JOJO TATTOO: April 2010

Friday, April 30, 2010

Nice Cat Tattoo

RANDOM TATTOO QUOTE: I dropped my pants in a tattoo parlor in Amsterdam. I woke up in a waterbed with this funky-looking dragon with a blue tongue on my hip. I realized I made a mistake, so a few months later I got a cross to cover it. When my pants hang low, it looks like I'm wearing a dagger!” ---- Angelina Jolie

Dragon Tattoo on Sexy Girl Back Body

Jesus Tattoo Design on Back

Beautiful Butterfly Tattoo For Girls - Back Tattoo Design

Cool Tribal Tattoos on Back and Arms For Men

Tribal Tattoo on Male Back

Butterfly Tattoo on Sexy Butt

RANDOM TATTOO QUOTE: I'm planning my most ambitious tattoo yet. You can never have enough tats. ----Amy
Winehouse

Flower Tattoo Design Female Side Body

Flower Skull Tattoo Design on Male Arm

Flower and Butterfly Tattoo for Girls

Female Feet Tattoo - Butterfly Flower Tattoo

Tattoo Ideas For Girls Blossom

Japanese Geisha Tattoo

RANDOM TATTOO QUOTE: A quote is just a tattoo on the tongue. ----William F. DeVault

Flower Tattoo Ideas for Girl Feet

Rose Flower Tattoo on Sexy Girls Side Body

Japanese Flower Tattoo Design on Abdomen

Lower Back Flower tattoo Design for Girls

Honey Bee Flower Tattoo Abdomen tattoo Design

Armband Tattoo

Armband Tattoo Design

RANDOM TATTOO QUOTE: A tattoo isn't something you put on or take off just like sunglasses. It's a very important decision. ----Karl Kinsky

Floral Tattoo on Back and Arm Sleeves of Sexy Girl

Male Tattoo Ideas for Arms

Arm Tattoo Ideas For Girls - Female Arm Tattoo Designs

Tribal Arm Sleeves Tattoo Design

Flower Skull Tattoo Design on Male Arm

3 Stars Tattoo on Male Model

3 Stars Tattoo on Male Model Hand

RANDOM TATTOO QUOTE: A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always
more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition. ----V. Vale and Andrea Juno, Modern Primitives

Peacock Tattoo Design on Girls Arm

Female Arm Sleeves Tattoo Design

Tattooed Girl - Back Tattoo and Arm Sleeves Tattoo

Sexy Girl Arm Sleeves Tattoo Design

Full Arm Sleeves tattoo Design on Girls

The Tattooed Poets Project: Cody Todd

We are extending the Tattooed Poets Project through the weekend, giving those who have been enjoying the poetic ink, a little bit more to tide them over until next year.

Today we are being visited by an old friend, Cody Todd, whose tattoos appeared here last year.

This is his latest tattoo, four weeks old, inked at Purple Panther Tattoos off of Sunset in Los Angeles:

Cody provided this explanation:

Not too much of a story behind this. It is Marv and Goldie from the "The Hard Goodbye" of Frank Miller's Sin City. The artist who did this is from Tokyo, and her name is Koko Ainai. I admire the precision of her work in copying Miller's extremely elaborate sketching. As Marv and Goldie embrace, he is holding a gun he apparently took away from her and a bullet hole is smoldering in his right shoulder as he lifts her off the ground. That tattoo is the first of what is going to be a kind of sleeve in parts in which I take different scenes from noir films or works and decorate my whole left arm with. Upon seeing Farewell My Lovely with my girlfriend last week, I decided to get the front end of a 1934 or 1936 Buick as my next tattoo.

...I am doing my critical work for my PhD at USC on the "western noir," which is a term I sort of coined for a specific genre of film and literature concerned with elements that typically comprise classical film noir, except they take place in cities in the western part of the United States. As we see in the film, Sin City, it has a "Gothic City" feel to it, but it is most certainly somewhere out in western Nevada, or California. I think the motifs of lawlessness, street and vigilante justice, and the disillusionment with the American Dream are all at work in this kind of genre, and that it also borrows many elements from the Western as a genre as well. If anyone wants to read good literary western noir, I would direct them, promptly, to read Daniel Woodrell, who takes the noir theme and brings it to the Ozarks and southwest Missouri. If Chandler and Faulkner had a love-child, it most certainly would be Woodrell.

