Tattoos: 2012

Sonntag, 13. Mai 2012

Ryan and Brooke Cook Tattoos: Edge Fest Tickets!

Edege Fest tickets are on sale now at Lucky Bella Tattoos! Come by and grab yours before they are all sold out!

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Samstag, 12. Mai 2012

R.I.P Emma Yong

I'm not good at this so I'll keep it short. My deepest condolences to Emma's family, friends, colleagues and fans. She was a fantastic actress, a devoted entertainer but most importantly, she was a person that loved and cherished life.

Rest in peace Emma. You will be missed.

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Joe Capobianco's "Blood Puddin" Giveaway

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As Above, So Below Studios:

I am currently working at 2Spirit Tattoo in San Francisco Tuesday-Friday 11-7 come by to make an appointment or consultation.

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10 worst photo tattoos ever

Nidhi Sinha: When it comes to show off your true self, tattoos are considered one of the best conventional methods of art and self-expression. The latest fad in tattoo arena swirls around inking photos onto your skin. Not only are they a perfect way to symbolize your

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All at once or over time

I'm wanting to have an artist here finish up my entire leg with some...

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Art Junkies Tattoo Studio: Aric Taylor did at Hell City

Aric Taylor did this amazing piece this weekend at the Hell City tattoo expo!!!

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Freitag, 11. Mai 2012

Joe Capobianco's "Blood Puddin" Giveaway

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Jesse's Tribute to Pee-wee

On a Saturday back in March, I was passing through Penn Station when I spotted Jesse, who had quite a few tattoos. He shared this great Pee-wee Herman tattoo on his foot:

Why did Jesse get Pee-wee inked on his foot? He explained, "When I was growing up, the only good thing that was happening in my childhood was watching his TV show [Pee-wee's Playhouse] ... so I felt like I owed it to him".

He credited this incredible piece to Blake Brand, a California-based artist who occasionally comes out to the East Coast and tattoos out of at Philadelphia Eddie's Chinatown Tattoo.

Thanks to Jesse for sharing this amazing piece on Tattoosday!

This entry is �2012 Tattoosday.

If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit http://tattoosday.blogspot.com and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.

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Fear is the Mind-Killer

This is John's tattoo. I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear [...]

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The Tattooed Poets Project: Erica Mena

Among this year's Tattooed Poets' submissions, this is one of my favorite photos:

Photograph by Julie Chen

This was submitted by the poet Erica Mena, whose tattoo was inspired by the great Pablo Neruda.

Erica gives us the detail behind these wonderful tattoos:

"This is my most intimate tattoo, my Neruda tattoo: 'Love is so short, forgetting is so long.' It's a full line (punctuation included) from Poem XX of Neruda's Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair in translation by W.S. Merwin. The fish in concentric circles is the symbol printed on all of Neruda's books from mid-way through his career, and was drawn from the bronze statue at his most famous house in Isla Negra. The other two images were drawn by the tattoo artist, in response to two other lines from the same poem: 'The same night whitening the same trees. / We of that time are no longer the same.' and 'Write, for example: the night is shattered / and stars shiver blue in the distance.' The design and work were done by Ram at Fat Ram's Pumpkin Tattoo in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.

I read Merwin's translation of Neruda's Twenty Love Poems when I was fifteen, and had that conversion experience, the moment when you realize this is what you want your life to be about. Not the sentiment, but the poetry. These poems, and this line in particular, convinced me that poetry can move between languages, times and places, freely and with no loss, when put into the right hands. When getting the tattoo, I considered getting the Spanish line: 'El amor es tan corto, el olvido es tan largo,' but chose the English because that was how I first encountered it. Out of all my tattoos it also hurt the most to get, fittingly I suppose--there was a moment where Ram was outlining the circles where it felt like my entire leg was on fire. Totally worth it."

I would add that I concur with Erica completely and offer up, as proof, my post over on BillyBlog in April 2008 here. I was running down my favorite poems for National Poetry Month and #28 was any of the poems in the book, and it just so happens I pointed to Poem XX as one shining example. The original edition translated by Merwin and illustrated by Jan Thompson is a must-have in anyone's library. But, I digress.

