Where to start? Since I referenced the show “Breaking Bad” in the title, I’ll proceed in a fashion similar to it.
Start with the opening graphic teaser:
[Insert Erik’s Theme Music and Montage here]
And, back to the beginning of the story.
We are in the process of adding a new artist room at the tattoo studio. Each of the room is kind of a fishbowl, in the sense that there are a lot of large windows to see in and out of in each room. Because we like openness. And light.
I went to install the 1/4″ thick 4′ by 8′ sheet of glass in the new opening before the studio opened today.
Things went bad.
I dinged the corner of the glass pane on the tile floor as I was maneuvering it into place. And I heard that sound you hear in the movies of a glass window slowly cracking before you get blown out into space. Shit.
Instinctively I looked down and away at the right moment as the entire pane shattered. In my hands. Luckily it was tempered safety glass. If it hadn’t been, I probably wouldn’t be typing this story today.
I have all these medical supplies at the studio with which to clean and bandage my wounds. Which is good. But of course, I decided to stick a crap-load of small Band-Aids all over myself instead.
I wish I had some pink Hello Kitty! Band-Aids. I’ll have to remedy that.
Now I have a lot of tiny glass pieces to use in a project or two.
Luckily I have three more panes of glass in storage. Although I’m a little shy about installing it myself. Even though I’ve done it before several times. Successfully.
But I’ll probably attempt to install another pane tonight.
While someone is here with me.
Just in case.
Until next time...
DO you use those suction-cup thingies, or just hands?
I just use my hands. The edges of these panes were smoothed and rounded.
Wow! I’m glad you’re OK. You’re right, if that wasn’t safety glass that would have totally sucked.
It would have made for a really bad day to be sure. Or a last day.
you should contact Maya Lin. She might be interested in that glass for an installation.
https://www.google.com/search?q=maya+lin+wexner+center+art+installation&hl=en&tbo=d&rlz=1C1CHRG_enUS463US463&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=eYsBUf3kLYP7qAHX4oHQAg&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAA&biw=1280&bih=711#imgrc=5dk-g_5stVGRZM%3A%3BMv78NjxjNTrGkM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Flaviedesbricoles.files.wordpress.com%252F2009%252F12%252F5_6.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Flaviedesbricoles.wordpress.com%252F2009%252F12%252F18%252Fa-follow-up-on-maya-lin%252F%3B589%3B400
Who would have thought my broken piles of glass would have been considered art. Hmm… I should have left it and charged admission.
Wow… I’m glad you’re okay…. But come on… We’re gonna need some more band aids … Get the ones that are circles … So you don’t cover the ink so much
The circles wouldn’t have covered the cuts at all. Well, it might have covered one or three of them. The rest were kind of gashes.
I’m like… a little horrified right now. What does this do to your beautiful tattoo?
I was a little horrified too. But for different reasons probably.
As for the tattoo(s), nothing was so deep that it won’t heal and disappear entirely.
And thank you on my tattoo being beautiful. 🙂
‘Tis but a flesh wound.
I hope you’re healing nicely. Maybe you should look into bacon bandages instead of Hello Kitty. Or as Kay Sedia says, Hello Pussy Gato.
I’d want to eat the bacon bandages. Then they would stick to my insides. Again.
Wow!
Something like that….
Cool, and not cool.
I absolutely love the sound of breaking glass, and tempered safety glass is pretty cool stuff when it goes. But it was uncool that you received so many cuts.
I bet those first crackling sounds were ominous and incredible— i may have a chubby right now.
It was a slow motion explosion….
Only a devout blogger would pause amidst an accident to take photos for an entry……
Later on when you are OK and your sanity more sound, please tell me/us about what it is like for a person with a tattoo and medical matters. What I mean is – does anyone ‘think ahead’ about future accidents, surgical procedures, IV lines etc? Or to they refuse medical care on the grounds it will mar the artwork?
I’ve seen cases.
Devout, or totally unstable. I’m thinking the later seems more appropriate in this case.
I can only speak for myself when it comes to medical matters: Do it. I can get my tattoos fixed afterward.
I’ve heard of cases where people have refused treatment because it would damage their artwork. I’m not *that* crazy.