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tiffanyb
23-year old Woman
austin!, Texas, United States |
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| Tuesday, June 13 2006 03:30 AM |
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old school tattoos |
Sailor Jerry was tagged with the name Norman Collins at birth, but he began to distance himself from normalcy/ normancy when he was 19 (that's why he became a sailor). He traveled around the world, not only getting his first tattoos, but also gaining exposure to the art and imagery of Southeast Asia. This later became a crucial influence when he opened his first tattoo shop in Honolulu's Chinatown, ground zero for swaggering sailors, drunken soldiers and whoever else wasn't afraid to hang around volatile levels of testosterone.
If you really want a true classic, you'll have to go back in time and cross the ocean (unless yon live in Honolulu). That's where you'd find a guy with a white tee shirt, an oily grey pompadour and heavily tattooed arms, once known to seamen and still known to tattoo aficionados as "Sailor Jerry." He's the man many see as the father of the deftly crafted, boldly lined, balls-forward Old School Tattoo. The kind fueled by the devil-may-care appetites of men far away from home.
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tattoocurator
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 Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 10:16 |
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Its good to see someone with an interest in tattoo history.BTW your choker is a truly original idea. Nice pirate sleeve as well. I am drawing up a pirate sleeve for a client that came in yesterday.
Cheers (or is it AAARGH)
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INTENSITY
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| Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 04:30 |
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| im modeling my lie after him |
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