Contemporary Filipino tribal
January 31, 2008 - 64,329 views
Here’s a photo of a neo-tribal forearm piece on Geologic from the Seattle, Washington based Hip Hop group Blue Scholars. Ink by Aleks Figueroa.
Philippine Sun tattoo with tribal
January 25, 2008 - 10,736 views
Found this video titled “Erwin’s Filipino Star Tattoo” on Youtube. When you watch it, you’ll notice it’s a Sun not a Star. The tattoo & “Filipino Pride” trend/resurgence is a dangerous mix. While I understand that is probably just an honest Sun/Star mix-up, it brings up a few questions….do you know what your “Filipino” tattoos mean? Do your tattoos represent the pre or post Filipino?
Big Lakas (strength) tattoo
January 16, 2008 - 1,430 views
Here’s a picture of a Lakas (strength) tattoo I designed for Brandon. The modern translation is LA-KA-S. You will notice the vowel cancellation kudlit “X” under the last character (SA) that looks like V3. Looks great!
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You can call me AL (in Baybayin)
January 14, 2008 - 455 views
Al sent in his modern Baybayin tattoo. Looks like Paul Morrow’s Baybayin fonts. Upload your photo or join my.PinoyTattoos.com.

Reminds me of the classic Paul Simon song…..
Free Filipino Tattoo Flash Designs
January 11, 2008 - 5,077 views
A FREE Filipino Tattoo Flash Design section is coming soon on PinoyTattoos.com. The purpose of this is to give you ideas for tattoos. While I don’t suggest anyone use a flash design for a tattoo, your free to do so if you don’t mind having the same tattoo as someone else. At 1st it will have common Baybayin designs but eventually, I want to include “Filipino tribal” and etc. I’m also looking for artists that want to contribute some of their flash designs. They can be full color or stencil - your choice.
Now my question is….what are some common Baybayin translations that should be listed? So far, I have the following:
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Butch Bautista @ Dutdutan 2007
January 8, 2008 - 3,959 views
Baybayin tattoo inspired shirts for sale
January 6, 2008 - 1,029 views
Over the past 6 months I’ve been experimenting with designing some Baybayin tattoo inspired shirts. Some samples will be arriving sometime next week. Vertically, it reads Kalayaan (Freedom) in old school Baybayin (KA-LA-YA-A) in Katipunan blood red. They will be on 100% cotton white and black shirts. Stock will be extremely limited. Sizes available for guys are medium, large and extra large. Girls come in small and medium. I will post actual photos once I receive the shirts.


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Look out for a full line to come out by spring….
Tribal
January 4, 2008 - 3,928 views
User photo uploaded on my.PinoyTattoos.com
UFC’s Brandon Vera’s Baybayin thigh tattoos
January 2, 2008 - 1,959 views
Here’s video of UFC’s Brandon Vera practicing his moves. You will notice 2 big Baybayin tattoos on his thighs. I can’t really make them out but I think I see “LA” & “Ya”.











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