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Unknown on Sunday, September 5, 2010

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 [...]
More about → Hawai'i and Germany Meet Halfway in Manhattan
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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 [...]
More about → Tattoosday Goes to Hawai'i - Sylvia's Back Piece
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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 [...]
More about → Tattoosday Goes to Hawai'i - All in the Family, Part 2 (Keali'i's Sleeves)
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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 [...]
More about → Tattoosday Goes to Hawai'i: Reston's Expansive Ink
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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 [...]
More about → Tattoosday Goes to Hawai'i: Tricia Allen's The Polynesian Tattoo Today
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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 [...]
More about → The Tattoosday Book Review: Tattoo Traditions of Hawai'i
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Unknown on Friday, August 21, 2009

Today is the 50th anniversary of Hawaiian statehood.As a former resident of the Aloha State, I thought we could honor the occasion with a Hawaii-themed tattoo:This cool tiki is on the right forearm of Dani, who estimates [...]
More about → Dani Helps Tattoosday Celebrate 50 Years of Statehood