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The Tattooed Poets Project: Vicki Iorio

We're kicking off this year's Tattooed Poets Project with a tattoo that seems, ahem, apropos-etic:


This poetic foot belongs to Vicki Iorio, a New York poet. She explains the tattoo:

"My group of Long Island poets have the pleasure of reading at the Wyld Chyld Cafe and Tattoo Parlor in Merrick, NY. I watched Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan, the poet laureate of Suffolk County get "poet" tattooed across her shoulder blades. [Tammy will be appearing on the site later this month.] She recited poetry while her back was bleeding, I knew at that moment I would have to get one!
It was a cold January night, Sixx tattooed my right foot with a beautiful scripted "poet." It was a beautiful moment and I love my tat and all it signifies. A slew of woman poets have been tattooed by Sixx. A tattooed sisterhood, indeed."
Here is a poem from Vicki:

Tattoo 56
 
I will get a tattoo next birthday
no one will care
it won't be like birthday 13
when I dyed my hair purple on a shoplift heist
shaved off eyebrows
pierced frozen ears with a needle
hacked off bushy black fur under stockings

I will find an illustrated man
his head bald and shiny
eyes so blue I will see straight through
to his good heart, diamond stud in one ear
massive arms shocking to the touch.

My spider will go willingly to his fly.
I will tell him what I want
where I want it.

After validating plastic worth,
my pirate will lead me to his table
gift me with little hurts
celebrate me electrically
wrap me in gauze
sing the praises of Bacitracin
wish me a happy birthday.

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Vicki Iorio is a Long Island poet who hangs around tattoo parlors. Her poems have been published in various publications including hell strung and crooked. She is saving up for another tattoo!

Thanks to Vicki for sharing her poetic tattoo and tattoo poem with us here on Tattoosday!

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Hunk of Certain Age







A section of flash available next weekend at the Tattoo Convention in Vancouver.


Tattoos I Know: Beth's Ink Ushers in the New Baseball Season

Well, folks, it's March 31, which means several things, First and foremost, after a long, cold winter, and a rough start to spring, baseball season starts today. And although, the last time I checked, there was a 70% chance of rain for the New York Yankees home opener against the Detroit Tigers today, baseball fans everywhere are just a tad excited that their team's 162 game-long drama is about to begin.

So, it seemed fitting that we share this tattoo, belonging to our cousin Beth:

Photo by Melanie Cohen

Beth is a diehard Yankees fan and she got this inked on September 16, 2005. For the record, the Yankees beat the Toronto Blue Jays north of the border that day 11-10 thanks, in part, to two Robinson Cano home runs and Mariano Rivera's 40th save of the year.

This is one of Beth's three tattoos, a fact not lost on me, as I have been wanting to post her ink on the site ever since we started back in 2007. However, we just never got around to it and this photo was shot last June in New Jersey by my wife, Melanie, at another cousin's baby shower. I thought, at the time, that we would save this picture for the day the Yankees won the World Series, but last year that ambition fell short in the ALCS. So we saved it for Opening Day, instead.

The tattoo was done by Thomi Hawk at K & B Tattooing & Piercing in Hightstown, New Jersey.

I should also add that, back in August 2007, I was sitting in my seat at PNC Bank Arts Center, between sets, when I noticed a very similar tattoo several rows ahead of me. I thought, "Man, that tattoo looks just like Beth's, and in the same spot [on her upper right back] too!" Of course, it was Beth, and we were both unaware that we were attending the show. And to think I spotted her in all that humanity by noticing her tattoo!

I mentioned at the top of the post that it being March 31, meant several things. Aside from Opening Day, it's also opening day for the inkspotting season, as far as I'm concerned. Posts have been few and far between over the past few months and that's about to change. Tomorrow begins National Poetry Month, and we will be embarking on our third annual Tattooed Poets Project: 30 days of tattoos from poets across the country. And, I will assume, that I'll be having regular Tattoosday encounters, which will reappear in May, throughout the month.

Play ball!

