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| Monday, April 20 2009 12:40 PM |
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Subject: Base Weblog |
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Skin & Ink photo shoot |
This is just another reminder to the Seppuku ronin who have been invited: This Thursday, April 23rd, Seppuku Tattoo will be hosting editor Bob Baxter & his crew from Skin & Ink Magazine at the studio. Bob will be flying in to interview the Seppuku artists, & to conduct a photo shoot of our clients. The photos from the shoot will have the potential to make the front cover of the issue. Bob has expressed an interest in seeing Savannah & it's sights, so any of the ronin who work in the tourist trade or at various restaurants, tours, or clubs, give us a shout.
If you have been invited but cannot make it, please contact us, so we can extend the invites to other people. If you have not been invited & feel that you have large extensive work that deserves magazine exposure, contact us & we'll see what we can do.
Since we moved to Savannah to open Seppuku in 2005, we have been striving to raise tattooing to a level of quality that the rest of the country is currently experiencing, which is some of the best tattooing in the history of the art form. Our labors have been met with accolades, awards, & publication in books & magazines around the world. We have been blessed with a clientele willing to travel cross country to collect our work.
Locally, however, we are commonly treated like the average Savannah business still lost in 1972. People who treat the shop like a food court, & are shocked that they can't walk in & 'get it now'. People, who when informed that the wait might be all of 30 minutes, ask us where the next nearest studio is. People who have received great work & have won awards & cash prizes at conventions & bike rallies, but bounce to another shop because we were gone for the day at a tattoo convention. People who went somewhere else because we were closed on Monday, & showed up the next day begging us to fix the nightmare piece they got at the hands of some hack. People who have called us from the parking lots of other shops, crying about what they just had done. As if tattoo shop are WalMarts & all serve up the same mediocre bottom feeder lowest common denominator quality that anyone can do.
In the interim, there has been a large cross section of individuals who seem to live to lower the bar, to keep people's expectations thirty years in the past. We take that personally, as it is disrespectful to both the clients who have to wear that visual abortion, & disrespectful of the industry as a whole. Terrible work & lack of ethics is something the industry should have left behind with the rest of the negative stereotypes. There is no excuse that in 2009 someone can walk into a tattoo shop & walk out with a sub par busted piece destined for our Before & After portfolio.
If you have been blowing off Seppuku Tattoo to get tattooed at a house party, in a basement, or in one of the skank shops opened up by nazis, junkies, or twenty year olds who were tattooing out of a kitchen just a few months ago, & are wondering why magazine editors aren't flying cross country for your artists, well, Dick Tracy, there's a reason for that.
We named the studio Seppuku was a nod to the samurai culture, when warriors lived by a higher code of honor & ethics, & were ready to drop to their knees & slice their own bellies open rather than live with the disgrace of failure or unworthy behavior. Thursday will be a day where we thank our clients for their loyalty & respect. We will continue to strive to be worthy of it.
Mr. Baxter tells us he'd like to start at 4PM. Don't be shy about pimping yourself out.
To learn more about Skin & Ink magazine, you can pick one up at any news stand, or visit http://www.skinink.com. |
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