This start-of-the-year post is courtesy of Amanda, who I met at the end of October in the Borders at Columbus Circle.It was her sleeve of irises that first captured my attention:These are inspired by the work of Vincent [...]
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Showing posts with label Words. Show all posts
Amanda's Irises (and a Quote)
Posted by Unknown on Monday, January 3, 2011
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Chris's Tattoos Motivate and Inspire
Posted by Unknown on Monday, December 20, 2010
I met Chris earlier this month in Penn Station and he shared his 3/4-sleeve. He is the owner/operator of the Muscle Maker Grill at 92 Eighth Avenue in Chelsea.His sleeve is a collage of designs that motivate and inspire [...]
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Brian's Ink Speaks About Art
Posted by Unknown on Sunday, September 26, 2010
I met Brian in Barnes & Noble, Union Square, back in August and he shared two tattoos with us. Put your thinking caps on, folks, because Brian, who is a video artist (website here), has very cerebral ink.First up is [...]
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Kevin's Gravitational Tattoo
Posted by Unknown on Friday, August 27, 2010
I love word tattoos so I couldn't help but stop Kevin at Barnes & Noble earlier this month. He had this tattoo inked on his inner right forearm:He explained that he enrolled in school not knowing for sure what he wanted [...]
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Lindsay's Ink for Peace
Posted by Unknown on Thursday, July 15, 2010
When I recently upgraded my camera, the first new photo I took, of Lindsay's tattoo, convinced me I had selected well:This lovely tattoo, on Lindsay's upper left arm, is punctuated by this part of the tattoo on her biceps:The [...]
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Stephanie's Serpentine Strength
Posted by Unknown on Friday, July 2, 2010
Under normal circumstances, I may not have stopped to chat with Stephanie about her wrist tattoo. However, she was playing with her new corn snake, which is not something you see everyday when passing through Pennsylvania [...]
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Sarah Channels Emma Goldman
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, June 30, 2010
I recently had the intense displeasure of discovering that my camera had broken. For someone whose spare time is spent taking pictures of other people's tattoos, this was a harrowing experience, especially since my BlackBerry's [...]
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Leyna's Balloon Keeps Her Grounded
Posted by Unknown on Friday, June 25, 2010
Leyna was leaving the Borders at 2 Penn Plaza when I spotted one of her tattoos and asked about it.This was the tattoo in question:It is located on the back of her left leg, on the calf.The design was inspired by the cover [...]
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Julie's Crazy Tattoo
Posted by Unknown on Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Inkspotting can be impulsive, but I also like to approach each volunteer after some consideration.Rather than rush up on someone and barrage them with questions, I like to make sure the tattoo(s) in question are not only [...]
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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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Gabby Celebrates the Beautiful Life
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I met Gabby in the laundromat down the street.She had this lovely tattoo at the base of her neck:This translates, in the Italian, to "the beautiful life".Simply, Gabby has Italian heritage and she had this done at Psycho [...]
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The Tattooed Poets Project: Gina Myers
Posted by Unknown on Saturday, April 24, 2010
Today's tattoo comes to us courtesy of Gina Myers, who is the third poet this month to come back to the Tattooed Poets Project after appearing last year. Check out her 2009 contribution here.Gina sent along this tattoo, [...]
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Tattoosday's First Ambigram Tattoo
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Now that we have the horrific ink-hiding months of January and February behind us, I was looking forward to seeing what March provided.I was rewarded by the cooperation of Brian, who shared this, one of his five tattoos:For [...]
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Tattoos I Know: Paul's Love, Over His Heart
Posted by Unknown on Sunday, February 14, 2010
On this Valentine's Day, I'm sharing a tattoo that my friend Paul had recently done. He showed me when I was taking the latest set of photos on the cover-up her is working on.He pulled down the top of his shirt to reveal [...]
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Don't Worry
Posted by Unknown on Sunday, December 6, 2009
I was walking through Penn Station last week when I spotted Turner. Actually I spotted what looked like a tattoo on his wrist. So I stopped and asked him and sure enough, he had words on the inside of his wrist, still healing [...]
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Nathan's Luck
Posted by Unknown on Friday, December 4, 2009
I first became friendly with Nathan over at KnuckleTattoos.com as a peer in the inkblogging community.Based in Texas, Nathan's site specializes in what you would expect from the name, Knuckle Tattoos.As a contributing writer, [...]
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Tattoos I Know: Tracy Returns with an Important Reminder
Posted by Unknown on Tuesday, December 1, 2009
We originally introduced Tracy on Tattoosday back in January 2008 here.Last Saturday night she was down visiting from upstate New York and she showed off her latest tattoo:Inked on the inside of her left wrist, this simple [...]
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The Return of Sal's Ink - A Teacher's Inspiring Words
Posted by Unknown on Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Once in a while I check in with old Tattoosday contributors and I recently revisited Sal, who works at a video store (Mr. Video III) in Brooklyn Heights. You may recall his Guns 'N Roses tattoo (here).Earlier this year, [...]
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A Cinematic Heart
Posted by Unknown on Monday, November 9, 2009
I met Daniel last week on Seventh Avenue in the 20's.I spotted this tattoo peeping out from under his left shirt sleeve:Daniel was a film student at St. John's University, and this tattoo, cleverly designed with film reels [...]
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"You Gotta Go There to Come Back": Sarah Shares Three Tattoos
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Sarah's half-sleeve jumped out at me in Penn Station as I was quietly bemoaning cooler weather and the dwindling of my blog backlog.I was pleased to find Sarah more than accommodating, as she shared several perspectives [...]
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