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RoseAnn DeMoro
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When the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington ruled Friday to overturn President Obama's recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board, it handed a huge gift to Wall Street, big corporations and the politicians they control.
In health care, the implications are especially insidious. It is a clear assault on the ability of nurses to act collectively to improve safety standards and public protections for patients.
When the labor board is not dominated by corporate-oriented appointees, as it has been most of the past four decades, the game plan of the antiunion crowd is to bar the board from operating, either by refusing to confirm appointees, de-funding it or destabilizing it. That was what prompted these recess appointments, made by President Obama only after the Senate minority blocked confirmation of his nominees needed to restore a quorum on the board to enable it to function.
Without a quorum, which will now be the case again, workers experience delays if they object to unfair discipline, intimidation or harassment by employers, or attempt to form a union to represent them. Only after the recess appointments were made was the board able to enforce a remedy on 2007 charges filed by the California Nurses Association, along with a tall stack of other delayed decisions. A final decision was issued just days ago affirming the 2009 ruling that a rural Northern California hospital had retaliated against nurses for legally protected union activity. Now that decision, too, is in jeopardy.
That, of course, is the real intent of this court challenge, the obstruction of the Senate in confirming presidential appointees, and blatant attempts by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the politicians they heavily influence, to gut any semblance of federal protection for workers.
Labor law enacted in the 1930s helped sustain the growth of unions that led to dramatic improvements in living standards for all Americans in the 1950s and 1960s.
This court's decision is a further reminder that the labor movement and all those who believe in workplace and democratic rights need to step up our efforts to challenge Wall Street, the chamber and the politicians it controls. We need to get back in the streets, forcefully challenge those who would deny our rights, and unite a broad movement to press for participatory democracy and social change.
RoseAnn DeMoro is executive director of National Nurses United and the California Nurses Association.
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BOSTON (CBS) – State Police say the taxi driver killed in Monday's fiery crash on the Zakim Bridge had a flat tire shortly before a tractor-trailer slammed into her cab.
Debra Sarno, 54, of Chelsea, was driving a 2006 Ford Crown Victoria owned by Malden Taxi when she stopped in the right travel lane and was struck from behind by the truck.
Sarno was pronounced dead in the fire at the scene. There was no passenger in her cab.
The truck driver, Joseph Maldonado, 47, of Manchester Conn., escaped with only minor injuries.
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Investigators say other trucks that were in front of Maldonado's rig were able to avoid hitting Sarno's taxi.
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Designers Gilli Kuchik and Ran Amitai of Bakery.
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Einat Kayless Argaman founded DesignBreak in 2009 and since then has gained a large community of daily readers celebrating the design scene in Israel and beyond.Can you imagine a couple in real life who spends their day in the
kitchen, talking and planning their next big dessert? Well this is how
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There is no doubt that these two are a
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were both born and grew up in Jerusalem. We each journeyed in the
creative world before we reached the specific field of industrial
design. Ran grew up in a very creative environment, his great
grandmother was the head of the Ceramic Department at the Bezalel
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interests and at the age of 23 he studied photography at the Musrara
School for photography in Jerusalem. Gilli studied theater in high
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both eventually reached the department of Industrial Design at Bezalel,
we met and became a couple in life and design.What's it like working with your life partner? How does it work and who does what? For
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but also our passion in life, so it's wonderful to share that with your
partner.When did you first decide that you wanted to become designers? It
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we reached the design field and more specifically industrial design.We
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field. We both started out with two dimensional art such as photography
and painting and from there we found out that our true passion is for
three dimensional objects. From there we both reached industrial design
without knowing exactly what it means. It was only during our studies at
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it's a very unique profession which combines a very creative artistic
process on the one hand, and a very analytical technical understanding
on the other; a combination we both love.Where
do you live, what do you like about it and how does it affect your
creations? Give us a glimpse into a normal day in your life. We
live in Tel Aviv. We are not actively influenced by our surrounding
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day to day changes according to what we're currently working on and the
stage we are in of the design process, but we navigate between the
workshop, sketchbook, office work, internet, and meetings.What are you most proud of professionally? And what has been your favorite project so far? We
are very excited about our cooperation with Cappellini, which presented
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Are you actually serious? Yes, Johnny's character was a grade A douche bag, however all the women he went after were hot as fuck and yet put him in his place and beat him up for the lewd things he was saying. This show was fucking hilarious and promoted women acting out against chauvinist pigs, such as Johnny. Not once did the women ever fall for him, showcasing that women are to be strong and take NO shit from any man.
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The werewolf chick was so used to dudes running away she would take anything she got, same with the "deer" he met online. Both examples of women who are so desperate for companionship they would be happy with a complete and total douche like Johnny. (Even though if I remember correctly Johnny treated both of them better than anyone else ever did, because deep down Johnny Bravo was an okay dude he was acting the way society taught him to act.)
