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Loverdose<br />
Tattoo Edition<br />
The New Womens Fragrance
F A N
Joey Hamilton<br />
Does this guy look familiar? If you’ve<br />
been to any tattoo convention in the past<br />
five years you have had an 87 percent<br />
chance of seeing Stéfano Alcántara. The<br />
realism wizard spends as much time in<br />
folding chairs as a soccer mom because<br />
he likes to soak up different tattoo art<br />
scenes. Originally from Peru, he now<br />
gets his mail delivered to New York City,<br />
where he takes clients at Paul Booth’s<br />
Last Rites Tattoo Theater. Alcántara’s<br />
pieces are spellbinding—he’s simply<br />
one of the best realism tattoo artists<br />
in the world. One of his life goals is to<br />
advance tattooing to a place where the<br />
medium gets its rightful respect in the<br />
art community. When the 20-plus-year<br />
veteran first tried breaking into tattooing,<br />
he wasn’t welcomed in by the old<br />
guard, but in the past two decades he’s<br />
seen a change in the culture and thinks<br />
that tattooers are set to unite and propel<br />
the form forward. “FOR ONCE I THINK<br />
ALL TATTOO ARTISTS ARE ON THE<br />
SAME PATH,” he says. “We are all in the<br />
same mission: to bring tattoos to where<br />
they have never been and become artists<br />
validated by our counterparts in fine<br />
art.” I was in art school in Peru and I<br />
saw the tattoos in American magazines<br />
and I knew that is what I wanted to do.<br />
I ordered some equipment online and<br />
tried to teach myself. Luckily in art school<br />
I had those free-spirited, art-loving<br />
friends who were willing to let me try on<br />
them. This was over 20 years ago when<br />
there wasn’t much tattooing in Peru and<br />
tattooing in the States was really closed<br />
off to people not really on the inside. I<br />
would travel to the U.S. and try to get<br />
people to show me how to tattoo, but the<br />
trade was really kept a secret, especially<br />
to some Peruvian kid like myself. So I<br />
would visit the United States, and go to<br />
conventions or get tattooed by the guys<br />
that I thought had really good work.<br />
Back in Lima when they would tattoo me<br />
I would be watching the whole time and<br />
asking them all these questions. Because<br />
I couldn’t find a place to pay my dues, I<br />
paid for sessions. When you try to hang<br />
out at a shop it takes months for tattooers<br />
to talk to you seriously, but when they<br />
are tattooing you, you have their attention.<br />
I set up a guest spot with the shop<br />
manager through MySpace—so you<br />
can guess around when that would have<br />
been—and my first day there I met Paul,<br />
and we have been friends ever since.<br />
Article by: John ferucciatin
Humans have marked their bodies with tattoos for thousands<br />
of years. These permanent designs—sometimes<br />
plain, sometimes elaborate, always personal—have served<br />
as amulets, status symbols, declarations of love, signs of<br />
religious beliefs, adornments and even forms of punishment.<br />
Joann Fletcher, research fellow in the department<br />
of archaeology at the University of York in Britain, describes<br />
the history of tattoos and their cultural significance<br />
to people around the world, from the famous<br />
“ Iceman,” a 5,200-year-old frozen mummy, to today’s<br />
Maori<br />
In terms of tattoos on actual bodies, the earliest known<br />
examples were for a long time Egyptian and were present<br />
on several female mummies dated to c. 2000 B.C.<br />
But following the more recent discovery of the Iceman<br />
from the area of the Italian-Austrian border in 1991 and<br />
his tattoo patterns, this date has been pushed back a further<br />
thousand years when he was carbon-dated at around<br />
5,200 years old.<br />
Following discussions with my colleague Professor Don<br />
Brothwell of the University of York, one of the specialists<br />
who examined him, the distribution of the tattooed dots<br />
and small crosses on his lower spine and right knee and<br />
ankle joints correspond to areas of strain-induced degeneration,<br />
with the suggestion that they may have been<br />
applied to alleviate joint pain and were therefore essentially<br />
therapeutic. This would also explain their somewhat<br />
‘random’ distribution in areas of the body which would<br />
not have been that easy to display had they been applied<br />
as a form of status marker.<br />
There’s certainly evidence that women had tattoos on<br />
their bodies and limbs from figurines c. 4000-3500 B.C. to<br />
occasional female figures represented in tomb scenes c.<br />
1200 B.C.
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does your tatt
oo define who<br />
you are<br />
The good thing is you are inkless. Being<br />
confused and getting a tattoo is never a good<br />
idea. You should always strive for a permanent<br />
marking that is significant and personal to you.<br />
Many tattoos tell stories of loved ones and lost,<br />
whereas others share your hobbies and interests<br />
with the world and serve as a blueprint as<br />
to who you really are.<br />
While most any tattoo artist is capable of<br />
making a design recommendation, without any<br />
sort of direction these same artists, if they are<br />
reputable, will hopefully refuse the work until<br />
you’ve done your own legwork as to what is<br />
distinctive and worth wearing for a lifetime.<br />
It can be difficult to define yourself and your<br />
own style. Much like fashion, people struggle<br />
for years trying trends and different looks and<br />
some eventually become masters of their own<br />
identity, and others just sort of keep going on<br />
and on from one style to the next until they<br />
eventually fall into a comfort zone, whether or<br />
not it suits them.<br />
Because tattoos can become very addictive,<br />
this may mean you end up with way more tattoos<br />
than you’d really like in hopes to find that<br />
one true piece of artwork that helps define<br />
you.My first advice is to not look at your hobbies<br />
or interests, rather study the different<br />
types of tattoo styles and get to know the<br />
differences between them. You may find over<br />
careful evaluation that you really love the<br />
organic flow of a Japanese tattoo. You don’t<br />
have to be Japanese to wear this particular<br />
style, so forgo that concern altogether should<br />
it exist. You may also discover you really like<br />
the colorful and strong style of old school traditional<br />
tattoos. Whether that be a ship or a<br />
panther, this style is timeless and making a big<br />
comeback, becoming quite fashionable with<br />
the younger generation.<br />
You should also make effort to consider where<br />
you’ll place your first tattoo. Bear in mind you’ll<br />
likely hope to see it, especially if it’s your first.<br />
Do you plan on covering up? If so you’ll want<br />
it somewhere you can do just that. These details<br />
may seem the least important at first, but<br />
they’ll really help direct you to the perfect<br />
tattoo that helps define you. Seeing that your<br />
tattoo will become a prominent part of your<br />
appearance, deciding the style and placement<br />
of your tattoo will eliminate many of the tattoo<br />
styles along the way.<br />
Last but not least, Color tattoos have their own<br />
beauty, but colors will obviously fade over<br />
time. Some people just go for black and grey<br />
and rely on artist shading to create contrast<br />
and depth to their design and this creates an<br />
entirely different look. With that in mind, you<br />
will also begin to narrow your focus. You may<br />
opt for a biomechanical tattoo or even a skull.<br />
I suggest you get to know what you like first<br />
by looking over all the styles and then start to<br />
pinpoint all of these considerations. It can be<br />
overwhelming at first, but it’s a huge decision.<br />
The best advice to most things in life is that if<br />
you don’t know what to do, don’t do anything.