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Who do I toast today on tattoo Tuesday?

August 6, 2013

Andy Warhol was a leader in the pop-art movement that reached prominence in the mid-20th century. He was born on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh. While best known for his prints and paintings (among the most expensive ever sold) that celebrate advertising and pop cultural icons, Warhol was trained at Carnegie Mellon University and his body of work includes hand drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and music. An extensive collection can be found at the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.

He pushed the boundaries socially, culturally and artistically. I think he both a leader and a product of social change in post-war America.

Warhol is buried in Pittsburgh at St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cemetery. A statue (below) in his honor is in Bratislava, Slovakia. His parents had emigrated from Slovakia in 1914.

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What is tattoo Tuesday about?

July 30, 2013

Today is Cornflake Day.

The invention of cornflakes was the result of a failed attempt by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, back in 1894, to create a healthful snack for patients at his sanitarium out of some stale grain. Dr. Kellogg had some strange ideas about health and well-being. You can read more about them here (bizarre alert.)

The flakes that resulted from his experimentation were a success. Dr. Kellogg and his brother tried the process with other grains including corn, and a cereal empire was born.

In addition to being a part of Kellogg’s astounding number of breakfast cereals, cornflakes can also be used in recipes, such as these from Pepper: Cornflake Chocolate Chip Marshmallow Cookies: Genius with a Touch of B*tch.

A cornflake tattoo? I could not find one. This is the closest I came:

By the way, did you know that Butterfinger candy bars are made with corn flakes that have been sweetened, mixed with peanut butter, and covered in chocolate? I didn’t either.

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What do we remember today on tattoo Tuesday?

July 23, 2013

It’s summertime in the northern hemisphere – warm temperatures go hand in hand with frosty treats. Although history is somewhat fuzzy on this point, I choose to celebrate July 23 as the day ice cream cones were invented. Here, from Wiki:

In St. Louis, Missouri during the 1904 Saint Louis Exposition, the Banner Creamery’s owner George Bang was selling ice cream. Allegedly, he ran out of bowls and was given rolled-up waffles to serve it in instead. Others credit Ernest A. Hamwi, a waffle maker at the World Fair, as the first inventor.

Given that today is tattoo Tuesday, here are some ice cream cone tattoos.

To round out this post, I offer this handwritten recipe for ice cream. This is from the collection of Thomas Jefferson and is in his hand writing. The original is in the Library of Congress. Isn’t that amazing?

I am not going to mention Gucci Mane in this post.

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What is tattoo Tuesday about?

July 9, 2013

We went to see the Tall Ships in the harbor this weekend. In addition to thirteen beautiful ships, there were a number of tattoos in evidence at the event. Here are a few of them.

And some ship photos:

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What is tattoo Tuesday about?

July 2, 2013

We just returned to the Western Reserve from our vacation to Maine. I would like to say (lie) that we all got frisky and got tattoos, but no, that was not the case (the tattoo part, anyway).

Here is the lovely tattoo I captured that appears on one of my vacation companions.

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What is tattoo Tuesday about?

June 18, 2013

We are getting ready for vacation and will be bound for the east coast in a few days. In that vein, today’s tattoo offering is the Maine state crest with a couple of retro cuties as supporters. Dirigo!

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What is tattoo Tuesday about?

June 11, 2013

I never get tired of looking at the moon and I found this “fun fact” on my iPad Moon app today:

How long would it take to get there?

Car ( @ 60 mph) – 5 months, 22 days, 15 hours, 56 minutes, 48 seconds

Plane (@ 600 mph) – 17 days, 11 hours, 23 minutes, 41 seconds

Sound (@ 761 mps) – 13 days, 18 hours, 39 minutes, 8 seconds

Saturn V (@ 17,432 mph) – 14 hours, 26 minutes, 20 seconds

Light (@ 186,282 mps) – 1.351 seconds

This is because the moon is at (or nearly at apogee) which makes it 251,673 miles away, or 1,350,546 Eiffel Towers away from Earth. The moon’s phase is a waxing crescent.

Here are some moon tattoos.

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What is tattoo Tuesday about?

June 4, 2013

This is not a tattoo. The model is wearing paper lashes from here.

I cannot imaging wearing these without rubbing them off almost immediately.

Or these.

This is makeup, not a tattoo.

But this one is a tattoo. I would like permanent eyeliner like this (I think.)

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What is Tattoo Tuesday about?

May 28, 2013

Last week we took a road trip – a voyage, actually – to one of the off-shore islands in Lake Erie’s western basin. Only a little over 4 square miles, Kelley’s is still one of the largest of the Lake Erie Islands. The island was settled by Native Americans and then taken over by white settlers. Signs of Native Americans still exist, such as Inscription Rock near the ferry dock, and mounds and earthworks on the island.

Inscription Rock purportedly designed by Native Americans on Kelley’s Island

The primary industries were logging, quarrying and wine making. I will never understand the logic of living on an island (an ISLAND!), then cutting off parts of it and selling it. This is, however, what people did and are still doing on Kelley’s. The quarries are impressive. We watched a osprey float on the wind along the edge of the larger quarry stopping to stoop now and then after some kind of prey. We never saw what he was after.

Here’s a view of the quarry.

Now Kelley’s is mostly a vacation spot. In addition to boating, swimming, picnicking and pubbing, Kelley’s is a geologist’s paradise. The limestone in the quarries is full of fossils. I was after trilobites, but came up empty handed. The trilobite, Isotelus, is Ohio’s official state fossil. And I felt silly writing that.

Isotelus

We did, however, find a bunch of horn corals embedded in the limestone giving a glimpse into live at the bottom of the shallow ocean that once covered this part of Ohio.

Horn coral in limestone

Also impressive are the glacial grooves that were almost lost to the limestone industry, but are now preserved as a landmark.

Kelley’s Island Glacial Grooves

The grooves were made during the last ice age when boulders at the bottom of the glacier scoured out these grooves out of the limestone as the glacier moved over the land.

Anyway – the topic of tattoo Tuesday is Trilobites. I found this interesting article in Discover about people who are combating extinction (or at least commemorating extinct species) by getting them tattooed on their bodies.

Here are some trilobites: