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July 17, 2002 John L. White
Ted Tan, an NCSU senior from Chapel Hill majoring in business, grimaces as professional tattooist Steve Clark adds the final touches to Tan's first tattoo at Classic Buck "A" Tattz on South Saunders Street in Raleigh. It took Tan more than a year to muster up the confidence to get a tattoo and less than half an hour for Clark to finish inking the design onto Tan's foot. The design itself is an original drawing brought in by Tan and represents the year of the dragon in Chinese culture, 1976, which is also Tan's birth year. According to the tattoo artists, the studio's mantra is that tattoos are "as ancient as time and as modern as tomorrow; you're only limited by your imagination."
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Takaaki Iwabu
"No Ordinary Day" is a visual diary of the events, both large and small, that serve as milestones in people's lives. It debuted on March 24, 2002 and concluded on Aug. 29, 2007. We hope you continue to enjoy looking at our archive of “No Ordinary Day” images.


Travis Long
The column is a celebration of the struggles, triumphs and tears we experience as we travel from birth to death. Our goal was to document moments in time that might otherwise be missed; sometimes it's the tiniest incident in one's life that has the most profound effect. When on assignment for the column, we looked for that one photo that tells a whole story. Some are the result of a found moment we came across on our daily assignments or our daily existence. For others, we thought of a specific event, like a first haircut or last dance, and sought out a subject who might illustrate the idea.

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