design japanese cherry blossom tattoo for sexy girl tattoosThursday, October 1, 2009
design japanese cherry blossom tattoo for sexy girl tattoos
design japanese cherry blossom tattoo for sexy girl tattoos
Annie Cherry and Bindlestiff Willy in New York City
I met Annie Cherry outside of Penn Station in early September. She was talking with Bindlestiff Willy. She had visible tattoos. He did not.
I approached them and introduced myself.
This is Annie:
And here is Bindlestiff Willy:
Both perform with a group called the Kansas City Society of Burlesque.
They had been in New York City performing out on Coney Island the previous weekend and were heading home.
Annie graciously allowed to photograph her two tattoos, juxtaposed nicely on her inner forearms:
She explained the one on her left arm, saying it was a shooting star, about to be launched from a slingshot. She said the tattoo represents creative inspiration and that it reminds her "not to take herself too seriously".
Incidentally, several weeks later, I met a woman with a similar tattoo, only justaposed differently on the left arm. I was shocked to see it, but she explained that it was also a band logo for the group Gogol Bordello.
The snake on her left arm represents knowledge to Annie, and a reminder that the destination is not always reached by taking the straight path.
Both tattoos were inked by Chet Duvenci at The Mercy Seat Tattoo & Art Gallery in Kansas City.
After talking about her tattoos, Annie informed me that her traveling companion Bindelestiff Willy had a couple of great tattoos, as well. They were inked at The Mercy Seat also, but by different artists.
Damian removed his jacket and rolled up his sleeves to reveal the tattoos on his upper arms.
The first is on his upper left arm:
If this classic pin-up girl looks familiar, scroll up to the top of the post and take another gander at the photo of Annie.
The tattoo is modeled after her. The phrase "Clowns need love too" is self-referential. This piece was inked by Scott Shickman.
Damian, who performs under the name of "Bindlestiff Willy," is a pantomime specialist who does a great Charlie Chaplin routine. The pun in his stage name combines the "bindle stick" commonly carried by hobos and tramps (in the Chaplinesque sense) and the raunchiness of "stiff Willy".
His second tattoo, on the right arm, is a portrait of Charlie Chaplin's "Little Tramp" were he still alive. Of course, as the 1889 implies, Chaplin is a skeleton today, so the traditional tattoo takes a macabre turn.
This piece was done by John Monk.
A big thanks to Annie and Willy for sharing their awesome tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!
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I approached them and introduced myself.
This is Annie:
And here is Bindlestiff Willy:
Both perform with a group called the Kansas City Society of Burlesque.
They had been in New York City performing out on Coney Island the previous weekend and were heading home.Annie graciously allowed to photograph her two tattoos, juxtaposed nicely on her inner forearms:
She explained the one on her left arm, saying it was a shooting star, about to be launched from a slingshot. She said the tattoo represents creative inspiration and that it reminds her "not to take herself too seriously".
Incidentally, several weeks later, I met a woman with a similar tattoo, only justaposed differently on the left arm. I was shocked to see it, but she explained that it was also a band logo for the group Gogol Bordello.
The snake on her left arm represents knowledge to Annie, and a reminder that the destination is not always reached by taking the straight path.
Both tattoos were inked by Chet Duvenci at The Mercy Seat Tattoo & Art Gallery in Kansas City.
After talking about her tattoos, Annie informed me that her traveling companion Bindelestiff Willy had a couple of great tattoos, as well. They were inked at The Mercy Seat also, but by different artists.
Damian removed his jacket and rolled up his sleeves to reveal the tattoos on his upper arms.
The first is on his upper left arm:
If this classic pin-up girl looks familiar, scroll up to the top of the post and take another gander at the photo of Annie.
The tattoo is modeled after her. The phrase "Clowns need love too" is self-referential. This piece was inked by Scott Shickman.
Damian, who performs under the name of "Bindlestiff Willy," is a pantomime specialist who does a great Charlie Chaplin routine. The pun in his stage name combines the "bindle stick" commonly carried by hobos and tramps (in the Chaplinesque sense) and the raunchiness of "stiff Willy".
His second tattoo, on the right arm, is a portrait of Charlie Chaplin's "Little Tramp" were he still alive. Of course, as the 1889 implies, Chaplin is a skeleton today, so the traditional tattoo takes a macabre turn.
This piece was done by John Monk.
A big thanks to Annie and Willy for sharing their awesome tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!
Japanese Tattoo Design
Most people don't end up choosing the Japanese tattoo design that they truly want. The reason this happens is because the internet is so overcrowded with generic, low end artwork and people end up settling for it. They are either in a rush to get tattooed (which his never a good idea) or they think they can't find anything better. Well, here are simple techniques to you to the galleries that will have a great Japanese tattoo design.Men and women are not having an issue locating tattoos on the net. It's just that the slew of generic artwork is overwhelming most of the time. If you are trying to use a search engine (like 95% of people do) to find your Japanese tattoo design, this is where you are going wrong. It's not your fault, though. It's just that search engines are very bad at pulling up top notch galleries of tattoos. It's usually the bottom of the barrel places that come up and people go to them without hesitation.
Not only will you find one generic Japanese tattoo design after another, but this holds true for any style of tattoos you are searching for. It's a never ending database of bland, out dated images. The truth is that there "is" great artwork out there and you can use another method of searching to uncover them.
It can be done by using internet forums to find the Japanese tattoo design you want. You don't even have to like forums to accomplish this. There are even whole forums solely dedicated to tattoos if you want to go that route. I am sure you can find a ton of topics where people are asking where the great galleries of tattoos are. If you peek inside, you will be able to find all of the hidden galleries that other men and women have found. It's an easy way to the Japanese tattoo design that you might have never seen. You can actually find hundreds of fresh Japanese tattoo design pieces this way.
It sure beats going blindly into the search engine results and coming away with generic images that you aren't thrilled about. No matter what Japanese tattoo design you end up liking, you will want to make sure you are 100% happy with it before going to get it tattooed.
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