Sonoma Valley

[Content Disclosure: Arrival 93%; looking forward 12%]

I am, at least temporarily, residing in the Sonoma Valley north of San Francisco. Specifically, I am living for a time in Tina's Hut, while she spends time in the desert southwest. I have already encountered five of my neighborhood cats; always a good sign. Having been told by a very close friend that I always sound happier when I am in California, this seems another good omen. From her lips to the ears of local spirits and sprites.

Chaos and confusion have been drifting about my world lately, I expect some of that was just the twitterings of the move but so much more seems just jiggering out of reach. Perhaps I will explore some of those sinkholes here soon, but for now I am going to enjoy a glorious sunny day in Sonoma and see how many more of the feline pack I can encounter. Followed by a long, leisurely evening of fiction.

Cursos para tatuadores, micropigmentadores, piercers e proprietários de estúdios de tatuagens

A tatuadora profissional Mallu Santos programou para o ano de 2009, alguns cursos paralelos dirigidos aos tatuadores, micropigmentadores, piercers e proprietários de estúdios de tatuagens ou clínicas de beleza. Os cursos serão divididos por áreas técnicas e ministrados por profissionais competentes, incluem materiais didáticos, certificados e coffee break. Cada curso terá a duração de um dia.

Programação para o Primeiro semestre
- Anatomia, histologia e fisiologia da pele.

Conteúdo: O que é a pele, como ela é formada e suas principais funções.
Objetivos: Conhecer mais profundamente o maior orgão do nosso corpo e nossa tela de trabalho.

- Fisiologia da cicatrização da tatuagem e principais intercorrências.

Conteúdo: Etapas da cicatrização, funções das células na cicatrização, como é fixado o pigmento, tipos de curativo, principais problemas de cicatrização e como proceder quando acontecem.
Objetivos: Conhecer á fundo o processo cicatricial, identificar falhas e melhorar o processo.

- Legislação relacionada á tatuagem.

Conteúdo: Direitos do tatuador, relação tatuador X estúdio, a importância dos contratos, legislação sanitária, legislação relacionada á tatuagem em geral, o preconceito e a lei.
Objetivo: Conscientizar os profissionais da importância de trabalhar dentro de certos parâmetros legais, como forma de proteção, apresentar ao profissional e ao proprietário do estabelecimento quais seus direitos e deveres.

- Administração e economia.

Conteúdo: Abertura da firma (para prestadores de serviço ou venda de materiais), exigências legais, legislação trabalhista, legislação tributária.
Objetivo: Mostrar como trabalhar legalmente, tanto na área de prestação de serviço como na área de vendas. Aprender a otimizar os recursos da empresa.

Os cursos terão valores acessíveis, com 25% de desconto para membros do Sindicato e descontos para quem se matricular em mais de um curso. Pagamento facilitado.

Contato: malusantos@msn.com

Tatuagens e pinturas de Tânia Trezze

Meu nome é Tânia Trezze, tenho 26 anos de idade. Sempre curti desenho e pintura, então resolvi aprender a tatuar. Não tenho muito tempo de profissão, mas estou sempre estudando e aprendendo novas técnicas. Trabalho no studio STAR 13 ARTS que fica na Penha/São Paulo-SP www.taniatrezze.blogspot.com

Agradeço ao site A tattoo por mostrarem meus trabalhos.

Curso de Biossegurança com Certificado e palestra gratuitos

A Alemão Tattoo Shopping, em parceria com a Sercon e com o apoio da Prefeitura Municipal de Santos, decidiu que além da realização de uma forte Campanha Social de prevenção a DSTS, nomeadamente AIDS e HEPATITE, a 1ª Tattoo Mix Convention seria uma ótima oportunidade para oferecerem aos tatuadores de todo o Brasil, um Curso de Biossegurança com Certificado e uma palestra com a Equipe da Vigilância Sanitária a fim de somar na qualificação dos Tatuadores Profissionais interessados.

A Palestra da Secretaria da Saúde e o Curso de Biossegurança serão gratuitos, será cobrado apenas o ingresso ao evento. Faça a sua reserva antecipada por e-mail, as vagas são limitadas.

Preço do Ingresso: R$ 10,00 - Portaria
Data: 31/01/2009
Horário do Curso: 10:00 hs da Manhã

Obs.: Favor chegar com 1 hora de antecedência.

Para confirmar sua presença, envie um e-mail com o o Nome e RG para: contato@tattooshopping.com.br

Não perca a oportunidade de freqüentar um Curso de Biossegurança Gratuíto e manter contato com grandes talentos da tatuagem brasileira em um único evento.

