Daniela Shares a Sliver of Italian Sleeve

Earlier this month, we headed to the Brooklyn Bridge area to have lunch with friends visiting from out of town. After pizza at Grimaldi's, we ambled down to the water to get some ice cream and soak in the sights. It was there that I met Daniela, a gentleman visiting from Italy. He was kind enough to share a segment of his sleeve:

He was with a group and was in a bit of a hurry, but I did manage to find out from Daniela that the artist is Edoardo Iacovoni at Moko Tattoo Studio in Rome.

It is always wonderful to meet people with body art from places other than the United States, and the tattoo community in Europe is filled with so many talented practitioners of the art. You can see more of Edoardo's work on the shop's Facebook page here.

Thank you to Daniela for sharing his wonderful tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!




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mango white shirt - kristen tweed blazer by berrybenka- new look flower shorts - june&julia shoes

I wore this outfit when I went to a mall in Malaysia a few days ago.
I very rarely wear a blazer, because I'm very hard to find a blazer that can fit well in my body
I'm very hard to pick the right blazer :(
but now, I really like this blazer, a straight cut with a simple model make ​​me fall in love with this blazer.
This blazer comes from the same sponsor berrybenka , thank you so much berrybenka for giving me this blazer.
This blazer will greatly add to my collection, yeayyy ;D

Remembering Julien's Father

A couple weeks ago outside of Madison Square Garden, I met Julien, who shared this portrait of his father:

As it turns out, today, July 20, 2012, marks the twentieth anniversary of his passing. Julien was only seven years old when his father died.



This wonderful portrait was inked by the always-amazing Virginia Elwood at New York Adorned.



Via e-mail, Julien explained the name at the top of the portrait:

"I actually chose my last name rather than my father's name because I got the tattoo done a few months after my grandfather (father of my father) past away, this way paid homage to both of them, and honor my family name at the same time. Since my father past away when I was 7 years old, my grandfather became very important to me."

Thanks to Julien for sharing this lovely tattoo with us here on Tattoosday, and for agreeing to let me post it on the anniversary of his father's passing.



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Jesse's Stargate Tattoo is Forever Tied to His Father

I spotted this tattoo on the Court Street subway platform in Brooklyn Heights back in April.



This piece belongs to Jesse, who had this inked at Sanctity Tattoo in Tucson, Arizona.



Jesse explained that he and his father both got this tattoo because they watched the science fiction show Stargate SG-1 together. These are alien runes that were seen in one of the episodes.



Both he and his father regarded this concept of alien life and although they "didn't exactly believe in it, but something similar...". It's certainly a deep concept to fully accept.



What makes this tattoo all the more meaningful is that Jesse and his father both shared the experience of getting the same tattoo on his 20th birthday. As it turned out, his father passed away about two months later.

In this way, the meaning of the tattoo evolved, from a symbol of his enjoyment of a television show to a reminder of a shared experience with his father before he died. Both the intellectual and emotional aspects of the piece are significant.



Thanks to Jesse for sharing this powerful tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!




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Kitty's Owl-Girl, Preserving the Memory of Ben Zehner

I met Kitty back in May at a Starbucks at the corner of 31st and 7th in Manhattan. She is an actress and children's book illustrator. She also does alternative modeling, burlesque, and blogs over at The Tattooed Artist.



She shared this tattoo above, which was inked by Ben Zehner out of Studio Seven Tattoo in Wilmington, North Carolina and gave me a little history about the piece:

"It was his own [Zehner's] creation ... he was a painter, this is actually a painting he did that was very very beautiful, it was ... three feet by two feet wide, it's very large, very beautiful painting and, of course, I couldn't afford the painting, it was just too extravagant. So he scaled it down for me and when I moved to New York a couple years ago, he tattooed it on me and then, unfortunately, last November, he passed away ... it's a good piece to remember him by, absolutely gorgeous piece, I'm very very happy with it and I wish I could get more, but at least I have an original piece that is never going away."

Meeting people with tattoos done by artists who have passed away is not too common, but when it does occasionally happen, it is interesting to hear how people talk about the tattoos. Getting a tattoo from someone is a very intimate experience and to lose someone with whom one has shared that bond is hard to imagine. I have found that often the tattoos carry more emotional meaning when their artist is deceased. It is as if the host knows they are helping preserve the artist's memory and work even after the creator has moved on.



Thanks to Kitty for sharing this very poignant tattoo with us on Tattoosday!




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