Head over to BillyBlog and read one of Cody's poems here.

Cody Todd is the author of the chapbook, To Frankenstein, My Father (2007, Proem Press). His poems have appeared in Hunger Mountain, Salt Hill and are forthcoming in Lake Effect, The Pinch, Specs Journal and Denver Quarterly. He received an MFA from Western Michigan University and is currently a Virginia Middleton Fellow in the PhD program in English-Literature/Creative Writing at the University of Southern California. He is the Managing Editor and co-creator of the poetry journal, The Offending Adam (www.theoffendingadam.com).

The Tattooed Poets Project: Jozi Tatham

Today's tattoo (and remember folks, we're continuing through May 2!) belongs to Jozi Tatham, who was referred to us by the Milwaukee Poet Laureate, Brenda Cárdenas (thanks Brenda!).

Her tattoo is certainly amazing:

Jozi had this tattoo done by Steve Bossler, who owns Greenseed Studios in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. She had met him originally at Papes Blue Ribbon Tattoo in Milwaukee. Steve splits his time between the two locations.

Jozi explains the inspiration behind this tattoo:

I have wanted this back tattoo for years now. Where the Wild Things Are was my favorite book growing up. Because I have since become a writer, it's extremely important to me to remember the childhood imagination and creativity that we are all born with, but which we often "outgrow". I refuse to grow up and let my imagination slip away, and hopefully having the monsters of creativity tattooed on my body will keep that close to me.

Please check out one of Jozi's poems over on BillyBlog here.

Jozi Tatham is currently a poetry MFA student at George Mason University in Virginia. She hails from Milwaukee, WI where she received her BA and the place which serves as "the inspiration for most of my being thus far." She has been published in newspapers and small publications in the Milwaukee area for poetry and nonfiction.

Thanks to Jozi for sharing with us here at Tattoosday!

Thursday, April 29, 2010

The Tattooed Poets Project: Phebe Szatmari

Well I am back in New York and posting this a little later in the day than normal. The good news for those of you enjoying the Tattooed Poets Project is that we will spill over until Sunday, May 2, before resuming our normal activities.

In the mean time, enjoy this amazing tattoo from Phebe Szatmari:

Phebe writes:

Driftwood, for me, symbolizes the worn, the weathered, the old, the beautiful—each piece takes on its own character. My wife and I have a large piece from Richardson Lake in Maine that resembles a leaping elk. Its movement and energy are striking.

I was also inspired by artist Deborah Butterfield who is known for her sculptures of horses (initially created from driftwood before being cast in bronze).

When I found tattoo artist Jason Tyler Grace, I knew that he had the artistic ability to render a realistic image that would also work with the contours of my body. I decided to get my tattoo in order to initiate a new dialog with myself—and because tattoos are hot.

Be sure to check out one of Phebe's poems here.

Phebe Szatmari was working full-time in an office in Manhattan when she learned there was a shortage of poets. She immediately dropped everything and is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing and Literature at Stony Brook Southampton.

In her spare time, Phebe freelance edits, teaches writing, volunteers at LIGALY (Long Island Gay and Lesbian Youth Center), serves as a judge for teen poetry slams, and practices parkour. Her poems will be published in the forthcoming Writing Outside the Lines 2010 anthology.

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

Full back Body Sexy Girl Tattoo

RANDOM TATTOO QUOTES: My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist. ----Johnny Depp

Geisha Tattoo Design on Sexy Girl Back

Religious Tattoo Design on Back Body

Chinese Dragon Tattoo Design on back

Sexy Women Back Body Tattoo Design

Tribal Turtle Tattoo on Sexy Girl Back Body

Cool Tattoo Design - Chicks Tattoo

RANDOM TATTOO QUOTE: With the Haidas, however, every mark has its meaning … ---- James Swan, Tattoo Marks of the Haida, 1878.

