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"First Taste" Art Show at Bound for Glory Tomorrow Night!

In case you're wondering where I'll be on Friday night, the plan is for me to attend the opening of Bound for Glory's first art show.

Now, I'm not a big fan of Staten Island (nothing against the people, just my least fave borough), but the fact that the show is curated by Friend of Tattoosday, Magie Serpica, makes it worth the effort. Magie originally appeared on Tattoosday here.



Here is the spiel from the show's Facebook page:

"First Taste"



This is our first art show at Bound For Glory! It will feature the art of many awesome local Staten Island artists, as well as select works from some tattooers nationwide.

The art will be for sale and a portion of the proceeds will go towards Project Hospitality, a local charity which feeds the hungry, shelters the homeless and cares for people with HIV/AIDS.



...The opening reception will be on Friday Jan 28th at 8pm. There will be refreshments, which will be generously donated by local businesses such as Starbucks, Jeans Fine Wine & Spirits, and The CupCake Bar NYC.



Everyone is invited!



This show is curated by Bound For Glory's lady tattooer Magie Serpica



Participating Artists:

Mike Shane

Richie Clarke

Kev/psyn of RobotsWillKill

Chris of RobotsWillKill

Ethan Morgan

Cynthia Von Buhler

Dave Borjes

Brendan Coyle

Amanda Curtis

Chris Sorrentino

Lauren Monardo

Terry Lee Chandler

Charles Tagle

Marina Inoue

Frank Kempo

Chelsea Bunn

Danny Loveridge

Justine Lordo

Veng of RobotsWillKill

Vinny Rega

Tara Anne McCloskey Chillemi

Jennifer McMenemey

Magie Serpica

Nick Caruso

Emma Griffiths

Alexander Rivera

Tom Connors

Victor Modafferi

Sarah Smith (sas photos)

Scott Bakoss

Steve Lapcevic

Sweety

Miss Elvia

Demetrius Felder

Maya Ventura

Bert Krak

Gina Venosa

Mike Hooligan

Eric Perfect

Alex Sherker

Dennis Del Prete

Charlie Foos

Steven Huie



We will be selling raffle tickets for an awesome gift package including: a gift certificate from Comic Book Jones, Some T-Shirts from Robots Will Kill, & "An hour in the chair" with Magie Serpica!

Assuming I can dig my sister's car out from under a new foot of snow by tomorrow evening, I plan to attend and report on it next week, with a photo or two, to boot. Hope to see you there!

"First Taste" Art Show at Bound for Glory Tomorrow Night!

In case you're wondering where I'll be on Friday night, the plan is for me to attend the opening of Bound for Glory's first art show.

Now, I'm not a big fan of Staten Island (nothing against the people, just my least fave borough), but the fact that the show is curated by Friend of Tattoosday, Magie Serpica, makes it worth the effort. Magie originally appeared on Tattoosday here.



Here is the spiel from the show's Facebook page:

"First Taste"



This is our first art show at Bound For Glory! It will feature the art of many awesome local Staten Island artists, as well as select works from some tattooers nationwide.

The art will be for sale and a portion of the proceeds will go towards Project Hospitality, a local charity which feeds the hungry, shelters the homeless and cares for people with HIV/AIDS.



...The opening reception will be on Friday Jan 28th at 8pm. There will be refreshments, which will be generously donated by local businesses such as Starbucks, Jeans Fine Wine & Spirits, and The CupCake Bar NYC.



Everyone is invited!



This show is curated by Bound For Glory's lady tattooer Magie Serpica



Participating Artists:

Mike Shane

Richie Clarke

Kev/psyn of RobotsWillKill

Chris of RobotsWillKill

Ethan Morgan

Cynthia Von Buhler

Dave Borjes

Brendan Coyle

Amanda Curtis

Chris Sorrentino

Lauren Monardo

Terry Lee Chandler

Charles Tagle

Marina Inoue

Frank Kempo

Chelsea Bunn

Danny Loveridge

Justine Lordo

Veng of RobotsWillKill

Vinny Rega

Tara Anne McCloskey Chillemi

Jennifer McMenemey

Magie Serpica

Nick Caruso

Emma Griffiths

Alexander Rivera

Tom Connors

Victor Modafferi

Sarah Smith (sas photos)

Scott Bakoss

Steve Lapcevic

Sweety

Miss Elvia

Demetrius Felder

Maya Ventura

Bert Krak

Gina Venosa

Mike Hooligan

Eric Perfect

Alex Sherker

Dennis Del Prete

Charlie Foos

Steven Huie



We will be selling raffle tickets for an awesome gift package including: a gift certificate from Comic Book Jones, Some T-Shirts from Robots Will Kill, & "An hour in the chair" with Magie Serpica!