Erica offered us two poems, one of her own and one she translated. We'll share both:

(no subject) (spam poem #3)

good evening websit
Stop being a nervous wreck

I will like you to accept this token
So hard you can break an egg

hoping you will understand my point
this is not a myth

Every person dreams about meeting someone

~ ~ ~

Deus ex Machina

Throw the dice, Lord, your turn has come and it is winter. The trident is cornered, the mountains covered with a skin of ash. Lord, behold light?s song here, your due, in the stillness of the sea and the pure discretion of the endless night. Behold your son, Fire, burning the whole surface with his touch and seducing the water with his gilded tongue. Look here, Lord, his stepsister Dawn, liquid hierophant, maker of shape. In their terrible language they tell of celebrations, obedience, sin. This time, Lord, throw to us the seed and the male of the healthier species. Don?t announce him by chance, because he will become a cry and rise up with the warm murmur of pavement, and once again be lost to us, punished, denied. Let none but you, oh Lord, wield the butcher?s knife this time; mature a chord when life ceases and rain unexpectedly cleanses the lovers? yoked hips. Throw the dice, Lord, your turn has inevitably come. Cast them without fear from your wide hand, because luck?s twelve sides won?t wait, and the sky points towards multitudes and disaster. Throw them, Lord, your turn has come and it is burning summer.

Translation of ?Deus ex machina.? From La invenci�n del d�a [The Invention of the Day]. � Jos� M�rmol. By arrangement with the author. Translation � 2011 by Erica Mena. All rights reserved.
Published in Words Without Borders, November, 2011

Erica Mena is a poet, translator and print designer, not necessarily in that order. Her poetry and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Vanitas, The Dos Passos Review, Pressed Wafer, Arrowsmith Press, Words Without Borders, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, PEN America, Asymptote, Two Lines and others. She is the coordinator and co-host of Reading the World Podcast, a monthly conversation about literary translation. She is the founding editor of Anomalous Press.

Thanks to Erica for contributing this wonderful entry of the tattooed Poets project on Tattoosday!

This entry is �2012 Tattoosday. The poem and tattoo are reprinted with the poet's permission.

If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit http://tattoosday.blogspot.com and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.

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Winner: Joe Capobianco's "Blood Puddin" Giveaway

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Get a Free Copy of Ed Hardy - Tattoo The World DVD

We got sent a couple copies of the new Ed Hardy DVD, and were a bit nervous when we got the glossy dvd box with free temporary tattoos… would this be about Ed Hardy the artist or about a glittery clothing line by Christian Audigier? After watching I have to say it was a [...]

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Donnerstag, 10. Mai 2012

Licensing & Strategic Partners

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10 Funniest food tattoos

Apara Bhattacharya: If you consider yourself a fun loving person, then you will love to get included in the clan of these funny dudes, who gave us a fun filled and laughter evoking side of body inking. But, it is also important to remember that these guys are either avid f

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The Tattooed Poets Project: Amy Rafferty

Today's tattooed poet is Amy Rafferty.

Amy narrates her history of getting tattooed:

"I've never been that sure why I got my tattoos and to be honest I'd probably put it down to poor impulse control.

I got my first when I was seventeen. Me and my friend Suzy were wondering around bored one day and we found ourselves looking in the window at Terry's Tattoo Studio. We could see all the big, hard men in there, grimacing and posing, with their arms covered in thistles and doves and black panthers.

To us it looked dead exciting and grown up and 'cool' and so we snuck in for a closer look.
An hour later we came out, all red-faced and tearfuI, me with a butterfly on my stomach and Suzy with a flaming heart on her shoulder.

We thought we were pure rock 'n' roll but we were too scared to tell our parents what we'd done. We both left it at that but then, ten years later, I got a Chinese good luck symbol on my back, ostensibly to bring me good luck but mostly it was to impress a sailor I was keen on.

