Shattered Faith

On Tuesday, I met Shawn in Penn Station. He and a friend had visited to New York City from Albany to catch the band Shattered Faith last Monday night at a Brooklyn venue called Club Europa.

The band is not familiar to me, despite the fact that they are an Orange County-based punk band that has been playing since the late 1970s. They grew out of the same scene that spawned the great L.A. Punk scene in the early '80s, but they never made my radar.

According to Shawn, this was their first U.S. tour, so he was glad to catch them live on the East Coast.



Shawn has about a dozen or so tattoos, half of which are band logos. He had a sweet X tattoo on his right forearm. The piece featured above is the Shattered Faith logo and was inked by Jack Kowalzyk at Primal Graphics Tattoo in Albany.

Check out Shattered Faith at their website www.shatteredfaith.us. You can listen to some of their music in the audio section. You can also check out their MySpace page here.

Another benefit to writing (and reading) Tattoosday is the fact that I am occasionally is educated about bands that had been prevoiusly unknown to me.

Thanks to Shawn for taking the time to talk to me and helping introduce Shattered Faith to Tattoosday readers!

Bonus: A YouTube video featuring Shattered Faith performing in 2006:

Variados tipos de Carpas (Koi Fish)

As carpas ou Koi Fish estão entre os temas orientais mais procurados nos estúdios de tatuagem de todo mundo. Após falarmos um pouco sobre as carpas, vamos conhercer mais algumas variações, através das imagens abaixo.

Na primeira imagem, podemos perceber um pouco mais sobre os variados tipos de carpas, entre elas: a Kohaku (de coloração branca e laranja, sem escamas), Taisho Sanke( de coloração branca, preta e laranja), Showa Sanshoku (de coloração branca, preta e predominantemente laranja), Bekko (albina com manchas negras), Utsurimono ou Hi utsuri (laranja e preta), Asagi (Laranja, branca e predominantemente azul), Shusui(Laranja, azul e predominantemente branca), Koromo ou Ai-goromo (Predominentemente branca com manchas e escamas laranja), Kawarimono Goshiki (escamas predominantes azuis, corpo branco e manchas laranjas com pintas negras), Kanoko-goi ou Kanoko Sanke (Corpo branco, manchas negras e escamas laranja), Karasugoi ou Hajiro (predominantemente negra, com manchas brancas nas barbatanas e cauda), Ki-goi (Carpa dourada), Tancho ou Tancho Kobaku (carpa branca com mancha laranja na cabeça). Na segunda figura, temos uma imagem real das carpas relacionadas acima.

Minha Tattoo 49, Suamy da Silveira

Suamy nos escreve de Jaguaruna, Santa Catarina, mas fez a sua primeira tatuagem na cidade de Tubarão, no mesmo estado. Confira a história e exemplo da catarinense que participa do quadro Minha Tattoo.

"Oi, acabei de fazer minha 1ª tattoo, daqui 2 meses farei 41 anos e sempre quis fazer uma, mas nunca tive coragem de enfrentar as opiniões contrárias. É sempre aquele tal: "pensa bem, depois tu vai te arrepender, o que os outros irão dizer", entre outras tantas frases "estimulantes".

Finalmente fiz e querem saber do que mais, todo mundo adorou, achou bonito, bem feita, etc. Fiz no estúdio Glad Tattoo, em Tubarão - SC, e não me arrependo, não sei se farei outras por que o "pós tattoo" está sendo bem dolorido, mas nunca diga nunca. Um beijo a todos e que sirva de exemplo, pois idade não é impecilio para a realização de um sonho. Até mais."

Suamy da Silveira

Participe do quadro Minha Tattoo.

A Year Ago Today, Tattoosday Was Born

When, on July 31, 2007, I posted my first installment of the weekly Tattoosday feature on BillyBlog, I didn't know what I had started.

Had you told me then that, a year later, Tattoosday would have spun off from BillyBlog, that it would have set a personal best in July '08 with over 13,000 hits, and that I would be posting daily, I would have been skeptical.

Nonetheless, that's what has happened. And, although I expect a drop-off in visits as summer ends and shorts and tank tops give way to jeans and long-sleeve shirts, I am pleased with how Tattoosday has progressed.

