Today I met  Ashton Applewhite, a woman writing a book called Tattoos For Two . She's looking for people with tattoos that they got with or that goes with a friend/family/others tattoo. She needs a picture of the two or more tattoos together and will interview the subjects for their stories to be included in the book. You can check out her website for more details and contact her about your bro-tatts if you would like to be included. I know in the shop there have been plenty of boozy, hand poked, bad ideas,  passed around, you may remember seeing some of the tattoos posted here. There was the night of the "beef " tattoos, "Dont give a Chuck ", and the ever popular tequila worm in a sombrero.

Maybe you would like to be included but don't have a bro-tatt of your own... No Problem! stop on by Daredevil or FunCity with your best buddie and we're happy to oblige. Also the tattoos don't even have to match. The picture posted here is from when VonRiepen, Jason and I all got tattooed from Stanley Moskowitz at the New York Convention I don't know if it counts but I like the photo and we had a great time all having a chance to meet Stanley and get tattooed from him, so it was a great shared experience for us, close enough.

And I should mention that you can contact Ashton by email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it  

Wow, what a night. What a time. Last night the city threw a bigger party than any holiday, but it wasn't to celebrate a date on the calendar it was for something way more real and exciting than any New Years Eve. I went outside after the election was called to walk the city a little to soak up some of the moment. People were taking to the streets with pots and pans and any makeshift noisemakers they could grab. I saw a girl in her car stopped at a light on Houston yell "what happened?" She then jumped out of her car to dance in the street with others joining in at the news. By the time I got back to Ludlow there was a solid wall of people on our corner congregated on Ludlow and Stanton. "Yes we can!" , "Yes we did",  "Obama" "End the war!" When the cops showed up they seemed confused as to what to do with such a cheerful, friendly mob. It wasn't like the Yankees winning (again), this wasn't a bunch of  jocks. This was everyone, all of our people just happy that it worked out this time, at least for us but hopefully for everyone.

My customer Chris is the creative director at the New York Renaissance Fair  in Tuxedo New York.  He's been inviting us up there ever since his first time to the shop and  we finally made it up for the last day of the season. Now that we know how much fun it is we'll be sure to get up there again next year.  Click to see the slideshow. I like Big Steve's new friend  the Renaissance Samauri guy, the dude is huge! 

Thank you to Chris for a great time. That's him on the left on his horse Dante who sadly passed away last week at the age of 36(!) Such a trusty steed will be missed I'm glad we got to see him do what he did best while he was still around.

ITA is celebrating 15 years in the business of bringing us top notch tattoo coverage. This anniversary issue with Actor Danny Trejo on the cover also  features a cover story of yours truly, "Race With the Daredevil: Tattoos by Michelle Myles" with a big juicy article. Many thanks to Shauta Marsh for doing such a nice interview and to editor Chris Pfouts for including me in such a special issue. There's pictures from the New York Tattoo Convention so get a copy in case you're in there too.

A note to my gentle readers: In case you  thought I abandoned you I need to offer my apologies for taking off and not letting everyone know I was heading to the London Convention and then heading right to Hawaii with my hubby Kevin for our honeymoon / one year anniversary trip! So now that I'm home my work is cut out for me with with lots to catch up on and lots of pictures to post and a profile of our new artist Brad Stevens. So I am back to work and back to blogging and am happy to be home even though it's getting cold in New York and Hawaii was awesome.