My dragon was next and that was to show I was brave (or getting braver) and the flowers on my leg started off as a single bud from when my friend Polly and I went to get tattoos together and over the years the bud has grown. I think there's some meaning in that.

In 2007 my Dad died suddenly and I had this strange instinct to let him know that I was okay, that I was coping, and so I think that's why my flower grew as it did.

And if somehow my Dad was aware of all this? Well he'd probably be shaking his head and saying ruefully "daft lassie, what are ye up to now?"

I love the idea of that. He thought when it came to making big, life-changing decisions that I was an idiot and yes, he was probably right but he also showed a grudging and loving admiration for my impulsive side.

For now, I think I'm done with tattoos, but you never can tell when I'll take a wee notion for another."

It's cool seeing the evolution of this, Amy's floral tattoo, that has grown along with her.

She sent us this lovely poem:

Directions.

What you remember of them most is

that they could not stop talking,
and that the road from Inverardran veered left,
and took you from the kirk by the Toll
of Atholl to the Shoulder?s Choke
where you heard them both,
heralding their own as the worst.

Then by Stob Binnien,
shrouded in cloud and the eldest,
who sucked black mints,
black-tongued, bright-eyed and spry.
She picked at stitches and thought aloud
if it had been made in ?Ehberdeen?
then it would have been made fitter
for its own purposes.

And the younger, the witcher,
the one you loved,
all hook-eyed and pleasure driven,
passing the pretty lace between them.
She pulled it through but worse
this time, tighter, the threads biting.
She winked at you, slowly, dropping a lid
and said ?it just depends who you know?

And then Ben More and the great pools,
the flooded lights of Saint Fillan,
patron saint of the mad and the over-bound

and between them, a circle of pretty white lace,
holding them both together.

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Amy Rafferty is a Glaswegian living in the West Midlands. Her poetry and prose can be found in several anthologies and publications, both on-line and off.

In 2009 she received a highly-commended mention for her poetry collection, P�tursd�ttir and the Land of Tiny Voices and in 2010, two of her poems were short listed for the international Fish poetry prize. Amy is a postgraduate student of Creative Writing at Glasgow University and sings with the cult, Glasgow band, The Recovery Club. She is also the baby in the graveyard scene of the original Wicker Man movie but she doesn't like to talk about it.

If you should wish, you can hear Amy singing here.

Thanks to Amy for sharing her words and ink with us here on Tattoosday!

This entry is �2012 Tattoosday. The poem and tattoos are reprinted with the poet's permission.

If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit http://tattoosday.blogspot.com and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.

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The Tattooed Poets Project: Francesco Grisanzio

Every year I meet at least one of the poets featured on the Tattooed Poets Project. Francesco Grisanzio lives in New York and I got the chance to personally photograph his tattoos, which he offered up for us here on Tattoosday:

Francesco explained:

"My tattoos are of the characters from a comic strip I draw, or at least used to draw.

It's been a few years since I made a new strip. The comics haven't been published, but I did receive a great rejection letter from the paper at UMass Amherst when I was a student there.

They said something along the lines of 'We love the art, but you know that this content is unpublishable. Clean it up and we'll talk.'

The tattoos were done in Woonsocket, RI at American Art Tattoo."

Francesco offered up this poem:

Teenage Heaven

After Eddie Cochran

The Coupe, phone, big city?
freedom, Eddie, is what it boils down to.
Sharp crew cut cardigan,
our dearest son,
patriot, toe tap child rebel against homework,
enjoy the benefits of citizenship.
You?ve earned it.
Here?s three dollars.
Have a swell weekend.
We trust you not to make a mess.

But it?s not just youthful ignorance
or innocence where you choose to do what?s right on your own.
We?ve been to the drive in show,
seen peacock letterman, gorilla arm not content on headrest.
How dare you chuckle. She?s just a child.
My God, Eddie, there?s nothing ?little snack? about six hotdogs.
That?s beyond ingestion. Where will they all go?
What are your intentions with our daughter?
We know she?s beautiful, but show restraint.
Little lady, you?re young. This is heaven.
You can run. This is America.
Please. He?s an animal. A beast.
And, Eddie, we?re very disappointed in you.

