First up, everybody’s favorite: Buddy Christ

Second, a henna tattoo I drew on my friend – a failed Sierpinski triangle!

Since shooting, editing, and posting every day could get rather time consuming and interruptive – I will likely be posting a lot of my photos in sets over the weekends.

Day 1’s photo is a partial self-portrait. The focus, at least my intended focus, is on the mug and then the tattoo. The mug because I have a seriously lame head cold and have been downing tea all day. The tattoo because today is January 1, and above all, my top resolution for the year is to live.

As for the editing of the image, I went with desaturation to represent the fuzziness of a cold and the coldness of this Michigan winter day.

Surprisingly, after all that planning, I decided on it in a pretty well spur-of-the-moment move.

It was the day after Thanksgiving. I went out to Ypsilanti for a late lunch and lo and behold – I found myself eating across the street from Depot Town Tattoo, a shop that had been recommended to me by multiple people. The thought of just walking over there and getting a tattoo immediately crossed my mind, and almost just as quickly, I’d resolved to do it.

I’ve been wanting a tattoo for around 10 years now and have toyed with ideas throughout that whole time. This last year, I got serious with it though – setting up multiple pinterest boards with ideas.

So, it was decided, I was going to walk across the street after eating and get a tattoo. Step 2: decide which tattoo idea to get. Something simple, something safe, something meaningful, something relevant. Live. Decided.

I walked in, told my idea to Dawn, and within minutes we were ready to go. The tattoo was done in about 60 seconds. It felt like cat scratches. Not too bad at all. Without further ado, I present to you my first tattoo:

The first of possibly many… I am scheming my next tat(s), they could happen very soon… :P