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!