Neither Here nor There

[Content Disclosure: Exclusively Pictorial]

Contemporary Internet Commentary

[Content Disclosure: Politics 88%, Humor 2% Reality 103%]

Like so many of you my disturbed readers, I am not fond of internet jokes, puns, religious or patriotic homilies. However, nearly everyone on my email list knows me well enough to forward the prime juice of the internet vineyard. Of all the UTube, MyRace, Blogophenia items on the election and inauguration, this one .... well, just this one....

Dear World,

We, the United States of America, your top quality supplier of the ideals of liberty and democracy, would like to apologize for our 2001-2008 interruption in service. The technical fault that led to this eight-year service outage has been located, and the software responsible was replaced November 4. Early tests of the newly installed program indicate that we are now operating correctly, and we expect it to be fully functional on January 20. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by the outage. We look forward to resuming full service and hope to improve in years to come. We thank you for your patience and understanding.

Sincerely,

The United States of America

Actually I would have put it this way: "Sorry, but periodically our flawed system of governance produces rampant stupidity, greed and regression. We will try to do better, but be prepared to cover for yourself because we will inevitably do it again."

Swayed into Blinking at a Black Swan

[Content Disclosure: Books 90%; Semi-Literate Culture 22%; Poker 0%]

I got caught up in a cultural phenomenon awhile back, it seems that the world is irrational and that we humans have some skills that only a few of us know about to deal with this situation. Wouldn't you know it some academics figured out that information would make for interesting reading for the general enlightened public. So a spat of books have come out in the last couple of years basically focused on our innate abilities to seek and find the truth in what science might call irrational or illogical ways. Anecdotes abound in these various works but being a big fan of anecdotal evidence myself, I can live with that. What I am not so fond of is a string of examples that basically lead to nothing a but big Ta-Dah! All meat, no bone as my good friend Dr. Desmond loves to say.

Here is my four book foray into the world of irrational logic:

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nichols Taleb. You may want to notice that a couple of these authors have written several books on similar topics. While the whole Black Swan concept is interesting, his previous book: Fooled by Randomness was much more to my liking. Still the Black Swan is an interesting bedtime read.

From Amazon.com: "...the really important events are rare and unpredictable. He calls them Black Swans, which is a reference to a 17th century philosophical thought experiment. In Europe all anyone had ever seen were white swans; indeed, "all swans are white" had long been used as the standard example of a scientific truth. So what was the chance of seeing a black one? Impossible to calculate, or at least they were until 1697, when explorers found Cygnus atratus in Australia."

Nassim argues that most of the really big events in our world are rare and unpredictable, and thus trying to extract generalizable stories to explain them may be emotionally satisfying, but it's practically useless.

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell didn't read his first book, The Tipping Point, but rumors are it was better. Blink suggests that our first thought or impression is more often than not correct. But I think we knew that already.

"Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. The author campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading with a gift for translating research into splendid storytelling."

Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior by Ori & Rom Brafman

Thisbook has the typical scientific prejudice against the non-linear and therefore, they say, the non-rational. Too bad because they write well and basically trash the premise of Blink; but they go too far, just as Blink did not go far enough. The authors also take anecdotal evidence to an nearly intolerable level, which is unusual since their argument comes down on the side of empirical science.

"Sway investigates the submerged mental drives that undermine rational action, from the desire to avoid loss to a failure to consider all the evidence or to perceive a person or situation beyond the initial impression and the reluctance to alter a plan that isn't working."

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely.

Still the scientific model here but with more reasoned look at the irrational. Must have been the psychological approach the author took. Still when will science come to understand magic?

"People tend to behave irrationally in a predictable fashion. Drawing on psychology and economics, behavioral economics can show us why cautious people make poor decisions about sex when aroused, why patients get greater relief from a more expensive drug over its cheaper counterpart and why honest people may steal office supplies or communal food, but not money."

All in all, I found everything after the first few chapters of these books to be unsatisfying. Good articles that never reach the potential they should have to qualify as a full length well structured book.

Tatuagens de Diego Geu

Sou Diego Sarmento conhecido como Diego Geu, tatuo a 6 anos em União dos Palmares, terra de Zumbi e Jorge de Lima. Aqui, no interior de Alagoas, não é fácil trabalhar com tatuagem devido ao preconceito que existe em toda cidade de interior. Procuro sempre aperfeiçoar em todos os estilos de Tattoo, oriental, tribal, realista... pois creio que, para ser um bom tatuador, não devemos nos prender a um determinado estilo mas, procurar sempre superar as expectativas do seu cliente. É isso... obrigado a todos do "A Tattoo" por mostrarem um pouco do meu trabalho.

