Game Tattoo Artist

Um estúdio de tatuagem procura um bom tatuador(a) para preencher seu quadro de funcionários e você foi convidado a fazer um teste. Três clientes esperam por você, um para tatuar um coração tradiconal, uma para tatuar uma borboleta com tribal e outro para tatuar uma caveira em chamas. Baseado na exatidão dos traços, o tempo decorrido e dor causada ao cliente, você poderá atender o cliente seguinte e até ser admintido no estúdio de tattoo.

Dicas

Para evitar dor ao cliente, não faça traços muito longos. Faça pequenas pausas entre os traços da tatuagem, até o medidor de dor sair da marca vermelha. Pode-se medir também a dor do cliente  atráves da irritação da pele que fica avermelhada corforme a aplicação dos traços.

Durante os primeiros segundos da tatuagem, não é possível pintá-la, mas você pode usar estes segundos para escolher a espessura da agulha.

Ao lado encontra-se um barra que marca o quanto do processo foi concluído.

Boa sorte.

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Saturday

Saturday, originally uploaded by daniellehampton.

It's chilly and wonderful outside today and it makes me think about Kendall, who I posted about this morning. We've had some of the best times in weather just like this. I have to keep thinking of all the happy times so there's no room for getting depressed. Anyway, today is a good day despite the sadness in the air. I've accomplished quite a bit and I'm still going. It drives me absolutely crazy to have a messy house, and now that we have so much more room everything has it's proper place. The only place that ever gets bad is our bedroom, because if I'm running late in the morning I leave a tornado of clothing and accessories all over the place and it drives Hank insane. Oops. So I'm trying to be better about that.

Tonight Hank and I have a birthday party to go to at Thai House, which I'm really looking forward to. This is actually the restaurant we went to on our first "Prescott date" and the place we ate before Hank proposed to me in 2007! They have really good vegan food, but we don't go there very often these days- most of our Thai food cravings are handled by Thaifoon. I feel that their food is a lot more fresher and healthier, as they use organic, local ingredients and they make me a special, off the menu dish we call "Danielle's Healthy Tofu," haha. I love it. But anyway, I am happy we'll be eating there- it will be nice to see the owners but I always feel a little guilty not having been in there in months and months.

Afterward we'll probably have a movie night and then perhaps decorate the house for Halloween. Very fun. :)

Here is my favorite song of the day- enjoy!

I miss you so much little brother.

It's been two years now...

from Oct. 7th, 2007 | 03:41 pm

before this past week i had never lost anyone who was especially close to me. i've never experienced that sense of emptiness. i've never seen someone every single day, given them a hug every morning, told them i loved them all of the time...to have them just be gone. it's surreal. just two days ago he came up to me in the library, we hugged, said i love you, and he walked away. it's horrible when you think back to the last time you see sometime- you never think that it may be the very last time you will ever see them. all last weekend i'd been half expecting him to walk through the door and say i'm here, i'm just joking. i feel so sick. i feel angry at god, i feel angry at the world. kendall was such a special person because he truly affected every person he met. why him? if you knew him for a lifetime, or for a minute, you fell in love with him. and he is gone, but what we have to do now is remember the kindness that every single person who met him experienced. all of the funny, happy memories. that positive, beautiful energy he had about him. his blue, blue eyes and that shy smile. his stuttering when i first met him so many years ago. the packages and letters, late night talks in the living room, making us listen to shakira 'hips don't lie' one million times. twilight runs on the track, talking about his crushes and me giving big-sister advice. talking about hank's and my wedding and how excited he was to be a part of it, to stand up for us. shows at his house. vegan dinners together. listening to stay gold on repeat. all the things he would draw for us. him laughing so hard whenever i would run up front to sing along to their in my eyes cover. there was just so much laughing and so much love. it's been wonderful watching him grow up over the years to be so independent. it hurts now to know this void is here, and it will never be the same. i will never see him again. we will never have these times again. god. but still, no matter what, he was the little one, perpetually 15 years old and will always be smiling in my mind.

Brooke Shows Off Her Zombie Ninja Poo

On a sunny September afternoon, I met Brooke outside of Penn Station.

She had several interesting tattoos, and she offered this one:


She referred to it as "Zombie Ninja Poo".

On the inside of her right wrist, this tattoo was inspired by the goofy video droppings of the ninja characters in one of her son's video games, Ninjatown.

She exercised a little creative license and zombified the design. The result was an undead mass of animated, um, turds.

Thanks to Brooke for sharing this unusual tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

¡Squirrel Libre!

I spotted Eliza at the Atlantic Avenue subway station several Saturdays ago.

She has several tattoos, but this one, on her right arm, seemed the most appropriate to share:


This is, of course, a squirrel, which was chosen because Eliza has the nickname of Squirrel.

