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Tales from my life behind the needle…

Grey areas…

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Here is one of my latest attempts to ween myself off of putting black outlines around every tattoo I do.

The young man who requested this one wanted to show love for his ‘hood via a railroad crossing, which symbolized the meeting of the two areas he spent time in. To try and match the impressiveness […]

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Marks of a good day…

Saturday, October 13, 2007

…or a day of good marks. Either way, today was a surprisingly good day in the wonderful world of me getting tattoos done. I got to knock out three tattoos and produce an entire set of images I was completely proud of, all thanks to our local military.

The praying hands with dog tags and the […]

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Glowing pink hypnotica

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

It was this past Sunday that an older man, some train overpass resident who obviously had no intention of being a customer, walked in. He had the same look of dire pleasantness I’ve come to know and resent from the typical homeless Augusta resident. It’s the same look you would see on a flight attendant […]

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Disposable benefits

Thursday, October 27, 2005

Having served a typical tattoo apprenticeship, making needles for and cleaning the tubes of an entire shop’s worth of artists, I am a firm believer in disposable tattoo tubes for serving walk-in clientele. Since my initial discarding of them back in 2000, my weapon of choice has been the 1" rubber grip series made by […]

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Opening day

Wednesday, May 25, 2005

My day and brand new blog both start with me running off another indecicive tattoo client. Today’s rejectee was a young man and his mother who were price hunting for a tattoo of the letters "mfc". Each letter was supposed to be the size of the palm of his hand and all three were to […]

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