Three years ago today, Tattoosday was born.
On July 31, 2007, I put up a post on BillyBlog, featuring a tattoo on a co-worker named Sephora.
The idea was to post a weekly tattoo on Tuesday, and use this is a vehicle to expand my horizons a bit; meet interesting people and learn about tattoos.
There was one problem. I enjoyed it too much. There weren't enough Tuesdays in the week. I was impatient and wanted to post right away, not wait until Tuesday. And so, as Kurt Vonnegut would say, it goes....
So a month later I threw the previous months post up on the stand-alone blog, Tattoosday. And BillyBlog faded.
It's still there, but Tattoosday is my passion and I couldn't have even imagined, back in 2007, how easy it would become for me to talk to strangers about their ink.
The once-a-week project produced forty-five separate interactions in July, we have a 30-day backlog of material, and this past week we registered our 650,000th hit. Not too shabby.
Go see the original post here to see how far we've come.
And a hearty thanks to all our contributors, all our fans, and all the tattooists out there creating wonderful, interesting, portable art. Without all of you, Tattoosday would have been a blip of an idea, and nothing more.
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- Kristen's Trilogy of Knots
- Happy Bloggiversary to Me!
- Nick Remembers Billy, I Remember Siki
- Jessica's Feather for her Mother
- Michelle's Tattoo Takes Your Breath Away
- Henna Tattoo Contemporary
- Timmy's Sophisticated Owl
- Niki's Memorial for Elizabeth
- Jim Commemorates a Trip To Greece with His Brothers
- Larry's Tattoo Burns at Both Ends
- Lil' Miss Sunshine
- Pete's Tribute to a Magical Grandfather
- Preston's Invaders Take Tattoosday
- Shannon Shares Her Wieners!
- Venus Flytrap Takes Manhattan Cape Fear
- Recap of Matty No Times Fundraiser at Yes Gallery
- Sugar Skull Sunday: Hannah and Her Family
- Where I'll Be Tonight - Matty No Times Benefit
- Welcome to the Machine
- Sealed with a Snake
- Tribal Body Tattoo
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