I want to thank everyone who has visited and contributed to the success of Tattoosday. It's still a little baby blog by blogosphere standards, and its stand-alone self (apart from BillyBlog) doesn't celebrate a full year until September 8, 2008, which is BillyBlog's 3rd anniversary.

The lingering question is this: will Tattoosday surpass BillyBlog in traffic by then? As of July 31, Tattoosday had just over 48,000 hits in a little less than 11 months, whereas BillyBlog is at 63,500 hits just a month and change shy of 3 years. Check back on September 8 to see what happens.

Inkily yours,

Bill

Mona's Pocket Watch Honors her Grandfather's Memory

On Monday, I ran into two hair stylists walking west on 23rd Street. Both were inked, and both graciously agreed to share one of their tattoos with us here in the blogosphere.

The photo above is one of three pieces that Mona has. She currently has a sleeve in progress. This pocket watch will eventually be part of a unified sleeve, but Mona explained how this stands apart from the rest of the design.

She identifies the pocket watch with her grandfather, who she always remembers had one on him at all times. His surname was Baltazar and, despite being adopted, she shares his family name. The (time) piece is dedicated to him.

This tattoo was inked by Regino Gonzales at Invisible NYC.

Thanks to Mona for sharing her tattoo, along with her memories of her grandfather, here on Tattoosday.

See below (or here) for her friend Kara's tattoo.

Kara's Astrological Ink

In the post above (or here), I met two hair stylists this past Monday, who both had tattoos. The photo above is of one of three tattoos on Kara.

Kara is a Pisces, born on March 3, and she found a design that she liked to represent that aspect of her.

This tattoo was inked about six years ago at Allstar Tattoo in St. Louis, Missouri.

Thanks to Kara for sharing her tattoo here with us on Tattoosday!

Enquete - 4: "Ao tatuar-se, o que você mais considera?"

Chegamos a nossa quarta enquete. Nela procuramos saber o que nossos vistantes consideram ao tatuarem. Como esperado, a higiene do estúdio ficou em primeiro lugar, com 80% dos votos, deixando a disputa entre o portifólio do tatuador e o preço da tatuagem. Confira abaixo o resultado da enquete que contou com 1.181 votos. Agradecemos a participação de todos.

Ao tatuar-se, o que você mais considera?

Higiene: 954 votos (80%)
Portfólio 123 votos (10%)
Preço: 104 votos (8%)

Fique ligado, o tema da próxima enquete é "Homenagem".

Knuckle Tattoos

Just a production note, one of my June posts has been picked up by a site devoted solely to knuckle tattoos. Click on the title of this post to check out the site here. I exchanged e-mails with Nathan, who runs the site, and he had kind words to say about Tattoosday. Should I run across any more knuckle ink in the future, I'll be sure to send them his way.

These Are a Few of Her Favorite Things

This is a continuation, of sorts, from a previous post here.

Claire showed me the above trio of tiny tattoos on her left hand. She explained that they represented her three favorite things.

A strict literalist would interpret this as diamonds, martinis, and cash, but one could be more general and call them alcohol, jewelery, and money. Or, if one wants to be alliterative and hip, "booze, bucks, and bling".

She doesn't remember the shop, but she had these three tattoos inked somewhere in Jersey City, NJ.

Thanks again to Claire for participating in Tattoosday!

2ª Tattoo Convention - La Paz

A 2ª Tattoo Convention busca ser um espaço de exposição, crescimento e refexão sobre a tatuagem e perfurações corporais. O evento congrega diferentes artistas da tatuagem e perfuração de toda a Sudamérica, em uma festa com muita alegria e diversão. A convenção de tatuagem será realizada em pleno centro da cidade de La Paz, nas instalações da Sociedade Japonesa.

Nos dias 10, 11 e 12 de Outubro, a cidade de La Paz será a anfitriã do encontro que reunirá mais de 30 estúdios de tatuagem profissionais em uma festa de arte, pele, tinta e body piercing, onde todos estão convidados a disfrutar de 3 dias de arte e cultura do corpo.

