Give someone many tattoos to choose from with a gift set.
Here’s something for your tattoo commitment-phobe aunt, cousin or hairless cat: just four and half months ago Brooklyn-based designer Tina Roth-Eisenberg, better known to design enthusiasts as Swiss Miss, launched Tattly, a provider of artistic, design-y temporary tattoos. How do they stand up to the hard Brooklyn life? An early design, “What to Focus On” (a personal favorite), stuck on for more than a week, including a camping trip to Colorado, and even then I had to scrub it off! Gift sets with themes like The Zoo, Grown Up and Hand Drawn include several different designs. The Dumbo-based Tattly says it best: “Who said forever is better?”
$25 for a gift set; Cog & Pearl and online.
Tattoo with a side of potatoes.
Thanksgiving means bus rides to Jersey, arguing with your veggie friends over that dead bird in the oven and awkward family convos where your grandmother tells you she’s “mostly OK with the gays now.” Why not have something new to debate this year: a tattoo! Sara Antoinette Martin of Brooklyn Tattoo on Smith Street is offering $40 tattoos from the flash sheet from today through mid-December. That “AMNESTY’ one will make your veggie friends happy, at least. Read the rest of this entry »
Brooklyn365 points us to this rad/possibly hazardous event tonight at Lady Jay’s in Williamsburg: Stick & Poke night, where a handful of local tattoo artists will be giving away free, super-low-fi tattoos on a first-come, first-served basis. Stick and poke tattooing is essentially freehand, stick-figure style tats (what we call “prison ink” around Brokelyn HQ). The event is co-sponsored by PBR, who will be on hand offering specials, a photobooth, PBR tattoos (temporary??). This night of totally awesome decisions starts at 10pm tonight at Lady Jay’s, 633 Grand St.
FRIDAY
8pm-12:30am (thru 5/22): 70 local independent musicians perform free sets for six days at the 5th annual local correspondents festival. bar4 (park slope). Read the rest of this entry »
Design sheet for Brooklyn Bridge tattoos
Can’t bring yourself to name your child Brooklyn (or maybe Graham Army Plaza), thinking there must be a less kitschy way to show your pride? Celebrate BK Bridge’s 128th anniversary on Sunday with a $28 tattoo of the landmark from Brooklyn Tattoo. The actual anniversary is May 24, but head to the Smith Street shop two days early at 1pm for a permanent branding of those limestone towers. It’s first-come, first-served, and last year the shop did 60-70 inks, so get your design bid in early on the selected images. Read the rest of this entry »
Hankering for a permanent reminder of your love affair with Brooklyn? Sunday’s your deeply-discounted chance, courtesy of the inking wizards at Brooklyn Tattoo. The Brooklyn Bridge turns 127 this month, and the Smith St. tattoo artists are honoring the edifice with $27 bridge tattoos. At least 15 designs will be available, and the one-day price is a steep drop-off from the usual $75-$130. The sale’s from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., and it’s first-come, first-served. Read the rest of this entry »
And this is above the waist.
I have two adorable (in my eyes, at least) rats tattooed across my shoulder blades, and I’ve been feeling a certain itch to add something to my menagerie. Maybe, say, a five-inch long alligator with flamingo wings. When you’re budgetarily challenged, though, you tend to put the kind of thought into choosing a tattoo artist as you would into, say, buying a house (ha!) or… maybe picking out a new laptop.
I saved on my rats by going to an apprentice. They came to $80, with tip (about a $100 savings). But that was back in Las Vegas. Now that I’m looking to go under the gun again, I’m on the hunt for someone good, friendly, patient and, most of all, affordable, in Brooklyn. Read the rest of this entry »
The world is ending! Maybe! Probably not! Time to put some permanent damage on your body anyway? Sara Antoinette of Brooklyn Tattoo on Smith Street is following up her offers for cheap Thanksgiving and Halloween tattoos with a one to commemorate the : 2012, aka the possible end of the world. Choose from the flash sheet pictured and she’ll ink you up for $40-$50 depending on the size, until the end of January. To make an appointment, stop by the shop at 99 Smith St. any day except Wednesday or Sunday, or email sara.antoinette(at)gmail.com. You’ll have to pay up front, because, you know, it’s not really cool to skip out on the check just because the world is ending.
