Rilke On the Flesh

It's February 1, which means we are only two months away from the start of a new edition of <a href="http://tattooedpoets.blogspot.com/2010/03/index-of-tattooed-poets.html">The Tattooed Poets Project,</a> and I have begun assembling the first posts for this annual extravaganza.<br /><br />What better way to acknowledge this looming event, but to post a poetic tattoo?<br /><br />The following piece is one that I spotted at the end of last summer on Penn Plaza. Belonging to a young lady named Rosa, it has been one of my few remaining 2010 leftovers:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLEsXduwNKINkEqakTO1GK_GV3T-xYB2dgnVzE8GiG4ATzAmexZqKZYiSnuo1Gak3PN2xe9lZqz7VbXeOWM7d9olqSx_10PgtJ5fXShF-cr3RSZgFYEN-JEBmT_NUTsDuFTh6t3pqfqkI/s1600/rilke.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLEsXduwNKINkEqakTO1GK_GV3T-xYB2dgnVzE8GiG4ATzAmexZqKZYiSnuo1Gak3PN2xe9lZqz7VbXeOWM7d9olqSx_10PgtJ5fXShF-cr3RSZgFYEN-JEBmT_NUTsDuFTh6t3pqfqkI/s400/rilke.jpg" width="343" /></a></div><br /><br />What I noticed first was not that this was a line of verse, but that it was placed on the body in an unusual way. Most lines of poetry, when manifested on flesh, are on the arms and wrist, or the lower legs and occasionally a back. This tattoo runs from the front of to her back, vertically climbing and descending from her shoulder.<br /><br />The line is in German, and represents a piece from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Maria_Rilke">Rainier Maria Rilke's</a> <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duino_Elegies">Duino Elegies</a></i>.<br /><br /><blockquote><b>Ein jeder Engel ist schrecklich</b></blockquote><br />Or, in context: <br /><blockquote><i>Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels’<br />Hierarchies? and even if one of them pressed me<br />suddenly against his heart: I would be consumed<br />in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing<br />but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure,<br />and we are so awed because it serenely disdains<br />to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying.</i> <i><br /></i></blockquote> Those are the opening lines of the first elegy, translated by <a href="http://www.stephenmitchellbooks.com/transAdapt/poetryRilkeExcerpt03.html">Stephen Mitchell</a>.<br /><br />Rosa didn't give me much insight as to why she had the line tattooed, but it is quite a powerful statement.<br /><br />When I asked her who the artists was, she replied only that it was someone in Brooklyn that went under the name "The Milk Maid". This sounded familiar at the time, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it. Of course, I came to be reminded that The Milk Maid is the moniker of Joy Rumore, at <a href="http://www.1228tattoo.com/">Twelve 28 Tattoo</a>, quite a wonderful artist, whose work has appeared previously on Tattoosday <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/search/label/Twelve%2028%20Tattoo">here</a>.<br /><br />Thanks to Rosa for sharing this lovely line of verse with us here on Tattoosday!

Rilke On the Flesh

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The Tattoosday Book Review: The Word Made Flesh

