It’s Wednesday, folks: you’re feeling the mid-week blahs.
Perhaps you got down to H Street on Saturday and had a blast and a half along with at least 50,000 of your closest friends (though we’ll never know for sure, as I’m told crowd counting is a less-than-exact science); but perhaps you just did not. Maybe you’ve already perused our photo recap, but here to cheer up your Humpday blues is a squadron of tattooed people. The winners got the admiration and respect of the masses — check out the enormous, full-torso tattoo of the Best Male winner, for instance! But the losers did not walk away with just pity and the schadenfreude of the masses: they get to have their tattoo covered up for free, courtesy of British Ink — a pretty swell deal if, say, the teddy bear on your leg looks more like the Sasquatch. (Frankly, we are really curious here at THIH to see how the tattoos get covered up and made to look better.)
And may we add that Paul Roe, British Ink’s owner, makes a most excellent emcee?
Okay, without further ado, here are the tats!
Another really fun thing about the festival? The oh-so-amazing Capitol Hill-related t-shirts! DCist recently wrote about all the different designs to be sighted/purchased, with an emphasis on a certain Mayor for Life — although my personal favorite was this one risqué shirt mentioning the streetcar and a word that rhymes with “botherstrucker.” But the nearest and dearest to my heart was this little number from Robb Stark’s “Highway to Hill” store. While they were running low at the festival, Robb told me their online store would be up and running starting this week. (One wonders, however, if the motif could also come in a Southeast variation).
So see? No longer is Wednesday the desolate realm of suck you’ve come to expect– or at least not until you stop reading this post.
You’re welcome.
The cover-up process is entirely dependent on the individual tattoo to be covered, imagine a canvas with a restriction which must be worked with.
Unfortunately I do a lot of these, they’re challenging and very rewarding.
The clients reactions to the finished product make my day, every time.
Here’s an example of what I mean.
Paul Roe.
The cover-up process is entirely dependent on the individual tattoo to be covered, imagine a canvas with a restriction which must be worked with.
Unfortunately I do a lot of these, they’re challenging and very rewarding.
The clients reactions to the finished product make my day, every time.
Here’s an example of what I mean.
Paul Roe.
Anyone know if they’re still selling the streetcar shirt somewhere?
Anyone know if they’re still selling the streetcar shirt somewhere?
Tim: I’ve seen it at SOVA.