If you didn’t have a desire to keep up on your daily vegetable servings before now, maybe this will inspire you to go home & make a salad. Or steam some yellow squash and send it my way, because that biz is deeeeeeeeeelicious! Or we could go the asparagus route… it turns your pee bright yellow, how much cooler can a vegetable get?!
Does summer have to end? I’ll be back to a boring veggie selection at the market in no time, I guess.
Tattoo by: Esther Garcia in Chicago, IL.
Sean Herman was kind enough to send us this piece about the continuing effects of the BP oil spill on his home, the local economy and the tattoo industry.
Pete and I were looking out from the front of the new shop, the bay glistening in our sights, and he looked over at me and said, “It’s like watching a terminally ill family member die before you. It’s looming, impending, and there is nothing you can do about it, everyday you watch them fade before you.” Pete was talking about the bay that we had both grown up on. I grew up on the Eastern shore of it, and he grew up on the other side, in Mobile. This was a few days after the oil spill in April that forever changed our lives. I worked with him a lot at that point, trying to do the build out for the second shop we were opening on the eastern shore. Our conversations went in every direction, but always seemed to come back to the spill, time and time again.
While I don’t have any Oriental pieces, if I did there would be a big lion mixed in somewhere. I’ve always felt like the lion is overlooked by most.
Hopefully the wearer of this piece decides to expand on it. The possibilities for this are endless, and those colors would pop (more so than they already do, that is) with the right background.
Tattoo by: Alessio Ricci at Avalon Tattoo II in San Diego, CA
You’re all familiar with that Gandhi quote, right? I’m pretty sure everyone’s seen it on a poster or had it repeated to them by some well-meaning person at some point.
Agree with the philosophy or not, you have to at least acknowledge this is a damn fine tattoo paying homage to the man.
Tattoo by: Cory Norris at Classic Tattoo in Grass Valley, CA
Monday’s over and Tuesday’s at least partway through, depending on your time zone. It could be worse… you could be like this little guy, trying to look on the dim-but-let’s-pretend-it’s-bright side.
Tattoo by: Sam King at Golden Spiral Studios in Greensboro, NC.