If you're looking for an awesome gift for an ink-loving special someone this holiday season, and you can't afford a budget-buster like Marisa Kakoulas' <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Black-Grey-Tattoo-1-3-English/dp/3934020852/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1292409182&sr=1-1">Black & Grey Tattoo</a>, I'd strongly recommend <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Word-Made-Flesh-Bookworms-Worldwide/dp/0061997404?ie=UTF8&tag=bill03-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos from Bookworms Worldwide.</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=bill03-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0061997404" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwYyS_NXtJ-9q7xslXvcUzTjPKJr9N5qbio_kCEu9nb4QsvwOeohuKhV5ICiBIP736ywksezMV-1NtWyzYoYxnuFQWZ5gRuCoRRKYOFPEWWGL5fRuxgycWOkvq1-prCumBmZoaZ-yJwSE/s1600/the-word-made-flesh-literary-tattoos.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwYyS_NXtJ-9q7xslXvcUzTjPKJr9N5qbio_kCEu9nb4QsvwOeohuKhV5ICiBIP736ywksezMV-1NtWyzYoYxnuFQWZ5gRuCoRRKYOFPEWWGL5fRuxgycWOkvq1-prCumBmZoaZ-yJwSE/s400/the-word-made-flesh-literary-tattoos.jpg" width="350" /></a></div><br />As a lover of both literature and tattoos, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Word-Made-Flesh-Bookworms-Worldwide/dp/0061997404?ie=UTF8&tag=bill03-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Word Made Flesh</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=bill03-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0061997404" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> is right up my alley and, judging by the long-standing interest in sites like <a href="http://www.contrariwise.org/">Contrariwise</a>, should be an enjoyable read for many.<br /><br />Last year, it seems, when I first posted (<a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2009/07/call-for-submissions-literary-tattoos.html">here</a>) about Eve Talmadge's call for submissions, I was a bit jealous in a why-didn't-I-think-of-doing-that sort of way. But I quickly got over the inkblogger envy and waited with anticipation to see how this would turn out.<br /><div id=":159"><br />The answer: pretty darn good.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Word-Made-Flesh-Bookworms-Worldwide/dp/0061997404?ie=UTF8&tag=bill03-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Word Made Flesh</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=bill03-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0061997404" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />, as the subtitle describes, juxtaposes photos of tattoos of a literary flavor, with blurbs from the contributors. There is poetry and prose, as well as more symbolic imagery to represent specific themes.</div><div id=":159"><br />Compiled by editors Eve Talmadge and Justin Taylor, the reader is treated to a nice range of work, with a handy appendix which gives, when possible, credit to the artists and/or shops where the tattoos were inked.<br /><br />I wondered, when starting the book, if I would see any tattoos that had appeared on Tattoosday. Sure enough, page 117 features a pair of alphabetic ankle tattoos, one of which appeared in this past year's <a href="http://tattooedpoets.blogspot.com/2010/03/index-of-tattooed-poets.html">Tattooed Poet's Project</a>, <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2010/04/tattooed-poets-project-rebecca-wolff.html">here</a>. To counteract that, there are two subjects who declined to participate in the same project.<br /><br />The range of photos and stories is done quite well. We also get a snapshot of <a href="http://ineradicablestain.com/stain.html">Shelley Jackson's Skin Project</a>, and a lovely piece belonging to Katherine Barthelme, accompanied by an apropos story by her father, the late <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Barthelme">Donald Barthelme</a>. Plus, amazing work like this:<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBWfL4jFIC7QEvO3zbZdrycLLCDOlPjcCpQDAO1biN7cVlAdrJj86lEFL2MjvoQGct_PH_7oULCSJt1q2eX4jpJJBFroGfG926mgEeqxwBuM0ivcveRiODyFa69v6yRE0NGwnMGoZj6MM/s1600/JP-COFFEE-1-popup.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBWfL4jFIC7QEvO3zbZdrycLLCDOlPjcCpQDAO1biN7cVlAdrJj86lEFL2MjvoQGct_PH_7oULCSJt1q2eX4jpJJBFroGfG926mgEeqxwBuM0ivcveRiODyFa69v6yRE0NGwnMGoZj6MM/s400/JP-COFFEE-1-popup.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";}</style> <![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">©2010 Eva Talmadge & Justin Taylor</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />There is something for everyone here, unless of course, you're a barbarian and have never read a book in your life.<br /><br />I heartily recommend this title and at a list price of  $14.99, it won't break the bank.<br /><br />There's a slide show <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2387/1/?redirectURL=http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-12-02/the-word-made-flesh-literary-tattoos-explored/">here</a>, over at <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-12-02/the-word-made-flesh-literary-tattoos-explored/">The Daily Beast</a>.<br /><br />You can read and see more, as well as hear how to submit for a possible sequel, at <a href="http://www.tattoolit.com/" target="_blank">www.tattoolit.com</a>. I also recommend visiting <a href="http://contrariwise.com/" target="_blank">contrariwise.com</a>, as well as checking out the <a href="http://tattooedpoets.blogspot.com/">Tattooed Poets Project index</a>, which links all the tattooed poets who have appeared here the last two years.<br /><br />You can buy the book here:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=bill03-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0061997404&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />And, as for what's next from the editors, a recent email from the editor's says it all:<br /><blockquote>"I'm happy to announce that we are now collecting images of music-related tattoos for our next book. Song lyrics, band logos, record labels, musician portraits, you name it -- if it's in your skin and has to do with a musician, song or band, we want to put it in a book. Pass the word, tell your friends. Here's the fine print:<br /><br /><b> THE WORDS TO EVERY SONG: Music Tattoos from Around the Globe</b> (working title, suggestions welcome), edited by Eva Talmadge.<br /><br />Submissions now open for high-quality photographs of all kinds of music related tattoo work: band logos, song lyrics, record labels, musician portraits -- if it's a tattoo inspired by music and it's on your body, we want to see it!<br /><br />We're looking for a wide range of genres and eras -- from classical to rock'n'roll to hip hop, punk rock, indie and soul -- if you ever loved a song or a band or a musician so much you went to a tattoo shop and made your devotion permanent, we want to know about it!<br /><br />As with THE WORD MADE FLESH, we don't want <i>just </i>the images. We also want a few words from you about <i>why </i>you got your tattoo, what that music means or has meant to you, and any anecdotes involved. How much (or how little) you choose to say about your tattoo is up to you, but a paragraph or two should do the trick.<br /><br />And of course please do provide us with tattoo artist/shop credit, photographer credit, your name or pseudonym, the city and state or country where you live, and the name of the band or song or composer your tattoo refers to (even if it's obvious).<br /><b><br />Deadline for the first round is 12/31</b><br /><br />Please send clear digital images of the highest quality possible to <b><a href="mailto:tattoolit@gmail.com" target="_blank">tattoolit@gmail.com</a></b>. Images should be around 2000 pixels across, or a minimum 300 dpi at 5 inches wide, but if you're not sure about all the technical stuff, just set your camera to its highest resolution and send the best photo you can. Text should be included in the body of the email, not as an attached document. Also be sure to include one or more pieces of contact information, so we can let you know if you’re going to be in the book.<br /><br />And finally, we are indeed still collecting literary tattoos for the tumblr blog, <a href="http://tattoolit.com/" target="_blank">http://tattoolit.com</a>. If you have a literary tattoo and want the world to see it, please do e-mail it to us at <a href="mailto:tattoolit@gmail.com" target="_blank">tattoolit@gmail.com</a>, or submit it directly (as an image, not text) to <a href="http://tattoolit.com/" target="_blank">http://tattoolit.com</a>.</blockquote></div>And, of course, I'd be remiss if I didn't direct people <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/search/label/Literary%20Quotes">here</a> and <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/search/label/Literary%20Tattoos">here</a>, the tags that link all the literary tattoos that have appeared here on Tattoosday.

