Osirus Tattoo

Meu nome é Thiago Gomes e sou tatuador no estúdio Osirus Tattoo localizado em Belo Horizonte MG. Tatuo desde 1996 e tenho influências de artistas, tatuadores e desenhistas da época, venho através desse divulgar meus trabalhos neste conceituado site. Obrigado!

Osirus Tattoo 

Endereço: Rua São Paulo, 279, Centro, Belo Horizonte
Telefone: 3201 17 74E-mail: toratattoo@hotmail.com

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Orçamento, Kanji no braço

"Olá, tudo bem pessoal?
meu nome é Renata, sou de São Paulo, capital.
Quero fazer essa tattoo no meu braço, com meu namorado, tem aproximadamente 10 cm de comprimento, 5cm de largura cada ideograma, no braço, quase no ombro.
Vocês têm experiencia em fazer Kanjis?
Ah, a tattoo seria no estilo mais original, com os traços não tão finos, sem nenhum efeito apenas na cor preta.
Aguardo resposta. Obrigada."

Renata: ichi.ren@live.jp

Tatuagens de Tomi Maehigashi, Tomi Tattoo São Paulo

Olá meu nome é Tomi Maehigashi, proprietária do studio Tomi Tattoo. Eu tenho 29 anos e tatuadora a 10 anos amo minha profissão! Estou enviando alguns dos meus trabalhos.


Tomi Tattoo
Endereço: Av.: Imirim, 907, Sl 02, São Paulo - SP
Telefone: 2239-6428 / 7809-1572.

              

  

The Tattooed Poets Project: Alexandra Teague

Someone recently asked me where I find all of these tattooed poets. A great question, and I owe thanks to many people, for most individuals come by way of word-of-mouth from other poets. But I also reach out on my own, often sending dozens of e-mails to writers around the country, and the world. It's like shooting an arrow into the dark, one can only hope the missive strikes a target.

I was recently poring over a copy of the anthology Poetry Daily Essentials 2007 and picking poets to e-mail. I stumbled across Alexandra Teague's "House Guest" and sent her my standard "ink-query." And sure enough, she became one of the few poets I wrote to out of the blue who replied because, not only is Ms. Teague tattooed, one of them is poetry-related. As she so aptly put it, "I sort of had to reply to you."

Without further ado, here are Alexandra's tattoos:

I was inspired to get the Japanese kanji for "poetry" after seeing a pin at the Poetry Magazine table at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference in 1999.



I'd been thinking about getting a tattoo and couldn't decide on a design, but as soon as I saw the kanji, I knew it was exactly right. I see it not only as a symbol of the art of poetry but also as a reminder to live poetically. I got the tattoo at a shop in Miami (I don't remember the name). I did a bit of research to confirm that the kanji was correct (since I don't know any Japanese), but I didn't have it really confirmed until several years later when a new friend, from Japan, said, "Do you know what your tattoo says?" And I said, "I hope so." Fortunately, according to her, it really does mean "poem" or "poetry."

She also shared this lovely tattoo:

The other tattoo is a couple of years old. It was done by Amy Justen at Sacred Rose Tattoo in Berkeley, California. I've always loved the ocean and wanted to live by the coast, so the California seagull is symbolic for me of my migration out West. Amy Justen has a background in fine art and does some really interesting, painterly work with white and grey, which I love, but which made some people think the tattoo was a decal when I first got it!

Be sure to head over to BillyBlog to read one of Alexandra's poems here.

Alexandra Teague’s first book of poetry, Mortal Geography, won the Lexi Rudnitsky Prize and has just been published (April 2010) by Persea Books. Her work has also appeared in Best New Poets 2008, Best American Poetry 2009, and The Yale Anthology of Younger American Poetry, as well as journals including The Missouri Review, The Iowa Review, and New England Review. She was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and has since lived in Arkansas, Missouri, Florida, Montana, Hawaii, and California. She currently teaches English at City College of San Francisco and lives in Oakland. For more information about upcoming readings and publications, visit www.alexandrateague.com.

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

Rebecca's Reiki Symbols of Healing

Last week I met Rebecca, who was waiting for an Amtrak train in Penn Station.

She had these tattoos on her inner wrists:


I recognized that they were kanji, but I didn't know that they were reiki symbols.

Reiki is a Japanese healing art, and Rebecca is a certified reiki practitioner.

As part of her certification and training, she studied enough to know that these symbols are accurate and refer to graphic representations of healing. Her right wrist speaks to long distance healing, and her left wrist refers to balance and healing.

Since reiki practitioners work with their hands, it seemed fitting that she had these symbols on her wrists.

She noted, as my wife has told me about her wrist tattoo, that the pain was very intense on this part of her body and that she passed out not once, but twice, in the course of having these tattoos inked over two sittings.

The tattoos were done at Gothic Tattoo & Body Piercing in New Hampshire.

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

Ivan Braz,das peles Suínas para as peles Humanas

Pessoal do A Tattoo, meu nome é Ivan Braz, sou de São Paulo capital e a alguns meses migrei dos treinos em pele suína para a prática em peles humanas. Apaixonado por tattoos praticamente a minha vida inteira, sempre desenhei e sempre fui inspirado pela temática das tatuagens. Comecei "tarde", mas em tempo. Tenho recebido apoio dos amigos e do tatuador Ninho Gonçalves, que atualmente trabalha na Espanha. Minha intenção é mostrar o resultado da batalha que enfrentei para adquirir e conquistar a confiança para transmitir a arte às pessoas. Tatuagem é para mim, paixão, é a explosão da arte. Obrigado e sucesso sempre!!!

Ivan Braz
E-mail: i.braz@hotmail.com

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 Tattoosday, he enthusiastically agreed to participate. In fact, he removed his shirt to reveal an incredible back piece:



The one problem with featuring huge tattoos like this is not getting all the details in. What follows are some of the finer points of the tattoo.

At the bottom of the back is an hourglass design, within which is, Ben said, kanji representing the word "redemption":


The piece represents that he has "only so much time to redeem himself".

The main set of Chinese text in the center of the back was loosely translated by Ben as "I have trust in no man except for the trust I save for myself":


Also of note on the back are the two kanji representing "father" (the right side) and "forgive me" (the left side). These characters are in disks on either side at the top of the back.

The back was done by an artist no longer practicing at Skin Deep Tattoo on Long Island.

Imagine busy Penn Station, a guy standing there talking to a bespectacled blogger, camera in hand, beholding a subject covered in ink. Where to even begin?

It's like taking someone to the world's largest buffet and telling them they can only fill one small plate with food.

The back as a whole was impressive, but Ben was willing to share more, and we settled on this view, with a dragon and a geisha:


Ben credits this part of his body's tapestry to an artist named Loco working out of Dharma Tattoo in Miami Springs, Florida.

Thanks to Ben for sharing his amazing tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!

Novas tatuagens de Sergio Bensdorp Jr

Confira as novas tatuagens enviadas por Sergio Bensdorp Jr.

Nome do estúdio: Fantasy Tattoo
Nome do Tatuador: Sergio Bensdorp Jr
Endereço: rua 9 de julho nº 1576 Centro Marília SP
Fone: (14)4101-0351
Cel:(14)8119-3438
Orkut: Sergio Fantasy Tattoo














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