The 12 of 12 challenge was created by Chad Darnell and picked up from a number of random bloggers who then linked back to him and vice versa. Chad stopped doing the 12 of 12 links in December of 2011, but passed the torch to Janet Hughes who sadly hasn’t been keeping up with it. So as always, I’m giving my shout-out to Blobby of Blobby’s Blog as he is the one who inspired me to do it.
My twenty-fourth “12 of 12”. Today’s 12 is a Thursday.
All pictures were taken with my iPhone 4S.
12:07 AM: Sitting on the couch, watching some episodes of “Chopped”, attempting to unwind from a long day.1:43 AM: m sleeping on the clean towels. After somehow unfolding the one she is sleeping on. Maybe she was trying to cover herself up like a blanket?1:59 AM: µ on the floor at my feet as I brush my teeth, take out my contacts, and get ready for bed. And it looks like I need to start doing some crunches.10:02 AM: Well, she’s awake finally. And so am I.10:30 AM: One week later and we still have 6 3/4″ of snow on the ground at the house.11:27 AM: At the studio. And one of these needs to be repaired. Or replaced. Replaced would be easier. And then the Husbear broke one in his salon. So much for getting out of I.T.1:55 PM: Another tattoo project.2:07 PM: Christmas rubber duckies. Not that I feel very festive.2:09 PM: Reference materials.6:14 PM: This pedal makes things go vroommmmm.7:51 PM: Someone had some sort of accident out in front of the studio.10:00 PM: Home. And starting laundry. “Hold to start”. And I am.
And… a couple more hours until I go to bed. But that’s twelve pictures. 😉
On a whim, I signed up for Google Glass a while back.
I received my email notification that I was approved for purchase. So I went to look how much they are these days.
$1500.
Ouch!
As much as I’d like a set, mostly to just use for recording when I do tattooing, I’m definitely not going to shell out $1500! I love technology, but that’s a little much for a what is essentially a portable VCR.
Besides, I don’t want to walk around looking like a douchebag like those people who walk around with their bluetooth headsets in all the damn time.
Until next time...
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I’m trying to give up sexual innuendos.
But it’s hard…
So hard.
“Gasoline and Matches” by LeAnn Rimes, featuring Rob Thomas and Jeff Beck:
Yay for handheld technology in the hands of everyday people!
It reminds me of the stop-motion videos I used to make when I was a kid with my father’s Betamax movie camera. My production values weren’t this… great. I wonder if those video tapes are buried under a pile of junk at my parental unit’s house? Hmm…
“Have you ever written on the stereotype/cliches of being a tattoo artist?”
I have not. Until now. Ask and ye shall receive! Eventually.
I’m not really sure what stereotypes people have in mind when it comes to a tattoo artist. On top of that, sometimes it’s difficult to separate the stereotypes about people with tattoos from people who do tattoos. Although… the later mostly includes the former since most people who do tattoos have tattoos. Mostly.
The phrase “stereotypes have some truth to them” does has some truth to it but not in the way people think. That truth is not about the stereotyped but the stereotyper. Stereotypes remain alive by confirmation bias: we notice a few examples that fit the stereotype then overlook the ton of examples that do not. I don’t know if it’s human nature to do that, but we (the collective) do it.
Having visible tattoos definitely changes the way humans look at you. There are times I catch someone staring at me. Not staring in a way that they’re observing my artwork. But staring at me as a person. Making judgments about me. It doesn’t bother me now like it used to. Most of the time. But there are still times I want to just yell out, “I’m not dangerous!”
When I came into the tattooing world, first as a client and later as a tattooist, I wasn’t sure what to expect from tattoo artists. I had my own stereotypes of what I would encounter and (sadly) a lot of those were true, at least in the area I live in: misogynistic, homophobic, racist, gang-related, miscreants, hellions. Some of those adjectives are linked either with the conjunctions “and” or “or”.
My guess would be that most people think tattoo artists are a lot of the above. And some people would say partiers. Or drug addicts. And I have known a few who fit both of those descriptions. But I also knew a lot of I.T. people who were the same back in the day when I was a computer guy.
But there’s a lot of us who are just… “normal”. Granted, normal is relative. Unless you’re my relatives, then you’re far from normal.
So sexy. A man in a well-tailored suit.
While some of us find visible ink possibly both sexy and enhancing depending on the individual and the artwork, not everyone approves. I guess my question to you would be: what do you do or think when you see someone with tattoos? And why do you think that?
Sunday, December 8, 2013 at 6:08 pm