Billed as "A unique pictorial study of America's most personal art form - at the height of it's popularity at the turn-of-the-century." This book is a look at the scetch book of Victorian tattooer C.H. Fellowes. The Tattoo Archives say that, " not much is known about Fellowes. All that remains is his scetch book and a hand tattooing kit, which were found in 1966 in Providence, Rhode Island and later sold to a private collector."

Fellowes scetch book features mostly, "patriotic emblems, mothers, and sweethearts, mythological heroes and beast, sinking ships, daggers and flowers, and less than decorous body art." The preface of The Tattoo Book has "A Short History of the Strange Custom of Tattooing" by William C. Sturtevant from the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution. This book was published in 1971 I'm not sure if there are any reprints out there but there are some great pages of designs mostly printed in black and red with a few pencil drawings included. Check out the nice lady reclining on a giant fish tattoo I added to Bailey's "worst ever" post. Someone needs to get her tattooed.

This story actually ran in September but the other day I saw Nikki (pictured) who never got to see the piece so I promised I'd post it. They had shot this months earlier but I was told the Daily News editor HATES tattoos and didn't want to run it at all so it got put aside. When it finally ran it only ran in the early edition so a lot of people missed it.

Thanks to Linda Rosier who took the pictures and Ethan Sacks who wrote the story. The story didn't even run with the picture it was only posted online

The caption reads, "Nikki McDonnell arrives at Fun City on St.Marks Place to get long awaited Sacred Heart tattoo from Michelle Myles, who goes to work on her. Pain's "the price you pay," McDonnell says."

Close.......Jamie comforts Sienna in New Yorks Daredevil Tattoo Parlour

British Tabloid The Sun reports....

SIENNA AND JAMIE GET A TATTOO?

Ah? It must be love.

Tattoo artist are the worst customers. Take Chuck for example. He gets his arm tattooed last night, and he's sucking down the margarita's like CRAZY. Out of control. The worst thing about drunk Chuck is how affectionate he gets. If you don't watch out you might get a big sloppy Chuck kiss or a smack in the ass, whatever. Boltz managed to keep him upright and finished with flying colors. Chuck managed to not puke in the shop which keeps me happy (he said the upChucking came later ). I know he was totally psyched to get back to work bright and early to tattoo that rowdy bunch of school teachers in town from Alaska (hey ladies! come back soon!) It was a fun night and luckily we have pictures to show Chuck what a good time he had cause he can't remember. He's probably going to spend the next few days swimming and picking the scabs.