Yup, it’s spring which means baseball season is here. I can’t say I’m a big sports fan but my husband more than makes up for my lack of enthusiasm. I AM a big fan of Field of Dreams which comes to mind when I see the tattoo work that this baseball fan has collected.
Mike McWain decided to pay homage to the history of baseball with his body. He combined the images of some of the baseball greats of yesteryear along with images of his children. His artwork includes portraits of Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and Shoeless Joe Jackson.
The artwork is done all in black and gray by one super talented artist by the name of Jesse Walsh. Walsh says the publicity that McWain has been getting with his upper body work has resulted in welcomed attention to his artwork.
Visit this site to see a video where McWain explains all of his baseball images. He put a lot of thought and planning in the design and it’s well laid out.
My favorite part is the baseball stitching which was used to frame some of the artwork.
France has come out with a study that says that people with tattoos tend to drink more than people without them. Previous studies have claimed that people with body art tend to have unprotected sex and engage in other risky behaviors, oh my! I didn’t put much emphasis on previous studies and this latest one – is even easier to scoff at.
France conducted its study by stopping a total of 3,000 people exiting bars on a weekend. The participants would take a breathalyzer test and the conclusion was that people that had tattoos were more intoxicated than the people without. Is this really considered a “study”?
How about all of the tattooed people that never go to bars? It seems like the results from this study leads to stereotyping. The researchers even went so far as to suggest that parents, doctors, and teachers should consider piercings and tattoos as potential sign of drinking and risky behavior. Bullshit.
My social circle consists mostly of individuals who are middle aged who are done with their drinking days. But most of these friends and acquaintances have tattoos. Most of them multiple since they’ve had years to collect them.
Additional craziness – other “studies” have claimed that people with only one tattoo drink on the same scale as people without tattoos, but people with 7 or more tattoos are more likely to have the riskier behaviors.
Tattoos are too mainstream these days to think any of these studies actually prove anything.
There’s quite a range of laws regarding tattoos when you look state by state. Usually states will govern what requirements are needed to be a licensed artist and to operate a shop. Most states also lay out the law regarding the customer’s minimum age. Well, silly me, I assumed most states had (what I consider as) reasonable laws in regard to that number. The seventeen or eighteen year old range. But some states have surprisingly loose and liberal laws and regulations regarding minimum age requirements. I heard of someone here in New Mexico who gave permission and accompanied her 12 years old for her first tattoo. (Cause you don’t have to meet any requirements to be a parent.) Colorado doesn’t have ANY laws regulating minimum age for tattoo shops. Florida requires a notarized consent from a legal guardian. For Delaware and Hawaii – all you need is written consent. Like a teen wouldn’t whip up a counterfeit note to get a tattoo? The rationale for such laws is actually in place to discourage kids from going to unlicensed artists where they may be putting their health in danger.
You might think shop owners would prefer the states with more lenient laws but the truth is many draw the line at inking a minor. Many believe you can’t leave it to a kid to make such an important decision and I agree. Piercings are a different story. I agreed to let both my daughters get tongue rings on their 16th birthdays. But piercings are easy to “undo”. And the “undo” doesn’t cost a dime.
I can remember the “old days” before cell phones. I remember my first mobile phone. You kept it in the car for emergencies. It was the size of a shoe box and weighed a couple pounds. I’m talking 25 years ago. Then cell phones came about. And now one of the advanced electronics manufacturers is combining two things that young people are infatuated with – cell phones and tattoos. At least that’s how Nokia refers to a new patent they’ve recently submitted to the US Patent and Trademark Office..
Nokia has developed ferromagnetic material that can receive alerts from your phone. They’re calling it a tattoo because it can be placed below or above the skin. You can have it implanted under the skin, sprayed, stamped, taped, drawn or applied as a decal.
It is essentially a magnetic vibrating tattoo. It can pick up a signal from a magnetic field and then is able to vibrate the device which is on or under the skin. It would be used to alert the wearer of low battery, received message, received call, and other alerts.
Maybe it’s because I’m not much of a phone person, but do we really need this? And if you have a choice of placing a stamp or decal on your skin instead of inserting it in a tattoo – wouldn’t you lean towards that choice? What a weird feeling and equally creepy idea – having your skin vibrate in a certain pattern to let you know your battery is getting low on your phone. Not for me.
I was going through some of my old tattoo magazines and ran into a great article about super talent Nikko Hurtado. Many of you may be familiar with this artist as he’s known worldwide, but if you’re not – I’d be happy to turn you on to his work.
Full-color photo realistic is about the only style he does now although he says he’s willing to do any type of tattoos. He also does a lot of painting and drawing. His goal is to try to capture the emotion of the person in any medium he uses.
After working out of Ignition Tattoo in Apple Valley for quite a few years, Nikko opened his own studio, Black Anchor Collective, in Hesperia, California. It premiered in early 2010 and also boasts an art studio featuring photography and painting exhibitions.
Visit his website to see more of his paintings and tattoos.
It’s funny to think how tattoos were kept traditional and unchanged for many years. The ink, tattoo equipment, and methods of applying the tattoo didn’t really evolve until its popularity opened up the industry to more people and new ideas.
In 2011, tattoos became animated. Tattoos with QR codes trigger a link to maybe a Facebook or Match.com profile if held up to an iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, etc.
In the first case of tattoo triggered QR code, Karl Marc held a 4 hour live broadcast to an online audience while tattooing the meticulously applied ink to the chest tattoo.
The artwork is done all in black and gray by one super talented artist by the name of Jesse Walsh. Walsh says the publicity that McWain has been getting with his upper body work has resulted in welcomed attention to his artwork.
How about all of the tattooed people that never go to bars? It seems like the results from this study leads to stereotyping. The researchers even went so far as to suggest that parents, doctors, and teachers should consider piercings and tattoos as potential sign of drinking and risky behavior. Bullshit.
But some states have surprisingly loose and liberal laws and regulations regarding minimum age requirements. I heard of someone here in New Mexico who gave permission and accompanied her 12 years old for her first tattoo. (Cause you don’t have to meet any requirements to be a parent.) Colorado doesn’t have ANY laws regulating minimum age for tattoo shops. Florida requires a notarized consent from a legal guardian. For Delaware and Hawaii – all you need is written consent. Like a teen wouldn’t whip up a counterfeit note to get a tattoo? The rationale for such laws is actually in place to discourage kids from going to unlicensed artists where they may be putting their health in danger.
I can remember the “old days” before cell phones. I remember my first mobile phone. You kept it in the car for emergencies. It was the size of a shoe box and weighed a couple pounds. I’m talking 25 years ago. Then cell phones came about. And now one of the advanced electronics manufacturers is combining two things that young people are infatuated with – cell phones and tattoos. At least that’s how Nokia refers to a new patent they’ve recently submitted to the US Patent and Trademark Office..
I was going through some of my old tattoo magazines and ran into a great article about super talent Nikko Hurtado. Many of you may be familiar with this artist as he’s known worldwide, but if you’re not – I’d be happy to turn you on to his work.
