Do You have any Tattoos Brad?

[puppetmaker]

On 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.

Comments

[wide_worlds_joy]

I've got a tat. American Flag, left shoulder and baddly done. Got it done during Desert Storm because I had been wanting it for some time.

Now I'd get it removed if I could.

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

Would you get it removed or changed? One of the cooler things about the series is when the artists do cover-ups on tats that people don't want anymore so that annoying ex name can be a lovely goldfish.

[ghilledhu.livejournal.com]

Wah! Rocky Horror line!

...ahem. Sorry, fangirl moment

I've thought about getting a tattoo, but I keep getting stalled by the thought that it will be there forever. Then I think, will I really want this on my skin in 23, 30, 50 years? I have as yet to find a picture that I love enough to want it on my skin forever. This doesn't keep me from admiring the beauty and artistry of tattoos; it's just not something I want for me.

(There's also this: I do a lot of historical costuming. It'd be hard to pull off a Victorian ballgown if I've got a tattoo on my arm or peeking out of my cleavage!)

darthsatyr has a cool one -- a key on the back of his hand -- and a couple others he's contemplating.

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

We old Rocky Fans are still out here. Eons ago I worked at a theater that did the midnight audience participation thing in Atlanta.
Good that you got the reference.

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

Cool. I had seen the one on your ankle at Crescent City but I didn't know about the other ones.

[darkravenette.livejournal.com]

I'd like to get a tattoo eventually. I have the one I want picked out, and I'm pretty sure I know where I want it (right shoulder). It's just the whole permanent aspect of it all that has me hesitating.

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

Me too. The Cutter would be the second half of a story. The only other one I really want and have wanted for a long time is the Seal of Gallifrey on my left arm as part of a celtic arm band.

[fortunavirilis.livejournal.com]

I've had one for five years now and I haven't regretted it yet. But I was also careful to put it somewhere where no one can see it unless I'm wearing really low-cut pants (which isn't likely to happen). It is an illustration by Mucha of three interlocking rings of flowers, fruit, and thorns symbolizing the three different aspects of life (growth, sacrifice, and reward/fruition) in a slate blue on my (very lower) back.

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

Sounds neat and powerful. You have it close to you and can choose who sees it. That area is suppose to hurt like stink when you get a tat. Did it?

[fortunavirilis.livejournal.com]

I almost blacked out when they did it. No one told me to eat anything that day. And to get it right I had to sit leaning over a stool. So the blood rushed to my head- thus, the almost black out. But a pack of oreos later and I was good to go. It didn't hurt much at all while it healed.