Thanks again to Beth for sharing her cool patriotic Yankees tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

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One year later. Jeremy X Jeremy

Did a rough sketch a while ago, 
Jeremy Riley 2009

 Then did a better version to make a new shop shirt.



 Instead of printing it, I sent it to Jeremy Shantz in Montreal.
Here's a couple of versions of what he did:

Jeremy Shantz Spring 2010





Jeremy Shantz Spring 2010

 There is an art show starting this Friday April 1st, at The Goods Screening and Apparel, 
featuring wearable art, and this t-shirt design above will be available there. 

So one year later I finally colored my old lines. 
I took the old line drawing and painted it this week, and it will be at the show.
There will also be some prints available.

Jeremy Riley Watercolor March 2011


It's funny how it all started from a little sketch in the sketchbook.





Shaun Tan you Rock my World!

I just have to acknowledge the stellar and utterly deserved success of a fellow Aussie, a fellow creative and some-time fellow spec fic con panelist, Shaun Tan, who today was announced to have won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Prize!

WOO-HOO!

And this on the back of an Academy Award [TM] in Animated Short for the Lost Thing.


Wonderful, wonderful...

Well done, sir.

DON'T WASTE ANOTHER MINUTE

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No es ningún secreto el hecho de que tanto en la moda como en la vida, muchas cosas se van tan  pronto como llegaron. Cuando Bambi apareció en escena, lo primero que pensé fue que se trataba de la nueva Tallulah Morton: con su breve momento de gloria y su posterior desvanecimiento. Sin embargo, muchos la apuntan como la cara australiana más destacada desde el descubrimiento de Abbey Lee (que ya es decir). Sólo espero que así sea y que haya venido para quedarse de verdad, y más si lo hace protagonizando editoriales con imágenes tan increibles como éstas para la edición de primavera de 10 Magazine, trás el objetivo del fotógrafo estadounidense Tierney Gearon. Un shoot que refleja un espíritu libre que corre jóven y natural por el desierto y los alrededores de Palm Springs.

It's for sure not a secret that in fashion, as in live happens, loads of things just  go as fast as they had arrived. When Bambi came to the main scene, I firstly thought she was the new Tallulah Morton: with a great but short minute of glory and with her subsequent fading. However, she has been pointed as the most outstanding australian model since Abbey Lee discovering. I only hope it to be like that and she'll stay for long, and mainly if she continues doing this kind of amazing shoots as the one she protagonized for 10 Magazines's spring issue. The american photographer Tierney Gearon signs this editorial that reflects a free, young and natural spirit running around Palm Springs outskirts.

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tattoo-joker

Perfection

SMILE LIKE YOU MEAN IT

Si os pensabais que la sequía duraría eternamente, debo deciros que aún teneis Belén para rato. Y es que aunque fué ya hace un mes cuando, bajo el cielo de un lluvioso Madrid, comencé mi segunda aventura cibelina no podía no comentar nada al respecto. Tuve la suerte, por no decir milagro, de ser una de los 21 bloggers acreditados durante la semana de la moda madrileña, y aunque tan sólo pude asistir durante el fin de semana he de decir que ha sido una de las mejores ediciones que mi memoria alberga. Los cortes, el color y la joyería de Ana Locking, las texturas de Duyos, los colores pastel de Ailanto, el siempre genial  y tan suyo Davidelfín, el minimalismo y los coloridos volúmenes de AA de Amaya Arzuaga, la caida de las telas de Juana Martín, el juego entre lo masculino y lo femenino en Ángel Schlesser, Juanjo Oliva, las prisas del backstage, los últimos retoques, la alegría del Kissing Room, el street style, el clipdub cibelino, el showroom de El Ego, la sala de maquillaje, pero por supuesto todo esto no se podía haber disfrutado de la misma manera sin la  maravillosa compañia de Mai, Rebe, Fabi, Piter, Valen, Paula y un largo etcétera.

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9 CONCLUSIONES A TENER EN CUENTA ACERCA DE CIBELES

1. Por muy mona que creas que vas a ir, si vas a pasar allí muchas horas: no, no lleves tacones o acabarás sentada en cualquier bidón rincón del backstage y con los zapatos en la mano.

