from: Amy H.

from: Amy H.

to: "tiangotlost@gmail.com"
date: Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 8:28 PM
subject: Tattoo Translation

My friend just got this tattoo but he won't tell any of us what it means. I'm beginning to think it's just gibberish after seeing all of the older posts. Any help is appreciated!

The tattoo is grammatically incorrect translation based on word-per-word machine translation tool (e.g. Google Translate)



"Destroy / Them / Total"



"Let / Deity / Organize / Them"

from: Sabrina M.

from: Sabrina M.
to: "tiangotlost@gmail.com"
date: Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 6:58 AM
subject: Tattoo translation

Hello! I'm looking for a tattoo translation. Any information you could provide would be appreciated!
Thanks!

It looks like "traby" according to the gibberish font and previous post.  

from: Ryan T.

from: Ryan T.
to: tiangotlost@gmail.com
date: Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 2:09 AM
subject:

Hi I had this tattoo when I was 16 which apparently was my name 'Ryan' picked from english/kanji alphabet. But as im older and wiser ive realised you can't translate the alphabet into kanji. Recently a friend of family found out in was stream..forest...fist..bitch path? Is this true as I may need a cover up tattoo.

Another sucker of the gibberish font.

Hooked on Pot

From Dr. Victor Mair of U. Penn at Language Log:

The characters are 大麻沉溺 ("addicted to marijuana"), but mirrored.



http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=5078

from: Daryn G.

from: Daryn gMail
to: tiangotlost@gmail.com
date: Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 10:58 AM
subject: Sister's Tattoo

Above is my sister's new tattoo, it is supposed to be both of her daughters initials (ESO and EGO in English). But what are we really looking at?

Thanks!

Daryn

所, place

狗, dog

place dog, dog place?

from: Tomas D.

from: Tomas D.

to: tiangotlost@gmail.com

date: Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 2:56 PM

subject: Tattoo translation



Hello!



I'm looking for a tattoo translation, i hope you could help me out with it!

Thank you!

Best Regards, Tomas

It appears intended to be 双鱼座 (Pisces), however used wrong 于.



鱼 and 于 are homophones.  

Summer - 2013

Well, as always it's been a while since I posted.  Here are some new photos of what I've been up to.


Holdin' onto these quite a bit.

An older one - healed.

Some asparagus.   Stuff like this is my bread and butter.

Some beehives, These were real fun ones.

Do you ever think about... like... Hexagons?

Another real fun one.  Hand poked circle.

A nice big outline.  One of a couple larger tattoos I've started lately.

I got to polish up this one, one of my favorite tattoos ever. 

It felt cool to do this one, a big ole heart and a pair of lungs. 

Sometimes I feel like I'm getting away with a lot these days.  Line-blasted tree.  When I was really young, I had a wonderful artist friend take me to a windrow of willows and ask me to draw them.  That was the day I learned about "shorthand" drawing. 





I was happy with how this olive branch turned out.

Cover-up patch.

Just for fun patch.  With another cover up to the right.

A three quarter sleeve I've been working on.  I'm happy to have something large to show people.




Roses are good.



Some details of the four circles piece. 

And beautifull Avery!

Thanks for looking, Bram