Assuming I can dig my sister's car out from under a new foot of snow by tomorrow evening, I plan to attend and report on it next week, with a photo or two, to boot. Hope to see you there!

"First Taste" Art Show at Bound for Glory Tomorrow Night!

In case you're wondering where I'll be on Friday night, the plan is for me to attend the opening of Bound for Glory's first art show.

Now, I'm not a big fan of Staten Island (nothing against the people, just my least fave borough), but the fact that the show is curated by Friend of Tattoosday, Magie Serpica, makes it worth the effort. Magie originally appeared on Tattoosday here.



Here is the spiel from the show's Facebook page:

"First Taste"



This is our first art show at Bound For Glory! It will feature the art of many awesome local Staten Island artists, as well as select works from some tattooers nationwide.

The art will be for sale and a portion of the proceeds will go towards Project Hospitality, a local charity which feeds the hungry, shelters the homeless and cares for people with HIV/AIDS.



...The opening reception will be on Friday Jan 28th at 8pm. There will be refreshments, which will be generously donated by local businesses such as Starbucks, Jeans Fine Wine & Spirits, and The CupCake Bar NYC.



Everyone is invited!



This show is curated by Bound For Glory's lady tattooer Magie Serpica



Participating Artists:

Mike Shane

Richie Clarke

Kev/psyn of RobotsWillKill

Chris of RobotsWillKill

Ethan Morgan

Cynthia Von Buhler

Dave Borjes

Brendan Coyle

Amanda Curtis

Chris Sorrentino

Lauren Monardo

Terry Lee Chandler

Charles Tagle

Marina Inoue

Frank Kempo

Chelsea Bunn

Danny Loveridge

Justine Lordo

Veng of RobotsWillKill

Vinny Rega

Tara Anne McCloskey Chillemi

Jennifer McMenemey

Magie Serpica

Nick Caruso

Emma Griffiths

Alexander Rivera

Tom Connors

Victor Modafferi

Sarah Smith (sas photos)

Scott Bakoss

Steve Lapcevic

Sweety

Miss Elvia

Demetrius Felder

Maya Ventura

Bert Krak

Gina Venosa

Mike Hooligan

Eric Perfect

Alex Sherker

Dennis Del Prete

Charlie Foos

Steven Huie



We will be selling raffle tickets for an awesome gift package including: a gift certificate from Comic Book Jones, Some T-Shirts from Robots Will Kill, & "An hour in the chair" with Magie Serpica!

Assuming I can dig my sister's car out from under a new foot of snow by tomorrow evening, I plan to attend and report on it next week, with a photo or two, to boot. Hope to see you there!

"First Taste" Art Show at Bound for Glory Tomorrow Night!

In case you're wondering where I'll be on Friday night, the plan is for me to attend the opening of Bound for Glory's first art show.

Now, I'm not a big fan of Staten Island (nothing against the people, just my least fave borough), but the fact that the show is curated by Friend of Tattoosday, Magie Serpica, makes it worth the effort. Magie originally appeared on Tattoosday here.



Here is the spiel from the show's Facebook page:

"First Taste"



This is our first art show at Bound For Glory! It will feature the art of many awesome local Staten Island artists, as well as select works from some tattooers nationwide.

The art will be for sale and a portion of the proceeds will go towards Project Hospitality, a local charity which feeds the hungry, shelters the homeless and cares for people with HIV/AIDS.



...The opening reception will be on Friday Jan 28th at 8pm. There will be refreshments, which will be generously donated by local businesses such as Starbucks, Jeans Fine Wine & Spirits, and The CupCake Bar NYC.



Everyone is invited!



This show is curated by Bound For Glory's lady tattooer Magie Serpica



Participating Artists:

Mike Shane

Richie Clarke

Kev/psyn of RobotsWillKill

Chris of RobotsWillKill

Ethan Morgan

Cynthia Von Buhler

Dave Borjes

Brendan Coyle

Amanda Curtis

Chris Sorrentino

Lauren Monardo

Terry Lee Chandler

Charles Tagle

Marina Inoue

Frank Kempo

Chelsea Bunn

Danny Loveridge

Justine Lordo

Veng of RobotsWillKill

Vinny Rega

Tara Anne McCloskey Chillemi

Jennifer McMenemey

Magie Serpica

Nick Caruso

Emma Griffiths

Alexander Rivera

Tom Connors

Victor Modafferi

Sarah Smith (sas photos)

Scott Bakoss

Steve Lapcevic

Sweety

Miss Elvia

Demetrius Felder

Maya Ventura

Bert Krak

Gina Venosa

Mike Hooligan

Eric Perfect

Alex Sherker

Dennis Del Prete

Charlie Foos

Steven Huie



We will be selling raffle tickets for an awesome gift package including: a gift certificate from Comic Book Jones, Some T-Shirts from Robots Will Kill, & "An hour in the chair" with Magie Serpica!

