thursday, May 27, 2010
One of the most popular symbols in modern Polynesian tattoo is the green sea turtle, or honu, as it is known in Hawaiian.I saw a lot of honu tattoos while I was in Hawai'i, but I didn't snap any photos of them until my last [...]
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Tattoosday Goes to Hawai'i - All in the Family, Part 2 (Keali'i's Sleeves)
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Mind you, readers, that the last time I saw my nephew Keali'i, he was not yet into the his teens or, if he was, he had just started. So when I saw him for the first time in nearly twenty years, I was stunned. There, in the [...]
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Tattoosday Goes to Hawai'i - All in the Family, Part 1 (A Preface)
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Although my recent trip to Hawai'i at the end of April was a bit of a whirlwind, one of the best things about it was reconnecting with a side of the family with whom I hadn't had contact in a long time.Living in New York and raising a family is expensive [...]
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Tattoosday Goes to Hawai'i: Reston's Expansive Ink
Posted by Unknown on Friday, May 14, 2010
I've alluded, in previous posts, to a trip to Ala Moana Center, during which I was astounded by the amount of tattoos I saw, much more than I recall seeing on my previous trip, five years ago.I was in the expansive food [...]
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Tattoosday Goes to Hawai'i: Jolie's Archipelago
Posted by Unknown on Friday, May 7, 2010
It was the first episode of Miami Ink in which Ami James tattooed a huge piece on surfer Sunny Garcia's mid-section. The subject: the distinct pattern representing the view of the Hawaiian islands (video here).It wouldn't [...]
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