Abraços.

Patience is a Virtue?

[Content Disclosure: Life 64%, Patience 83%, Poker 2%]

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. -Tolstoy

The aptly named Poker Grump wrote an intereting article disagreeing with my distaste for Poker = Life metaphors. I have been working on a "patience" section for a new book but today I am pondering patience not poker. I have noticed that patience tends to come with the ease of age. At least is how it seems to me these days. Yet I find others younger and older to have more patience in areas than I might. It appears we selectively decide that some areas are out of bounds for restraint, something about not abiding idiots or tolerating fools.

I guess I don't want to trounce any intolerance today, but I do notice that life in general is requiring a goodly dose of patience these days.

I have several writing gigs in the "hold" position. Actually one has come through and others linger. Patience, my boy, patience.

One of my good friends is under consideration for a position that would be great for her and just an excellent decision for the company involved, but nothing yet.

On the lighter side, I was at dinner the other evening with my brother and one of my recently retired poker buddies. When I asked them what the plans were for the weekend, they gave me an eloquent and mirthful dissertation on why making plans too far in advance is unwise when you are in full retirement mode. It seems you don't want to add stress or structure to a life of leisure. Wise and deservingly slothful men these are.

What comes next for me? Now there is a question, a whole galaxy of questions that are requiring a lot of patience these days. Patience and just existing at the edge of the void. Really an interesting if not completely comfortable place to pitch one's tent.

A nova tauagem de Xuxa

Foto: Hhattori

O nadador Fernando Scherer, conhecido também como Xuxa, fez sua nova tatuagem, um dragão oriental nas costas, agora um pouquinho maior que as tatuagens anteriores.

Após as medalhas, recordes e títulos como o Esportista Brasileiro do Ano em 1995 e melhor nadador do mundo no ano de 1998, Scherer embarca no mundo da moda e traz para o Brasil, juntamente com os empresários Edsá Sampaio e o americano Djalcy Soldovieri, a grife americana Ed Hardy. A loja fica em São Paulo e trata-se da primeira loja Ed Hardy na América Latina.

Don Ed Hardy é um tatuador americano natural da Califórnia do sul e foi um pupilo de Sailor Jerry. Ed Hardy é conhecido por seu trabalho com tatuagens, sobretudo em seu trabalho com temas orientais japoneses. Nas peças da grife Ed Hardy, percebe-se uma grande influência das obras de Don Ed Hardy.

Fonte: Diário Catarinense

Como aprendeu a tatuar?

A sétima enquete foi dedicada aos tatuadores, por dela, procuramos saber como os tatuadores aprenderam a arte de tatuar.

Contamos com 194 votos nesta enquete, divididos em cinco opções. Confira o resultado:

Como aprendeu a tatuar?
Sozinho: 131 votos (67%)
Com um amigo: 32 votos (16%)
Fiz um curso: 24 votos (12%)
Em um estúdio: 20 votos (10%)
Outra forma: 19 votos (9%)

Na próxima enquete, gostaríamos de saber se você autorizaria seu filho menor de idade a se tatuar. Fique ligado!

No pain, no gain!

O que passou pela cabeça desta pessoa enquanto desenhava a ferro quente (Branding) um um kanji no mamilo?


a) AAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii...
b) A dor é psicológica, a dor é psicológica, a dor é psicológica...
c) Aum, Aum, Aum...
d) Faz cara boa, faz cara boa, faz cara boa...
d) Humnn! Cacete de aguia sô!

Micropigmentação – A Beleza Feita com Arte

A Escola de Formação Técnica Profissional Mag Estética, localizada em São Paulo é uma referência em Micropigmentação no Brasil.

A novidade é que além de um site com muitas informações, fotos e cursos sobre Micropigmentaçao, a Mag Estética disponibiliza agora um blog, o Mag Blog. O blog tem uma proposta diferente e inovadora, entre muitas informações sobre estética, encontra-se uma série especial de posts intitulada “Micropigmentação – A Beleza Feita com Arte”. Sob a coordenação da especialista Andrea Martins, a série ganhará um novo capítulo todas as segundas-feiras.

Já são duas publicações com informações preciosas sobre Micropigmentação, processo realizado por muitos tatuadores(as).