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Jack Kerouac Back

This is an orphan post, what I refer to as a photo with no real story attached to it, as the individual who let me take the photo, never e-mailed me with any further details.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiySbSvT0zwzI6y0EAPheKIPKzA1nJCDwW8e0EUIy25T25V-OzgujaBeV64GLDnsBIEdVhN1C9Dvjn-fgA6CKS91NS9jfU2vkMFHz3KEIVauPKJYtx1XuUx9bDY5PmCJ6bjFk9Ir12T/s1600/kerouac+back.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiySbSvT0zwzI6y0EAPheKIPKzA1nJCDwW8e0EUIy25T25V-OzgujaBeV64GLDnsBIEdVhN1C9Dvjn-fgA6CKS91NS9jfU2vkMFHz3KEIVauPKJYtx1XuUx9bDY5PmCJ6bjFk9Ir12T/s400/kerouac+back.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />I shot the picture at the end of the Brooklyn Cyclones-Staten Island Yankees game at <a href="http://www.brooklyncyclones.com/">MCU Park</a> in Coney Island.<br /><br />The crowd was filing out, so a protracted conversation was not an option.<br /><br />The woman who belongs to this tattoo, however, did allow me to take the photo and said it was a quote from Jack Kerouac's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Road-Penguin-Classics-Jack-Kerouac/dp/0142437255?ie=UTF8&tag=bill03-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">On the Road.</a><br /><br />It's a slightly modified version of this phenomenal passage:<br /><blockquote><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><br /><h1 style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!”</span></h1></blockquote><br /><br />If you're reading this, Dear Contributor, please accept my thanks for allowing us to enjoy your tattoo here on Tattoosday, but contact me, please, to tell us more.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=bill03-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0142437255" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></div><br /><iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=bill03-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0140283293&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe>

Jack Kerouac Back

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Kat's Mucha Tattoo, With a Twist of Lemony Snicket