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The video sharing service YouTube is everywhere. After showing almost a million people the Colbert Bush roast before C-Span demanded they remove the video from their site, this week the company announced they would be accepting video uploads from cell phones and other mobile devices. Bloglines announced today that they would be adding flash-support so you can watch things like YouTube videos directly in your feed reader. I know there are critiques of YouTube and alternatives to it - but it's got a whole lot of momentum right now.
But this is the coolest YouTube news I've seen so far today. A video like this can be spread by clicking on the YouTube logo on the bottom right, then copying the embed code from the site onto your web page of choice. This has a lot of potential.
This via Jason Calacanis of AOL. READ MORE
How do you plan to deal with the problem of expensive internet access? READ MORE
We had a nice time last night at our mellow SF Net Tuesday chatting about all things NetSquared and WineCamp. We even had two out of town guests. Steve from Woodstock, NY, and Timothy from the Acceleration Studies Foundation in Atlanta, GA, who stopped by to find out what NetSquared and WineCamp are all about. READ MORE
I apologize for the last minute offer but I'd like to invite anyone who has been involved with web design or web site communications for nonprofits to join in a discussion about nonprofit web design for my podcast that I will be publishing shortly. I had planned for three participants to join a "forum" discussion on the topic via a Skype conference call. One person has cancelled at the last minute and I'd like to have more people contribute. A few questions that I have presented to the other participants so far are:
1) What are some considerations that organizations promoting social change should keep in mind when designing their public website? READ MORE
In many areas high bandwidth Internet access is unavailable or cost-prohibitive. How do you plan to deal with this issue? READ MORE
A little shout out to a new Net2Builder who posted her Flickr Pic on our I Want Change Flickr group. Patricia is a social worker who is currently Vice President of a large child welfare agency in New Britain, CT, Klingberg Family Centers. You can check out her blog, Trauma Treatment for Children at traumatreatment.blogspot.com. READ MORE
For the Helpalot project I have set up a survey. I'd like to encourage everyone that's involved in charities in one way or another, to fill in this survey. Your knowledge is valuable.
Let me quickly explain the project:
It's a website with the goal to make you find your charity. The site uses social network aspects to create quality information. You can have a personal page that states what charities you support, also you can read, write and rate evaluations and much more. READ MORE
Show number 12 is up, which means we've been doing This Week in NetSquared News for about three months now. Let me know if there are things you'd like to hear in the "news" 'cause you know, we're making it for you.
This week's show has a few quick updates about all things NetSquared, followed by Eddie Codel's interviews with Schlomo Rabinowitz, organizer of Vloggercon & Micki Krimmel, Director of Internet Outreach for Participant Productions. READ MORE
I just came across this interesting website that lists all kinds of Web2.0 services and tools. And guess what, we are listed in the Social Networking category. Not really where I would put us, but it's a start.
Does this make us "legit?" Did we need to be made "legit?" I don't know, but it kinda makes me feel proud to see us there, next to 43 things, Friendster and LinkedIn.
It's definitely a cool site to poke around and learn more about the ever-evolving world of the social web. READ MORE
Check out the new Theme of the Week over on Net2Learn: Tagging and Social Bookmarking for nonprofits. This resource center provides a crash course in tagging and bookmarking for nonprofits, including an explanation of tagging and bookmarking tools (like del.icio.us & flickr) as well as great tips for using tagging and bookmarks to help your nonprofit.
And whether you're a newbie or an experienced tagging guru with hundreds of del.icio.us bookmarks to your credit, we hope you'll share the insights and resources that have helped you along the way. Join the tagging & bookmarking for nonprofits resource center and you'll be able to add your ideas to our feature on getting started with tagging and bookmarking; or add your favorite resources to our collection of weblinks. And even if you haven't joined the resource center team, you'll be able to add your comments to our forum discussions on how to use tags to collaborate with other nonprofit groups. READ MORE
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Spot-fixing controversy
Nov 3, 2011: In the short term the game will mourn the loss of yet another veneer of innocence but the overwhelming emotion ought to be one of relief
England in India 2011-12
England's cup of shame runs over
Oct 28, 2011: This latest drubbing in India arguably represents a lower ebb than the ones before, and ought to give cause for concern for the future
West Indies in England 2011
Five captains, but no sinking ship
Sep 14, 2011: Graeme Swann is as good a continuity candidate as England could have hoped to put forward
India in England 2011
How good are this England side?
Aug 24, 2011: Andrew Strauss leads a ruthlessly competent outfit but it currently lacks the genius that underpinned the all-time great teams of the past
India in England, 2011
From one-man bands to world-beating team
Aug 18, 2011: English cricket used to be about lone talents shining forth despite the chaos of the system. Now, though, it's all about the collective
Spirit of cricket? Surrender of series ...