2. Como ya dijeron  Valen y Paula, nunca te hagas una foto al lado de una modelo, o al menos no la enseñes por ahí. Será el fin de tu autoestima.

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3. O llevas una cámara buena con un objetivo maravilloso, o con la poca luz que hay en las salas, tendrás 500 fotos y sólo 2 decentes. (Propósito de año nuevo: ahorrar para una reflex)

4. Procura llegar pronto a los desfiles aunque tengas sitio asignado. Si no, siempre te quedarña correr a la escalera al principio del show, eso si, ver davildelfín de rodillas no tiene precio.

5. Si ves a Jon Kortajarena pasar a tu lado, sujétate.

6. Las escaleras de servicio, glamourosas donde las alla...serán tu mejor aliado para hacer fotos con luz, esa  que escasea dentro...

7. Desayuna fuerte y abundante, o acabarás alimentandote a base de tooooodas las barritas de special k que reparten.

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8. Huye de la muchedumbre que grita como loca para conseguir revistas gratis. Igual te las llevas a casa...pero recuerda que vienen con un paquete de codazos gratis.

9. Disfruta de cada momento y abre bien los ojos para no perderte ni un sólo detalle de lo que ves, estas en Cibeles! Enjoy.

Face Palm

Squint

Three Roses

Home is Where the Star Is

Yesterday in Penn Station, I met Jonathan, whose one tattoo caught my eye when I passed him in the Amtrak waiting area.

Except, sometimes, a fragment of a tattoo doesn't necessarily reveal the whole piece. As in Jonathan's case, I saw the back of his arm, and this segment, which resembled (to me, at the time), a crude figure with the beginning of a speech bubble emanating from its mouth:


I felt rather silly, however, when Jonathan agreed to participate and showed me the full tattoo:


The figure I imagined, of course, is really Long Island, and the balloon was the southern tip of the state of New York.

Jonathan explained that he is from Rochester, marked on the tattoo with a star, and that he lived in the same house growing up there for eighteen years. It's a New York state of mind, indeed.

The tattoo was done at Big Joe & Sons Tattooing in White Plains, New York.

Thanks to Jonathan for sharing his stately tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!


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A COUPLE NEW ONES FROM AROUND THE SHOP.

ROD DID THIS FUN JAMMER.
HUDGE DID THIS SIDE BEAST GRIFFIN IN ONE SITTING LAST WEEK.

Sun King

To Caroline Wojo

Well, I just formulated a reply to a certain lady in the USofA only to have the email bounce. So, I thunk to myself, how can I get the response to her. Well, my thunking proceeded, hows about making it a blog post, that way she just might stumble upon it. So here it is...

(apologies to long time Sundergirdians if I repeat myself)

Dear Caroline,

I have indeed read your email and here I am replying (at last!!!) just cause I can and, well, because more importantly you had the goodness to write so a reply is the least I can do.

As to advice about writing, I always find this a perplexing question - I am not a product of some tribe of formal training, it is an intuitive process for me, learning by doing, rather than the application of set rules. I am sure there are rules rolling about in this great intuitive blob but they are not what I am most aware of (argh! I ended a sentence with a preposition!!!)

Probably the best formal "rule" given by another author is: Plot is Character in Action.

As for the writing of fantasy: Avoid All Cliches like they are Swine Flu... ... that said, you might still perpetrate a few, but if your general intent is to avoid them, then you general will, and just might give to the world something that lightens and improves people's lives, not just numbs them with frothy oft-repeated blah.

The best practice I ever had and will ever have I think is reading, and reading well, by which I mean those books acknowledged as "classics" (though I do not find them all so), written with truth and mindful intent by folks with clear skill, not just to cash in on the latest fad. Having said that, it has not been some deliberate intent on my behalf, just that after reading Lord of the Rings I found that the only texts that really hit the same "button", that approached the same delight were not all the pulpy (in the worst way) fantasy fare, but the likes of Steinbeck, Kafka, Fitzgerald, Hesse, Galico. You see, my conviction is that if you're going to write it ought to be as good as you can make it, not just hammering away on the keyboard to get out a product, but show the contents of you soul to others in a way that is both utterly true of you and considerate of them.

