Archive for April, 2008

Way to slow down…set rules.

{ April 24, 2008 @ 1:44 pm } · { Tattoo }
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For me, I can officially admit that I am addicted to tattoos. Whether this is a bad thing or not, I just might want a job some day in which I am not allowed to show any tattoos or piercings… well maybe not. Even if I do not want a job like that I think in my view I take most concepts and activities into moderation. So I believe that my tattoos and piercing should be taken into moderation. My tattoos tend to be smaller and less intriquite then some I have seen and I think the reason for this is because I am just plain scared to take up so much space and regret it later. However, I tell myself the simple quote to help me out, “you make choices and you don’t look back”. Well I am still attempting to succeed in doing this so if anyone has figured this out please tell me how.

Also, I would like many different tattoos and feel as if I have limited room on my body in which I choose to place them. Keeping this in mind brings me to my first rule. Well while I truly believe rules are meant to be broken I will just have to call this a friendly guideline… or maybe reminder. This “guideline” is simply I should design all my tattoos myself or sketch them out first and have a professional edit to look better then a 3rd grader’s art drawing.

Moving on, I also believe to relieve regret I always should have some type of interesting or wacky story to go with each tattoo. While this has been true thus far, I would sincerely like to keep it that way.

This brings me to rule… well idea numba 2! Always get each tattoo in a different city. So, to recap, First tattoo of freedom was in Parker, CO, numero dos was in Ft. Collins, CO. It gets tricky here because number 3 I did myself in El Cajon, CA (but it doesn’t really count because it is so tiny, I did it myself and it will be edited later in a different city… preferably somewhere in Cali). And numba 4 El Cajon, CA as well. Like I said… rules are meant to be broken, so I will stick with these as being polite suggestions. Last point, I am impartial to where I get my tattoos edited if need be, because I would like the moon to be shaded a vibrant blue and get Carpe Nocturn (sieze the Carp!… Actually sieze the night!) next to it but haven’t decided if I need to go back to El Cajon for that.

Ruben’s bows!

{ April 17, 2008 @ 1:27 pm } · { Piercing, Tattoo }
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My oh my I can just go on and on about random stories involving piercings from way back when I started to now. Yesterday I just ran into a friend in which I have not seen in about 2 years and I had forgotten that I had pierced her tongue freshman year. I am thinking back now and I have pierced many people throughout the years and have become good friends with many individuals because of my piercing.

Side Note: Colorado weather is pretty much the most ridiculous and unpredictable weather… EVER! I swear this weakend it snowed . . . A LOTTT! then monday. . . HOTT! Wed, Cold as ICE, and now it is decievingly sunny but cold. I mean like seriously Northern Colorado would you make up your frickin mind.

Alright back to what is important… Piercings. Well let us just delve right into it. Ruben’s fabulously pierced elbows. I am not going to lie it has be one of if not the most interesting trade off I have ever done with someone. Now, Ruben, this guy it tatted up (lingo for has many tattoos) which you will see in such photographs when I get a chance to post them later. When Ruben said he wanted these piercings because he had no where left to pierce. This is because of the simple fact that he was in the Navy and not allowed any piercings (as long as he does not get caught). Well strangly enough he has two huge lip rings that he takes out everytime he goes on ship. I started thinking to myself that those things are gonna fall out or get caught very very quickly. But then I came to my senses and realized he did not want them directly on the elbow and actually it made sense to put them slightly above the moving joint.

So as I get ready to pierce I noticed that this is actually going to be really radical. He has these tattoos that line up with the elbows pretty well and the piercing seem to connect his tattoos to the rest of his body (almost like some kind of mythical joint or bridge).

Enought of me talking here is a crazy video of the piercing taking place and a few photos of the event:

This and That. . . Summer’s end

{ April 15, 2008 @ 4:15 pm } · { Piercing, Tattoo }
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So to continue with my fabulous summer stories, I had an adventure meeting a bunch of people which became friends who also shared this culture of tattooing and piercings with me. After all my crazyness with crashing on couches, eating Little Ceasers, and playing Guitar Hero, I planned on heading to Newport Beach California to spend a week on the beach just letting loose.