Aug 3, 2011: The current contest ought to have been the best and closest Test series in England since that epoch-defining summer. Instead England are dormie-two at the halfway point
May 9, 2011: The ECB needs to trust its product if the very sanctity of cricket in the country is to be preserved against the ever-encroaching demands of international cricket
England's three-way vote of confidence
May 6, 2011: Never mind one captain across all formats, England have now installed three. It raises many questions but promises a fascinating ride
Fletcher's second coming his biggest test
Apr 28, 2011: The challenge of preserving India's supremacy is greater for their new coach than when he was in charge of reviving England's fortunes
The best World Cup of all time
Apr 5, 2011: But the ICC's decision to chop out the Associates - especially Ireland, who were integral to the excitement - is both baffling and tragic
World Cup 2011
England had nothing left to give
Mar 27, 2011: After living on the edge throughout the World Cup, England's campaign was ended by a thumping defeat as a worn out team finally imploded
England v Ireland, World Cup 2011, Group B, Bangalore
England's destiny slipping through their grasp
Mar 3, 2011: Ireland's stunning victory has certainly enlivened the World Cup but has left England's game in an urgent need for revival
World Cup 2011
Bresnan's brilliance marks return of England's fire
Feb 28, 2011: Tim Bresnan scalped Sehwag in his first over, claimed three wickets in four balls in his last, and was the only bowler on a night of extraordinary strokeplay who displayed the range of skills required
World Cup 2011
Prior returns as the pragmatic pick
Jan 19, 2011: For the first time since 1992, England are heading to a World Cup with a side that believes it can take home the spoils
Paul Collingwood's Test retirement
Jan 6, 2011: Paul Collingwood will be remembered as a cricketer who was greater than the sum of his parts
Swann owes much to his wilderness years
Dec 15, 2010: Swann's time on the sidelines has played a huge role in his transformation and England's recent success story
The Ashes 2010-11
Nov 24, 2010: Pietersen's penchant for the big stage, and the fact that Bell is never happier than when slipstreaming a more prominent colleague bodes well for England
Ten tough years in Test cricket
Nov 15, 2010: To dwell on Bangladesh's failings would be inappropriate on such a notable anniversary, especially at a time when they are awash with the sort of optimism not seen since those heady first moments
A different kind of commentary
Oct 11, 2010: Tired of the clichés you get on television? Test Match Sofa offers an entertaining alternative
The Ashes 2010-11
England's heightened expectations
Sep 23, 2010: There were few surprises in England Ashes squad, but admirable thought seems to have gone into the marginal picks
'My kind of bowling style is gone now'
Gavin Larsen talks about wobbly seam-up, the 1992 World Cup, and his role in the next tournament
Busy keepers, and Waqar's bowleds
Ask Steven: Also, high scores and low averages in ODIs, most ducks in international cricket, and the 12-year-old Test player
Dickie Bird on what happened when he declined a request for a change of ball once
'The man who had a winning impact'
Modern Masters: Rahul Dravid and Sanjay Manjrekar discuss VVS Laxman's match-winning skills
It's about anecdotes, not numbers
Jonathan Wilson: Runs and wickets matter little in games involving authors, seminarians and the like. It pays to keep your ears open
Youngest double-centurions, and the oldest living Test players
Also, the closest ODI team match-ups, most catches in a T20, and expensive Test debut five-fors
From Constantine to Chanderpaul
As West Indies play their 500th Test, here's an interactive journey through their Test history
Soaring in the 1980s, slumping in the 2000s
In their pomp, West Indies had a 53-13 win-loss record; in their last 99, it is 16-53. That, in a nutshell, shows how steep the decline has been
The contenders to replace Ajmal
Following the bowling ban on Saeed Ajmal, ESPNcricinfo picks five bowlers Pakistan may replace him with for the time being
I got more than I expected - Shastri
ESPNcricinfo spoke to Ravi Shastri, India's new team director, after the conclusion of the tour of England, where MS Dhoni's team lost the Tests, won the ODIs and then lost the only Twenty20 international
A blueprint for England's World Cup campaign (38)
Teams need to start strategising now for next year's event by picking the right men for various roles. England need to get on it sooner than most
Time for West Indies to reverse the decline (27)
The planned reorganisation of their domestic structure should help the region recapture some of the glory it enjoyed in the past
Soaring in the 1980s, slumping in the 2000s (27)
In their pomp, West Indies had a 53-13 win-loss record; in their last 99, it is 16-53. That, in a nutshell, shows how steep the decline has been
Banishing Gale dashes day with controversy (27)
To formally instruct Yorkshire that the club captain should have no part in the trophy presentation, leaving him fearful even to chat to the media about the season that meant so much to him, felt like an overreaction
Slow batting, sloppy catching hurting West Indies (22)
Despite their comprehensive victory in St Vincent, the hosts were lethargic in at least two departments, against a side already low on confidence


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Who do you guys plan on having in the room when you give birth ?
Delivery question
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My hubby and my children's day care provider for the 1st time because she is a dula (sp?) Maybe wrong.
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This is our 3rd so just my DH and I;) With my first we also had my sister, with my 2nd we had my mom. Let me say though that right up until delivery for me on both occasions I got to see many family members. It was nice. So don't feel pressured. It is also nice having another close female in there though!
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With my first it was husband and my mom. #2 was just husband because my mother was a watching our son. This time will probably be just hubby and I again while my parents watch the kids.