I hope I am making sense.

Perhaps the best thing I can do is tell how it is that I have some thing to even write about, a bit from my own life, maybe that will help...? See, the real moment for me where a light bulb clicked and I really wanted to write was the reading of Lord of the Rings when I was 12-13. I immediately pulled out a large sheet of paper and began drawing my own Middle-earth-esque map, begun to write my own story (all 26 foolscap pages of it! - which I thought a lot at the time). Yet barely begun I quickly realised I was not able to really say what I wanted to say, that I was not quite long-lived enough, that I knew in my soul what I wanted to achieve (something even half as life changing as LOTR) but that I had not been on the earth long enough nor yet possessed quite the capacity to do as my hero, Tolkien, had done.

So, I stopped writing.

(Actually, I did at about 15 or so begin a new tale all my own, with my own ideas that after 60 odd pages devolved into teenage angsty blah, but I WAS writing, so that is something)

Yet in me continued to burn a desire to create a work that shifted me as LOTR shifted me. Finally, in second year uni and with and hour and a half bus ride one way I was reading all manner of goodly books, until finally I hit one - Titus Groan - and then pop! The dual inspirations of LOTR and this combined and I began to invent what eventually became the Half-Continent.

That was 20 years ! ago. It has grown little bit by little bit ever since, drawn from all those things around me that delight me, working them into my own distinct whole.

So my intent in this little tale is to say most of all, be patient with yourself, writing is a skill that will only (Lord willing) improve with age and experience, indeed, it is a journey of a lifetime. So keep writing, that the great ideas you are having now will unfold into even greater ones.

Now, as to developing characters: well, I suppose I ask myself how they might react in a given situation, and am a bit tough on myself to make sure that I keep the character true to how they would really be, not just making them go they way I want to plot to go. So we come back to it, Plot is Character in Action. The best advice I can give here is let your characters tell you what they would do next rather than you forcing them against their true selves to go in some predetermined direction. This forcing of a character ALWAYS breaks either them or the integrity of your story. And if you are wondering how they might be, watch people, see how they are for real, and read history and/or biography to see how folks in time have behaved - real life is always odder than pretend. Doing this I reckon will give you a much bigger pallet of reactions and emotions to draw from. Also, I would say the writing of characters is acting on slow motion, that you become that character like an actor might and perform their part (in your head of course, though you might yourself like to be more demonstrative - each to their own).

The writing of detail is a craft my editor will tell you I am still yet to master myself. You must remember in reading my words or those of proper writers is that we have all been edited, all been helped hugely to be the best selves we can be. What I can say is that detail for me is a matter of passion, I really care a whole lot about all the bits and pieces, the lay of a belt, the fold of a cloth, the bend in a road and the lean of a stand of young pines - you know what I mean. Description of details in NOT an Inventory of Stuff - just some long list of objects, it is an expression of my delight in the all the "bits" that make this character, this scene, this (pretend) world tangible, visceral, right here and now. I get the feeling you love details too, so write from that love, that passion, your own delight for all the accoutrement's that matter to you.... And be prepared to edit edit edit it all down to the best of it.

A great adventure (and trials too) stretches out before you... But you don't need me to tell you that, I can tell you already know it.

Phew, and here was me thinking I was just going to give you a quick missive in response to let you know I received you email and was thinking about how to answer... Well I guess I have done that then... :/

DMC

Dragon Tattoo

Andrew Stetson

The Tattoosday Book Review: Tattooed by the Family Business

I’ll cut right to the chase: if you’re going to buy one tattoo book this spring, make sure it’s Tattooed by The Family Business, a feast for the eyes and a new standard by which all tattoo photography books should be judged.

Simply stated, this book is gorgeous, heavy on high-quality photography, focusing on the wonderful body art created by Mo Coppoletta and his crew of talented tattooists at The Family Business Tattoo Shop, a London-based establishment that has been producing breath-taking work since 2003.

