Well that was a little surprising. When I snapped this photo, I will admit I wasn't really expecting much to come from it. I just enjoyed the remnants that were left on the bridge and that clear feeling of dusk I managed to capture. Unfortunately while getting photos at dusk is always nice, it is fairly problematic. If I'm not trying to find stickers on the weekend, it's usually while I'm wandering home after work. This means I only have the amount of light that's available when my day is over which isn't a whole lot of time in the winter, if any. Recently I haven't been getting out of work until almost 5, so I haven't done much searching as there is no light to work with. But the night I managed to get this photo there was just enough left to grab a few on the way to Station Square. Although I do feel like the colors are a bit muted, I think it works for the time of day. It also kind of works since the sticker is just a remnant, a faded thing along people's walks across the bridge. What I also find interesting about this sticker is the fact that you can still make out some of the leftover ink on the bridge from where the sticker fell away. As there is so much ink left there it's almost like the whole thing is there. We may have lost the phone number at the bottom but you can still find the defining features of this piece of advertising.
Luckily for me, among the things you can still make out is the website on the top of the sticker and it is still functional. I'm sure you can guess what this shop does but as a confirmation Studio One Tattoo is a tattoo and piercing parlor. It's a studio that started back in 1992 and is currently located in a converted Victorian house. Looks like they have 7 artists on site that will either do more traditional designs or will work with you to create original ones. What is a little surprising is that while it is a Pennsylvanian shop, it's around the Philly area. Now I've found quite a few stickers from the Philly area here but usually it's a band of some kind. One of the great things about stickers is their way of migrating around the country, I never know where each sticker will take me. I always have to wonder how these kinds of stickers make their way here though. I know when I was talking with Hot Rod Piercing they said that they will place their own stickers in the cities they're visiting, so was it the same with Studio One. Or was someone such a fan of the studio's work that they brought the sticker with them to Pittsburgh and placed it here.
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Maggie Ondrey
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