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Shut ‘Em Down.May 13th, 2010 by MJones

Scratchers ruin tattooing, it’s just the plain truth.  I often think about these people who seem to have a total disregard for the dues that need to be paid in order to work your way up into the tattoo industry.  And sure, a lot of really amazing tattoo artists learned by tattooing friends or family, in living rooms and in basements through methods that can be defined as scratching.  But in some weird and perhaps hypocritical way, that’s not scratching to me.  Why?  Because the artists I’m talking about who started off doing homemade tattoos are now responsible and respected artists and business owners.  There’s a huge difference between them and the people who are content simply tattooing out of their basements with their guitar string tattoo machines for the rest of their lives.

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May 18th, 2010 by MJones

Like it or not, we live in a world that is increasingly controlled by the mega-corporations and the smaller corporations alike.  Their influence is everywhere, from mainstream politics to the food we eat, to the medicine we take.  Logos of the more well known corporations have also popped up time and time again in the form of tattoos on fans of products such as Nike, Mac computers, and even Red Bull energy drinks.  I guess it’s all fine if that’s the sort of stuff that you want on your body for the rest of your life, but hey man, count me out.

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May 21st, 2010 by MJones

You know, when I sit down to write these blog posts I’m always hoping to find anything and everything impressive that relates to tattoos to report on.  As much as I want to bring that news to the people who visit this blog, sometimes there’s tattoo news that just isn’t impressive, but horrible.  Crazy stuff goes on in the world and when tattoos are involved in something crazy but newsworthy, even though it doesn’t showcase tattoos in a positive light, I have to get the story out there.  So I’m sorry if you’ve come to the site today wanting to read something impressive or good, but I need to talk about something that happened where not only was a human being mistreated, but in which tattooing was misused for harmful and demeaning purposes.

After being told that he would no longer be bullied if he permitted a tattoo to be placed on his buttocks by the boys who regularly harrassed him, a 14-year-old Concord, New Hampshire high school freshman underwent an illegal tattoo in the basement of the home of one of the bullies.  The young victim was also originally promised a tattoo of a celtic cross on his arm if he went along with the plan to have his buttocks tattooed.  The tattoo of the celtic cross never materialized, but the tattoo on the victim’s buttocks did.

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