Cool Tribal Tattoos on Back and Arms For Men

Tribal Arm Sleeves and Back Tattoo For Men

Heart Tattoo on Female Upper Arm

Cool Tribal Tattoo Ideas For Men

Modern Japanese Girl Tattoo on Hand

Vampire Tattoo Design

RANDOM TATTOO QUOTE: My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist. ----Johnny Depp

Beautiful Star Tattoo Design For Girls

Sexy Star Tattoo Designs For Girls

Celtic Cross Tribal Tattoo

Sexy Lower Back Tattoo design for Women - Lotus tattoo

Sexy Girl Tattoo Art Photo

Peacock Tattoo Design For Female Tattoo Lovers

RANDOM TATTOO QUOTE: A tattoo is an affirmation: that this body is yours to have and to enjoy while you're here. Nobody else can control what you do with it. -- Don Ed Hardy

Flower Tattoo Design Female Side Body

Flower Skull Tattoo Design on Male Arm

Flower and Butterfly Tattoo for Girls

Colour Stars Design Tattoo on Side Girl

Stars Tattoo on lower back

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Japanese Dragon Tattoo Design

RANDOM TATTOO QUOTE: Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo. -- Nicole Appleton

Female Back Body Tribal Tattoo with Butterfly Tattoo

Bird and Heart Tattoo Design on Female Back

Religious Tattoo Design on Female Back

Fairy Tattoo Design on Sexy Female Back

Tribal Temporary Tattoo For Male back

Stars Birds and Cherry Tattoo on Back

RANDOM TATTOO QUOTE: I want to get a tattoo of myself on my entire body, only 2" taller. ---- Stephen Wright

Sexy Star Tattoo For Girls Feet

Stars Tattoo Design on Girl Feet - Feminine Tattoos

Nautical Stars Tattoo Design Female Lower Back

Stars Birds and Cherry Tattoo on Back

Star Tattoo Design on Girl Feet

Letter Tattoo Design on Sexy Female Side Body

RANDOM TATTOO QUOTE: A man without tattoos is invisible to the Gods. ---Iban Proverb

Dragon Tattoo on Sexy Girl Posing on Bike

Sexy Guns and Roses Tattoo Design on Female Lower Back

Sexy Dragon Tattoo for Girls

Star Tattoo on Chest of Sexy Girl

Artistic Tattoo Design on Sexy Girl Side Body

Full Back Japanese Koi Fish Tattoo

RANDOM TATTOO QUOTE: The one in the movie is not real, but my Casper tattoo is real, and it is my only one. ----Casper Van Dien

Tribal Tattoo on Male Back

Celtic Tribal Back Tattoo For Men

Tribal Arm Sleeves and Back Tattoo For Men

Beautiful Tribal Butterfly Tattoo on Female Back

Black Tribal Dragon Tattoo on Back

Nautical Star Tattoo Design

RANDOM TATTOO QUOTE: Your body is a temple, but how long can you live in the same house before you redecorate? -- Author Unknown

Male Back Tattoo - Tribal Tattoo

Tribal Tattoo Design For male Back

Tribal Art Tattoo Design on hand

Popular Tribal Dragon Tattoo Design Pictures Collection

Arm Tattoo - Tribal Tattoo

Iron Man Tattoo of Arc Reactor on Chest

RANDOM TATTOO QUOTE: The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation. ~James Cook, 1779

Sexy Nautical Star Tattoo Design on Female Chest

Colourfull Stars Tattoo Design For Girls

Sexy Stars Tattoo For Ears - Feminine Tattoo

Lower Back Flower tattoo Design for Girls

Honey Bee Flower Tattoo Abdomen tattoo Design

Arm Tattoo - Tribal Tattoo

RANDOM TATTOO QUOTE: My tattoo is a phoenix. I got the first when I was 16. I hid it for years. ----Ashley Scott

Tribal Temporary Tattoo For Male back

Tribal Sea Turtle Tattoo Design

Simple Tribal Tattoo - Back Tattoo

Tribal Arm Sleeves Tattoo Design

Hot Men Back Tattoo - Tribal Tattoo Design

Sexy Female Full Body Tattoo Design

RANDOM TATTOO QUOTE: But to become a freak one needs a strong character and unusual determination. ----George Burchett