If you're not familiar with Copoletta, or his studio, the book gives readers a peek inside the world of the Family Business. But aside from a one page foreword, and a couple pages of introduction, this lovely book is light on text, and heavy on images from photographers Fredi Marcarini and Chris Terry.

Image copyright: Fredi Marcarini and Chris Terry
Taken from Tattooed by the Family Business (Pavilion)

The two hundred plus pages are filled with lush images of life in the shop and, more importantly, the high quality work created by the artists. Divided up into five sections, titled "The Family," "The Business," "The Art," "The Work," and "The Patrons," this is not just about Coppoletta and his own work. The reader is also introduced to the whole family: Kanae, Mie Satou, Dominique Holmes, Diego Brandini, and Diego Azaldegui.

Some may draw comparisons to the books the American tattoo artist Kat Von D, which I have favorably reviewed in the past on this site. Tattooed by the Family Business is in a different league. It is as you would expect, Von D's books are busy and filled with words and images; whereas Coppoletta's book exudes a classiness to which other artists can only aspire.

In fact, an online review hardly does it justice. Photography dominates and, whereas the tattoo, or the process of tattooing is always at hand, the beauty of the book also lies in its images. Ultimately, I believe, it's what most serious artists want to see in a tattoo book. Although some may criticize that, in some of the photos, the details of the tattoos themselves are lost in the framing of the photograph, I would argue that these images are just as compelling as the close-ups, as one sees the way the tattoos are placed, and how they flow along the lines of the human form.


Image copyright: Fredi Marcarini and Chris Terry
Taken from Tattooed by the Family Business (Pavilion)

Image copyright: Fredi Marcarini and Chris Terry
Taken from Tattooed by the Family Business (Pavilion)

One of the neat features within this volume are several sketches on pages designed to resemble transparencies, where are laid over images of the tattoos themselves. The reader is treated to the full-page two-dimension image from which the artist drew his inspiration, and then can compare it to the end result.

Here on Tattoosday, where most of the tattoos we see are from New York-based artists, I have, in several years, only had the pleasure of encountering Coppoletta's work once, documented here. Therefore, getting to see a more expansive look at his work, as well as that of other artists in The Family Business, is a real pleasure.

Tattooed by the Family Business is a veritable feast. I keep returning to it, marveling at the craftsmanship and beauty of the tattoos. I highly recommend it to artists and aficionados alike. The book is a work of art in and of itself, and the fact that it so beautifully and simply celebrates the art makes it a must-read, a must-relish, and a must-have for every tattoo library.

some jeff roberts paintings and comix!!

'"poo poo in the sky with peanuts"
"im gunna mow yer Lard"
"the LOPE Garoo" read enlarge!! check out YODAEYESROBERTS blogspot
Tattoo

Blessed

Jesus

Tattoo

Text under tattoo possible some part of Bible or just some prayer.

Shaggy Blond

from: JAMES H.
to: tiangotlost@gmail.com
date: Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:15 AM
subject: Young & Dumb

A friend got me this tattoo years ago and I was told it meant "fear no man". Being young and dumb as most 18 year olds are, I didn't bother to make sure. Now after looking into it a little more, I'm not sure what it is. Please help!!



棺材佬 means "coffin man".

However, the middle character of 木見才 or 木貝才 does not exist in Chinese character list.

Tattoos with exact same error can be seen here & here.

Butterflies and Flowers

RON!!!


A SUPER SWEET LBT COVER UP RON DID.

WE'RE BACK



NO POSTS THERE FOR A LITTLE BIT BUT WE'RE BACK IN THE SADDLE NOW. WE WENT OUT TO RENO FOR THE LADY LUCK CONVENTION WHERE WE SPLIT A BOOTH WITH OUR RENO LOCAL BUDDIES ACES TATTOO. HERE ARE A COUPLE PHOTOS OF OUR NEW SUPER SWEET BANNER THAT WE PAINTED FOR SAID EVENT.

Johnny Hazzard