A black-and-white photo of a person mid-air in a Superman-style body suspension pose, supported by multiple hooks in their back and legs, smiling joyfully toward the camera. They are suspended horizontally in a large indoor space with high ceilings and visible rigging. A group of onlookers—some seated, some standing—watch with expressions of admiration, amusement, and support. The atmosphere is lively and communal, capturing a moment of shared experience and transformation.

One Day at a Time


As per usual when it comes to awesome and interesting things, there is a very good chance your editor is missing an important reference point for the above tattoo. (If it were an Anchorman quote, we would have picked it out in .0001 seconds.) Anyway! This beautiful piece comes to us from the good folks at Tattoo Alien in Wałbrzych, Poland. Are we looking at a futuristic cityscape? A war-torn reminder of the past? Vile pornography for far-away space monsters? Short answer: Yes.

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Comments

19 responses to “One Day at a Time”

  1. Lia Avatar
    Lia

    Gotham City?

  2. Brooks Avatar
    Brooks

    Yup I am going with Gotham City from the new Batman series, you know the one with the Joker but not as good as the one Jack Nicholson played.

  3. Lia Avatar
    Lia

    Dude, Ledger was a good Joker. I don’t know though, I’ve never seen the Nicholson version. Sweet tattoo though, really love the slight sketchiness of it.

  4. Laurel Avatar

    Definitely Gotham haha. All it needs is the bat signal in the sky!

  5. hummerdrum Avatar
    hummerdrum

    Looks post-apoc

    Maybe Gotham under construction? Is that a tiny batman in the dead center running along the train track?

    My guess would be Escape from New York/L.A. style city?

    Also Ledger was way better than Nicholson in the role of joker. Word

  6. arcadetoken Avatar
    arcadetoken

    so if its gotham city , doesnt that just make it chicago?

  7. Brooks Avatar
    Brooks

    Heath was a good Joker.

  8. WerewolfRA Avatar
    WerewolfRA

    First, I gotta say that this is really cool ink. I do agree on gotham aswell.

    To the other people. Everyone knows Ledger was a “Good” joker, but he was HIGHLY over-rated due to his unfortunate death.

  9. Rory Avatar
    Rory

    That looks sort of like the present day to me…

  10. Quality Avatar

    Jeepers Batman, they put up the NipSign!

  11. phrawzty Avatar

    This.. this is brilliant.

  12. alchemy Avatar
    alchemy

    Stunning ink. I may be completely wrong, but my first thought was ‘Under the Steel Sky’, a screenshot from the intro to the game….

  13. Banana Bread Avatar
    Banana Bread

    Anyone seen Norbit? When I saw this all I could think is, well THERE’S Nippleopolis….
    Great tattoo by the way – fantastic detail and shading!

  14. nikki Avatar
    nikki

    I was going to say Gotham city too!

  15. Saara Avatar

    Love it.

    And agree with #8 – very much looked forward to watching the film because of everyone raving about it beforehand (should really know better by now! I never seem to like the things people rave about) and turned to my other half afterwards and we both said at exactly the same time ‘over-rated, much!’

    He was good. But I’ve seen better.

  16. Nathan Avatar

    Man, I wish I were cool enough to bitch about a dead man’s work being drastically inferior to a really shitty performance over the internet via a discussion of a tattoo that neither includes, nor alludes to either performance. The only accurate Joker, was Mark Hammil. The others have been good in their own regards.

    But none of them are in this fuckin’ tattoo.

    Nice shading, interesting composition, and a bitchin’ helicopter, however, are.

  17. Art Star Avatar

    Everyone beat me to it but i’m going with Gotham City too!

  18. juliaumulia Avatar
    juliaumulia

    1984!

  19. jake Avatar
    jake

    single-haired mole alert, above and to right of screen. pluck ittt.

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