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Do You have any Tattoos Brad?
Jan. 11th, 2006 10:53 amOn A&E there is a show called Inked which is about the Hart &Huntington tattoo shop at the Palms in Las Vegas. The Hart of the equation is Carey Hart who just married Pink. It is an upscale tattoo shop that gets VIPs and tourists who want all kinds of tattoos for all kinds of reasons. The customers explain to the camera why they are getting a tattoo. Some are silly stories and others are very moving. The antics of the shop, the owners, and the workers add to the drama of the whole thing.
Starting this week on The Learning Channel (TLC) is a series called Miami Ink which is going into its second season I believe. Again it is a tattoo parlor in a slightly more upscale neighborhood in Miami. The people who work there are fun to watch and listen to. The customers talk about why they want their tattoos but this one has more about how the art is created for the tattoos. One of the owners is Jewish and explains that even though he has been told that Jews should not get tattoos or alter their bodies in anyway, he doesn't want to know a G-d that will condemn him for his tats. Each artist has a style and is well known for the kinds of tattoos that they create. Clients find them which seems to be the way with tattoo artists.
The National Geographic Channel and the Discovery Channel have both been showing a couple of documentaries on the history of tattooing. It is interesting to see the past and present of the art of the tattoo and the public acceptance of tattoos for the most part. It has gone from only bad people have tattoos to just about anyone might have one somewhere. Somehow all these programs keep showing up in my channel surfing which I found amusing.
For the record I don't have any. Peter has his Leetah tattoo that has a story in itself as to how and why he got it. We were toying with my getting a Cutter to match his Leetah at Crescent City Con since Wendy was there. We didn't do it due to logistics more than anything else. It may still happen in the future. I had a friend of mine who has a number of piercings before it was cool to get everything and anything pierced but no tattoos tell me that he would never get a tattoo because he could pull the piercings and have the holes close up and no one would be the wiser for what he did in his youth but a tattoo is pretty much forever or really painful to get removed so he went for temporary rebellion.
I am grateful for recycling.
Starting this week on The Learning Channel (TLC) is a series called Miami Ink which is going into its second season I believe. Again it is a tattoo parlor in a slightly more upscale neighborhood in Miami. The people who work there are fun to watch and listen to. The customers talk about why they want their tattoos but this one has more about how the art is created for the tattoos. One of the owners is Jewish and explains that even though he has been told that Jews should not get tattoos or alter their bodies in anyway, he doesn't want to know a G-d that will condemn him for his tats. Each artist has a style and is well known for the kinds of tattoos that they create. Clients find them which seems to be the way with tattoo artists.
The National Geographic Channel and the Discovery Channel have both been showing a couple of documentaries on the history of tattooing. It is interesting to see the past and present of the art of the tattoo and the public acceptance of tattoos for the most part. It has gone from only bad people have tattoos to just about anyone might have one somewhere. Somehow all these programs keep showing up in my channel surfing which I found amusing.
For the record I don't have any. Peter has his Leetah tattoo that has a story in itself as to how and why he got it. We were toying with my getting a Cutter to match his Leetah at Crescent City Con since Wendy was there. We didn't do it due to logistics more than anything else. It may still happen in the future. I had a friend of mine who has a number of piercings before it was cool to get everything and anything pierced but no tattoos tell me that he would never get a tattoo because he could pull the piercings and have the holes close up and no one would be the wiser for what he did in his youth but a tattoo is pretty much forever or really painful to get removed so he went for temporary rebellion.
I am grateful for recycling.
