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Posts from ‘June, 2010’

Thought for the day

I used to have a lot of time on my hands; now I have too many hands on my time.

I don’t art, therefore I am not . . . am I?

Can I call myself an artist when I haven’t created anything artistic in over a year? Does a website count? What about marketing materials I made at my day job? Does that count? I think of myself as an artist. I always have new ideas. I don’t carry a sketch book. I bought new materials [...]

CSS SOS?

Well, not really. I think I’m beginning to figure this CSS (cascading style sheets) stuff out. This web site is FINALLY on its feet and I can start focusing on content now. What a relief. Eventually, I may even figure out how to get traffic.

How to become a tattoo artist

Well, I learned something today, and, frankly, it makes me kind of nervous. Did you know there are virtually no actual tattoo training schools? Apparently, the most common way to become a tattoo artist is to apprentice another artist/studio. In other words, on-the-job training. To me, that’s a little scary. After all, tattooing is a [...]

… And another

Since April last year, I became extremely busy. K and I decided 2009 was the year to buy a house, and so we did! We started looking in May, made an offer in July, and moved during August. It has a lot of pluses, but the biggest one for me is a semi-finished garage I’m [...]