At 31st Street and 7th Avenue, I stopped Kat to ask about her ink.<br /><br />She was happy to see me and had been wondering, having previously read Tattoosday and knowing she worked in the same area as I did, if our paths would ever cross.<br /><br />She has seven tattoos (and a cool blog <a href="http://www.katofalltrades.com/">here</a>), but we focused on the large tattoo on her upper right arm:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8E9i0j3HFQfhtrHB1w67-GRvqUmDa4NfhAEI48ryzBCkB3AL3KnwlS7McVT3GV0SM9ew-FqGx2m5ID1pnufItwDO2cOmqrmhIpxBHTIRUebQsxQ2u4onsHCdRHRziEi74A-sqz-id/s1600/Kat+Sleeve+c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8E9i0j3HFQfhtrHB1w67-GRvqUmDa4NfhAEI48ryzBCkB3AL3KnwlS7McVT3GV0SM9ew-FqGx2m5ID1pnufItwDO2cOmqrmhIpxBHTIRUebQsxQ2u4onsHCdRHRziEi74A-sqz-id/s640/Kat+Sleeve+c.jpg" width="288" /></a></div><br /> Or, looking at it as a whole:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBKrOBSa20HvNERyucjFMJCgx5meMA0qAH2DC4kaJTXLWmGo9u_pII3pL3Jww47KXehEs1Owt0kS5nluI_DoU2HVg8kc62CEbJnltKHpcNFE1Rk8fedpO8LL83K4rICd4VwNTiXwF9/s1600/Mucha+collage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="397" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBKrOBSa20HvNERyucjFMJCgx5meMA0qAH2DC4kaJTXLWmGo9u_pII3pL3Jww47KXehEs1Owt0kS5nluI_DoU2HVg8kc62CEbJnltKHpcNFE1Rk8fedpO8LL83K4rICd4VwNTiXwF9/s400/Mucha+collage.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />The art is based on the work of <a href="http://www.muchafoundation.org/MHome.aspx">Alphonse Mucha</a>, who has inspired a couple of other tattoos appearing previously on Tattoosday <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2009/06/sarah-shoulders-her-slavic-heritage.html">here</a> and <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2009/09/delissa-reveals-little-bit-of-monaco-on.html">here</a>.<br /><br />If that second link looks familiar, it is because both Kat's tattoo and Delissa's are inspired by the same work, "Monaco".<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1oRuD3oUfBlI6yeyIY7bP4bbwgQZl3DHOOgTXD9A8pS5sEf354xlpH5jsGZ7OSMlz6bqE44F62_NfUBkt0yauXuujgSuyrpeIwMq-pxo7KV2dxsED9vzp7AD4fenguakIapzB8fwP/s1600/Mucha_Monaco_Monte_Carlo_1897.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1oRuD3oUfBlI6yeyIY7bP4bbwgQZl3DHOOgTXD9A8pS5sEf354xlpH5jsGZ7OSMlz6bqE44F62_NfUBkt0yauXuujgSuyrpeIwMq-pxo7KV2dxsED9vzp7AD4fenguakIapzB8fwP/s400/Mucha_Monaco_Monte_Carlo_1897.jpg" width="296" /></a></div><br />Kat's tattoo is interpreted a little differently, translated with brighter colors, which, in Kat's words, were "amped up to be on my arm".<br /><br />The plan is eventually for this tattoo to expand to be a half-sleeve.<br /><br />The phrase "the world is quiet here" is a nod to a motto for a secret organization known as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V.F.D.">V.F.D.</a> in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Wreck-Unfortunate-Events-Books/dp/0061119067?ie=UTF8&tag=bill03-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Wreck-Unfortunate-Events-Books/dp/0061119067?ie=UTF8&tag=bill03-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">A Series of Unfortunate Events</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=bill03-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0061119067" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=bill03-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0061119067" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemony_Snicket">Lemony Snicket</a>. These books are favorites among Kat's list of much-loved titles.<br /><br />Her work was created by the artist <a href="http://www.google.com/profiles/the.milkmaid#buzz">Joy Rumore</a> at <a href="http://www.1228tattoo.com/">Twelve 28 Tattoo</a> in Brooklyn.<br /><br />Kind thanks to Kat for sharing her work with us here on Tattoosday!

Kat's Mucha Tattoo, With a Twist of Lemony Snicket

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