Reputation from Tight-Lines - Page 5

Tight-Lines got a reaction from hogg in Wounded Knee School Fundraiser March 5, 2015

About damn time. Lots of hard stance photos.

Tight-Lines reacted to gougetheeyes in Wounded Knee School Fundraiser March 5, 2015

It's been raining here all day and it's only 40 degrees.. The bigger issue is that there hasn't been street cleaning in over a month.. so basically the streets are full of garbage. I parked on a fucking MOUNTAIN of fish spines the other day. It's.. not good. But uh yeah, C'MON BY!!

Tight-Lines reacted to SStu in Latest tattoo lowdown..... March 2, 2015

Here's a teaser. All the linework on my left leg is complete, and some of the dots/shading - but quite a bit of both remain. I've got another 10-12 hrs booked for April and June - so I'm hoping by end of summer I'll have a completed and healed half squid pant.

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Whoa. Sorry about the huge photo.

Tight-Lines reacted to polliwog in Cool stuff you've learned/gotten into/etc. thanks to getting tattooed March 2, 2015

Thought it was time to bump a positive thread back to the top.
I'm reluctant to say that I've learned anything from tattoos yet, but one thing I did notice is that old Asian art is suddenly a lot more interesting. Previously I would've found something like Chinese silk paintings beautiful but not viscerally exciting - which I think also has something to do with the way it's often presented in museums. I've hardly been to a large number of art museums worldwide, but in the US it seems like the Asian art wing's often hushed, dimly lit and under-trafficked - like, the part of the museum you walk through or past in order to get to the Picassos. But the link to tattooing has suddenly made me really excited to look at things like cast-bronze deities, or Japanese board game designs (there's a whole room of them at the MFA that's fantastic). That's due to looking at the Perseverance catalog and the tattoos that posters on here are making or getting. I hope this doesn't come across as patronizing!
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Rereading this thread, I just realized that Pugilist said virtually the same thing in her first post - durr! So I guess this is a longwinded way of saying, me too.

Tight-Lines got a reaction from CultExciter in Wounded Knee School Fundraiser March 2, 2015

I'm terrified of the snow. I just went out and bought long johns.

Tight-Lines got a reaction from tatB in Wounded Knee School Fundraiser March 2, 2015

I'm terrified of the snow. I just went out and bought long johns.

Tight-Lines reacted to gougetheeyes in Wounded Knee School Fundraiser March 2, 2015

@dcostello totally crazy you're getting on a plane and coming into town for this. And you too @CultExciter, stoked to meet you! We'll have over 50 pieces to bid on, doing a limited run of t-shirts and a limited print run of the piece Nash did for the flyer.
Without getting too long-winded, this project has really picked up steam and it's been a very humbling experience. The response has been incredible.. to see how the tattoo community has gone all in for this, and to see how positive everyone's reaction has been. It's been stressful but super rewarding and I'm already looking ahead to next year, thinking of what else to do, how to improve it... @ShawnPorter had some good ideas, too. Also have to thank @CultExciter once again for helping me out with getting flyers done -- dude, you were a life saver. We've gotten a little press, had a nice little piece up on Inked mag's blog which you can read here. (Disclaimer: didn't realize it was gonna be a straight up Q+A otherwise I would've tried to sound a little more intelligent with the As.)
Attached a few photos for your viewing pleasure for those that don't have Instagram, since most of the online presence has all been through that. T-shirt design by the very talented Matt Arriola, a piece by Tim Hendricks and the last image is by Cheyenne Randall, who goes by Indian Giver on Instagram.. really talented artist who is one of the few non-tattooers that's part of the show. A bunch of you probably know his "shopped tattoos" work that blew up a little last year.. but he's also done some great work with Shepard Fairey and Honor the Treaties, an art advocacy group for issues facing native people. Check those guys out, too, really awesome stuff.
The show is less than a week away so I hope anyone in the area can make it out!

Tight-Lines got a reaction from gougetheeyes in Wounded Knee School Fundraiser March 1, 2015

Who from the board is gonna be checking this out? I'll be flying in Friday for the event. I look forward to meeting ya'll and seeing some amazing work for a great cause.