Tonight I saw Thee Oh Sees destroy the Beerland patio. I had to stand on the patio fence in order to shoot pictures. Dangerous, dangerous!
After the set I talked to Petey Damnit from the band and got these pictures of his knuckles. If you get a chance to catch this band live, don’t miss out.
Don’t miss ’em, you will thank me.
UPDATE: Here are my pictures from the show:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thenathanblack/sets/72157615633852483
I met these two at Staple, Austin’s independant comic and media conference last week. They both work with busygamer.com providing time senitive game reviews about how much fun they are per gaming dollar…
Robert ‘slave’ Blythin sent these knuckles:
Hey, i got these done mainly because i think it looks awesome
the hand tattoo’s are from my favourite comics and cartoons invader zim and johnny the homicidal maniac you should all check ’em out, jhonen vasquez is god!
What can I say. These are some awesome knuckle tattoos, courtesy of Dave Temby:
My name is bleach, I am a tattoo artist at saint sabrinas in minneapolis. I am borderlined obsessive compulsive, so a friend and coworker of mine thought this would be a good idea for my knuckles. I thought it would be a good idea to mess the letters up and not have them perfectly straight. So here’s what we came up with.
Hello all,
In my wanderings around Austin this week (or so) I picked up a few pictures of people’s knuckle tattoos. Check them out:
Elizabeth sends us these knuckle tattoos, showing just how hard core she is, sorta:
I was watching SNATCH one day and said to myself how I loved the british gangsters in that movie…then it hit me that it would look good on my knuckles. Simple story. It is such a popular term in pop culture, but I really didn’t mean it like “oh I’m gangsta”…it was really about actual dim witted gangsters that can’t do anything right. Similar to myself…lol
Allen Carlson sends use these knuckle tattoos:
i got them after i moved out and realized alot about who my friends are and how much my family means to be..
and you really have to be devoted to what you love and do and who your friend and family are and my religious beliefs had a part to do it with..
plus i wanted to get something different that i had never seen someone with before
I met Michael coming out of Penn Station right next to Madison Square
Garden.
I first spoke to him about this tattoo for my Tattoosday blog, but as the
New York correspondent for KnuckleTattoos.com, I had to ask about his
left hand, which comes with a one-and-a-half tattoo bonus.
First the knuckles:
Nothing fancy, just the numbers seven, one and eight. New Yorkers, of
course, recognize this as the (718) area code, which is synonymous with the
outer boroughs of New York City, namely the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and
Staten Island.
Michael has these digits on his digits to symbolize that he is born and
raised in the 718, namely Queens and Brooklyn.
The tattoo was inked at Pete & Cubo’s Tattoo & Body Piercing in Queens. Their work has appeared previously on Tattoosday here.
The one and a half bonus tattoos are on and above the hand.
He has Marilyn Monroe’s eyes represented on the back of his hand to remind
him of his path to sobriety. Michael regards most photos of Monroe with a
degree of recognition – that her eyes appear hazy from drug use. Her demise
due to a drug overdose is significant enough to remind him to stay focused
on remaining clean. He has been (as of January 9, 2009) for three years and
five months.
Finally, the “half” tattoo is the bottom of the rosary, whose thread runs
the length of his forearm to just above the wrist.
Thanks to Michael for sharing his ink both here and on Tattoosday!
I found these knuckles on LiveJournal a ways back and contacted the photographer Mikey Krzyzanowski of Drop Dead Photos. The model’s name is Deb De Vine and this is her story:
Getting my knuckles tattooed was one of the most exciting thing i’ve had done,the reason why i chose to have them done was the fact for plain old shock value, no one would expect someone who dresses proper, and dose not look “the part” to have such a place inked. As for the phrase ‘Haus Wife’ my husband is a german teacher, hence the spelling, and i always have pictured myself as the perfect wife to come home to
so i know its hokey but its me.
