Tattoos by Andrew Mirfin in Leeds, UK

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Tattoos by Stacey Ann in Perth, Australia

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Ride the Cyclone!

In college we had a game room at the Student Union.

I claimed to be a master at Arkanoid, but would occasionally play pinball. Earthshaker was fun, but there was another, carnival-themed game that would often beckon, "Ride the Cyclone!" It was, naturally, called The Cyclone.

Fast forward ten years and I would be residing in Brooklyn, home to Coney Island and the original Cyclone.

Despite having been in close proximity a number of times, I've never gone for a ride.

I was reminded of this back in September when I met Matt at the top of the escalator at the Penn Plaza Borders store.

He shared this amazing tattoo:

This is, of course, the Cyclone.

Matt is working on a Coney Island/"Carnie" theme, having lived in Brooklyn most of his adult life. Thus, the Astroland tower behind the Cyclone in the tattoo. Next up: the Wonder Wheel and the Parachute Jump, other Coney Island attractions.

He sent along a photo of the tattoo when it was initially finished:

Matt credits this tattoo to Ping at Village Rock Tattoo in Manhattan.

Thanks to Matt for sharing this great tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

12 Craziest Misspelled Billboards

Nice apostrophe!

No exceptions, not even for me!
Alcoholic dyslexia.
What a difference a letter makes, huh?
It looks like some ad pillars went on a diet after several people pointed out that this advertisement had a rather embarrassing misspelling in gazillion-point type.
Panera Bread learned the hard way a cardinal rule for advertisers: check the spelling. The company put up a billboard on southbound Interstate 95 that promoted the two Panera locations in Boynton Beach. But the next day, the company took the billboard down after sharp-eyed commuters noticed that the word "Boynton" was spelled incorrectly. Twice.
This is a huge end cap ad for Seagate. Seriously.
Someone misspelled tattoos on an unintentionally gay billboard.
Double woops or double win?
The sign person misspelled Charlie!
About ten years ago, this was Atlanta's best-known misspelled sign. It was visible from I-85 near Jimmy Carter Boulevard. Trophies and plagues. Do they also do pestilences? Or maybe just plaques?
So if it weren't enough to just HAVE Braille on a billboard... Let alone small enough so that nobody who even has PARTIAL sight can see it, they misspelled Stevie Wonder's name!

NOTE: our reader Jewels explains: "The only thing wrong with the Braille alphabet in the Stevie Wonder billboard, is that the capital sign is not used. The letters are correct. "
Bye-bye car!

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Amazing People Transformed Into Paintings

Alexa Meade creates incredible paintings using real people as her canvas.

The artist coats her models with paint, obscuring the body while intimately exposing it, creating raw account of the person. Painted skin perceptually dissolves the body into a two dimensional caricature.








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Something Girly This Way Comes

I met Nadya one afternoon in the beginning of October in Borders on Penn Plaza.

She shared this tattoo, which covered up a date she had initially inscribed on her arm:

Nadya told me that she wanted something "girly".

What I found most interesting about this tattoo is that when I asked her who the artist was, she told me it was her father. I can't imagine tattooing my own daughter. I would be too nervous!

Thanks to Nadya for sharing this tattoo with us here on Tattoosday.

More ink from Seth Wood currently in LA

rat of the sky or stately gentleman? (mons, be)

i love (oslo).

that jimmy's a handsome devil (oslo)

there's a sorta green gas in your future, apparently (barcelona)

"we only got 4 minutes to save the world" - j. timberlake (sweden)

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