~ ~ ~

Francesco Grisanzio is currently working on his MFA in poetry at The New School. He earned his BA in English from UMass Amherst. His work has appeared or will be appearing in Word Riot, Fawlt, Why I Am Not a Painter, Strange Machine, and Interrobang!? Magazine.

Thanks to Francesco for his contribution to the Tattooed Poets Project on Tattoosday!

This entry is �2012 Tattoosday. The poem and tattoo are reprinted with the poet's permission.

If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit http://tattoosday.blogspot.com and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.

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Job/Work realted tattoos.

I tried searching and didn't find anything on this subject. Does anyone else...

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Velvet Panther: Paradise Tattoo Gathering

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Velvet Panther is a Titanium Sponsor for the
2012 Paradise Tattoo Gathering.

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Dinosaur Tattoos

I was wondering if anybody had any examples of these? I'm thinking of getting...

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Mittwoch, 9. Mai 2012

Video : Three Tattooers , One Tattoo . White Dragon, Belfast.

Awesome stuff, one tough bastard getting tickled by 3 awesome artists
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Celebrity Tattoos

When looking for new tattoo design ideas, one place that many people begin is by looking at pictures of celebrity tattoos. These tattoos of the stars are helpful in choosing what you want, and what to avoid. (Do you really want the same tattoo as the Backstreet Boys?)

The following lists of celeb tattoos reflect the most popular tattooed celebrities on the Web. Here are the stars that received the most number of Google searches on phrases like "celebrity tattoo designs" and "celebrity tattoo pictures."

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Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson explains the meaning behind his tattoo...

In this video, The Rock explains to the WWE Universe the meaning behind his Polynesian tattoo. It's a great video so I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

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10 Creative body paintings

Apara Bhattacharya: If we refer body paintings as the reflection of artistic mind that create masterpieces, we are not at all wrong. These are some body paintings that will leave you dumbstruck due to their appeal, color combination and the way the artists have morphed hu

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I have to try this when I'm in Kuala Lumpur!!!

To date, I've heard three people rave about this 'must try' burger in Kuala Lumpur. When a Singaporean raves about a burger which is 315 kilometers away, it's gotta be good! The thing is...It isn't some fancy burger from a diner nor is it from �a new fast food outlet. It's far from it!

The burger in question is prepared at a street stall and Malaysians call it the sloppy burger. Om Burger, the name of the stall, prepares their burgers with LOTS of margarine. Enough to make a heart surgeon cringe like a bitch! You know what they say right, if it ain't healthy, it'll taste great!

Check out these videos...

I don't know about you but those two videos got me drooling! I need a sloppy Om Burger ASAP!!!! Om Burger is located outside a 7-11 store along Lorong Kolam Air Lama, 68000 Ampang Jaya. From what I hear, there aren't any tables or chairs. But who says you can't enjoy a kickass burger standing up?!

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I MISS BALI!

I didn't realize how much I missed Bali till I looked at my photo album. Besides the 2005 bomb blast, every other trip was mind blowing. I was always privileged to have great friends for company. Made some awesome Balinese friends too. My last trip was in early 2006...

I miss the beaches in Bali...

My closest friends at the time. That's Don and Eddie on my left and right...

Look at my eyes. I was stoned EVERY F'ING NIGHT! I was fat too! Eeeeeks!

Y'all know I'm a beer slut right? I would drink up to 30 of these babies every day. Bintang ROCKS!

