Thursday, October 20, 2005
In Katrina's wake, a tattoo boom in New Orleans - Yahoo! News
In Katrina's wake, a tattoo boom in New Orleans - Yahoo! News: "In Katrina's wake, a tattoo boom in New Orleans
By Kevin Krolicki Thu Oct 20, 7:53 AM ET
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Natalie, 20, knows what she needs to capture her complicated feelings about Hurricane Katrina and its devastation of New Orleans: a tattoo.
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On a recent night at Crescent City Tattoo in New Orleans, she is lined up with about a dozen others to have messages and images inked on their bodies, many prompted by the killer storm that ripped through New Orleans seven weeks earlier.
Tattoo artists report a surge in demand for designs that celebrate New Orleans: fleur-de-lis patterns, 'NOLA,' after the city's widely known abbreviation, and even a symbol modeled after the weather-map depiction of hurricanes."
By Kevin Krolicki Thu Oct 20, 7:53 AM ET
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Natalie, 20, knows what she needs to capture her complicated feelings about Hurricane Katrina and its devastation of New Orleans: a tattoo.
ADVERTISEMENT
On a recent night at Crescent City Tattoo in New Orleans, she is lined up with about a dozen others to have messages and images inked on their bodies, many prompted by the killer storm that ripped through New Orleans seven weeks earlier.
Tattoo artists report a surge in demand for designs that celebrate New Orleans: fleur-de-lis patterns, 'NOLA,' after the city's widely known abbreviation, and even a symbol modeled after the weather-map depiction of hurricanes."
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