Assuming I can dig my sister's car out from under a new foot of snow by tomorrow evening, I plan to attend and report on it next week, with a photo or two, to boot. Hope to see you there!

"First Taste" Art Show at Bound for Glory Tomorrow Night!

In case you're wondering where I'll be on Friday night, the plan is for me to attend the opening of Bound for Glory's first art show.

Now, I'm not a big fan of Staten Island (nothing against the people, just my least fave borough), but the fact that the show is curated by Friend of Tattoosday, Magie Serpica, makes it worth the effort. Magie originally appeared on Tattoosday here.



Here is the spiel from the show's Facebook page:

"First Taste"



This is our first art show at Bound For Glory! It will feature the art of many awesome local Staten Island artists, as well as select works from some tattooers nationwide.

The art will be for sale and a portion of the proceeds will go towards Project Hospitality, a local charity which feeds the hungry, shelters the homeless and cares for people with HIV/AIDS.



...The opening reception will be on Friday Jan 28th at 8pm. There will be refreshments, which will be generously donated by local businesses such as Starbucks, Jeans Fine Wine & Spirits, and The CupCake Bar NYC.



Everyone is invited!



This show is curated by Bound For Glory's lady tattooer Magie Serpica



Participating Artists:

Mike Shane

Richie Clarke

Kev/psyn of RobotsWillKill

Chris of RobotsWillKill

Ethan Morgan

Cynthia Von Buhler

Dave Borjes

Brendan Coyle

Amanda Curtis

Chris Sorrentino

Lauren Monardo

Terry Lee Chandler

Charles Tagle

Marina Inoue

Frank Kempo

Chelsea Bunn

Danny Loveridge

Justine Lordo

Veng of RobotsWillKill

Vinny Rega

Tara Anne McCloskey Chillemi

Jennifer McMenemey

Magie Serpica

Nick Caruso

Emma Griffiths

Alexander Rivera

Tom Connors

Victor Modafferi

Sarah Smith (sas photos)

Scott Bakoss

Steve Lapcevic

Sweety

Miss Elvia

Demetrius Felder

Maya Ventura

Bert Krak

Gina Venosa

Mike Hooligan

Eric Perfect

Alex Sherker

Dennis Del Prete

Charlie Foos

Steven Huie



We will be selling raffle tickets for an awesome gift package including: a gift certificate from Comic Book Jones, Some T-Shirts from Robots Will Kill, & "An hour in the chair" with Magie Serpica!

Assuming I can dig my sister's car out from under a new foot of snow by tomorrow evening, I plan to attend and report on it next week, with a photo or two, to boot. Hope to see you there!

"First Taste" Art Show at Bound for Glory Tomorrow Night!

In case you're wondering where I'll be on Friday night, the plan is for me to attend the opening of Bound for Glory's first art show.

Now, I'm not a big fan of Staten Island (nothing against the people, just my least fave borough), but the fact that the show is curated by Friend of Tattoosday, Magie Serpica, makes it worth the effort. Magie originally appeared on Tattoosday here.



Here is the spiel from the show's Facebook page:

"First Taste"



This is our first art show at Bound For Glory! It will feature the art of many awesome local Staten Island artists, as well as select works from some tattooers nationwide.

The art will be for sale and a portion of the proceeds will go towards Project Hospitality, a local charity which feeds the hungry, shelters the homeless and cares for people with HIV/AIDS.



...The opening reception will be on Friday Jan 28th at 8pm. There will be refreshments, which will be generously donated by local businesses such as Starbucks, Jeans Fine Wine & Spirits, and The CupCake Bar NYC.



Everyone is invited!



This show is curated by Bound For Glory's lady tattooer Magie Serpica



Participating Artists:

Mike Shane

Richie Clarke

Kev/psyn of RobotsWillKill

Chris of RobotsWillKill

Ethan Morgan

Cynthia Von Buhler

Dave Borjes

Brendan Coyle

Amanda Curtis

Chris Sorrentino

Lauren Monardo

Terry Lee Chandler

Charles Tagle

Marina Inoue

Frank Kempo

Chelsea Bunn

Danny Loveridge

Justine Lordo

Veng of RobotsWillKill

Vinny Rega

Tara Anne McCloskey Chillemi

Jennifer McMenemey

Magie Serpica

Nick Caruso

Emma Griffiths

Alexander Rivera

Tom Connors

Victor Modafferi

Sarah Smith (sas photos)

Scott Bakoss

Steve Lapcevic

Sweety

Miss Elvia

Demetrius Felder

Maya Ventura

Bert Krak

Gina Venosa

Mike Hooligan

Eric Perfect

Alex Sherker

Dennis Del Prete

Charlie Foos

Steven Huie



We will be selling raffle tickets for an awesome gift package including: a gift certificate from Comic Book Jones, Some T-Shirts from Robots Will Kill, & "An hour in the chair" with Magie Serpica!

