Ben's Amazing Back Piece

With the Tattooed Poets Series under way last month, I was a bit remiss in posting about the "regular" tattoo encounters.With apologies to the following volunteer, I am presenting some amazing work on a gentleman named Ben, who I spotted back on April 2 while walking through Penn Station.Ben was wearing a short-sleeve shirt and had tattoos covering his arms. When I approached him and explained

Karen's Colorful Ink Glows in More Ways than One

Autumn has not been good to us here on Tattoosday. Inkspotting has been, um, spotty, at best, and most of the work I have seen has been indoors and/or below ground.On Tuesday, I glimpsed some color peeking out from a woman's sleeve as she walked south on Seventh Avenue.When I stopped to talk to her, Karen was gracious, despite the chill in the air, and filled me in on the two pieces (yes, just

Tom's Two-for-Tattoosday Ink Honors His Heritage and His Love of the Yankees

After a bit of a drought of inkspotting, I finally caught some new tattoos in Penn Station on Tuesday, along the L.I.R.R. corridor.Tom has "19 or 20" tattoos and is working to some day achieving a full sleeve on his left arm. He offered me these two tattoos (for Tat-Tuesday), whose close proximity on his forearm made them the natural choice.On top is the trinacria of the flag of Sicily. This

Representing Levittown

This isn't the first Long Island tattoo here on this blog (see Ian Jones' post here), but it is the first specifically marking one place on Long Island.This tattoo belongs to Dave, who told me that he and about 8 or 9 friends share the exact same piece, "geographically correct".There's not much to this piece other than that it is an homage to his home in Levittown, a hamlet in the Town of