Wife to Brad 10/14/06
Mom to Nicholas 10/13/09 & Giada 9/8/11
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Just my husband, depending on what time of day it is, maybe our son. He'll be 22 months so it isn't like it will scar him or anything.
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My husband and possibly a birth photographer. I have yet to decide on that last part.
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Rainbow baby due 3/22/15
Me - 32 DH - 27
DD - 01/17/04, DS - 12/04/05, Angel @ 9 wks 02/23/14
Rainbow baby due 3/22/15
Posted 08/01/2014
First time my husband and my mom. This time just my husband. Last time everyone stayed with me all night during labor and took off after 20 minutes of delivering because they were all so tired.
It would've been nice to have my mom there for a while after I had the baby. This time I told her to stay home and I'll call you after I've delivered so she can stay longer. Lol
It would've been nice to have my mom there for a while after I had the baby. This time I told her to stay home and I'll call you after I've delivered so she can stay longer. Lol
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So no one brings the MIl along ? For my first one I had my aunts bc my husband was away for training (military) and my mom had gone back home bc my great grand mother passed away. This time I'm hoping to have both my husband and mother there. But he's insisting on having his mother there, when I'm not to sure if I would feel comfortable with having her there
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I would never be OK with my mother in law being there. Ever. And I have an amazing relationship with her.
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Horihide still practices the dying art of hand tattoo
Hand tattoo artist Horihide is one of the few tebori practitioners who remain, as body ink carries a stigma in Japan and young apprentices are few.
By Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore, Special to the Los Angeles Times
GIFU, Japan — Hidden away in the backroom of a modest apartment in this central Japanese city, one of Japan's last remaining hand-tattoo masters is preparing his tools. Over the last four decades Oguri Kazuo has tattooed notable geisha and countless yakuza, members of Japan's notorious mafia. Today, the 79-year-old artist, known professionally as Horihide (derived from "hori," meaning "to carve"), is working on a client who is a little more subdued.
Motoyama Tetsuro has spent hundreds of dollars, traveled thousands of miles and waited more than three decades for a session with Horihide. The Japanese-born American software manager wanted the master's ink in his skin — a living legacy for a dying art. With old masters passing away and young apprentices lacking the patience to learn the painstaking craft of tebori (hand tattooing), many followers believe its days are numbered.
"If you know the master, why would you want to work with someone else?" asks Motoyama, 62, who first received the outline of a dragon by Horihide on his right shoulder in the 1970s. Motoyama lost touch with the master — who works only by word-of-mouth introductions in backdoor locations — before the work was complete. Last November, after a 30-plus year search, he finally located Horihide and traveled back to Japan from his home in Cupertino, Calif., to finish the piece.
Japanese tattoos are steeped in thousands of years of history and bound by rigid tradition and social mores. This distinguishes them from American tattoos, which are largely personal expressions of individualism. Japanese masters spend years perfecting their craft and learning the stories behind the tattoos, derived from woodblock prints and Chinese folk tales. The body-suit tattoos, spanning shoulders to below the buttocks, can take hundreds of hours to apply and cost as much as $20,000.
Banned during the Meiji period, irezumi (literally "to insert ink") remains underground today; many hot springs and bathhouses still bar tattooed individuals. Artists such as Horihide work under a cloak of secrecy plagued by associations with criminality. Still, social stigma has not put off the soft-spoken Motoyama who, with square glasses and salt-and-pepper hair, appears the epitome of respectability. Although the grandfather is happy to show off his tattoos in California, he, like most, is careful to hide his arms in Japan behind long sleeves despite searing summer temperatures.
Controversy is now flaring up again. Last month, the right-wing populist mayor of Osaka, Toru Hashimoto, ordered all government employees to voluntarily divulge any concealed or visible tattoos. The 100 or so discovered to be inked, who mostly work in waste disposal and transport, are likely to face an ultimatum: Get the offending tat removed or find another job.
Such pariah status has led to a decline in tattoo masters, with Horihide estimating that there are only five or six left who can do the traditional black-and-white tebori as opposed to the machine-operated colored tattoos. (Horihide offers both.)
"Specializing in tebori is not commonplace," says Kip Fulbeck, an art professor at UC Santa Barbara, who is organizing a 2014 exhibition of Japanese tattoos at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles with tattoo artist Takahiro Kitamura (known as Horitaka). "For one, it takes a great deal of time to traditionally learn how to do it correctly. It's also a much slower tattooing method, so it takes much more time. [Unlike machine tattooing] it's very subtle, it's very quiet." Although Horihide has eight students, none can yet draw their own designs and just a few are learning tebori.
Horihide became an apprentice at age 19 and spent five years learning the craft. "It was very strict. In the morning you have to get up at 5 o'clock and clean the house. If you didn't do it right, you could be beaten," recalls the artist, as he sits cross-legged on the floor, carefully filling in the yellow hues of a tiger on Motoyama's other shoulder. "But nowadays young people can't do that. Some people who want to be students ask me, 'How much can you give me as a salary?'" He laughs, shaking his head. "So things have changed."
