January 2010
10 posts
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2010
Nearly 14 years I’ve had New York Adorned.. So many incarnations.. And so many hours of thinking and worrying and laughing and being amazed at my NYA family. What a crew, always.. Even when it was rough. Every one of them had a particular genius. I can’t even begin to tell the world how lucky I’ve been to be surrounded by these people. It’s where my real blessing lies....
December 2009
11 posts
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The Tattoo World Beyond our Walls
This is not the original title of this post, but Thomas said the original was perhaps a little rough, so I renamed. The title was ‘These New Yorker’s did not Get Tattooed at New York Adorned’. I didn’t mean the art wasn’t worthy , but I see how it could be interpreted as that. To be honest, I’m caring less and less about the technically ‘perfect’...
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MERRY CHRISTMAS
Hope your day was bright.. South 3 St and Whyth
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Leora Rose Zilber
Renee Dorski is Yoni Zilber’s wife. She just gave birth Monday, December 21, at 12:33PM, to a beautiful 7 1/2 lb baby girl named Leora Rose. Leora was overdue by more than a week but definitely thought about coming out for a while before hand. Check out this crazy video from about 2 weeks ago.. and here she is now.. What a beauty! We love you guys.. God Bless…
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first snow
We got nearly a foot on Saturday night into Sunday. It is now turning to New York black.. Kati Vaughn created this woman outside the Brooklyn shop..
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CHRIS O'DONNELL Arts Talk on VBS.TV
Chris O’Donnell and I have been working together for a long time. I first met him at East Side Ink in 1995. (The original East Side Ink. Started by me and Sean Vasquez,Andrea Elston and Michelle Myles among others. Not the East Side Ink that took the name and uses it now.) Then in 1996, Timothy Hoyer and he came in to the newly opened New York Adorned to hang out with Scott Harrison , John...
Today I prayed for 38..
and lo and behold, we have 39! followers I would like to ask, if you dont have one, to add a photo to your profile, please.. It really inspires me to see who our peeps are and what they are doing. I mean„ I won’t stop posting if you don’t, but if I knew who you were.. I could decide easier which of my saved posts I should put up first and what kind of quick shit all you guys...
Guts & Glory
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DANIEL HIGGS
Dan is having an art opening in NYC tomorrow night. I am excited to see it, so I am posting it. I will be posting again about Daniel in the future because he is one of the most important and iconic tattooers in modern history. But for now go see his show. Recognize his many talents And peep a photo I took on August 14, 2003, about an hour after much of the Northeast and parts of Canada were...
love me or leave me alone
I think about this blog a lot. And I have a bunch of drafts saved that I am working on. I am collecting pictures and going through my own archives, and asking and sometimes begging my beloved muses to dig through theirs. or to let me spill the beans on their projects… but alas.. it’s a slow process. Life is a slow process.. beAdorned,
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**all seeing**
courtesy of Thomas Hooper and Dave Cavalcante Courtesy of Bethany Cirlin and Simone Brochard (check back, you’ll be amazed) Courtesy of Melanie Bilenker. From the private collection of Lori Leven