User:RobCrosby

=Freshman Seminar=

Always Wanted To Schedule

 * Topic

Give/Do a tattoo
 * Research Component

I will research equipment I will need, where to find the equipment, and how much the equipment will cost. I will research how to tattoo, and how tattooing works. I will also look into safety concerns and how to avoid as many safety risks as possible. I will interview tattoo artists, and peers with tattoos. I will also research some of the history behind tattooing.
 * week 1

Begin researching, starting with equipment. Talk to tattoo artists to get professional input on what equipment to look into and what to steer away from. Research costs and compare in magazines and online.
 * week 2

Purchase equipment, including "practice skins." While waiting for equipment to be shipped, begin researching health risks, how tattooing works, how to tattoo, and spend some more time talking to tattoo artists. I will also spend plenty of time in the library and online trying to find as many resources as possible.
 * week 3

Hopefully equipment will arrive this week so I may begin practicing. With my equipment I plan to order a "How to" dvd on tattooing, cliche I know, but I could really use the visual teachings. I will watch the 'How to" dvd and begin hands on practicing.
 * week 4

Continuing the hands on practicing with multiple sizes, colors, and placements. I will also begin my research of the history of tattooing by traveling back to the library and back into the world wide web.
 * week 5

Tattoos are permanent! You don't need research to know that. So I will continue practicing. This time it will be specifically the desired tattoo design I will be inking into skin. I will also begin my citing of references and the rough drafts of my written report.
 * week 6

Tattoo my wife! I somehow convinced her to be my test subject. I will then practice my learnings of proper after care. I will also be revising and finshing my written report.
 * week 7

Revise, and refine written. I will also start to prepare my oral presentation and continue assisting in the after care of my artwork.
 * week 8

Fine tune my presentation and await my next client.

Midterm Assignment 1: Taste & Aesthetics
I ventured over to the Olympic Sculpture park anxious to see what was there. I had never been before. Right away I came across a less than impressive sculpture. A sculpture that looked as if someone had just welded a bunch of scrap iron together. It was a peice named Riviera, constructed of rusted and varnished steel, by a British artist named Anthony Caro, born in 1924. Accompanying the artwork was a plaque that explained the artist's point of view, and motivation for the peice. He claims it is modeled after music notes, or a sonata, in that "anonymous units" are taken and placed to cohere with one another, creating a sculptural whole. I tried but could not make the connection between the sculpture and music. I began to convince myself the peice wasn't that bad, it was just the cold wet day setting a dismal mood. As I moved through the rest of the park I came across a couple more less than stimulating sculptures, but none seemed to cause me the mental frustration of the Riviera.

I wanted to know more about Anthony Caro. I began my research by visiting his website, http://www.anthonycaro.org/frames-related/Gallery.htm. There I learned Anthony had attended the Royal Academy Schools in London, where he studied sculpture. Adding to his educatonial credentials is his twenty-eight years of teaching at St Martin’s School of Art in London from 1953-1981. It wasn't until 1963 that he had come to attention with a show at the Whitechapel Gallery, where he exhibited large abstract sculptures. He drew lots of attention by placing his sculptures on the ground making it possible for the veiwer to really see and appreciate the actual size and texture of his work. Caro often works with steel, but also in a diverse range of other materials, including bronze, silver, lead, stoneware, wood and paper. Though steel is his medium of choice, my personal favorite sculptures (ie:'The Barbarians' 2000/02) of his are created using many of the other materials. Obviously the people that matter find all his work appealing as they have awarded him with many honors including the Praemium Imperiale for Sculpture in Tokyo in 1992 and the Lifetime Achievement Award for Sculpture in 1997. What I believe to be his top honor would be being knighted in 1987. With my research I found Caro to be a very respectable artist, and an innovating pioneer of sculpture. He has in many ways reshaped the boundaries, if there are any, of this form of art.

With my newly developed knowledge and appreciation for Caro as an artist, I journeyed back to the Olympic Sculpture Park. Three days had past and the weather was sunny and warm. With a one hundred and eighty degree difference in factors I approached the sculpture again. I stared at it, up and down as I circled it. After about five laps around the artwork, I let out a big sigh, shook my head and walked away disappointed. I really do have a new found respect and appreciation for Sir Anthony Caro, but I just can't seem to bring myself to enjoy Riviera. Perhaps seeing some very impressive other pieces by him led to even more disappointment. I now know what he is truly capable of creating, which makes this sculpture more of a let down.

Final Presentation

 * Topic (10%)

Learn to tattoo


 * Research (20%)

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 * 1) Internet site: Bradley, Jesse. "How To Start Tattooing: Beginning Tattooing Tips | eHow.com." EHow | How To Do Just About Everything! | How To Videos & Articles. Web. 07 Dec. 2009. .

"Learn to Tattoo | SPIKE." SPIKE.COM: Check out the premier online destination for Men! Web. 07 Dec. 2009. .

Providing tattoo education and certification. - Home. Web. 07 Dec. 2009. .

TheLAShop.com - Tattoo Kit - Bicycle Motor - Massage Equipment - Gardening Equipment - Heat Press Machine - Photography Equipment - Aquarium Supplies - & Much More! Web. 07 Dec. 2009. .


 * 2) Book: Reardon, John. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting a Tattoo (Complete Idiot's Guide to). Indianapolis: Alpha, 2008. Print.
 * 3) Scholarly Journal: "Flash." Tattoo Magazine Aug. 2009. Print, "Tattoo." Tattoo Magazine Oct. 2009. Print.
 * 4) Other (interview, TV show,etc): Aaron NC. Tattoo Artist, Laughing Buddha Tattoo & Body Piercing

Capitol Hill 219 Broadway Ave. East Seattle, WA 98122

Fat Tony. Tattoo Artist/Piercer, Everett Tattoo Emporium 2408 Broadway, Everett, WA 98201

Dick. Owner/Tattoo Artist, Electra Tattoo Studio 1060 State Ave. Marysville, WA


 * Your accomplishment (20%)

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I came about 95% of the way, due to an unforseeable occurance. I was right on schedule, and making great strides with learning my equipment, and being comfortable with it when a week and a half before the due date the power supply for my machine failed.


 * Project Review (50%)
 * 1)What went well: Mostly everything, especially the research.
 * 2)What went poorly: My power supply failing.
 * 3)Future strategies: With the failing of my power supply, I think it will give me the added practice time I think I need before placing ink into a "persons" skin. Other than that I think I had a very succesful strategy for this project.