This week nothing really happened exciting except for my little brothers select baseball game. He had three in two days!! Tiring!! And the meeting I had at erics tattoo shop on Tuesday. When I walked in eric was pretty excited to see me . I gave him the papers that I needed him to sign and he did so. Then he asked what I was doing or going to be doing while I visted over the next few weeks, so I had to explain more in depth. Then I met one of his young tattoo artist named blake,. He was pretty cool and gave me very detailed answers . I asked about the tattoo gun and quickly corrected to me. Its called a tattoo machine. Because and I quote : guns kill people not machines”.. when I heard it made some sense. I thought it to be interesting how the they had that saying and how they all said it in unison. I asked blake if he could do a tattoo for me , my rosary around my ankle. He already had one drawn up so he showed me how he could wrap it around making it look like it is dripping down my foot. Well I hope to visit more soon and learn more about tattooing !.
That is interesting. I never have been much of a fan of tattoos or tattooing, but I have nothing against those who have or put on the tattoos.
ReplyDeleteI never realized how defensive they are about what their machine is called. They do raise an interesting point. Perhaps they see themselves as artists and not just some drug-abusing freak. (No offense intended, just pointing out a typical stereotype.)
Maybe you could get an interview about some of their backgrounds to see if any possible stereotypes are remotely true. Or you could just find out what made them want to be a tattoo artist.
I look forward to reading more on this subject.
o wow way to stereotype you really need to work on that one.
ReplyDeleteI agree with them on it being a machine and not a gun because guns kill people, but if you think about some of the ways people get tattoos and how some shops do not have good sanitary practices...it could kill ya. I know that is not a problem at Eric's shop but I wouldn't trust many places. I would be defensive too. It sounds like you had a busy few days though. The tattoo would look cool on your foot.
ReplyDeleteyou should do your posts! its been a while!
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