However not before my man Ruben gave me a tattoo. It was one sunny afternoon in El Cajon, the day before I left Newport, I had just met this new lady friend, Dawn, a week prior and we hit it off right away. She had several piercings and quite an elaborate tattoo of butterflies flying up her back and side. Can you say attractive? Oh yeah! She also had a tattoo of a dragonfly on her foot. In my history with tattooing, some artists will not tattoo feet or hands because of the incredibly copious amount of tendions and nerve ending exist in those areas.

Anywho back to that sunny afternoon. I had been pondering a design of a tribal moon for quite some time and drew several sketches prior to showing Ruben what I wanted. After several corrections (and some editing from Ruben) my final piece was constructed! The masterpiece was drawn on the most expensive piece of parchment you can think of, a used envelope! So Ruben set up as my other newly aquired friends watched. As we smoked the hookah, we decided the best lighting would be from the sun coming in from the front door of the apartment building. If you were wondering how much he ended up charging me, lets just say I pierced his elbows and gave him a ride to his Navy ship at 5 AM after a long evening of partying. Well enough said here is a couple pictures one of the process and one of the finished product.

One Summer. . . Unemployed!

{ April 4, 2008 @ 7:05 pm } · { Tattoo }
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Last summer I was supposed to be an orientation leader at Colorado State University. Just three weeks before school got out the head of orientation, Jimmy, started disrespecting me and singling me out from the other workers. So I made the choice to resign because he was making it seem as if I was not gonna be an orientation leader, which is funny because the moment I resigned he started saying that I was doing great and could be in the orientation program.

So anyway moving on. . . So during the time I was supposed to be an orientation leader I decided to try my luck in San Diego, CA. So I stayed with my best friend in a garage that had been fixed up to be two bedrooms. My friend at the time was staying in half the garage with another roommate! That means that her and another lady were living in an area the size of one car! Well then I came in and started trying to live there as well. I left a few days after and went to her friend, Justin’s, place. This guy was 27 years old and just got out of the Navy and was unemployed with me! Him and I had some good times livin’ off of Little Ceasers Pizza and hookah. We played an awful lot of Guitar Hero and watched quite the selection of movies.

Alright enough about me and my time down there lets get to the part you want to hear about. . . Tattooing! Well during my time down their I had met Justin’s roommate, Ruben (still currently in the Navy). Ruben is my man, he is a tattoo artist and we will just say an artist in general. One evening a bunch of us were sittin’ around looking at his tattoo gun and ink. Me and another guy, Billy, decided to get a little crazy and attempt to tattoo ourselves. So I am sitting there messin around with this gun, tattooing my upper leg. Let me tell ya it is a whole lot tougher then it looks. You have to go a certain depth into your skin in order for the ink to stay and show. However, unfortunately the harder you press, obviously the harder it hurts! well enough of me talking let me show you a video and some pictures of this event:

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Random Friends

{ April 3, 2008 @ 7:46 pm } · { Piercing, Tattoo }
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Well, enough about me, lets talk about some really close friends of mine who also enjoy the feeling, the idea, and the culture of tattooing (and body art for that matter). I have met many people down the road who have had some wild types of tattooes and piercing together and seperate from eachother. I remember just last year I remember seeing someone I knew of in Waffle House showing his back piece to his friends. It was wild and oh so very intriquite, there was a very large tattoo of a gray and black cross with a scroll flowing through it. He had somewhere between 17 – 19 piercings around it to accent each border of the cross.

Another close friend of mine I met this summer had huge blue hot rod flames up one of his forearms. The reason for this was because he loves classy cars and decided before he was shipped off into the Navy he needed the experience of a tattoo. One of my floormates has a very very intriquite back piece with tree branches stemming out of parchment. The parchment is a qoute in which he chooses to live his life by. More on that and a picture later. Another one of my close friends has all color tattoos all over his body. He is very proud of all the art work that is done to his body and his most recent, also a tree, branching all across the back of his body. This tree will be a constant work in process and I have not seen him for awhile. However I will also be getting a picture of his whole back and possibly his front to show ya’ll how intriquite the design is.

Oh the stories go on and on, many of the tattoos I know of are chinese symbols or other symbols meaning qoutes that influence or have influenced their lives in some way. One really cool example is I have a friend who has a brail tattoo on his forearm so you can not really tell it is there unless you look pretty hard. The brail states “STRENGTH” influencing him to be a better person not just a stronger one.