Archive for January, 2008

How it all started… for me anywho

Welcome to my personal experiences, ideas, and thoughts (along with some more intelligent people’s education) into not only the style of putting holes and ink into your body but also the idea and culture behind such a radical art, desire, pain, pleasure, passion, disease, whatever you want to call it. As a young person I have always been intrigued and curious about the “coolness” of putting metal (and soon after ink) into ones body. My parents (especially my father) never enjoyed the idea and thought that a person’s body should not be altered because it just was not natural at all. I decided to smile and nod whenever he would argue with me about this… but… just end up doing it anyway. Strange enough every time I end up piercing myself or getting a tattoo, my father probably subconsciously asks why I would do such a ridiculous act to my body. Since my first piercing I have ever done, my business expanded and flourished like wildfire and for me personally, more and more piercings which led to tattoos. The reason I tell this story is not to brag or advertise but to provide a base to give background to my perspectives compared and contrasted with education on such a fascinating culture and concept that has not been understood in this world and in my eyes, been misinterpreted by many. I hope you enjoy, I will be posting about once a week with various pictures, links, and potentially videos not to persuade, but more so you, my audience, can have the opportunity to see such an interesting culture in a new way.