Posts Tagged ‘memorial tattoos’
My good friend Juanita Garciagodoy died on Thursday, October 27, 2011. She was 59. In July 2009, Juanita told me via e-mail that she had breast cancer and that it had metastasized. This was at the same time that the Death Reference Desk launched. I had sent Juanita a rather silly message about why she [...]
- By: John
- In: Grief + Mourning
- Tags: memorial tattoos, obituaries, tattooing
History of Hip: Art With A Point, ‘A Brief History of Tattoos’ Minnesota History Center 345 Kellogg Boulevard W Saint Paul, MN 55102-1906 Dates: January 11, 2011 Time: 7:30 to 9 p.m. Fee: FREEEEE (but $5.00 to park in the MNHS parking lot) Reservations: recommended, call 651-259-3015 Please note: This event has been moved from [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + Popular Culture|Monuments + Memorials
- Tags: lecture, memorial tattoos
Valerie’s New York interview with John Troyer on Memorial Tattoos WOR 710 AM (August 4, 2010) Here is the link for the radio interview I did on with Valerie Smaldone on Valerie’s New York . I start discussing Memorial Tattoos about 17:30 minutes into the interview. The piece before me is on an event promoter [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + Popular Culture|Monuments + Memorials
- Tags: lecture, memorial tattoos, memorializing
WNYC Interview on Memorial Tattoos
22, Jul 2010Morbid Ink: Memorial Tattoos Samantha Stark, WNYC radio (July 21, 2010) WNYC radio in New York put together a short piece on Memorial Tattoos, which coincided with my talk on the same subject for Observatory and the Morbid Anatomy Library. Samantha Stark, the WNYC reporter who put the story together, did a really good job [...]
Morbid Ink: Field Notes on the Human Memorial Tattoo An Illustrated Lecture with Dr. John Troyer, Deputy Director, Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath Date: Tuesday July 20th, 2010 Time: 8:00pm Admission: $5 On Tuesday, July 20 I am giving a talk in Brooklyn on memorial tattoos. The talk, Morbid Ink: Field Notes [...]