Tatuadores confirmados

Pepe's Tattoo
Terra Tattoo
Marcelo Lara
Imagina Tattoo
Puma Tattoo
Cancerbero Tattoo
Metamorphosis Tattoo
Tattoomania
Wilson Romam
Mandinga Tattoo
Wilbert Tattoo
Chrico Tattoo
Chispa Tattoo
Extreme Supply
Tomy Supply
Black Line
Wilo Tattoo
Caronte Tattoo
Calavera Tattoo

Contatos

wilbert_tattoo@hotmail.com
pepestattoo@hotmail.com
migueltattoo@hotmail.com

Heather's Salute to the Flora and Fauna of North Carolina

As I approach a year of writing Tattoosday, I like to think that, within the first fifteen seconds of talking to an inked person, I can tell whether they are going to be interested in sharing, or are going to politely (or impolitely) decline.

When I first stopped Heather last week, on Seventh Avenue near Macys, I guessed it was a futile attempt. Her tattoo spread from her back over to her shoulder and down her right arm. There was a layer of clothing covering parts of the piece. Generally, these tattoos are tough to capture on film, and subsequently, I end up disappointed.

Heather is proof, however, that it doesn't hurt to ask, and that my instincts can be wrong. Not only was she accomodating (she untied the outer shirt to unobstruct the piece), but she was friendly and talked freely about her work,

So, here it is, from back to front:



Heather is a wildlife biologist, born and raised in North Carolina, and she has a themed sequence of tattoos going, that she hopes to build some day into a full sleeve. All of the elements are species native to her home state of North Carolina.

Beginning with the back, and detailed in close-up at the top of this post, is a ruby-throated hummingbird.

The bird is fluttering about a flowering plant of coral honeysuckle. This plant wraps from her back onto her upper right arm. There it mingles with some sourwood.

Heather was clear to point out that it was an artist's representation of sourwood (aka the Sorel Tree), and not true to the actual species.

All of her amazing ink was done at Blue Flame Tattoo, in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Two artists there were responsible for her work, Mark and Christy.

Later, when I was looking back at the photos, I noticed a black star in the middle of the sourwood. I hadn't seen it initially, and I was curious about it so I e-mailed Heather for some more details. Her response is below:

The star is actually my first tattoo. I got it on my 18th birthday, June 13th 2000. I thought I was really tough. Ha ha it's funny to think about now. The tattoo only took 40 minutes, but I passed out. Word to the wise: always eat before a tattoo. So that is that.

Thanks to Heather for sharing her beautiful tattoo(s) with us here at Tattoosday!

Hoot-ndreth (sorry) Owl!

Owl Tattoos is now 100 posts old. Aww...

Tim Victim

Never in Hoot.

Awesome stuff from Russ Abbott

Hoot Salad

A couple of random owls, as seen on DeviantArt.

Jorge Santana - FOTOS

Jorge Santana trabalha no Rio de Janeiro, capital, mais especificamente no estúdio CIA da Tattoo, onde atuam também Anna Idza, Marcelo e Vitor.

Abaixo seguem várias tatuagens feitas por Jorge Santana. Entrem as tatuagens encontram-se diversos temas orientais, mas também tatuagens realistas, temas delicados, como flores e borboletas, e outras menos convencionais como Sakura (Flor de Cerejeira), índio brasileiro, uma guitarra Fender e um símbolo egipcio.

A caricatura de Jorge Santana é uma criação de Celso Mathias.

Para entrar em contato com o tatuador, utilize o site do estúdio, ou o e-mail: jorgeq13@gmail.com

Claire's Sugar Skull Celebrates Her Grandmother's Life

I met Claire last week, a couple of buildings down from where I work in Manhattan. I first noticed some script pieces she had on her inner wrists, but she unveiled this beauty of a sugar skull for Tattoosday.

She had this inked on the inside of her left bicep as a memorial to her grandmother, who had passed away. One of her favorite Catholic holidays had been the Day of the Dead, and Claire saw this design as a fitting tribute to her. Although sugar skulls come from Mexican culture, their root is in Catholicism.

People see sugar skulls in many different ways (see previous sugar skulls posted on Tattoosday here), and Claire sees them as celebrations of life, which made the piece so fitting as a memorial.

This was inked by Alex Franklin at Brooklyn Ink. See other work from Brooklyn Ink on Tattoosday here.

Claire is a talented photographer whose work can be seen on her website here.

This is just one of 17 tattoos Claire has. See three more "small" pieces she has here.

Thanks to Claire for sharing her work with us here on Tattoosday!

Damien's Pistol Star Nebula Tattoo is Out of this World

Sorry. Couldn't resist that title.