As a teenager, Horihide fled to Tokyo after a street gang fight. When money ran out and hunger started to gnaw, he saw a sign offering room and board to a tattoo apprentice. Despite lingering prejudices surrounding the once-forbidden art (the ban was lifted in 1948 by the occupying forces), Horihide carefully practiced on his own skin — scars of now faded squares and circles on his thigh today.
Past clients were largely the yakuza and an occasional hot spring geisha, who marked themselves with phoenixes, dragons and killer whales. Horihide's memories of the yakuza — who provided generous gifts — remain fond. "Younger people do not know how to be courteous and do not know how to speak to me," he complains.
Today, however, his clients are largely construction workers and firefighters, members of fraternal organizations who are traditionally tattooed. Asked what a popular design is, Horihide describes the Japanese carp. When caught by a fisherman, the carp does not thrash around like other fish, but remains still, quietly accepting its fate. "So Japanese guys take the spirit of the carp," he explains, "rather than struggle against fate."
Motoyama pulls a white T-shirt back over his head and then buttons up a black shirt — carefully hiding both the dragon and newly inked tiger, which still bubbles with small specks of blood. "Today, tattoo artists just use a stencil and copy designs," he says sadly. "With Horihide's designs, every one is unique. [But] in the long run I don't know how long they can survive."
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As tattoos are slowly but surely gaining acceptance and popularity amongst most of the American population, it is interesting to note how widespread the appeal of this practice is becoming in other countries around the world. It is also interesting to consider how various other cultures view this practice, and whether those views have changed over time as has been the case with the United States.
In America the main source of familiarity with Oriental symbols and other artwork comes from viewing this lovely, traditional art in tattoo studios all across the United States. It may, therefore, be surprising to many Americans to know that, due to the significant influence of Buddhist and Confucianist religions both the Japanese and Chinese societies take a very negative view of tattoos. In these societies, tattooing was a means of branding criminals; it was not acceptable for citizens to engage in the process. In today's society, tattoos are still unacceptable. Although their younger generation usually takes a more liberal view of tattooing, the youngsters who have them generally keep them covered.
Tattoos have long been a part of life for royalty in Great Britain. Following in the footsteps of his predecessors King George the fifth and King Edward the seventh, one of today's most well-known royal figures, Prince Charles, also sports a tattoo. Unlike in the distant past, however, tattoos in Great Britain are no longer limited to the class of royalty; during the past few decades, tattoos showing up on their rock stars has brought the practice to the mainstream population. What was once a status symbol for wealthy public figures has become a widespread part of everyday life for the younger generations.
In Mexico, tattoos were originally thought of as a symbol of courage. The early explorers who arrived in Mexico in 1519 believed the practice to be the influence of Satan. In a recent survey, more than half of those polled who were over age thirteen stated that they would consider getting a tattoo. While most expressed a preference for designs such as flowers, religious symbols, or names, some said they would like a tattoo of their favorite brands of soda or beer. This is assisting in marketing to some degree, as many people in Mexico City now consider tattoos to be a fashion accessory, not only widely acceptable but in style.
In Vietnam, tattooing is still currently illegal, and is rarely done except in prisons. For those who insist on having some type of body modification in light of the laws against tattooing, cigarette burns are used instead. It is rare that anyone other than gang members utilize this practice.
Considering both the Biblical prohibitions against tattooing and the still-present memories of the Holocaust, it is not surprising that most of the older generation in Israel continues to hold a negative view of tattoos. It is a little surprising, though, that the younger generation not only does not always share this viewpoint, and actually considers the practice of getting tattoos of religious symbols to be a visible sign of pride in their Jewish heritage and identity.
In assessing both the historical aspects and present-day points of view, it's not difficult to see that for many countries around the world culture plays a significant role in whether or not tattoos are thought of as an acceptable form of self-expression. In most cases it is also clear that with or without cultural influences, times change and with the changing times comes different ways of looking at the subject of tattoos. What took a very long time to gain widespread popularity in the United States has proceeded in a similar fashion in most other countries also.
Forever: The New Tattoo – Recap of Berlin Book Launch
From Gestalten
The suggestion that "tattoos are not just for sailors any more" is a familiar one. It might be surprising to learn, then, that the popular media has been reporting the arrival of tattooing in high society for nearly one hundred years. To celebrate the release of "Forever: The New Tattoo", Gestalten hosted an evening of informative and entertaining talks by renowned tattoo artists Alex Binnie and Duncan X, as well as by heavily tattooed art historian Matt Lodder, author of the book's preface. Further tattoo protagonists, namely Jon John, Liam Sparkes and Zoe Binnie, attended the event at the Gestalten Space in Berlin and gave us additional insight.
The book shop.gestalten.com/forever.html
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The World's Best Tattoos Just Might Be Centuries Old
By Katherine Brooks
Oh, the tattoo. From an innocuous badge inked ever so carefully on one's back to a blanket of color flowing from the shoulders to the ankles, the world has proven the tradition of permanently adorning the body with artwork is here to stay. Hidden from sight or paraded in public, designed by professionals or picked and poked by amateurs, humans just can't get enough of this particular brand of body modification. Take, for example, a Harris poll from 2012, which declared that in the U.S. alone, one in five individuals had chosen to bring needle to flesh. That's 20% of the adults surveyed, for those bad with fractions.
