I met Jubail on the corner of 34th and 6th Avenue, and he shared this awesome tattoo:
"Midnight Mile" is a song by Bouncing Souls, and it reminds him of coming home to New York City.
Jubail, who has "nine or ten" tattoos, was a student at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia.
He was about to earn his commission as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army when I spoke with him, and he knows he can rely on his tattoo to help him remind him of home here in New York.
He also has the Bouncing Souls logo on the inner part of the elbow, also known as the "ditch," which is one of the most painful places to get tattooed.
Jubail credits his ink to Saka at Tat-Nice Tattoos in Huntington, WV.
Thanks to Jubail for sharing his Bouncing Souls tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!
And here's a little "Midnight Mile" bonus:
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
Where The Wild Thing Tattoo Is
The day after I met one Jared, I met another, out in front of Madison Square Garden.
With a tattoo like this:
how could I not stop him?
As one would imagine, Jared loves the book, Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak.
The tattoo displays, on Jared's right forearm, one of the "Wild Things" that is in Max's imagination.
Jared, who was in town visiting from Boston, has ten tattoos. He had been thinking about getting a Where the Wild Things Are piece for several years and finally had it done by Chris Ford in January 2009. Ford had worked in L.A. but is now in New Jersey.
Jared said that he has had a lot of attention from people about the tattoo, in part due to the publicity from the movie adaptation coming out this Fall.
Thanks to Jared for stopping to talk and share his "wild" tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!
With a tattoo like this:
how could I not stop him?
As one would imagine, Jared loves the book, Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak.
The tattoo displays, on Jared's right forearm, one of the "Wild Things" that is in Max's imagination.
Jared, who was in town visiting from Boston, has ten tattoos. He had been thinking about getting a Where the Wild Things Are piece for several years and finally had it done by Chris Ford in January 2009. Ford had worked in L.A. but is now in New Jersey.
Jared said that he has had a lot of attention from people about the tattoo, in part due to the publicity from the movie adaptation coming out this Fall.
Thanks to Jared for stopping to talk and share his "wild" tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Jared Shares His Vegan Tattoo
I met Jared while he was waiting for a train in Penn Station.
After the Manhattan Mall food court closed last summer, I discovered this wide expanse of Penn Station (especially the Amtrak area) was great for inkspotting when the weather made normal traipsing about unappealing.
Jared's ink runs down the length of his arm, from the top of his right bicep, down to the inner part of his forearm.
As a Vegan, Jared did his research, and sought out a tattoo artist that could give him a Vegan tattoo:
There's a school of thought that some tattoo inks are not "vegan," in the sense that they incorporate glycerine from animal fat, or they use bone char in the black inks. See this article here.
Some artists refute this as gimmicky, and here is a more skeptical view point from a Vegan. But many Vegans who are steadfast in their ideals find the idea of a purely vegan tattoo appealing. I featured another Vegan tattoo back in October 2007 here.
Jared, who is the musical director for the national touring company of the show "Spring Awakening", went to Cary at Body Electric Tattooing & Piercing in Hollywood for this custom design.
The top section of flowers includes at least one chrysanthemum. The bottom part spells out the word "Vegan" in twisting, viny, letters.
Jared's whole arm took three sessions and ultimately embodies the Vegan lifestyle, not just in words and design, but in the ink used to create the art.
Thanks to Jared for sharing his work with us here on Tattoosday!
After the Manhattan Mall food court closed last summer, I discovered this wide expanse of Penn Station (especially the Amtrak area) was great for inkspotting when the weather made normal traipsing about unappealing.
Jared's ink runs down the length of his arm, from the top of his right bicep, down to the inner part of his forearm.
As a Vegan, Jared did his research, and sought out a tattoo artist that could give him a Vegan tattoo:
There's a school of thought that some tattoo inks are not "vegan," in the sense that they incorporate glycerine from animal fat, or they use bone char in the black inks. See this article here.
Some artists refute this as gimmicky, and here is a more skeptical view point from a Vegan. But many Vegans who are steadfast in their ideals find the idea of a purely vegan tattoo appealing. I featured another Vegan tattoo back in October 2007 here.
Jared, who is the musical director for the national touring company of the show "Spring Awakening", went to Cary at Body Electric Tattooing & Piercing in Hollywood for this custom design.
The top section of flowers includes at least one chrysanthemum. The bottom part spells out the word "Vegan" in twisting, viny, letters.
Jared's whole arm took three sessions and ultimately embodies the Vegan lifestyle, not just in words and design, but in the ink used to create the art.
Thanks to Jared for sharing his work with us here on Tattoosday!
Friday, June 26, 2009
Tattoosday Boxcars: A Leonine Tattoo and Wearing One's Heart on One's Sleeve
I met Jeff and Jeanie in Penn Station as they were about to board an Amtrak train out of the city.
I've been trying to come up with clever terms for different inkspotting phenomenon, basically creating my own lexicon.
I'll call Jeff and Jeanie "boxcars". Meaning, I approached the two of them and gambled, asking them both to participate, and they came through. Like rolling two sixes on the dice (also known as boxcars). I would even venture to call them "blind boxcars", because I could only make out fragments of their ink, but they still shared.
Jeff went first, displaying this leonine figure on his left bicep:
It's a nod to his astrological sign, Leo, and was also selected for its nod to Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la BĂȘte (Beauty and the Beast).
Jeanie shared her tattoo below:
This piece literally has her wearing her heart on her sleeve and is inspired by Mexican art. The tattoo was completed by a friend of Jeanine's named John Flack.
I would have obtained more detail, but the couple had to board their train.
Thank you to Jeanine and Jeff for sharing their tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!
I've been trying to come up with clever terms for different inkspotting phenomenon, basically creating my own lexicon.
I'll call Jeff and Jeanie "boxcars". Meaning, I approached the two of them and gambled, asking them both to participate, and they came through. Like rolling two sixes on the dice (also known as boxcars). I would even venture to call them "blind boxcars", because I could only make out fragments of their ink, but they still shared.
Jeff went first, displaying this leonine figure on his left bicep:
It's a nod to his astrological sign, Leo, and was also selected for its nod to Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la BĂȘte (Beauty and the Beast).
Jeanie shared her tattoo below:
This piece literally has her wearing her heart on her sleeve and is inspired by Mexican art. The tattoo was completed by a friend of Jeanine's named John Flack.
I would have obtained more detail, but the couple had to board their train.
Thank you to Jeanine and Jeff for sharing their tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!
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