Tattoo Sleeves

Jubail Celebrates the Midnight Mile

I met Jubail on the corner of 34th and 6th Avenue, and he shared this awesome tattoo:

"Midnight Mile" is a song by Bouncing Souls, and it reminds him of coming home to New York City.

Jubail, who has "nine or ten" tattoos, was a student at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia.

He was about to earn his commission as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army when I spoke with him, and he knows he can rely on his tattoo to help him remind him of home here in New York.

He also has the Bouncing Souls logo on the inner part of the elbow, also known as the "ditch," which is one of the most painful places to get tattooed.

Jubail credits his ink to Saka at Tat-Nice Tattoos in Huntington, WV.

Thanks to Jubail for sharing his Bouncing Souls tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!

And here's a little "Midnight Mile" bonus:

10 Strange and Weirdest Toilet Papers

1 Horror Story Toilet Paper

Do you read in the bathroom? Well, you might appreciate this new literary experience—a horror story in the form of toilet paper! Each roll is printed with several copies of "Drop", a nine-chapter novella written by Koji Suzuki, author of the "Ring" cycle of novels, which has been made into films in both Japan and Hollywood।

2 Origami Toilet Paper

Next time you forget that magazine or book, it will not be a problem। With this Origami Potty Paper you can spend hours learning new and interesting Origami techniques all from your roll of toilet paper. Want to know the best part? You can practice while you're enjoying your private time on the potty!

3 Sudoku Toilet Paper

4 Windows Vista Toilet Paper

Ah, the Japanese... They are so fond of the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 that they printed toilet paper rolls about it, highlighting it's features।

5 Camouflage Toilet Paper

In case you're tired of your plain white toilet paper, you can now wipe in military style with this camouflage toilet paper। For $5.95 you get a roll that consists of 200 sheets of 3-ply toilet paper, imported from Germany.

6 Osama Toilet Paper

Its inscription is worth the money: "Get rid of your shiite"

7 Musical Toilet Paper

Shitty music, literally।

8 Valentines Toilet Paper

Make your valentine fall in love again -while in the bathroom- with this sweet toilet paper.

9 Colored Toilet Paper

These look interesting. Some people like to rotate colors for the holidays: Red for Valentine's Day; green for St. Patrick's Day; black and orange for Halloween; and green and red for Christmas.

10 Obama Toilet Paper

Oh sh*t! Unfortunately, this Obama Toilet paper is for display only, not actual use, and costs only $10. According to its website “this roll would look great on the desk of any Democrat”

Awesome and Beautiful Paper Origami Art

Origami is the art of paper folding. This post showcases beautiful and creative origami creations.

Grulla Origami

JUCUMARI Origami

Scorpion Origami

Onion Origami

Klingon Bird of Prey Origami

Inflatable Piggy Origami

Koi Pond Origami

Iron Man Origami

Crayfish Origami

Spaceships Origami

Unicorn Origami

Praying Mantis Origami

V for Vendetta Mask Origami

Where The Wild Thing Tattoo Is

The day after I met one Jared, I met another, out in front of Madison Square Garden.

With a tattoo like this:

how could I not stop him?

As one would imagine, Jared loves the book, Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak.

The tattoo displays, on Jared's right forearm, one of the "Wild Things" that is in Max's imagination.

Jared, who was in town visiting from Boston, has ten tattoos. He had been thinking about getting a Where the Wild Things Are piece for several years and finally had it done by Chris Ford in January 2009. Ford had worked in L.A. but is now in New Jersey.

Jared said that he has had a lot of attention from people about the tattoo, in part due to the publicity from the movie adaptation coming out this Fall.

Thanks to Jared for stopping to talk and share his "wild" tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

10 Most Awesome and Beautiful Anti-Smoking Campaigns

Tailpipe smoke is gross… and the same goes for the carcinogen-loaded clouds that erupt from the mouth of a cigarette smoker. An anti-smoking group equated the two by placing posters of people's faces with the cut-out mouths strategically placed at the end of tailpipes.

Trashcans on the streets warn smokers of dangers to their eye sight. Very creative and shocking, isn't it

This is a very creative and inventive advertising to urge people to stop smoking. Placed in gyms.

Stop trafic signs in Brazil with cigarette shape.

This ad is from an anti-smoking promotion for ‘World No Tobacco Day' (May 31), and it can be found at coffee shops in Dubai, where people come to smoke!

The Peruvian League Against Cancer wants smokers to know that secondhand smoking is like unleashing a swarm of killer bees on an innocent little girl. For their anti-smoking ad campaign, they glued together 15,000 cigarette butts ONE BY ONE. Volunteers donated the butts.

"Smoke kills" says this coffin created to really make a point. You certainly can't accuse them of being wimpy or subtle about the way they are promoting their message in Anti Smoking Campaign with a coffin.

It is interesting the way they are engaging their target audience whilst maintaining a sense of humor about it.

In this ad part of the X-ray image is transparent allowing for the accumilated butts inside to be part of the visual. Designed by Agency Saatchi & Saatchi London.

12 meter long chemical tanker that looks like a giant cigarette was used by Cancer Research UK to highlight the toxic smoke in cigarettes.

This is a unique anti-smoking print advertisement campaign launched in Riyadh to urge people to quit smoking. The campaign has used a very innovative approach that shows far reaching negative implications of smoking. The advertisements show burning cigarettes having its ashes intact while they show what else are burning with tobacco. The campaign display that many structures and buildings are being burnt while the second ad shows people are being burnt with the cigarette. The campaign apparently aims at conveying the fact that tobacco does not only kill the smoker but people around them as well.

Jared Shares His Vegan Tattoo

I met Jared while he was waiting for a train in Penn Station.

After the Manhattan Mall food court closed last summer, I discovered this wide expanse of Penn Station (especially the Amtrak area) was great for inkspotting when the weather made normal traipsing about unappealing.

Jared's ink runs down the length of his arm, from the top of his right bicep, down to the inner part of his forearm.

As a Vegan, Jared did his research, and sought out a tattoo artist that could give him a Vegan tattoo:

There's a school of thought that some tattoo inks are not "vegan," in the sense that they incorporate glycerine from animal fat, or they use bone char in the black inks. See this article here.

Some artists refute this as gimmicky, and here is a more skeptical view point from a Vegan. But many Vegans who are steadfast in their ideals find the idea of a purely vegan tattoo appealing. I featured another Vegan tattoo back in October 2007 here.

Jared, who is the musical director for the national touring company of the show "Spring Awakening", went to Cary at Body Electric Tattooing & Piercing in Hollywood for this custom design.

The top section of flowers includes at least one chrysanthemum. The bottom part spells out the word "Vegan" in twisting, viny, letters.

Jared's whole arm took three sessions and ultimately embodies the Vegan lifestyle, not just in words and design, but in the ink used to create the art.

Thanks to Jared for sharing his work with us here on Tattoosday!