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Wanna see my ink? | Why ink? | Tatooine or Tattooing? | Carnivalesque | Inked and Inkers | Process and Pain | Have you had your cup o'culture today? | Feminization of Tattoo | The Future of the Tattoo

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To tattoo or not to tattoo, that is the question...

Mmmmm...blank canvas...

 

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"You do not know how paralysing that staring of a blank canvas is; it says to the painter, ‘You can't do anything’ ... Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the really passionate painter who is daring -- and who has once and for all broken that spell of 'you cannot'."

~Vincent Van Gogh

"I love giving people their first tattoo."  ~Alex Sanchez, Tattooist,  Florida

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Tatooine -- the fictional planet in Star Wars where Luke (of Skywalker fame) was raised by his aunt and uncle.  But, what if Tattooine were taken as a term that suggests something pristine in the world of tattooing -- like a blank canvas?  Would Azure then be considered Tattooine?

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"The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation"
Captain James Cook - 1779