Micropigmentação - Beleza Feita com Arte (1)

Micropigmentação - Beleza Feita com Arte (2)

Parabéns a Mag Estética pela iniciativa e pela divulgação de seus conhecimentos, fiquem ligados no Mag Blog, toda segunda-feira uma dica diferente.

Female & Male Endings

[Content Disclosure: Gender, Understanding, Passion, Reminiscing and no poker]

“Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.” --William Blake

Well that certainly is one side of the equation Mr. Blake but a side I am familiar with. Not because I am what anyone would describe as a overtly emotional person. Just the opposite, but I have traveled with many manic, creative, socially high energy friends and lovers. I am not one to tolerate inane or insane behavior for its own sake, I generally just absent myself from such goings on. However, the wild creative energy that so often infuses artistic talent and emotional commitment does lend itself to over-percolation followed by incoherent eruptions. It is here where gender takes a role in my encounters with the varieties of the emotional precipice.

The few women with whom I have had messy, incomplete, unclosured endings; will invariably describe our final days as tinged with anger. My anger not theirs. I do not deny such characterizations. I object, of course, to the elevation of anger to a level commensurate with rape, murder and child abuse, but that is just a simplistic tactic of a gender unable to grasp the finer nuances of curling, the zone defense and beer pong.

Men on the other hand are completely different. I have male ex-friends, who would describe our defunct friendships in exactly the same way and anger would never be a factor. We were friends and then we were not. I have no idea if they have a "story" about how or why we became former acquaintances and I really don't care. Contrary to popular folklore men really don't "need" to be right in these situations. Two opinions, two positions, two points of view that irresolvable lead to an end. Done. Finished. No conversation required.

The other gender, from the land of hormones, wants completion, resolution and yes, closure; not to mention punishment. But, in my experience, these must happen without any bilateral process. They seek an ending that sheds a redeeming light on their unexamined behavior. (Play the "he was angry" card here.) How quiet they become when someone actually enters the conversation.

Desires come in all shapes, sizes and forms. Denying any of them is a sign of weakness. Controlling them is an indication of personal strength. Exploring them demonstrates courage. Being uncomfortable with your desires reveals your humanity and is never something to apologize for--ever.

Tatuagens de Danilo Coppini

Meu nome é Danilo Coppini, trabalho como dermopigmentador há 5 anos, atualmente trabalho na clínica Vity em Santo André.
Endereço: Rua Camargo, n. 524, Centro
Telefone: 4438.6018

Desenhos de carpas de Willian Tattoo Japan

Confira os desenhos de carpas criados por Willian Tattoo Japan. O tatuador trabalha em Konosu, Saitama no Japao. Outros desenhos e tatuagens de feitas por Willian, podem ser conferidas em seu fotolog. Para entrar em contato com o tatuador utilize o telefone 08035446469, se estiver no Japao, ou o msn: willian.tattoostudio@hotmail.com

Random Pokerish Thoughts

[Content Disclosure: 45% Poker sorta; 32% Wisdom or a reasonable facsimile; 9% Other, but I give good other]

"God does not play dice with the universe; however, she is not above a good check raise when you least expect it." -- Me

For my non-poker versed readers, a check raise is a move where you pass or check your opportunity to bet your hand and then when your opponent bets, you raise their bet with an even bigger bet. It is the poker equivalent of saying: "I gotcha!" And more than that, it is saying: "I gotcha and you had no clue it was coming." Now, of course, your opponent might just fire another even bigger bet right back at you but you get the idea.

I am not a big fan of the "Poker is like Life" books and articles. I also don't forward emails on why Men are Like Cars or Women are Like Wine. These are called analogies or metaphors and generally are too general to carry any more wisdom than a dribble glass. So, periodically you will find me ranting about such poker comparisons.

"Life is not like Texas Hold’em; Wall Street is not a game of five card stud and international politics is not the best place to practice your poker face." --Myself

Check Raising the Devil is a brilliant title for a book but in the eventuality you actually encounter Satan in your local card room, I suggest you fold and request a table change.

However for my true poker buddies, especially those in the poker media:

"Life is not like Badugi, Life is like Crazy Pineapple played with a joker, a live straddle and a full kill." --I

We now return you to our regular programming.

Novas tatuagens de Sergio Bensdorp Jr

Confira as novas tatuagens enviadas por Sergio Bensdorp Jr.

Nome do estúdio: Fantasy Tattoo
Nome do Tatuador: Sergio Bensdorp Jr
Endereço: rua 9 de julho nº 1576 Centro Marília SP
Fone: (14)4101-0351
Cel:(14)8119-3438
Orkut: Sergio Fantasy Tattoo














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