The Lesson of the Needle
By Aimee Heckel
I try to relax into the needle scraping across my skin.
Accept the discomfort with love, I keep telling myself, knowing that love is the opposite of fear, and that any drop of fear will destroy this experience. If I let fear cloud me now, I am going to miss the message.
Any rational human would say I should be scared.
I have given my entire back to Chris Fuller, a tattoo artist at Junkyard Ink in Louisville. I met Fuller during an interview in a few months earlier. I clicked with his philosophy: that tattoos are art on flesh. In fact, Fuller and most of the other employees at the shop were traditional artists first. Fuller was a painter.
I visited the shop regularly to talk about my next tattoo. My first four had been specific words or designs in specific places on my body for precise reasons. I had over-thought them all. They felt like extensions of my body, and they were an external expressions of internal enlightenments. They were my babies, in ink.
This time is different.
I don't know what Fuller is going to tattoo on me. Neither does he.
We agree to not go into the tattoo with preconceptions, but to approach it in the same way he paints his murals on canvas. I will be Chris Fuller's canvas for a free-form tattoo painting.
Like I said: not rational whatsoever.
But rationality — the over-thinking, the limiting human mind, the man-made labels and explanations — is exactly what I want to suppress.
I am hoping by stilling my brain, I will shift perspective. Gain sight through the endless spirit, not eyes, which can shut or go blind. I hope that by diminishing the physical absorption of a physical experience, it can transcend into something spiritual.
And maybe not hurt so dang bad.
Of course, it's a far leap. But you can't catch air without leaping. And I've always believed art is an experience and expression, not a logical, finite explanation to prove, or even understand.
Like Einstein said, "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
I get that, in theory.
I am about to really get it, personally. Do you believe in anything deeply enough to let it transform you? To let it become you? For the love of art, and the sake of its raw beauty, I am about to become it.
Hour two: As I lean over the chair, breathing into the pain, I decide this is what it must feel like to be the marble, or wood, or iron being welded into a new form.
When Michelangelo created some of his greatest masterpieces, he did not go in with an agenda. He did not carve the marble into an angel. Quite the opposite. As he put it, "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." The angel was already inside.
Amid the dull hum of the tattoo machine, this quote haunts me. I try to imagine the beauty living inside everything: every piece of paper, every chunk of wood, every empty stage. Potential is hovering beneath the surface of everything, like scientific joules: artistic jewels.
Fuller "carves away" at my canvas in the same way he paints. He lays down layers of color until something emerges out of the lines and shapes, and he builds on that. He had been wanting to attempt this revolutionary style of tattooing for years, but he said he could never find anyone who wanted to do it. They were too afraid of letting go of the control.
What — or who — is living underneath my own skin?
As I sit, I wonder. It could be my own Michaelangelo angel. An octopus. A tree. Beneath my skin could be a flower, a lion, a snake. A demon.
Hour five: I think about beauty.
A person's style is their temporary artistic expression. A daily opportunity to paint and celebrate our bodies.
Fashion is only as shallow as how you choose to confine it. Because it is possible — albeit difficult — to appreciate something for its pure and simple beauty. In fact, the origin of Zen came from that idea, a "silent sermon" during which Buddha held up a flower and gazed at it, saying nothing. Enlightenment might just be letting go of everything we thought we knew, the labels, the mind, the over-analyzing of every single thing, and just letting the beauty be.
I wrote about this one night. Just a free-form poem to myself. Not to share with anyone. I opened up and the words fell out onto the page.
It was the next day that Fuller told me his tattoo idea. I didn't hesitate. I would lose control, but gain a mark for beauty's sake alone. What greater honor than that? Not to remind me of something that I had experienced and learned; but rather to be that very experience and lesson.
Hour 11: I think more about Michelangelo.
Perhaps we all are born with the ability to unearth this perfect beauty, in various ways. For some, it's dancing or drawing, photography, singing, writing, woodworking, playing an instrument, cooking, theater, a sport, making jewelry or designing clothes. You do not pick your art; it is a gift, given to you. You know it is yours because it chases you.
And it will. It nags at you until you die. That's because it is your duty to do something with it. Art is what you give back, in exchange for the love that you receive, and the opportunity to have life. And it is balanced; every human's art is as deep and breathtaking and awesome as the perfect love that God created us from and offers to us.
But occasionally — most of the time, actually — people decide that gift is not there. They suppress it. They bury it under things that do not satisfy. It is almost as if they don't want their gift, or for some very human reason, they are afraid of it. They do not acknowledge or accept it, so they cannot express it.
Michelangelo accepted it. He opened up and took it. If people accepted their art and stopped thinking about it, and just became that gift, their art would flow from them perfectly and fully and completely.
The reason Michelangelo's art was so incredible is because he simply removed the dam and could see what was already inside — of the marble, and of himself. Art flows out, like love flows in.
