AS VICE president and general counsel for a conservative East Coast venture capital group, Dave Kimelberg can be a pretty buttoned-up guy. At least until he takes his shirt off. Underneath those long pinstriped sleeves is an impressive body of work - in the form of dozens of intricately designed tattoos. The part-time photographer spent years covering them up at the office. Then he began wondering if there were others out there like him. Turns out, hundreds of people hide their ink during the day. Kimelberg started photographing a few of them years ago and last spring released his self-published book, Inked, Inc., which features tattooed people in both their everyday garb and just their ink. It's a striking look at the lengths to which people go to keep their counterculture under wraps.
@ 6:15 p.m.: I get most of my tattoo work done at night, so I might head over to my usual spot, Redemption Tattoo in Cambridge. Otherwise, I'll come home to Charlestown and head over to Olives or Neptune Oyster for dinner with my wife.
@ 7:30 p.m.: We often go over to Silvertone, but I like B-Side in Cambridge, too. We'll hit either spot for a few beers afterwards.
@ 9:45 p.m.: A group of friends that I went to high school with in upstate New York are all living in Boston now, so we'll call them to come meet us out.
@ midnight: I've gotten really into Japanese gardens and I built one in our backyard. Around midnight we'll bring all of our friends back over here to hang out for a drink.
@ 2 a.m.: For a nightcap, we love going down to Tangierino, which is a great place to lounge at the end of the night.
[Photo by Joel Veak]
