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Bizarre Tattoo News

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Tattoos are more mainstream now then they ever have been.

A 2006 report by the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology said that 24% of Americans between 18 and 50 have a tattoo.  That only means there are more and more strange happenings in tattoo-land.

Imagine being a thief - a not very bright one - and forgetting to cover up your very distinct tattoo before robbing someone.  Investigators say a white male wearing a camouflage baseball cap and camouflage pants went into Mrs. T’s Country Store in Castleton, Vermont on Sunday, August 24th and pointed a gun at the clerk and made off with some money.

But it keeps getting more bizarre.

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WANTED MAN: $250,000 Reward

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Guess this would be a draw back with getting tattoos .. easy to be identified if you’re a wanted man.
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America’s most notorious animal rights fugitive is still on the run from authorities. Daniel Andreas San Diego has been featured prominently on America’s Most Wanted and is sought in connection with the 2003 bombings of the Chiron and Shaklee Corporations in California. He is even accused of leaving a “secondary device,” timed to go off once fire and rescue workers arrived on the scene. San Diego allegedly targeted those companies because of their business ties with a laboratory that uses animals in pursuit of cures for AIDS, breast cancer, and Parkinson’s disease. According to the FBI, San Diego penned threatening emails directed at both companies under the moniker “Revolutionary Cells”:

We left an approximately 10lb. ammonium nitrate bomb strapped with nails outside of Shaklee Inc … All customers and their families are considered legitimate targets … You never know when your house, your car even, might go boom. Who knows, that new car in the parking lot might be packed with explosives. Or maybe it will be a shot in the dark …

We will now be doubling the size of every device we make. Today it is 10lbs, tomorrow 20 … until your buildings are nothing more than rubble.

A court-ordered search of San Diego’s apartment turned up several horrifying items, including ammonium nitrate and methyl ethyl ketone (the two chief ingredients in Timothy McVeigh’s Oklahoma City bombing); an empty handgun case; several boxes of Black Talon 9mm “cop killer” bullets; books on bombs, fire, and animal rights; ALF t-shirts; a book called “Joy of Revenge”; and copies of violence-oriented activist videos produced by PETA grantee Josh Harper.

Tattoo ink flows again in Key West

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KEY WEST –
In this almost-anything-goes tourist town where even the police consider body paint as clothing, sounds were coming from a Duval Street shop Wednesday that hadn’t been heard within the city for 40 years: the buzz of a tattoo gun.

Tattooing was banned in Key West in 1966, when a Navy commander decided the once-seedy activity was too accessible for drunken sailors.

The law, still on the books, is about to be changed. But two tattoo studios were allowed to open Wednesday as part of settlements with the Southernmost City over lawsuits that claimed violation of constitutional rights.

Among the first to take advantage of Key West Ink’s opening: drag queen Inga the Swedish Bombshell.

”I’m in drag at 10 in the morning, so yeah, I’ve been looking forward to it,” said Inga as longtime tattoo artist Boe Mencarelli prepared to paint her entire left arm.

What was the six-foot-one Swede with meaty biceps and eight-inch heels getting? A $3,000-plus design of a dragon, flames, birds and a conch shell.

Kathy Koury, a Comcast sales manager who also co-hosts The Buzz in the Keys TV program, was officially the first person to get inked. She had Mencarelli tattoo a flower design around the Chinese symbol of strength she got years earlier.

Key West Ink co-owner Jim McAlhany first approached the city about opening an upscale tattoo studio in September 2006. The businessman never envisioned it would take nearly a year of commission meetings and a lawsuit to offer tattoos in a city that hosts the hedonistically excessive Fantasy Fest, Bike Week and the Poker Run, which features a popular tattoo contest.

”From the start, I’ve been surprised by the resistance,” said Wayne LaRue Smith, McAlhany’s attorney. “My personal feeling as a member of the community is it’s much worse for my children to see the proliferation of F-words on T-shirts all over the street.

