Tattoo Coomments: 2008-08-31

Michelle's Amazing Owl Tattoo Honors Her Dad

I follow a method to creating content for this blog and I generally post ink in the chronological order that I see it. Sometimes a post may take longer because it requires more research. Other times, a tattoo is so good, it deserves to be seen right away. The tattoo above is one of those that demanded it be posted immediately. It helped that the story behind it is short and sweet.

I had left the office for lunch on Friday and I spotted this owl (sorry, bad pun) going into Starbucks. I suddenly realized I had left my camera on my desk. What to do? Run upstairs and risk missing the chance? Ask her to send me a photo? Then, I realized I had my phone, a recent upgrade, with a functioning camera. But would it take a good tattoo picture?

I believe so.

This is Michelle's tattoo, covering her upper left arm. It is dedicated to her father, who is her very own "wise old owl". The tattoo artist was Marina, who was apprenticing at Fly-Rite Studio, in Brooklyn.

All I can say is, "Wow." Not only is it an amazingly beautiful piece of body art, but it rendered the dozen or so tattoos I saw throughout the day uninteresting. When you fly first class, it's hard to go back to sitting in coach.

Everything I've seen come out of Fly-Rite has been spot-on. See other tattoos that were inked st the studio here.

Thanks again profusely to Michelle for sharing her wonderful owl tattoo with us here on Tattoosday, and thanks to Marina for inking such a cool piece!

MY 1979 MONTE/ MOTEL HELL

HERE ARE A COUPLE OF FLICKS OF MY MONTE BEING WORKED ON FOR THE EXHIBITION BEING HELD AT THE MESA ARTS CENTER. THIS CAR WAS ORIGINALY OWNED BY DOC OF LIFESTYLE C.C. IN 1979 WHO ROLLED IT DOWN WHITTIER BLVD. A YEAR LATER IT WAS CANDY PAINTED BY BIG ED AND IN 1983 BOB AND SONS PUT THE TUCK AND ROLL THAT STILL BLESSES THE CAR TODAY. THE ONLY THING THAT I DID TO THE INTERIOR IS ADD A BILLET STEERING WHEEL AND A CLARION DVD HEAD UNIT. WHEN I WAS A KID AND I DREAMT OF MY PAINTINGS I NEVER THOUGHT MY CAR WOULD BE THE CANVAS.. ITS NOT ALL ABOUT ME THOUGHT THERE ARE ARTIST THAT WILL BE FEATURED THAT ARE MY FRIENDS AND INFLUENCES. MIKE PICKEL IS AN O.G. CAR BUILDER AND ARTIST AS A MEMBER OF THE BEATNIKS C.C. HE WILL BE THERE TO EXHIBIT LOWRIDER ART. HE IS BEST KNOWN FOR DESIGNING THE LOW RIDER MAGAZINE LOGO AND DRAWING PORTRAITS OF BOMBAS LOWRIDERS SLAMMED TO THE TEETH. JACK RUDY ALSO A MEMBER OF BEATNIKS C.C. IS FAMOUS FOR BEING THE GODFATHER OF BLACK AND GREY. JACK IS A REAL LOWRIDER AND THE ON THE HOMIE THAT I KNOW THAT HAS DROVEN A LIFTED CAR WITH WHITE WALLS TO NEW YORK AND BACK. ESTEVAN IS KNOW FOR HIS ABILITY TO CAPTURE THE RAW STREETS LOS ANGELES AND STREET CULTURE FROM AROUND THE WORLD HE IS ALSO MEMBER OF LIFESTYLE C.C. THERE WILL ALSO BE WORLD FAMOUS PINSTRIPERS DANNY D AND HOME TOWN HERO BUGS GONZALES.....

I spotted this absolutely beautiful butterfly on the back of Gillian at a street fair in Manhattan last Saturday.

Gillian and her sister got the same butterfly together just before she left for college and before her sister headed off on a trip to Europe.

The butterfly can represent numerous things. In Gillian's case, it not only represents a bond with her sister, but it also is a symbol for a journey through life.

This piece was inked at Purple Lotus Tattoos in Frisco, Colorado, by Brett.

Thanks to Gillian for sharing her butterfly with us here on Tattoosday!

Had I not forgotten to get my daughter Shayna her copy of Judy Blume's Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, I wouldn't have wandered into the Court Street Barnes & Noble in Brooklyn on Labor Day and spotted this awesome butterfly koi above.

Belquis, who has five tattoos, explained that this tattoo represents an interpretation of the koi fish mythology, where the koi is rising out of the water, about to turn into a dragon.

The piece was designed by her friend Karleen Ang, and inked by Kazuhisa (Kaz) Matsumoto at New York Adorned. Belquis has been loyal to Kaz since he was an artist working out of his home. When he moved to Adorned, she followed.

Belquis added, "All five of my tattoos were done by Kaz...I have an ohm (neck), the ambigram (neck), dark fairy (left back shoulder), my first and middle name in Arabic under the symbol for Zahir (right back shoulder). All black." Who knows? Maybe we'll see more of Bel's ink in the future here on the blog.

Work from NY Adorned has appeared on Tattoosday previously here.

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

Adam & Jamie draw a MONA LISA in 80 milliseconds!

Adam and Jamie, hosts of the known mythbusters show compared a CPU vs a GPU to explain parallel processing and the GPU drew an ACTUAL mona lisa drawing using paint balls in 80 milliseconds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this was for NVIDIA's NVISION Show

A Special Kind of Graffiti Art from Russia

Vitaly Rusakov, known as Mizer - an underground artist from Russia has some really great artworks that you can come across in Yekaterinburg. These illustrations may not be in line with the sometimes obscene images or messages graffiti usually transmit, but that is why it’s more interesting. Here are some peaceful, fun and creative artworks I wouldn’t mind finding on my wall.