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Nicole's Hibiscus Tattoo

I spotted the bottom of this tattoo peeping out from under Nicole's jeans cuff and asked her if I could see the whole piece. She obliged. Curiosity rewards the blogger.

Nicole has this cool hibiscus tattoo on the top of her right foot.

She ascribed no special meaning behind the piece, other than she liked the design and it represented Beauty.

I can't say I blame her, especially as a former resident of Hawai'i, where the hibiscus is the state flower.

This piece was inked by Dan at Tattoo Lou's in Babylon, New York.

Thanks to Nicole for sharing her floral foot tattoo with us!

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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