It's a throwback to a more old-school version of what tattooing used to be.
has long had a spooky reputation in the U.S., right up there with black cat crossings and shattered mirrors. But in the world of tattoos, Friday the 13decided to tattoo
the number 13 on as many people as possible, back-to-back, over a 24-hour period on Friday, June 13, 2008. All told, he managed to tattoo 415 people. Tattoo shops across the country followed suit, including New York City’sI spoke with Michelle Myles, co-owner of Daredevil Tattoo, about how the tattoo industry got involved with Friday the 13and what it’s like to celebrate such an ominous day. Here’s our conversation, lightly edited and condensed for clarity.
or just “13” tattoos in general have always been the kind of imagery that people have liked for tattooing.thing around 2000. Oliver in Texas was the first one who was doing it, and so we had this tattoo artist at our shop who was friends with Oliver. She wanted to do the same thing, and I said sure. I think she tattooed like five or six of her friends, and then the next time it rolled around, a couple more artists in the shop were like, “Oh, we want to do it, too,” and I said sure.
As far as imagery goes, people will get unlucky and lucky things. Some of the unlucky ones are skulls and Grim Reapers and the number 13 or lightning bolts. It’s just anything that’s fun and quirky. We definitely have some customers who have been coming in for the last 20 years and they have a whole collection of these little designs. There’s this one family that would come in all together, it was Mom, Dad, and the kids.
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