Maggie, a Fan of Pink, Shares Some Ink

One of the pluses of working near Madison Square Garden is that concert-goers and fans are always about.

Occasionally, they can be found camped out near the artists' entrance on 33rd Street. The presence of fans milling about can often be great opportunities to spot tattoos, as in this case, previously.

Earlier this month, I chatted with some Pink fans out on the street and one of them, Maggie, shared her tattoos:


Maggie has nine tattoos in all, and these represent four of them.

She seemed surprised that I was interested, more so because there weren't typical "stories" behind the art.

The top piece is a tribute to her mother,

and the heart, the bands, and the angel wing are just elements she felt like adding.

I particularly like the free form of the heart design.


All work was done at Tattoo Heaven in Manhattan.

Thanks to Maggie for sharing her tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!

Joe's Tribute to His Uncle

I spotted Joe earlier this month outside of Penn Station. He has seven or eight tattoos, and chose to share this one from his right forearm:


Joe explained that this piece is a tribute to an uncle who had passed away. He had served proudly in the United States Marine Corps and had had a skull tattoo upon which was perched a top hat.

Joe collaborated with the artist, Pepe, at The Tattoo Shop in Medford, New York, to take that idea and customize it for Joe's arm. Another tattoo from the shop appeared earlier this week here.

The whole thing took about three and a half hours to complete.

Thanks to Joe for sharing this cool tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

A Little Sunshine on a Cloudy Day

I met Cristina on the R train several weeks back.

The weather was just beginning to turn cooler, and I noticed that summer had ended quickly, with no gradual diminishing of tattoo sightings, but a sudden disappearance, like shutting the light switch off in a large, bright room at midnight.

Cristina had this small, unusual tattoo on her foot:


Despite being small, I was curious to learn about this design.

Cristina explained that her husband travels a lot and that, on a whim, they each got sun tattoos while in Dallas. The designs are slightly different.


She told me her husband thought the sun tattoos were perfect for them because, he said, when they're together, he's walking on sunshine.

You can look at that as incredibly corny, incredibly romantic, or a mixture of the two. Cristina acknowledged that when she looks at her tattoo, it reminds her of what her husband said, about walking on sunshine, and that makes her laugh, which makes her happy, which can be a solace when her husband is traveling.

All from a little tattoo!

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

From style writing to art (a Street Art anthology)

Quelques français : Horfe, LSK (Les Sarko Killers), 1dex, Sek, ...

Expositions en cours : voir la colonne de droite.



Exposition avec Seen, Futura, Crash, Quik, West, Jonone, Blek Le Rat, Obey, Miss Van, Space invader, Zevs. L'exposition est accompagnée du lancement de l'anthologie "From Style Writing to Street Art" pour approfondissent l’aspect artistique de ce mouvement.

The gallery organizes a Graffiti and Street art exhibition which get together the masters of the 70s as well as their most important successors and the renovators of street art. Proud to fight for the recognition of Graffiti and Street Art as a major artistic movement, Magda Danysz publishes this fall an anthology about the History of this key artistic movement.

Exposition jusqu'au 21 novembre 2009

Ouvert du mardi au vendredi de 11h à 19h

et le samedi de 14h à 19h

Galerie Magda Danysz,

78 rue Amelot- 75011 Paris - France

Tél/fax : +33 (0)1 45 83 38 51

(M° Saint Sebastien Froissart)

http://www.magda-gallery.com

Bom.k expose à la galerie Montana Bruxelles

La galerie Montana propose une dizaine de toiles de l'artiste graffiteur bom.k



Bom-k (bombing killa) est originaire de la banlieue sud de Paris et commence à graffer au début des années 1990. L'exposition [a]érotik est prétexte à un déferlement de corps déformés et entrelacés dans la filiation d'Egon Schiele. Loin des artistes de salon, bom.k nous propose sa vision, parfois terrifiante, du corps humain. A voir.

Expo [a]érotik, boutique galerie Montana jusqu'au 5 décembre 2009.

Montana Gallery,

Rue de la Madeleine 19,

1000 Bruxelles - Belgique

Tel +32 (0)2 460 06 32 - Gsm +32 (0)472 86 46 98

www.montanagallery.be - Mail : info@montanagallery.be

1DEX and SEK reprezent ...

NAV Crew & KMF Crew

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