‘And what’s the big deal of a tattoo studio when you have a place on Southard Street that offers private dancers with a big sign in the window that says: `We get naked. You get naked, too?’ ”

Regardless of sensibility, city attorney Shawn Smith said he recommended that the city settle the lawsuits because “generally, a municipality can’t prohibit what the state allows.”

Tattooing is legal in Florida, but Smith said cities have the right to regulate location. That is what the new proposed city ordinance will do, requiring tattoo establishments to operate in designated commercial zones that don’t include tourist haven Duval Street.

Key West Ink and the other studio that sued, Paradise Tattoo and Body Piercing, were allowed to remain on Duval in exchange for giving up their rights to sue for damages and attorneys’ fees. Paradise also has a studio in nearby Stock Island that has operated for years.

City Commissioner Clayton Lopez, a native Conch, said he was surprised to hear some of his constituents tell him that tattoo studios would “ruin the neighborhood.”

The shops are located one block apart on Duval Street. Among their diverse neighbors is a T-shirt shop with raunchy sayings, two upscale art galleries, Crabby Dick’s restaurant, a liquor store and the Aqua nightclub, where Inga performs her drag show.

McAlhany said he spent $1.4 million for his building and another $700,000 on renovations and state-of-the-art equipment.

He said employees are required to have training in first aid, CPR and sterilization. He said anybody who has been drinking will be turned away.

He said the cost of tattoos averages about $300, with the cheapest starting at $80. It costs $40 for the minimum amount of disposable materials and equipment used for each sitting, he said. The studio will be able to accommodate about 40 clients per day.

Inga grimaced as Mencarelli, a co-owner of the studio, began the tattoo.

”It hurts, but it’s a good pain,” said Inga, who was born Roger Hultman. “It’s like kittens scratching with their sharp claws in the same spot over and over and over. But it’s going to look so pretty when it’s done.”

Source: Cammy Clark cclark@MiamiHerald.com

UV Blacklight Ink - The Invisible Tattoo

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Ever wanted a tattoo that no one could see? Sounds a little odd but with this newest breakthrough in UV Blacklight tattoo ink you can literally have a tattoo that can only be seen under a blacklight.

But there’s more to this than just having an “Invisible” tattoo. It’s great for enhancing new or existing tattoos.

But really how safe is Chameleon Blacklight Tattoo Ink?

• It contains NO phosphors
• It is NOT radio active
• It DOES NOT contain EverGlow
• It does NOT cause cancer
• It has FDA approval as a Spectral Marking [tattoo] Pigment that was developed for use in tracking [tattooing] animals and fish - and yes the same ones we eat, and has been tested and used with NO adverse reaction in humans for over 10 years.
• The florescent dye is completely safe and has NO carcinogen and is human safe and does not spread or “blow out”because the dye is contained and it never even touches the skin because of the PMMA shell.
• The white (clear) does not discolor.
• It is being sold all over the world - and is used almost everyday.
• The inks are taken one step farther than most, as they are UV sterilized (this was being done for shipments to Europe, but we are starting to do it for all shipments.

Sources: TattooArtist.org | CrazyChameleonBodyArtSupply.com

Removable Permanent Tattoo Ink Coming This Fall

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Edith Mathiowitz and her team in Brown University Laboratory at Rhode Island, United States, has made tiny particles coated in polymers. These particles are used to make new permanent ink that will be easily erased by a laser treatment.

Mathiowitz has made microencapsulated beads filled with dyes along with Freedom-2 Holdings Inc., who has funded and holds the license to make and sell their ink (Freedom-2) based on the research.

Micro-encapsulation is a process in which tiny particles or droplets are surrounded by a coating to give small capsules with many useful properties. This technique is usually used as a drug delivery system or for any process that needs controlled release.

The new patented ink can be easily removed via laser. Generally, it takes about 6-7 laser treatments to remove a tattoo using traditional ink, but this ink can be easily removed by a single laser treatment, which breaks the polymer beads, allowing the body to naturally expel the dye that is trapped inside. Moreover, this ink is safer as it is free of heavy metals and other toxins.

The new ink is scheduled for this fall.

Source: Bernama