Why Squirrel?

Eliza grew up in rural Arkansas in the Ozark Mountains. "When I was younger," she told me, "I hunted and shot squirrel".

Of course, I had to ask what squirrel tasted like. "Like chicken," she answered, and then clarified, "the dark meat".

As for the head of the squirrel, Eliza confirmed what I thought, the tattoo sports a Lucha Libre Mexican-style wrestling mask.


Eliza explained that she wanted the squirrel to be like her, kind of "sassafrass". I thought I knew what she meant, but not being familiar with rural American dialect, I asked her to clarify. "Sassafrass," she smiled, "is sorta wild and crazy".

The piece was inked at Southside Tattoo in Austin, Texas, by Michael Norris.

A hearty thanks to Eliza and her cool squirrel tattoo from us here at Tattoosday!

Happy October!

some of the Happy October cupcakes I baked for school tomorrow :), originally uploaded by daniellehampton.

In celebration of October I baked fall-themed cupcakes for one of my classes tomorrow. I am just so excited about the season finally being here. This weekend Hank and I have big autumn plans- pumpkin patch, tons of apple cider, hay rides, and then carving our chosen pumpkin and roasted the seeds. I am so excited! Growing up my parents always took up to pick out pumpkins and some of my fondest memories involve Halloween and all of the fun activities. I can't wait to have little ones of our own to make memories with, but for now Hank and my little family of two can start on that.

Speaking of little ones, last night I had this insane dream that I gave birth (15 minutes of labor haha) and a baby just slid right out...it could already talk and was so beautiful. It looked at Hank and me and said "Hello," and I know that sounds creepy but it really wasn't. My sister and mom were there and the baby looked over at Lauren and started smiling and laughing. It was the cutest little thing and I woke up with this insane feeling of peacefulness and happiness. So who knows what that means...

Yesterday I blogged that I was really feeling bad yesterday but I have to say that today was so amazing. It was a wonderfully positive day at work, and I was reminded yet again of how much my day depends on my attitude. Once work ended I enjoyed a hard trek around town for a little over an hour with Robyn, and when I got home I was feeling even better. I've been stepping up my workouts a lot lately and I am definitely in a really inspired place right now, in terms of fitness. Well really all things, but especially fitness I suppose.

Tomorrow is Friday, which I am very happy about. I am looking forward to a weekend of relaxation. My family was thinking of coming up, and other than a birthday party Saturday, Hank and I have no plans outside of our "Autumn enjoyment" stuff. I can't wait.

I hope all of you have a truly fabulous Friday!

Annie Cherry and Bindlestiff Willy in New York City

I met Annie Cherry outside of Penn Station in early September. She was talking with Bindlestiff Willy. She had visible tattoos. He did not.

I approached them and introduced myself.

This is Annie:


And here is Bindlestiff Willy:


Both perform with a group called the Kansas City Society of Burlesque.

They had been in New York City performing out on Coney Island the previous weekend and were heading home.

Annie graciously allowed to photograph her two tattoos, juxtaposed nicely on her inner forearms:


She explained the one on her left arm, saying it was a shooting star, about to be launched from a slingshot. She said the tattoo represents creative inspiration and that it reminds her "not to take herself too seriously".


Incidentally, several weeks later, I met a woman with a similar tattoo, only justaposed differently on the left arm. I was shocked to see it, but she explained that it was also a band logo for the group Gogol Bordello.


The snake on her left arm represents knowledge to Annie, and a reminder that the destination is not always reached by taking the straight path.


Both tattoos were inked by Chet Duvenci at The Mercy Seat Tattoo & Art Gallery in Kansas City.

After talking about her tattoos, Annie informed me that her traveling companion Bindelestiff Willy had a couple of great tattoos, as well. They were inked at The Mercy Seat also, but by different artists.

Damian removed his jacket and rolled up his sleeves to reveal the tattoos on his upper arms.

The first is on his upper left arm:


If this classic pin-up girl looks familiar, scroll up to the top of the post and take another gander at the photo of Annie.



The tattoo is modeled after her. The phrase "Clowns need love too" is self-referential. This piece was inked by Scott Shickman.

Damian, who performs under the name of "Bindlestiff Willy," is a pantomime specialist who does a great Charlie Chaplin routine. The pun in his stage name combines the "bindle stick" commonly carried by hobos and tramps (in the Chaplinesque sense) and the raunchiness of "stiff Willy".

His second tattoo, on the right arm, is a portrait of Charlie Chaplin's "Little Tramp" were he still alive. Of course, as the 1889 implies, Chaplin is a skeleton today, so the traditional tattoo takes a macabre turn.


This piece was done by John Monk.

A big thanks to Annie and Willy for sharing their awesome tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!