also done by jon sweet at uptown tattoo. the text is from the poem you said Is by e.e. cummings: Do you believe in always,the wind said to the rain I am too busy with my flowers to believe,the rain answered  read more

Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata. Shantih shantih shantih information about it here. done by jon sweet at uptown tattoo.

my sixth tattoo was also my first one to have any color! i had an idea for a design, and went to talk to jon sweet at uptown tattoo. i told him i wanted a sailor-jerry-style heart with 'MPLS' (i.e. minneapolis) in the banner. he said he'd been obsessed with valentines lately, so could he try work...  read more

i got my wristpieces done by kore grate of tatus by kore. i had the right wrist done first, then the left shortly after. she did a really good job of fitting them in with my existing tattoos!

i got a gemini on the back of my neck. i'm really into being a gemini. the artist is kore grate of tatus by kore, who was also my sensei at the time.i had it touched up recently. the sun isn't great to tattoos!

2004 was a rough year for me. there was the breakup, i felt like i was trapped, and things were going very poorly in general. i felt like i had no control over my life, so i overcontrolled everything else. when people ask what this means, i tell them it's a breakup tattoo, that it's the number o...  read more

in a crappy shop in south beach. i wanted it close to my wrist, and the tattoo artist said it would hurt too much. he was right; i later got that spot tattooed, and probably would never have gotten another one if it'd felt like that my first time!