Assuming I can dig my sister's car out from under a new foot of snow by tomorrow evening, I plan to attend and report on it next week, with a photo or two, to boot. Hope to see you there!

Tattoorism: Sean Returns, Part 2

Last week, I shared more of reader Sean's vast tat-alog here. It's time to finish off our inventory of this very generous fan o' the site. Let's see what we have:

...I got a clipper ship on my upper arm.  The ship is navigating through a background of clouds and lightning bolts and has a banner underneath reading “Hope.”  Its meaning follows the same idea behind my anchor tattoo.  Hope is a huge part of having a positive mental attitude, which I try (sometimes with little luck, of course) to hold at all times.  It’s a reminder that you can make it through stormy parts of your life, no matter how bad they get.  It’s also done in the traditional style I love so much.  The tattoo was done by Mike Schweigert at Electric Tattoo in Bradley Beach, NJ.

While attending [the 2010] Philadelphia Tattoo Arts Convention, I decided to get a tattoo to commemorate my first convention.  For as many years as tattoos have been a part of my life, this was my first convention...I got a blue rose with a candle spouting out of it in between my sparrows and flower on my outer elbow. 

I’m a firm believer in everyone having a different reasoning for getting tattoos.  Some are used as place markers in one’s life, some are used to remember an event, some have deep profound meanings and some are just aesthetically pleasing. I could probably come up with some in depth meaning behind the tattoo, but in the end, I got it to commemorate my first tattoo convention and that’s pretty much the only reason.  Done by Rocco at Death or Glory Tattoos in Westbrook, Maine.

Finally, I got my outer elbow to forearm done with a snake coiling through a skull and dagger and impaling itself on the dagger’s blade.  

I usually try to go out of my way to ensure that my friends/family/other people in general are happy, more often than I would like to admit, putting their happiness before my well-being.  This tattoo serves as a reminder for me not to do that so much, and to focus on myself sometimes.  The snake can be viewed as a protection figure, coiling around and through the rest of the tattoo, but has also caused injury to itself by doing so.  Basically, its my reminder that as much as I would like to help others, I need to keep my own happiness and well being in mind before I choose which action to take or I’ll end up injuring myself in the process.  Done by Mike Schweigert at Electric Tattoo in Bradley Beach, NJ.

A hearty thanks to Sean for continuing to share his tattoos with us over the years!

Tattoorism: Sean Returns, Part 2

Last week, I shared more of reader Sean's vast tat-alog here. It's time to finish off our inventory of this very generous fan o' the site. Let's see what we have:

...I got a clipper ship on my upper arm.  The ship is navigating through a background of clouds and lightning bolts and has a banner underneath reading “Hope.”  Its meaning follows the same idea behind my anchor tattoo.  Hope is a huge part of having a positive mental attitude, which I try (sometimes with little luck, of course) to hold at all times.  It’s a reminder that you can make it through stormy parts of your life, no matter how bad they get.  It’s also done in the traditional style I love so much.  The tattoo was done by Mike Schweigert at Electric Tattoo in Bradley Beach, NJ.

While attending [the 2010] Philadelphia Tattoo Arts Convention, I decided to get a tattoo to commemorate my first convention.  For as many years as tattoos have been a part of my life, this was my first convention...I got a blue rose with a candle spouting out of it in between my sparrows and flower on my outer elbow. 

I’m a firm believer in everyone having a different reasoning for getting tattoos.  Some are used as place markers in one’s life, some are used to remember an event, some have deep profound meanings and some are just aesthetically pleasing. I could probably come up with some in depth meaning behind the tattoo, but in the end, I got it to commemorate my first tattoo convention and that’s pretty much the only reason.  Done by Rocco at Death or Glory Tattoos in Westbrook, Maine.

Finally, I got my outer elbow to forearm done with a snake coiling through a skull and dagger and impaling itself on the dagger’s blade.  

I usually try to go out of my way to ensure that my friends/family/other people in general are happy, more often than I would like to admit, putting their happiness before my well-being.  This tattoo serves as a reminder for me not to do that so much, and to focus on myself sometimes.  The snake can be viewed as a protection figure, coiling around and through the rest of the tattoo, but has also caused injury to itself by doing so.  Basically, its my reminder that as much as I would like to help others, I need to keep my own happiness and well being in mind before I choose which action to take or I’ll end up injuring myself in the process.  Done by Mike Schweigert at Electric Tattoo in Bradley Beach, NJ.

A hearty thanks to Sean for continuing to share his tattoos with us over the years!