Author Archives: Danny

About Danny

Daniel Michel is the owner and founder of NY Body Art. New York born and bred, and originally from Spring Valley, he has lived for years at a time in every borough in the City and has no plans to move anywhere else. As a tattooed tattoo enthusiast, he founded NY Body Art in January of 2011 as a resource focusing on his two greatest loves.

Bassist Jennifer Arroyo Talks Tattoos & Life in Brooklyn

Jennifer Arroyo is best known for her impressive skills on the bass, and she certainly has made quite the name for herself in the Metal music scene. Remarkably, she began touring at just 14 years of age, playing with bands such as Open Defiance, Spine, and KItte. As the current bassist for Suicide City and Demilitia , Jennifer has now returned to her New York roots and when she isn’t rocking out on stage, she is

Alt Photographer Joseph Michael

Joseph Michael, who goes by the moniker Carbon Decay, based in New York, NY, describes himself as a fine arts and fetish photographer. In recent years fetish photography has come to be considered fine art. Although fetish photography and media has a wide range of fetishes to explore, some of them extreme (such as urination and bondage), the more mainstream photographers and models concentrate principally on “fetish fashion”, a term that describes very provocative clothing

Tattoo by Stefano Alcantara

After developing his skills at Peru’s main art school and honing them at Paul Booth’s Last Rites Tattoo Theater , Peruvian born premier tattooist Stefano Alcantara has made and continues to make his mark on the New York ink scene as one of it’s best tattoo artists. One might even say that Stefano’s talent is comparable to the master of ink himself, Booth, who is featured in many top tattooing publications such as Pounded Ink’s 10 Top Tattoo Artists . Stefano comes from a country in

Sara Blake Feature Duplex

I know what you’re thinking: yet another feature about a tattooed model. And if you are, you’re only half right. Sara Blake, AKA ‘ ZSO ’(pronounced |zō|), allows for a feature duplex as an illustrator and model. Upon visiting her website, you’ll find pictures of her from shoots with various photographers, which she occasionally refers to as ‘collaborations’, as well as images of her work as an illustrator. Sara’s talent is undeniable. In 2009

Tattoo by Thomas Hooper

English-born Thomas Hooper may have studied at the London Institute of Art & Design, but he’s ours now, practicing at the famed New York Adorned tattoo studio . New York tattoo enthusiasts such as yourself are not surprised that we would feature his work on NYBodyArt . Easily one of the best tattoo artists known in New York, he’s hardly a secret. At close glance his work resembles pointilism , a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of pure color