{"id":1742,"date":"2013-05-26T18:57:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T18:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2013-05-26T18:57:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T18:57:21","slug":"skin-vs-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/?p=1742","title":{"rendered":"Skin Vs Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First a confession, as a foolish 19 year-old I was \u201cinked\u201d. My tattoo was ill thought out and slightly wonky, it\u2019s only redeeming feature is that as a flighty teen I was accompanied to the backstreet parlor by the future Mrs. Jason. Its faded design now serves as a memory of that day.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/index.php\/2013\/05\/26\/skin-vs-newspaper\/tattoo-convention\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1743\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Tattoo_JAlden-13-280x420.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Tattoo Convention\" width=\"280\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Tattoo_JAlden-13-280x420.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Tattoo_JAlden-13.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Tattoo_JAlden-13-350x525.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nIf I\u2019d only known how much better it could have been. On Saturday I went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatbritishtattooshow.com\/\">&#8216;The Great British Tattoo Show&#8217;<\/a> and found out just what works of art can be created with a needle.  The artists at work were just that, creating painterly images, intricate and visually articulate.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe designs however, did vary&#8230; from Captain Kirk and Dr. Spok to one girl who had a portrait of herself as a zombie tattooed on her own arm.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/index.php\/2013\/05\/26\/skin-vs-newspaper\/tattoo-convention-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1744\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Tattoo_JAlden-1-420x280.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Tattoo Convention\" width=\"420\" height=\"280\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Tattoo_JAlden-1-420x280.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Tattoo_JAlden-1-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Tattoo_JAlden-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nWhat I really enjoyed was how much participants relished being photographed. Funnily enough, most of the attendees were exhibitionists and didn\u2019t disappoint when I set up a few portraits before a quick edit.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe images were used really well in the paper, taking their place as \u2018light news\u2019 on page 3.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/index.php\/2013\/05\/26\/skin-vs-newspaper\/tattoo-convention-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1745\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Tattoo_JAlden-14-280x420.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Tattoo Convention\" width=\"280\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1745\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Tattoo_JAlden-14-280x420.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Tattoo_JAlden-14.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Tattoo_JAlden-14-350x525.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe paper and my pictures will be replaced in the newsagents tomorrow, not like the more permanent canvasses on display at the show.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nFor the talented <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/S_R_Morrison\">Sarah Morrison\u2019s<\/a> story on the event click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/art\/news\/written-on-the-body-tattooists-at-pains-to-point-out-their-artistic-credentials-8632394.html\">here.<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First a confession, as a foolish 19 year-old I was \u201cinked\u201d. 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