Showing posts with label Movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Movies. Show all posts
A Duel on Christian's Arms
Christian is one of the rare Tattoosday subjects with whom I got greedy.
My normal modus operandi is to ask people for an offering of one of their multiple tattoos. I let them choose and I am happy to capture one piece and move on.
But in the course of photographing Christian's choice, I saw his other two tattoos, and requested to include them in the post, as well.
Christian is a filmmaker and the two tattoos he offered as a set were drawings from the storyboard of his film, "The Duel":
Positioned as such, Calico Joe Jackson (on the right) and Remington Turk Dakota (on the left) occupy different arms. In their natural state, the two creations of Christian's imagination, they have their backs to one another, pistols drawn, in classic duel-readiness positions. Below is a still from "The Duel," produced by Elwood Gentry Productions.
As his creations, he proudly wears them on his sleeves to commemorate his first major creative undertaking. See the trailer from the film here.
Above Calico Joe Jackson, on his right bicep, there is a familiar sight, an image from one of the first commercial films made, Georges Méliès' 1902 classic A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la Lune):
It's a famous shot, with a bullet lodged in the eye socket of an anthropomorphically-surprised moon.
This film as inspired generations of film-makers and Christian loves the fact that such an early cinematic effort was steeped in science fiction and special effects.
Finally, I had to take a photo of the third tattoo:
That is the logo of Hunter S. Thompson, who invented the concept of Gonzo Journalism. As a huge fan of the book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (see my BillyBlog post here), as well as Dr. Thompson's other writings, I greatly appreciated Christian's nod to the late great Hunter S.
All of these pieces were tattooed by the amazing Bert Krak at Top Shelf Tattooing.
A hearty thanks to Christian for sharing his work with us here on Tattoosday!
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My normal modus operandi is to ask people for an offering of one of their multiple tattoos. I let them choose and I am happy to capture one piece and move on.
But in the course of photographing Christian's choice, I saw his other two tattoos, and requested to include them in the post, as well.
Christian is a filmmaker and the two tattoos he offered as a set were drawings from the storyboard of his film, "The Duel":
Positioned as such, Calico Joe Jackson (on the right) and Remington Turk Dakota (on the left) occupy different arms. In their natural state, the two creations of Christian's imagination, they have their backs to one another, pistols drawn, in classic duel-readiness positions. Below is a still from "The Duel," produced by Elwood Gentry Productions.
As his creations, he proudly wears them on his sleeves to commemorate his first major creative undertaking. See the trailer from the film here.
Above Calico Joe Jackson, on his right bicep, there is a familiar sight, an image from one of the first commercial films made, Georges Méliès' 1902 classic A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la Lune):
It's a famous shot, with a bullet lodged in the eye socket of an anthropomorphically-surprised moon.
This film as inspired generations of film-makers and Christian loves the fact that such an early cinematic effort was steeped in science fiction and special effects.
Finally, I had to take a photo of the third tattoo:
That is the logo of Hunter S. Thompson, who invented the concept of Gonzo Journalism. As a huge fan of the book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (see my BillyBlog post here), as well as Dr. Thompson's other writings, I greatly appreciated Christian's nod to the late great Hunter S.
All of these pieces were tattooed by the amazing Bert Krak at Top Shelf Tattooing.
A hearty thanks to Christian for sharing his work with us here on Tattoosday!
Tattoosday Boxcars: A Leonine Tattoo and Wearing One's Heart on One's Sleeve
I met Jeff and Jeanie in Penn Station as they were about to board an Amtrak train out of the city.
I've been trying to come up with clever terms for different inkspotting phenomenon, basically creating my own lexicon.
I'll call Jeff and Jeanie "boxcars". Meaning, I approached the two of them and gambled, asking them both to participate, and they came through. Like rolling two sixes on the dice (also known as boxcars). I would even venture to call them "blind boxcars", because I could only make out fragments of their ink, but they still shared.
Jeff went first, displaying this leonine figure on his left bicep:
It's a nod to his astrological sign, Leo, and was also selected for its nod to Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast).
Jeanie shared her tattoo below:
This piece literally has her wearing her heart on her sleeve and is inspired by Mexican art. The tattoo was completed by a friend of Jeanine's named John Flack.
I would have obtained more detail, but the couple had to board their train.
Thank you to Jeanine and Jeff for sharing their tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!
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I've been trying to come up with clever terms for different inkspotting phenomenon, basically creating my own lexicon.
I'll call Jeff and Jeanie "boxcars". Meaning, I approached the two of them and gambled, asking them both to participate, and they came through. Like rolling two sixes on the dice (also known as boxcars). I would even venture to call them "blind boxcars", because I could only make out fragments of their ink, but they still shared.
Jeff went first, displaying this leonine figure on his left bicep:
It's a nod to his astrological sign, Leo, and was also selected for its nod to Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast).
Jeanie shared her tattoo below:
This piece literally has her wearing her heart on her sleeve and is inspired by Mexican art. The tattoo was completed by a friend of Jeanine's named John Flack.
I would have obtained more detail, but the couple had to board their train.
Thank you to Jeanine and Jeff for sharing their tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!
New York City Tattoo Convention, Part 2: Amazing Tattoos from North of the Border
Lost in the post-euphoric haze of the tattoo orgy known as a tattoo convention, was an encounter I had with several Canadians, one of which is a talented artist.
This was, of course, the New York City Tattoo Convention, which I attended a couple weeks ago (see the brief recap here).
Having decided not to collect many posts and photos for the blog (I had settled on this one), I found myself chatting with Phil, a co-worker of mine, after he spotted me among the masses.
It was while we were chatting, adjacent to the snack area, that I noticed we were being watched. Just to our right, this image greeted us:
This is Janet Leigh, in her iconic role in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. Not only is this a masterful portrait, but it was framed beautifully by the cut-out portion of the dress worn by the woman who had this tattoo. It was as if the artist had positioned the tattoo with this dress in mind.
So I introduced myself to the woman who owns this piece. Her name is Marie and she is from Montreal. She got this tattoo because she liked the picture. And that's all that I got from her.
I would have learned more, but the room was loud and I had trouble understanding her. Her English was certainly better than my rudimentary high school French, but the environment made it difficult to pick up what she was saying.
However, shortly after our conversation began, a couple of gentleman rejoined her and one happened to be the artist of the tattoo in question.
His name is Stéphane Bérubé and he is an artist out of a shop called Tatouages Libre Expression, in Saint-Eustache, a northern suburb of Montreal, Quebec.
He was very friendly and introduced me to the other person he was with, who was one of his clients as well.
With little prompting, this guy rolled up his left pant leg to reveal a sleeve Stéphane had done, comprised of bright, multi-colored cartoon panels:
The owner of the tattoos explained that he had brought a graphic novel to Stéphane, telling him it was one of his favorite books growing up. They extracted different panels to make a cohesive combination of segments that make up the whole of the sleeve.
It is phenomenal work and I thank Stéphane and his friends for allowing me to photograph their tattoos!
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