By letting go and releasing my canvas to an artist, and trusting him, I was allowing him to follow his art.
Of course, the very manifestation of this experience, the reason I was ready for it, came from the poem I had written the day before. In an artistic cause-and-effect, this made the tattoo a ripple effect from my own art: writing. Art begetting art.
Hour 20: I can't wait to see what is living inside my skin.
It has been four sessions of about five hours each. Fuller used more than 20 different shades of blues, greens and purples. The white highlights he added at the end will continue to grow brighter as the tattoo heals.
He tattooed the entire right side of my back, from my neck to waist. I felt him painting swirls. I felt spirals and coils and curls, tracing the natural curves of my body. Fuller followed those shapes and connected them until they created a picture.
I stand up to finally see the completed project. I feel open and trusting, but exhausted. Above all, I feel honored to spend the rest of my life wearing a painting. Fuller initials it. I turn to see the mirror.
One of her arms is reaching up to the sky. Her chin is lifted, and she's gazing up. She is feminine, elegant and fragile. She is abstract, almost a mermaid, or a cyclone, a Siren, a ghost, or an illusion in the water or sky or both. Fuller barely knew me when we started, but he tattooed my spirit.
Underneath my skin was a dancer.
This article originally appeared in the Boulder Daily Camera.
Photo by Mark Leffingwell/Daily Camera.
What's in a Name?
By Deb Yarian
The first thing out of my mouth when a couple says " We've decided to have a baby " is usually "Congratulations" not " What happens if you get a divorce?" I wish as many obstetricians counseled their patients against having babies using the same reasoning as some tattooers do when they advise their customers against getting a partner's name – "What happens if you break up?"
Well… what happens if you break up is that you, having made an adult decision to show your devotion to someone by getting their name tattooed on your skin must now make another adult decision and learn to live with it, cover it, or change it. A ludicrous comparison, yes- but the name tattoo (a foolish choice only in retrospect) seems far less permanent when compared with the really permanent -living child
This sort of counsel is a particular pet peeve of mine. I think that when a person wishes to commemorate their love and devotion to another person by getting a tattoo of their name, that is their adult decision and they don't need my opinion other than possibly font or calligraphic design choice or placement. I've heard so many tattooers respond to name requests with such negativity. With mocking responses ranging from " That's a sure way to end a relationship!" "You sure you want to do that?" To ridicule or refusal to do the name tattoo. But why should any couple coming in to get name tattoos from me or any other tattooer have to validate anything other than their legal ability to get tattooed? Since when did the tattooer become the priest and rabbi and moral counsel of their customers? During my 35 years of tattooing there have probably been hundreds, even thousands of tattoo designs that I have been asked to do that I myself would not have chosen to get. In my opinion many more ugly or foolish design choices have been made than choosing to get the name of a loved one.
I am speaking solely on my opinion of a person's decision to get another's name- not the aesthetics of it. Certainly, if the aesthetics of type interferes with the look or design flow of a larger tattoo then when asked for my artistic opinion I would give my honest one. However, if asked my opinion as to whether someone should get their partner's name – how could I answer that? I feel that it's only my responsibility to advise on design choice and placement and to try and do the best job that I can regardless of my opinion of someone else's choice of what to wear on their body.
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I will be attending the Seattle Tattoo Expo this weekend. This is one of my favorite shows in the US… So many talented artists… the show is busy, and the city is fun. If you're around, please stop by and check it out. They always have good entertainment, good food, a good bar, cigar lounge, and most importantly… GOOD TATTOOS! Hope to see you there!
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Scars of a Past Life, Lend a Helping Hand
By Erin Boyle
I think there's something to be said about searching for an artist you can trust with personal symbols and parts of the self. I stumbled upon Melissa Fusco's portfolio by pure chance after searching 4 years for artists in a different style; I was instantly swayed. I found her work captivating and unique: her craftsmanship was soft, colorful and organic, and I saw hints of depth and spirituality in her portfolios – these things really clicked for me. I had consulted with many artists over the years, and the request to tattoo over my scars was nothing new to me – I even met some who refused to work on scars. Finding a good fit was important; the artist would, after all, be spending several hours confronted with these scars and whatever it brought up for them. I was looking not just for the quality of an artist's work but also the personhood of the one applying it, Melissa's warmth and professionalism really showed through during our consultation process. Though she had no idea of my story at the time, I told her, "but really, who gets out of life unscarred in one way or another"…everybody has their thing…it's all in what you do with it.
Now, I'm not much for telling soggy and dramatic tales about my life, much the reason why I chose this particular flower for my tattoo – but I'll get to that later. The Buddha once said, "every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within it a blessing of some kind; the goal is to find it". I, like many, was blessed with a difficult childhood; abuse and neglect were my reality for much of my childhood and adolescence. Though high achieving, at 17 there came a point where my goals took a backseat and I thought there was only one way out. This thought became not just a memory, but left behind the scars to prove it.