I ran into Damien near Fashion Institute of Technology earlier in the week, and her bright, colorful tattoo just jumped right off of her in the sunlight.

She explained to me that it is based on a photograph of the Pistol Star Nebula, as seen from the Hubble telescope:
She stumbled upon the photo on the NASA website and loved the shape of it. Anyone who has seen the photos from the Hubble, which are in the public domain, should agree that they are spectacular visions from beyond our world.

The book designer and novelist Chip Kidd coincidentally posted this past week, on his website about a new book for which he had designed the cover (here), the images on which were from the Hubble eye on the universe.

This piece was inked by Chris Kowalski, a tattooist in Toronto at Abstract Arts Tattoo and Body Piercing, and is one of seven tattoos that Damien has.

I noticed after the fact, while glancing at her website, that the tattoo is inked above a pre-existing piece, as evidenced in this photo from her site:


Aside from the symbol for infinity and the arrows pointing out from all directions, I cannot speculate on the meaning of this earlier tattoo, but am hoping she will offer up an explanation at a later date.

Thanks to Damien for sharing her galactic ink with us here on Tattoosday!

Top 10 Vídeo Body Modification

O site We Show, publica listas de vídeos em diversas áreas e temas. A chamada Top 10 Video List apresentou os dez mais incríveis vídeos sobre modificações corporais. O site apresenta também as Top's: 10 mulheres mais sexy de 2008, as 10 melhores brigas de Hockey, os 10 melhores filmes de artes marciais, o 10 melhores filmes de Pedro Almodovar entre outros Top 10. A dica foi do visitante Brian. As imagens dos links indicados abaixo, são fortes e não aconselhadas à menores de idade, por isto os vídeos abrirão em outra janela. Lembramos que é muito importante procurar um profissional para realizar tais práticas, não coloque sua saúde nas mãos de amadores.

Top 10 Videos sobre Modificações Corporais

10 - Moicano de Metal
Joe Aylward possui cinco peças implantadas em sua cabeça, formando assim um moicano de metal ou Metal Mohawk.

9 - Aguero
Luis Antônio Aguero é nativo de Cuba e até o momento possui 250 body piercings em sua face.

8 - Modified Souls

Modified Souls ou almas modificadas, é o nome do grupo performático de body modification que atua neste vídeo. O grupo é australiano e prática suspenções e aplicações de body piercings em seus shows.

7 - Iguana Mike

Iguana Mike ou Michael D. Miller é californiano e ficou famoso após a publicação de suas modificações na Internet. Mike possui uma grande estrela implantada na testa e uma de suas tattoos recebeu implantes de silicone nos seios.

6 - Elaine Davidson

Segundo o livro dos recordes, Elaine Davidson é a mulher com mais aplicações de body piercings em seu corpo. Brasileira residente na Escócia, Elaine possui 3.950 piercing e aplicou em si mesma 1.903 destes body piercing's.

5 - Pauly Unstoppable

Pauly Unstoppable é uma das pessoas mais conhecidas no meio da modificação corporal. Diversos alargadores, piercings e tattoos, são algumas das modificações de Pauly, possuidor de grandes alargamentos em suas narinas e participante de suspensões corporais.

4 - Tattoo o Olho

Esta é uma nova prática de tatuagem que tem levantado muita discussão. A tatuagem no olho tem chocado muitas pessoas e ainda não se tem relatos de sua utilização a longo prazo. No vídeo o adepto colore uma pequena parte de seu olho com a tinta verde.

3 - Lizard Man

The Lizard Man, que atende pelo nome de Eric Sprague foi um dos primeiros adeptos da língua bipartida. Eric tem implantes na cabeça e tatuou escamas verdes em todo o seu corpo para assemelhar-se a um lagarto.

2 - Stalking Cat e Cat Man

Stalking Cat que atende pelo nome de Dennis Avner, transformou seu corpo, afim de assemelhar-se à um tigre. Já Beki Buelow, ou a mulher gato, tenta parecer cada vez mais com um leopardo.

1 - Flesh & Blood

Liderando a lista, o trailer de Flesh & Blood apresenta um documentário sobre Steve Haworth, considerado pelo Guinness como o maior Body Moder do mundo.


Confira também o Top 10 do site Rambler Planeta.