Tattoo Designs Wallpaper: March 2011

The Tattooed Poets Project: Vicki Iorio

We're kicking off this year's Tattooed Poets Project with a tattoo that seems, ahem, apropos-etic:

This poetic foot belongs to Vicki Iorio, a New York poet. She explains the tattoo:

"My group of Long Island poets have the pleasure of reading at the Wyld Chyld Cafe and Tattoo Parlor in Merrick, NY. I watched Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan, the poet laureate of Suffolk County get "poet" tattooed across her shoulder blades. [Tammy will be appearing on the site later this month.] She recited poetry while her back was bleeding, I knew at that moment I would have to get one!

It was a cold January night, Sixx tattooed my right foot with a beautiful scripted "poet." It was a beautiful moment and I love my tat and all it signifies. A slew of woman poets have been tattooed by Sixx. A tattooed sisterhood, indeed."

Here is a poem from Vicki:

Tattoo 56

I will get a tattoo next birthday
no one will care
it won't be like birthday 13
when I dyed my hair purple on a shoplift heist
shaved off eyebrows
pierced frozen ears with a needle
hacked off bushy black fur under stockings

I will find an illustrated man
his head bald and shiny
eyes so blue I will see straight through
to his good heart, diamond stud in one ear
massive arms shocking to the touch.

My spider will go willingly to his fly.
I will tell him what I want
where I want it.

After validating plastic worth,
my pirate will lead me to his table
gift me with little hurts
celebrate me electrically
wrap me in gauze
sing the praises of Bacitracin
wish me a happy birthday.

Vicki Iorio is a Long Island poet who hangs around tattoo parlors. Her poems have been published in various publications including hell strung and crooked. She is saving up for another tattoo!

Thanks to Vicki for sharing her poetic tattoo and tattoo poem with us here on Tattoosday!

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Tattoos I Know: Beth's Ink Ushers in the New Baseball Season

Well, folks, it's March 31, which means several things, First and foremost, after a long, cold winter, and a rough start to spring, baseball season starts today. And although, the last time I checked, there was a 70% chance of rain for the New York Yankees home opener against the Detroit Tigers today, baseball fans everywhere are just a tad excited that their team's 162 game-long drama is about to begin.

So, it seemed fitting that we share this tattoo, belonging to our cousin Beth:

Photo by Melanie Cohen

Beth is a diehard Yankees fan and she got this inked on September 16, 2005. For the record, the Yankees beat the Toronto Blue Jays north of the border that day 11-10 thanks, in part, to two Robinson Cano home runs and Mariano Rivera's 40th save of the year.

This is one of Beth's three tattoos, a fact not lost on me, as I have been wanting to post her ink on the site ever since we started back in 2007. However, we just never got around to it and this photo was shot last June in New Jersey by my wife, Melanie, at another cousin's baby shower. I thought, at the time, that we would save this picture for the day the Yankees won the World Series, but last year that ambition fell short in the ALCS. So we saved it for Opening Day, instead.

The tattoo was done by Thomi Hawk at K & B Tattooing & Piercing in Hightstown, New Jersey.

I should also add that, back in August 2007, I was sitting in my seat at PNC Bank Arts Center, between sets, when I noticed a very similar tattoo several rows ahead of me. I thought, "Man, that tattoo looks just like Beth's, and in the same spot [on her upper right back] too!" Of course, it was Beth, and we were both unaware that we were attending the show. And to think I spotted her in all that humanity by noticing her tattoo!

I mentioned at the top of the post that it being March 31, meant several things. Aside from Opening Day, it's also opening day for the inkspotting season, as far as I'm concerned. Posts have been few and far between over the past few months and that's about to change. Tomorrow begins National Poetry Month, and we will be embarking on our third annual Tattooed Poets Project: 30 days of tattoos from poets across the country. And, I will assume, that I'll be having regular Tattoosday encounters, which will reappear in May, throughout the month.

Play ball!