Every good story has a twist; mine came a few years later after coming out of an abusive relationship. At that point I looked long and hard at my life, I spent a lot of time healing old wounds and rebuilding the Self. Mindfulness, courage and sacrifice were essential building blocks in my process of change and moving towards doing what I love and loving what I do. I threw away my masks of success and achievement, gave up my fancy title and hefty paycheck, got a second bachelors degree in pre-clinical psych, and began working at a Residential Treatment Center for youth with mental illness. In other words, for mere pennies I worked with teenage boys who liked to break shit, especially your face, and taught them how to give and receive love. This is what makes sense for me; this is what life is about, using our humanity to help others grow.
The paradox of my story is that no matter how much I healed and evolved, I still had my past written on my arms along with the judgment from others about what that means. No amount of success, forgiveness or compassion would ever make that go away. However, life with this tattoo is different. Not just myself, but others see beauty and strength where shame and secrecy once lived. In a way it removes the stigma I once felt. I don't perceive myself as a victim or a survivor, I see myself as a person with the drive and motivation to create and sustain social justice through guiding others to lead the best possible life they can. As an Art Therapy graduate student en route towards doctoral research, I've found that having the permanence of this image in my skin helped ignite this fearless internal integration of my personal and professional lives. It's closure, it's dignity, it's confidence, and in a huge way it is taking ownership of my body while standing grounded in authenticity and unapologetically residing in my own identity and truth.
Embedded in the image also lies the memory of the process. To match my initial impressions, Melissa was grounded, focused, caring, calm, gentle, warm, empathic, funny, respectful, edgy, and an incredibly skilled independent female artist in a male dominated field. She made the process personal and relational, and that's not something I got from any other tattoo artists I reached out to. I don't know if I would have found another talented artist that I felt as comfortable with during this process, not to mention one who honored the experience. I'm grateful to have found her, and look forward to collaborating on future work.
As a symbol of the self, this phoenix of a flower holds no mythology – only truth. Coming from one of the oldest families of flowers on earth, whenever a wildfire ravages the area the King Protea is the first sign of new life. In fact, wildfires are central to their evolution – just as challenges, failures and setbacks are to ours. As I see it there is no fantasy in real life – our results come from our own hard work…or as Melissa would say, there is "no progress without sacrifice." I couldn't say it better myself.
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Posted on July 22nd 2014
With that out of the way, one of my favourite late night personalities has to be Jimmy Fallon. I make it a habit to catch up on his show using YouTube and other digital channels. I don't like late night television, I couldn't care less about celebrity interviews, and yet I find myself to be a huge fan of Jimmy Fallon and what he does on the show.
The more I think about it, the more I think brands should look to Jimmy Fallon as inspiration for the right way to do social. Here are 5 lessons that I learned from viewing The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon that anyone can use to get ahead and find success in social media.
1. Give Away Your Best Stuff
Television shows have been notoriously fickle about using YouTube and other digital channels for content distribution. Yet, Jimmy Fallon gives away some of his best content for free online using YouTube, Tumblr and other digital platforms. You may not have to go to this extent but you shouldn't be hiding all of your best stuff behind a pay wall. Instead give it away for free and help others and in return don't be surprised to find that your audience is willing to pay to learn more from you.
2. Recognize The Talents You Work With
One thing that I notice about Jimmy Fallon is how often he refers to his band the Roots as the greatest band in the world, or supremely talented or something similar. He regularly throws shout outs to the band even though it's his show. Does your brand or business do this? Do you show others the talent behind your success? Do you prop up outstanding community members?
3. Be Funny
Jimmy Fallon is a funny guy. The skits and songs (such as the hashtag skit with Justin Timberlake) he performs on his show are absolutely hilarious and definitely worthy of multiple viewings on YouTube. Does this mean your brand has to be cracking jokes every time you tweet or send out a post? No, but using a little bit of humour now and then goes a long way to humanizing your brand which makes it easier for your audience to form a connection with you.
4. Be Personable
Watching the show you can see how comfortable guests are around Jimmy and how much they like being there. He displays an insane amount of personality that makes you just want to have a beer with the guy. Your brand can do this as well by showing off behind the scenes content, keeping it light and even entertaining your audience. Not everything has to be stuffy corporate talk, display some personality to make you more likable with your own audience.
5. Don't Make It About You
Every interview I watch Jimmy do, he always makes it the entire segment about his guest. He asks questions about their family, what they're doing, hobbies and the movie they are starring in. Never once does he interrupt to proclaim it's The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon and make it about him. How about your social media activities? Do you share valuable, informative and interesting content with your audience? Or is every post a veiled attempt at driving traffic to a landing page to convert the sale? Stop making it all about you and you will grow your audience.
Final Thoughts
Social media can be a powerful tool that helps you connect with an audience that wants to hear from you, build brand awareness, and yes even increase sales. You just have to remember to go about it in a way that makes your audience want to buy from you not in one that forces them to buy from you. A heavy hand is never the tactic you want to use as it more than likely will drive your audience away from you while being more human, being helpful and being useful will help you achieve further success.
Over To You
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