Give someone many tattoos to choose from with a gift set.
Here’s something for your tattoo commitment-phobe aunt, cousin or hairless cat: just four and half months ago Brooklyn-based designer Tina Roth-Eisenberg, better known to design enthusiasts as Swiss Miss, launched Tattly, a provider of artistic, design-y temporary tattoos. How do they stand up to the hard Brooklyn life? An early design, “What to Focus On” (a personal favorite), stuck on for more than a week, including a camping trip to Colorado, and even then I had to scrub it off! Gift sets with themes like The Zoo, Grown Up and Hand Drawn include several different designs. The Dumbo-based Tattly says it best: “Who said forever is better?”
$25 for a gift set; Cog & Pearl and online.
Tattoo with a side of potatoes.
Thanksgiving means bus rides to Jersey, arguing with your veggie friends over that dead bird in the oven and awkward family convos where your grandmother tells you she’s “mostly OK with the gays now.” Why not have something new to debate this year: a tattoo! Sara Antoinette Martin of Brooklyn Tattoo on Smith Street is offering $40 tattoos from the flash sheet from today through mid-December. That “AMNESTY’ one will make your veggie friends happy, at least. Read the rest of this entry »
Brooklyn365 points us to this rad/possibly hazardous event tonight at Lady Jay’s in Williamsburg: Stick & Poke night, where a handful of local tattoo artists will be giving away free, super-low-fi tattoos on a first-come, first-served basis. Stick and poke tattooing is essentially freehand, stick-figure style tats (what we call “prison ink” around Brokelyn HQ). The event is co-sponsored by PBR, who will be on hand offering specials, a photobooth, PBR tattoos (temporary??). This night of totally awesome decisions starts at 10pm tonight at Lady Jay’s, 633 Grand St.
FRIDAY
8pm-12:30am (thru 5/22): 70 local independent musicians perform free sets for six days at the 5th annual local correspondents festival. bar4 (park slope). Read the rest of this entry »
Design sheet for Brooklyn Bridge tattoos
Can’t bring yourself to name your child Brooklyn (or maybe Graham Army Plaza), thinking there must be a less kitschy way to show your pride? Celebrate BK Bridge’s 128th anniversary on Sunday with a $28 tattoo of the landmark from Brooklyn Tattoo. The actual anniversary is May 24, but head to the Smith Street shop two days early at 1pm for a permanent branding of those limestone towers. It’s first-come, first-served, and last year the shop did 60-70 inks, so get your design bid in early on the selected images. Read the rest of this entry »
Hankering for a permanent reminder of your love affair with Brooklyn? Sunday’s your deeply-discounted chance, courtesy of the inking wizards at Brooklyn Tattoo. The Brooklyn Bridge turns 127 this month, and the Smith St. tattoo artists are honoring the edifice with $27 bridge tattoos. At least 15 designs will be available, and the one-day price is a steep drop-off from the usual $75-$130. The sale’s from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., and it’s first-come, first-served. Read the rest of this entry »
And this is above the waist.
I have two adorable (in my eyes, at least) rats tattooed across my shoulder blades, and I’ve been feeling a certain itch to add something to my menagerie. Maybe, say, a five-inch long alligator with flamingo wings. When you’re budgetarily challenged, though, you tend to put the kind of thought into choosing a tattoo artist as you would into, say, buying a house (ha!) or… maybe picking out a new laptop.
I saved on my rats by going to an apprentice. They came to $80, with tip (about a $100 savings). But that was back in Las Vegas. Now that I’m looking to go under the gun again, I’m on the hunt for someone good, friendly, patient and, most of all, affordable, in Brooklyn. Read the rest of this entry »
