Horimitsu TATTOO work today 剣龍

本日一件目。
剣龍。
今年もよろしくお願いいたします。
今日は、いいお話をありがとうございました。
本当に目が覚めた思いです。
目的を持って邁進していきたいと思います。(^-^)

Today the first case.
KENRYU.
This year thanking you in advance.
Thank you for a good story today.
I feel that I really woke up.
I want to push on with a purpose. (^-^)

Hoy el primer caso.
KENRYU.
Este año agradeciéndole de antemano.
Gracias por una historia buena hoy.
Me siento que realmente me desperté.
Quiero empujar en con un propósito. (^ - ^)

本日定休日

本日定休日。
年賀状をいただいた方々に返事を書かなくてはいけません。
昨年2月に不幸があったため、私からの年賀状はお送りしませんでした。
で、書いたのかといえば、No!。
しばらくお待ちください。(^-^;)
で、今日は正月気分丸出しで映画三昧でした。
いま、夜の10時ですが、ここまで3本。寝る前にもう一本観ます。
明日から全開でいきます。おやすみなさい。

Regular holiday of today.
Write in return to the people who received the New Year's card.
The New Year's card from me was not sent because there was unhappiness last February.
Please wait for a while. (^-^;)
A lot of movies were seen today.
It is 10 PM now. Even here is three. One another is seen before it sleeps.
Good evening.

Fiesta regular de hoy.
Escriba a cambio a las personas que recibieron la tarjeta del Nuevo Año.
La tarjeta del Nuevo Año de mí no fue enviada porque había infelicidad el pasado de febrero.
Espere durante algún tiempo. (^ - ^;)
Se vieron muchos cines hoy.
Es ahora 10 PM. Incluso aquí es tres. Entre si se ve antes de que duerma.
Buenas noches.

イタリア：Italy

Posted by 彫倭 Akilla a.k.a. Horiyamato

あけましておめでとうございます。本年もよろしくお願いします。

来月２月、イタリアで開かれるミラノ・タトゥー・コンベンションに参加する事になりました。もちろん自分が留守の間もTATTOO SOULは通常営業です。

彫倭

Happy New Year!

I'm going to Italy to join Milan Tattoo Convention. 12, 13, 14th Feb. It will be about 2 weeks trip.

Akilla a.k.a. Horiyamato.

Horimitsu TATTOO work today いろいろなモチーフ

本日一件のみ。
いろいろなモチーフ。
本日終了。
昼飯食って下絵を描きます。

Only as for the today work.
Various motifs.
It is finished today.
I draw a sketch after eating lunch.

Sólo en cuanto al hoy el trabajo.
Varios motivos.
Está acabado hoy.
Dibujo un boceto después de almorzar.

Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright!

This is my fourth tattoo and the one I pondered the least.

If you've been reading, you know the premise: 2010 marks the Year of the Tiger in the Chinese Zodiac, and when I heard that Thicker Than Water Tattoo Studio, a new shop on the Lower East Side, was doing a special tiger-inking event for the new year, I grew interested.

When I saw the flash drawn for the event, I knew I wanted one. And, after talking with artist Shon Lindauer, he drew up a special one for me, and the rest was history. Because he wanted to put more time into it, we scheduled the session for Sunday, after the Saturday of the Tiger, and did it on the third, happy half-birthday to me.

So why a Tiger? Aside from the topical (thank heavens it wasn't year of the Rabbit), I can say I have connections to tigers.

My favorite baseball team is Detroit, and I spent four years at Occidental College in L.A., home of the Tigers. In that sense, since 1985, I have been part-Tiger.

But like most tattoos, meanings grow and new meanings emerge. I am a poet, and what writer is worth their salt if they heard the word tiger and didn't think of William Blake?

THE TYGER (from Songs Of Experience)

By William Blake

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare sieze the fire?

And what shoulder, & what art.
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

1794

And so I strode onto Avenue B with a sense of purpose, and a desire to go under the needle again. And the snow flurried but I did not feel the cold. I knew, soon enough, that I would feel the fire from the tattoo machine.

Even in my most positive frame of mind, I didn't dream that this great drawing


would become this much bigger and more colorful tattoo:


And one of the many things I love about it is, that at a slightly different angle, the perspective shifts significantly:


Lucky me, Shon worked with mechanical precision, and I was his first client that got to experience his new custom shader, built by Seth Ciferri.

The tattoo was done in under two and a half hours, and the reviews have been overwhelmingly positive. I love it.

Thanks to Shon Lindauer for his hard work on this awesome tattoo and the staff at Thicker than Water for welcoming me into their shop.

Horimitsu TATTOO あけましておめでとうございます

あけましておめでとうございます。
本日より営業となります。
本年もどうぞよろしくお願いいたします。
写真は仕事始め。

A Happy New Year.
I become the business from today.
In this year thank you very much.
The photograph is the first business day of the year.

Un Próspero Año Nuevo.
Me vuelvo el negocio de hoy.
Por este año muchas gracias.
La fotografía es el primer día comercial del año.

The Year o' the Tiger Has Begun...

Happy New Year from all of us here at Tattoosday!

2009 was a banner year for us as we reached an even broader audience, racking up 317,000 hits, almost triple what we had seen here in 2008. We're looking forward to welcoming even more visitors in the coming year.

Yesterday, I paid a little visit to Thicker Than Water Tattoo Studio on the Lower East Side where, as I mentioned in the previous post, the good folks were inking tiger tattoos to celebrate the upcoming Year of the Tiger. At $50 a pop for these tiger specials, the artists had a steady stream of clients asking to get their tiger stripes for the upcoming year.

Despite frigid temperatures with single-digit wind chills, clients were still drifting in when I left later in the evening.

I did get to watch as Shon Lindauer worked on Jennifer, who added this cute little tiger to her collection of over thirty tattoos:


Jennifer was born in the Year of the Tiger, so it seemed appropriate to take advantage of this super deal that the artists at Thicker Than Water were offering.

It was also great to see Peter Caruso again, who tattoos at the shop three days a week. Pete appeared here on Tattoosday and subsequently inked this piece on me last Spring. He even had his own set of flash for the January 2 promotion:


As I bundled up to brace myself against the cold, customers were drifting in from Avenue B and a young lady checked out the flash to decide on another tiger tattoo. With a few more hours to go, it looked like the artists were going to be busy.

As for me, many may be wondering if I joined the ranks of the tiger-tattooed. Check back tomorrow to see if I have anything new to share...

Happy New Year and thanks for continuing to visit us here on Tattoosday.