Thanks again to Beth for sharing her cool patriotic Yankees tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

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Home is Where the Star Is

Yesterday in Penn Station, I met Jonathan, whose one tattoo caught my eye when I passed him in the Amtrak waiting area.

Except, sometimes, a fragment of a tattoo doesn't necessarily reveal the whole piece. As in Jonathan's case, I saw the back of his arm, and this segment, which resembled (to me, at the time), a crude figure with the beginning of a speech bubble emanating from its mouth:

I felt rather silly, however, when Jonathan agreed to participate and showed me the full tattoo:

The figure I imagined, of course, is really Long Island, and the balloon was the southern tip of the state of New York.

Jonathan explained that he is from Rochester, marked on the tattoo with a star, and that he lived in the same house growing up there for eighteen years. It's a New York state of mind, indeed.

The tattoo was done at Big Joe & Sons Tattooing in White Plains, New York.

Thanks to Jonathan for sharing his stately tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

GANG BANG DANCE

People who keep up on my shit, have recently said to me “dave if you haven’t been painting for a year, then what the fuck have you been doing ?!” so I guess I’ll address that right here.
Well besides fucking some of the same women tiger woods, Charlie sheen, and elliot spitzer have been fucking, without the scandal, because, a)im not married b)I’m not in politics or an A list celebrity or a good image sports figure , I’m a 5’10 asian dude with black hair and brown eyes, I don’t lie and cheat,I look like over half the planet's population, it’s like living in camoflauge I can run around in broad daylight and act a fool, and no one gives a shit, it’s great! But I didn’t spend all my time fucking and fucking around ,so then you ask what did I do with the rest of my time? I challenged myself and ……

I danced you fool! I danced my fucking ass off like a mother fucking hurricane!

And you think this shit is easy? I’m not naturally a gifted dancer, put a drumstick or paintbrush in my hand and I go crazy when I hear a cymbal. And a hi hat with a souped up tempo. It’s no problem, I can knock it out in my sleep . but you think stripping down to my chonies being a backup dancer for DIE ANTWOORD one of the biggest rap acts in the world , dancing in front of thousands of people is easy??

That shit is stressful…. But it’s also the most funnest shit ever. When adrock said in the major motion picture “lost angels” I just want to dance and meet interesting people, I was like “me too! Me too!, “ and I meant it in the gayest way possible. And in fact , it wasn’t the first time I’d danced for the biggest music act in the world , I’d already been broken in , in highschool,

one day I ditched korean school with my friend albert and answered this ad, and showed up to this auditorium

not gay(92-94?)

and slam danced and lost my fucking mind to kurt cobain and dave grohl, man that fucker hit’s hard! You can see me for a few seconds in a video called “smells like teen spirit”

i got to touch the guitar before it got smashed

So I had some good coaches on my path to dancing with the stars and getting into art that has more to do with performing.

La dance crew floordorks enclosed a circle around me and forced me to dance(not gay)

I got great advice and inspiration from mickey Avalon and NKOTB dancer, Stephanie to just let it all hang out.

not gay

Dancing with FRIENDSWITHYOU and ben jones

so not gay

Performing with the dandy warhols

Studying strippers in every city

Watching my brother, is like watching a living breathing work of art

Practicing wearing costumes in public to get over shyness

Working the door for neckface's Halloween show, 2 years in a row

Of course I cant leave out the son of my uncles nephew’s best friend, harry kim, he’s one of the best dancers and spectacular human beings on the planet.
This year the whole crew split up to explore different aspects of dance and interpretive performance art.

denzolo

watch james jean get jizzed on with paint at 4:15

Some gayer than others,

DIE JUNGE DIE YOUNG (The Young Die Young) from Jason Jaworski on Vimeo.

but then like voltron or wutang we cum together as one, and just like truth is stranger than fiction, tonight, me , Jason and denzolo, got asked perform in front of a bunch of old rich white people like 'the edge', ringo and Barbara Streisand, and we danced and played our asses off and ate all the delicious whore dervs and farted the whole way home.

not gay

Always grinning and winning. See you on the dance floor!

don't give up your day job!