Thursday, July 7, 2011

Lindsay's Two-Wheeled Tattoo

Bike messengers are daily presences in Manhattan and, in the summer, if you are lucky enough to spot one that is not whizzing by on the street, you can see some pretty interesting ink. In almost four years of Tattoosday's existence, I don't think I've ever featured a tattoo on a bike messenger, as they tend to be at work and/or in motion whenever I feel inclined to stop one.

However, last month, I was fortunate enough to catch Lindsay in the lobby of my office building and she shared this tattoo on the outside of her right calf:


This is one of nine tattoos that Lindsay has, and it seemed most appropriate to share, under the circumstances.


She says that this is a complete piece, despite many people mistakenly thinking it's not finished. She found the art on which it is based in an issue of Dirt Rag magazine. She explained that she worked with her friend Shawn Ramsey, who helped her take the original image and convert it into a tattoo:
"I worked in a printing shop at the time, so I printed this on a 8 by 10 to scale it so you could see how it fit in a magazine ... then [Shawn] finished it and it became a full color piece ... I really liked the sketch."
Lindsay also wanted to give a shout-out to Kenny Brown at Jack Brown's Tattoo Revival in Fredericksburg, Virginia, who she called her "favorite artist ever".Work from that shop has appeared once before on Tattoosday, here. Check it out, it's an awesome tattoo.

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


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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Ryan’s Steadman Sleeve

I spotted Ryan in my local laundromat, a surprisingly good spot for finding tattoos in the neighborhood. As I mentioned a long time ago over on BillyBlog here, Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is one of my favorite books, and the illustrations of Ralph Steadman only enhance the volume's sheer brilliance.

So, once I realized the theme of Ryan's sleeve, I hoped he'd agree to share his ink with us here on Tattoosday. Thankfully, he did:


Ryan is a native Brooklyn resident, and is a huge fan of Steadman. And this iconic image above graces the cover of Thompson's best known book.



The tattoo artist that Ryan is working with on this sleeve is Cris at Puncture Tattoo Studio in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn.




The figure at the top of this piece is the Steadman-imagined Hunter S. Thompson.




The image below Hunter is from the cover of Steadman's America:




Ryan says that all of this work spans "about a year and a half, altogether, session by session, [over] five or six sessions." He adds, "it’s not done yet, it’s gonna go all the way up ... I’ve just been at this stage for a little while now."


I was particularly interested in the piece with the American flag, which Ryan told me was from America, referenced above.



Ryan's work is certainly ambitious and the fact that he intends to continue the work into a full sleeve is certainly intriguing. I'm looking forward to seeing what's next!


Thanks to Ryan for sharing his work with us here on Tattoosday!





















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Tuesday, July 5, 2011

The New GUESS Women’s Spring/Summer 2011 Lookbook

Summer 2011 Lookbook

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Summer 2011 Lookbook

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Summer 2011 Lookbook

Dresses and skirts are definitely must have this summer. The GUESS Women’s Spring/Summer 2011 Lookbook provide some dress or skirt styles according to different body types and clothing styles, so go for the ruffled mini skirt or casual dress paired with a cute cardigan or jacket style. Floral prints, as well as uni-color look amazing, so try to step out of the zone of dull colors and experiment with different colors of summer. The GUESS Women’s Spring/Summer 2011 Lookbook offers a variety of fashion items and accessories trendy style to combine, so you can travel with your own clothing style.

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Melissa's Afterglow

I took a little break here at Tattoosday over the long weekend and I hope that you didn't miss us too much!

Today's tattoo is one of the simpler ones, but I think it is also spectacularly original.

A couple weeks back, I ran into Melissa at a Dunkin' Donuts and she offered up this intriguing piece:


Melissa explained:

"It's just an abstract representation of my [home]. So instead of having pictures of my family or the family shield, it's an outline of a house I grew up in, the tree and the yard - it just represents my family."
As for the word "afterglow," Melissa explained that her dad had passed away a couple of years ago and there was a poem on the back of his mass card and that it is in memory of him. The poem in question is likely this one:

After Glow

I'd like the memory of me
to be a happy one,
I'd like to leave an afterglow
of smiles when life is done.
I'd like to leave and echo
whispering down the ways,
Of happy times and laughing
times and bright and sunny days.
I'd like the tears of those who
grieve, to dry before the sun
Of happy memories that I leave
When life is done.
                             ------ Author Unknown
Thanks to Melissa for sharing this cool tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!



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Saturday, July 2, 2011

Jaimie's Emersonian Ink


 "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself" are the words inked across Jaimie's back. I spotted her down the street from my home in Bay Ridge.

I asked Jaimie to explain why she got these words from poet Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "Self-Reliance" on her back:
"This has been my favorite quote for years," she told me. "I studied American literature in college, so I studied a lot of Emerson." She also noted that the quote is "very true".

She had this tattooed in Manhattan on St. Mark's.

Thanks to Jaimie for sharing this great tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

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Friday, July 1, 2011

A Cure for Friday

It may be the first of July, but it's the end of the work week, and I thought, "What better way to end the week than with this tattoo?"


This belongs to Christina, who loves The Cure, whose song "Friday I'm in Love" inspired this tattoo.

Christina is French, and she credits her friend, Tomas Lebrun, with tattooing this for her in Paris.

For a little perspective, and appreciation, here's the Cure performing the song in New York in 2008:



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

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