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I saw this tattoo shop and had to share!! After all a tattoo artist is an artist after all so it is no suprise that this would be found in a tattoo parlor.

Tattoo Shop Owner Tiles Floor With 250,000 Pennies

 By Kevin Dolak Nov 6, 2012 11:11am

Mel Angst/Artisan Tattoo Gallery

A Pittsburgh-area tattoo shop and coffee house owner says she actually saved money by using real money to tile her space — with 250,000 pennies.

Mel Angst was looking for an inspired way to tile the floor of the Garfield, Pa. tattoo parlor and coffee shop, Artisan she runs with her husband, tattoo artist Jason Angst.

“My floor is made out of about 250,000 pennies,” Angst told ABC Pittsburgh affiliate WTAE. “Amazingly enough, it’s a lot cheaper to glue money to your floor than to actually buy tile. It’s about $3 a square foot.”

Angst said that after she found the appropriate adhesive to affix the pennies to the floor of her shot, she then found people via Facebook to log the man hours. She bartered tiling labor for $10 off per hour on tattoo work, she told ABCNews.com.

“Some days it was just me,” she said. “I think the most we ever was 7, but on average, (we have) 3 or 4 people a day for about 10 to 16 hours a day for about three weeks straight, gluing these down … People are just shocked that we did it because it took about 300 man hours, which was crazy.”

In total there will be approximately 800 square feet of Lincoln profiles on the tattoo shop floor.

Artisan had a gallery show last week where people could view the new floor, and Angst looks forward to next week when it will be grouted, shined and complete. Once it was done, everyone that logged 30 hours of penny-tiling is promised a free penny tattoo from the shop…for full article please visit: Tattoo Shop Owner Tiles Floor With 250,000 Pennies

There you have it creativity at its finest!! We have some pretty creative tattoo artists here in Rochester NY, maybe I will share some of their more interesting parlor decorations sometime. What other creative things have you seen in your local tattoo shops?

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Doesn’t matter what side you fall on politically, this is one of those tattoos that you just don’t understand.  Having said that more power to him, he’s up $5,000.  I wonder what tattoo parlor he visited??

Eric Hartsburg Tattoos Mitt Romney Logo Onto Forehead, Gets Paid $5,000 On eBay (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post  |  By Ryan Grenoble Posted: 10/25/2012 1:56 pm EDT Updated: 10/26/2012 3:50 am EDT

While most of us just put election ads on “mute,” Eric Hartsburg has learned to face them down. Literally.

That’s because the Indiana resident has Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign “R” permanently tattooed in a 5 by 2 inch space on his forehead. He had previously offered the spot for sale on eBay with a starting bid of $5,000, reports the Herald Argus.

Hartsburg tweeted his intentions, fully acknowledging the permanence of his offer — and someone, presumably a Romney supporter, handed over the $5,000.

@supererico (Eric Hartsburg): “I am now on sale! Ad space is now available from head to toe for permanent tattoo impressions that will without a doubt last a lifetime.” September 12, 2012 9:30 pm

What was Hartsburg’s motive? “I wish it could be a more noble cause than just saying, ‘hey, let’s have a good time’,” he explained to ABC 57. “But you only live once, and I was born with a forehead, so why not?” Words that will live for posterity: I was born with a forehead.

According to RTV6, when Hartsburg isn’t busy selling himself on eBay, he works as a professional wrestler…Full text and video at Eric Hartsburg Tattoos Mitt Romney Logo Onto Forehead, Gets Paid …

Ok, so there you have it. I know you have seen some ridiculousness in tattoos, I would love to know what they are, ask around your local tattoo shop and get back to us.

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I always look for stories featuring a tattoo artist since they are the reason we have seen such growth in the industry as they continue to push the envelope of what is possible with ink.

Inked Inspiration: CSUN art major uses his passion as a tattoo artist

By Danielle Hale, October 28th, 2012

There is a stigma that comes along with tattoos. But it is slowly fading in today’s society. While some previous generations still might not readily accept and understand today’s cultural

fascination with “getting ink,” it remains that tattoos are slowly becoming more socially accepted.

Getting a tattoo is a way to express to the world who you are and what you like. Tattooing is an artistic form that is able to showcase the talent and passion that so many tattoo artists have.

Talent and passion are two things that Weston Imhoff, a CSUN senior art major with an emphasis on illustration, definitely has. Imhoff is studying art, .

“I’ve been doing art, pretty much my entire life,” Imhoff said. “It was something my parents really supported me doing, and I kind of found that it was something that came natural to me and that I really enjoyed. I decided that when I came to CSUN, it was something I wanted to make a career out of.”

Illustration and art indubitably fit perfectly into the world of tattooing. Tattoos, much like illustrations, are art, for they are a permanent way of displaying something for the world to see.

Outside of war tattoos, most previous generations look at tattoos as part of a degenerate culture. While tattoos have slowly become more socially accepted in the last decade or so, it seems as though they will hardly raise any controversy at all in the not so distant future.

“My favorite part of tattooing is that I can share my art with so many people on a really personal level,” Imhoff said. “If you have a piece that you do for a gallery, it’s going to hang there and people can see pictures of it, but if you don’t have money to buy it, then you might not ever be able to see it again.”

His custom tattoos, however, stay with you forever.

Imhoff didn’t always want to be a tattoo artist.

“I actually began as a CTVA major, but switched to illustration because it was something I kept coming back to,” Imhoff said.

After meeting a fellow artist in a class at CSUN, Imhoff was introduced to the world of tattooing. He has slowly been stepping into the tattoo world ever since, beginning first with an apprenticeship and working up to where he is now, an artist at Wildlife Tattoos in the San Fernando Valley.

Drawing inspiration from classic tattoo artists like “Sailor Jerry” Collins and Ed Hardy, Imhoff likes to combine bold and fun tattoos with his own style.

“I’ve loved being able to make pieces and make my art more beautiful while learning knowledge and new techniques from my professors and other peers here at CSUN,” said Imhoff.  “Tattooing has allowed me to become more inspired by the things and people around me, and I love that I can share that with everyone… and it (a  tattoo) is always there with you,” said Imhoff.

As a tattoo artist, Imhoff has been able to blend his illustration and love for art and combine that into a paying career. After he graduates, Imhoff plans to continue making art, “as long as I can maintain my own personal sense of fine art and combine that with tattooing, I don’t see any end to creating art.”…Read full text with images at Inked Inspiration: CSUN art major uses his passion as a tattoo artist

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We all have a little geek in us and in the past the evidence of this in tattooing was very scarce but in recent years we have started to see a whole genera show up in tattoo parlors all over.  Read this article about what I call tattooing of the geek and you will see some really good examples of geek tattoos from some great tattoo shops.

There you have it I think my favorite geek tattoo Idea is the <head> </body> tattoo on the neck. What ideas do you have for the great “Tattooing of the Geek” movement?