Sexy Tattooed Girl with Lizard Tattoo Design on her Abdomen

Butt Tattoo Ideas for Girls

Full back Body Sexy Girl Tattoo

Letter Tattoo Design on Sexy Female Side Body

Sexy Female Full Body Tattoo Design

Celtic Style Male Srm tattoo

Celtic Style Male Arm tattoo

RANDOM TATTOO QUOTE: It will be an honour to represent my country and get all the kit, stay in the Olympic village, and, when I'm old enough, get a tattoo with the Olympic rings. ----Tom Daley

Male Tattoo Ideas for Arms

Arm Tattoo Ideas For Girls - Female Arm Tattoo Designs

Tribal Arm Sleeves Tattoo Design

Flower Skull Tattoo Design on Male Arm

Cross Tattoo Design on Male Arm

Dragon Tattoo Design on Male Hand

RANDOM TATTOO QUOTE: Tattoo on the lower back? Might as well be a bullseye. -- Jeremy Grey (Vince Vaughn)

Female Arm Sleeves Tattoo Design

Tattooed Girl - Back Tattoo and Arm Sleeves Tattoo

Sexy Girl Arm Sleeves Tattoo Design

Full Arm Sleeves tattoo Design on Girls

Floral Tattoo on Back and Arm Sleeves of Sexy Girl

Flower and Angel Tattoo Design

RANDOM TATTOO QUOTE: A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition. ~V. Vale and Andrea Juno, Modern Primitives

Flower Tattoo Ideas for Girl Feet

Rose Flower Tattoo on Sexy Girls Side Body

Japanese Flower Tattoo Design on Abdomen

Nautical Stars Tattoo Design on Shoulder and Back

Girly Tattoo Design - Stars Tattoo on Side Body Female

Dragon Tattoo on Sexy Girl Posing on Bike

RANDOM TATTOO QUOTE: Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage. ---- Drew Barrymore

Tribal Turtle Tattoo on Sexy Girl Back Body

Dragon Tattoo on Sexy Girl Back Body

Jesus Tattoo Design on Back

Beautiful Butterfly Tattoo For Girls - Back Tattoo Design

Cool Tribal Tattoos on Back and Arms For Men

Thailand Dragon Tattoo Design

RANDOM TATTOO QUOTE: Today, people with tattoos, body piercings, and brands are everywhere. They are shown in advertisements, on television shows, and in magazine and newspaper photographs. Even a glamorous toy icon, Barbie, comes with temporary tattoos. ----KATHLYN GAY, Body Marks

Flower Tattoo Design on Feet For Girls

Foot Tattoo - Flower Tattoo Design For Girls

Flower Tattoo Design on Arm

Big Rose Flower Tattoo design on ribs

Elegant flower tattoo

Beautiful Flower Tattoo Designs for Girls

Sexy Guns and Roses Tattoo Design on Female Lower Back

RANDOM TATTOO QUOTE: Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish ---- John Maxwell

Sexy Lower Back Tattoo Design

Humming Bird Tattoo Design On Female Lower Back

Lower Back Tattoo Design For Girls

New Lower Back tattoo Design Ideas

Stars Tattoo Design for Girls Lower Back Tattoo

Octopus Tattoo Design

RANDOM TATTOO QUOTE: If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. -Walt Whitman

Stars Tattoo on lower back

Beautiful Star Tattoo Design For Girls

Sexy Star Tattoo Designs For Girls

Star Tattoo Design On Wrist

Stars Tattoo Design for Girls Lower Back Tattoo

Monster Style Tattoo on Face

RANDOM TATTOO QUOTE: I always look for a woman who has a tattoo. I see a woman with a tattoo, and I'm thinking, okay, here's a gal who's capable of making a decision she'll regret in the future. ~Richard Jeni

