Monday, February 13, 2012
Artist with a Needle
Like a painter creating art on a canvas, tattoo artist Adam Zimmer at Steam Punk Ink Tattoo and Art Studio on Calder Way in State College, PA, creates work of art on the skin of his customers. Monday evening, February 13, Joe Donofry (Computer Science, Sophomore) gets his first tattoo of gears underneath torn skin on his right arm. This permanent art has been noticed as a generational craze, especially among college students.
There's really no explanation to why anyone would find tattoos beautiful other than as personal preference. As a girl with size 2g gauges, I have been given mixed reviews from peers ranging from disgust and complimentary. Despite the negative comments, I still love my gauges and they were worth the pain through the stretching process. There's no surprise that my parents don't approve of tattoos, nor gauges, but this art form of changing the appearance of your body comes as beauty for me. But tattooing does have it's limits. Several synchronized with each other and have meaning behind them is attractive. Getting a bunch of random ones that look more like bumper stickers and creating an obsession with covering the entire body isn't. With this extent of extreme body decoration, it is always best to keep it simple. I honestly cannot wait to see what this generation will look like in their senior years, as old civilians covered in tattoos and piercings.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
People Helping People
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