El Mejor Diseño Del Tatuaje: July 2008

Complex Sleeve Tattoo Design

v8 Sleeve Tattoo, originally uploaded by The Tattoo Studio.This colorful sleeve tattoo features many artistic elements including a drag racing funny car with checkered flag and a gasoline nozzle that's connected to a heart. Other design elements include an eightball with dice and a zippo lighter - a highway sign and four aces - all on a background of reversed stars.

Skull and Roses Tattoo Photo

newskool skull and roses, originally uploaded by bizarre ink edinburgh.Nicely shaded skull tattoo with roses. I think it's a forearm tattoo.

Interesting Arm and Shoulder Tattoo Design

my arm as of last tuesday, originally uploaded by qichao.This upper arm tattoo is very unique including, if I'm not mistaken (correct me if I'm wrong), two miniture Woody Allen tattoos flanking a watchful eye underneath shaking hands and - what I think is a mason's symbol. I imagine there's a lot of personal stories behind the choice of symbols.

Shattered Faith

On Tuesday, I met Shawn in Penn Station. He and a friend had visited to New York City from Albany to catch the band Shattered Faith last Monday night at a Brooklyn venue called Club Europa.

The band is not familiar to me, despite the fact that they are an Orange County-based punk band that has been playing since the late 1970s. They grew out of the same scene that spawned the great L.A. Punk scene in the early '80s, but they never made my radar.

According to Shawn, this was their first U.S. tour, so he was glad to catch them live on the East Coast.

Shawn has about a dozen or so tattoos, half of which are band logos.

He had a sweet X tattoo on his right forearm. The piece featured above is the Shattered Faith logo and was inked by Jack Kowalzyk at Primal Graphics Tattoo in Albany.

Check out Shattered Faith at their website www.shatteredfaith.us. You can listen to some of their music in the audio section. You can also check out their MySpace page here.

Another benefit to writing (and reading) Tattoosday is the fact that I am occasionally is educated about bands that had been prevoiusly unknown to me.

Thanks to Shawn for taking the time to talk to me and helping introduce Shattered Faith to Tattoosday readers!

Bonus: A YouTube video featuring Shattered Faith performing in 2006:

A Year Ago Today, Tattoosday Was Born

When, on July 31, 2007, I posted my first installment of the weekly Tattoosday feature on BillyBlog, I didn't know what I had started.

Had you told me then that, a year later, Tattoosday would have spun off from BillyBlog, that it would have set a personal best in July '08 with over 13,000 hits, and that I would be posting daily, I would have been skeptical.

Nonetheless, that's what has happened. And, although I expect a drop-off in visits as summer ends and shorts and tank tops give way to jeans and long-sleeve shirts, I am pleased with how Tattoosday has progressed.

I want to thank everyone who has visited and contributed to the success of Tattoosday. It's still a little baby blog by blogosphere standards, and its stand-alone self (apart from BillyBlog) doesn't celebrate a full year until September 8, 2008, which is BillyBlog's 3rd anniversary.

The lingering question is this: will Tattoosday surpass BillyBlog in traffic by then? As of July 31, Tattoosday had just over 48,000 hits in a little less than 11 months, whereas BillyBlog is at 63,500 hits just a month and change shy of 3 years. Check back on September 8 to see what happens.

Inkily yours,

Bill

Mona's Pocket Watch Honors her Grandfather's Memory

On Monday, I ran into two hair stylists walking west on 23rd Street. Both were inked, and both graciously agreed to share one of their tattoos with us here in the blogosphere.

The photo above is one of three pieces that Mona has. She currently has a sleeve in progress. This pocket watch will eventually be part of a unified sleeve, but Mona explained how this stands apart from the rest of the design.

She identifies the pocket watch with her grandfather, who she always remembers had one on him at all times. His surname was Baltazar and, despite being adopted, she shares his family name. The (time) piece is dedicated to him.

This tattoo was inked by Regino Gonzales at Invisible NYC.

Thanks to Mona for sharing her tattoo, along with her memories of her grandfather, here on Tattoosday.

See below (or here) for her friend Kara's tattoo.

Kara's Astrological Ink

In the post above (or here), I met two hair stylists this past Monday, who both had tattoos. The photo above is of one of three tattoos on Kara.

Kara is a Pisces, born on March 3, and she found a design that she liked to represent that aspect of her.

This tattoo was inked about six years ago at Allstar Tattoo in St. Louis, Missouri.

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

Star Tattoo Design on Girl Foot

Sexy girl with permanent star tattoo design in red color.

Butterfly Tattoo on Sexy Foot

Permanent Butterfly tattoo design on the sexy foot of girl.

Beauty Girl with Permanent Flower Tattoo

Young beauty girl with colorful permanent flower tattoo in the sexy body.

Permanent Flower Tattoo 2

Cute and sexy permanent flower tattoo on girl.

Permanent Flower Tattoo

This is a beautiful permanent flower tattoo in sexy girl body. She look's great with this tattoo design.

This is going to be our website for now, we will update it as much as we can with travel dates, updated pictures, and news. Check out the links at the bottom of the page to see our work, if your interested in getting tattooed send one of our artists a message through this page or their personal page or you can call the shop at 440-946-0005.