Stars Tattoo Design on Girl Feet - Feminine Tattoos

Nautical Stars Tattoo Design Female Lower Back

Stars Birds and Cherry Tattoo on Back

Star Tattoo Design on Girl Feet

Colour Stars Design Tattoo on Side Girl

Large Angel Back Tattoo For Girls

RANDOM TATTOO QUOTE: Think before you ink! ~Author Unknown

Colourfull Phoenix Tattoo Design on Back

Geisha Tattoo Design on Sexy Girl Back

Religious Tattoo Design on Back Body

Chinese Dragon Tattoo Design on back

Sexy Women Back Body Tattoo Design

Celebrity Tattoo - David Beckham

RANDOM TATTOO QUOTE: The tattoo attracts and also repels precisely because it is different. -- Margo DeMello

Mike Tyson Tribal Tattoo

Pamela Anderson Sexy Back Tattoo

Celebrity Johnny Depp Arm Sleeves Tattoo

Alyssa Milano Lower Abdomen Tattoo Design

Tommy Lee OM Tattoo and Mayhem Tattoo

Angel Tattoo on David Beckham's Back

Alyssa Milano Celebrity Wrist Tattoo

Celebrity Anthony Kiedis - Portrait Tattoo

Angelina Jolie Tattoo

Arm Sleeves Tattoo and Chest Tattoo on Male

RANDOM TATTOO QUOTE: Women, don't get a tattoo. That butterfly looks great on your breast when you're twenty or thirty, but when you get to seventy, it stretches into a condor. ----Billy Elmer

Cool Tribal Tattoos on Back and Arms For Men

Tribal Arm Sleeves and Back Tattoo For Men

Heart Tattoo on Female Upper Arm

Cool Tribal Tattoo Ideas For Men

Modern Japanese Girl Tattoo on Hand

Peacock Tattoo Design on Girls Arm

Peacock Tattoo Design For Girls

RANDOM TATTOO QUOTE: For westerners, the tattoo has always been a metaphor of difference. ---DeMello, Margo

Sexy Lady with Full Arm Sleeves Tattoo

King Kobra Snake Tattoo Sleeves Design

Dragon Arm Sleeve Tattoo Design

Dragon Tattoo design on Arms and Chest

Asian Sexy Arm Tattoo Design

Butterfly Tattoo Design on Girl Feet

RANDOM TATTOO QUOTE: Before I almost used to think there was something wrong. Everybody else seemed to have the brakes on. A scene in a movie, a voice, a phrase was not for them volcanic. I never feel the brakes. I overflow. ----Anais Nin

Flower Tattoo Design Female Side Body

Flower Skull Tattoo Design on Male Arm

Flower and Butterfly Tattoo for Girls

Female Feet Tattoo - Butterfly Flower Tattoo

Tattoo Ideas For Girls Blossom

Butterfly Tattoo and Flower Tattoo for Female Back Tattoo

The Tattooed Poets Project: Steele Campbell

Today's tattoo comes to us from Steele Campbell:

Steele tells us how he came to choose this tattoo:

"I debated back and forth about exactly what tattoo to get and where, but this one seemed to come from within. It should.

This is the Campbell Coat of Arms with the Campbell Motto underneath with Claymore swords behind the shield, as it was the Campbell Clan that started the Black Watch. What can I say; we are known for being ruthless. And because the
Campbell blood courses through these veins, and even spills from them on occasion, I could not find a better representation of myself. It was done in Auburn, Alabama at Shenanigan’s Tattoo Parlour by Ember Reign, a hard-yet-sweet roller-derby-girl tattoo-artist (among other things) as a celebration of permanence. But as nothing gold can stay, only this tattoo and my blood have remained. As they will."

Check out one of Steele's poems here on BillyBlog.

Steele Campbell is currently living (and I mean that robustly). He is essentially transient, but has paused his peregrination at Auburn University to complete a Master’s Degree on the fiction of Marilynne Robinson. He is the recipient of the Robert Hughes Mount Jr. Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets two years running and has been published in Decompression, The Boston Literary Review, Rope and Wire and Touchstones. He is the student poetry editor of the Southern Humanities Review. You can visit him at www.steelecampbell.net.