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A Quote from Eddie About TattooFinder.com

"Just wanted to drop you a line to tell you what a great site you've got and to thank you for the service you provide. I purchased my last design from you and it looks great. My tattooist was only too glad to use the artwork I gave him & I think it's a great way to do business. I've already picked my next design & have put a couple more in My Gallery for future reference. Again, a big thank you from a satisfied customer." - Eddie - United Kingdom

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Dienstag, 8. Mai 2012

My Collection of Silicone Bracelets

I'm totally into silicone bracelets. Besides them being awesome accessories, it's the awesome and meaningful messages that they put across. It's a great way to raise funds and create awareness. I believe in the messages of all the bracelets in my collection. I don't wear them because they look good. Heck some of them are really plain and one is pink in color.

Well these are some of the silicone bands that I own...

from top to bottom: Haiti Earthquake fundraising bracelet, World Peace & Stand-up Against Domestic Violence.

from top to bottom: Wave Appeal - Tsunami Relief, Breast Cancer Awareness & End Terrorism.

Dads for life, Support US Troops & Livewrong (do anything that makes you happy).

The following are my favs of the lot...

I was bullied as a child so this anti-bullying bracelet means a lot.

This is a Aids awareness bracelet. Enough said...

Nike Stand Up Speak Up Anti-Racism bracelet. Racism ain't cool and you know!

This my favourite. Gays have rights too and they deserve to be happy no matter which part of the world they are from. I hope to see same sex marriages legalized in Singapore some day.�

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The Dot and the Line

This is Katie's tattoo: This is inspired from one of my favorite children's books by Norton Juster called The Dot and the Line. �Not only do I absolutely adore this story of a line hopelessly in love with a dot, but it was also the first book I ever found and bought from the independent [...]

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R.I.P Emma Yong

Rest in peace Emma. You will be missed.

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Tattoo Statistics

With the increasing popularity of tattoos in nearly every culture, we here at TattooFinder.com thought it would be fun to share some tattoo stats that have been recorded over the years. Educate yourself and show off your new knowledge! Great for parties, awkward silences, and impressing that special someone!

The Pew Research Center, February 2010
- 15% of 18-25 year olds think that the increase in people being tattooed has caused a positive impact

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The Tattooed Poets Project: Erica Mena

Among this year's Tattooed Poets' submissions, this is one of my favorite photos:

Photograph by Julie Chen

This was submitted by the poet Erica Mena, whose tattoo was inspired by the great Pablo Neruda.

Erica gives us the detail behind these wonderful tattoos:

"This is my most intimate tattoo, my Neruda tattoo: 'Love is so short, forgetting is so long.' It's a full line (punctuation included) from Poem XX of Neruda's Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair in translation by W.S. Merwin. The fish in concentric circles is the symbol printed on all of Neruda's books from mid-way through his career, and was drawn from the bronze statue at his most famous house in Isla Negra. The other two images were drawn by the tattoo artist, in response to two other lines from the same poem: 'The same night whitening the same trees. / We of that time are no longer the same.' and 'Write, for example: the night is shattered / and stars shiver blue in the distance.' The design and work were done by Ram at Fat Ram's Pumpkin Tattoo in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.

I read Merwin's translation of Neruda's Twenty Love Poems when I was fifteen, and had that conversion experience, the moment when you realize this is what you want your life to be about. Not the sentiment, but the poetry. These poems, and this line in particular, convinced me that poetry can move between languages, times and places, freely and with no loss, when put into the right hands. When getting the tattoo, I considered getting the Spanish line: 'El amor es tan corto, el olvido es tan largo,' but chose the English because that was how I first encountered it. Out of all my tattoos it also hurt the most to get, fittingly I suppose--there was a moment where Ram was outlining the circles where it felt like my entire leg was on fire. Totally worth it."

~ ~ ~

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"My tattoos are of the characters from a comic strip I draw, or at least used to draw.

It's been a few years since I made a new strip. The comics haven't been published, but I did receive a great rejection letter from the paper at UMass Amherst when I was a student there.

They said something along the lines of 'We love the art, but you know that this content is unpublishable. Clean it up and we'll talk.'

The tattoos were done in Woonsocket, RI at American Art Tattoo."

Francesco offered up this poem:

Teenage Heaven

After Eddie Cochran

~ ~ ~

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