me Today I finished my left sleeve. Four sessions to an average of 3 hours per session: lots of color and charm, a lot of pain and drawing.
I am very anxious to get pictures, but will not until it heals and can climb all the way!
Well, to that there is no long wait ... here goes a looong post about tattoos!
Origins:
The desire to adorn the body with paint refers to the origin of mankind. Perhaps it is in Polynesia where the art of tattoo is more popular, since time immemorial. Those tattoos were characterized by geometric designs, embellished and renewed throughout life, to cover the entire body.
According to tradition, the tattoo, beyond its aesthetic sense, hierarchy and gives community fosters respect for the wearer. So someone is the more tattooed, more recognition is due. Marco Polo in his "Travels" confirms this idea. Australian Maori, however, used it, and still exhibit-like decoration for battle.
Currently the island of Borneo is one of the few places where you can practice the traditional form of tribal tattoo. Marquesas Islands "a body without a tattoo was stupid body, "say the natives. Is that the tattoo is there an erotic significance. The women recorded the fingers and ears with fine drawings, and the body with sexual symbols. Men are tattooed body, nose, eyelids, tongue and scalp.
Samoans called "tatau" to the technique of marking the body. English travelers who came to these islands spread this practice throughout the world and gave the name "tattoo." This English word adapted to Castilian language and thus was born "tattoo."
In ancient Egypt who were tattooed for protective and magical were women. The North American Indians tattooed young people passing from puberty to adulthood. And in Central America, used to worship their gods.
was in South America where the Indians invented temporary tattoos, of short duration. Were painted with pigments made from a mixture of flowers and animal fats, which are degraded by the day.
In Japan, tattoos were known a thousand years before the Christian era. But originally these tattoos are made to point to those who disobeyed the laws, and were "marked" for life. This practice fell into disuse until it was retaken by the aristocrats as a sign of distinction. In Japan today has one of the most important traditions tattooists. Interestingly, in 1842 the emperor Matsushita decided to ban the practice of tattooing. Japan wanted to open the world market and the emperor meant that, for the West, tattoos represent an image of barbarism.
At one time, tattoos were associated with sailors and convicts, but began to appear in public people's bodies and status, this bias was disappearing. For example, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had an anchor tattooed on his arm, as the old sailors.
what the tattoo machine?
This, to me, was the most fascinating to discover:
tattoo machine is a curious device, its origins lie in the first practical use of an electric motor, a great American inventor and cooperation of craftsmen both sides of Atlanta.
The Industrial Revolution in the U.S. and the United Kingdom (1750-1915) brought many things and among them the pastime among sailors on long journeys across the ocean to be tattooed. The tattoos are applied by various methods inspired by indigenous practices from afar, but, as with most artisanal practices, tattoos also were machined ...
Incredibly, the tattoo machine as we know it today is a fairly recent invention, but the art of tattooing is ancient. And the person who invented it was the same who invented the light bulb (and other objects 1,092): Thomas Alva Edison .
Edison is often called the father of the electric tattoo machine, although it would be more correct to call the grandfather tattoo machine. In 1875 still seeking applications for this new invention called the electric motor, which transforms electric current into a rotary motion. Perhaps the idea that led Edison to transfer the rotary electric motor circular motion a linear motion could be applied to any purpose.
What Edison was actually invented a pencil that made electric drill holes in a paper, between 50 and 3,000 holes per minute. The first machine was a device that allowed to accelerate the printing process of drilling holes in a template, through the ink that could be pressed into a sheet of paper. The machine consisted of a heavy electric motor on top of a pen barrel or tube. The needle (there was only one thick steel) was driven up and down, recording a template off a plate with a series of holes, which then was required to design or letters.
It was an efficient use of electric motors, but it was not easy to use. It was difficult and complicated to work with her for a long time. Interestingly Edison marketed the device, which sold quite well in America, even after improvements designed two years earlier in England (London patented October 29, 1875 and the U.S. Nov.6 No. 1877) By using two electromagnetic coils (copper wire around a soft iron core forming an electro-magnet), springs and bars in contact with the machine. The electromagnetic coils are widely used in instruments Morse telegraph, and the repeater 1836 and showed that it was of vital importance in the development of the tattoo machine.
Edison pursued the issue of reducing the weight so he returned to check the recorder pen to eliminate the battery, invented the pen punch (May 7, 1878) using a force-fed mechanism of the feet, like a machine sewing, and finally, the Edison Pneumatic Stencil Pen (June 25, 1878) using air pressure, gas or a liquid that would operate the system, driving the needle bar of the machine, making it lighter and easier to use than the previous.
However, Edison did not see the possibility of a device for tattooing. This leap of vision was left to Samuel O'Reilly, a tattoo artist from New York City. At the time, tattoos were almost beaten and scratched in the skin of the client. Until I saw the Edison Pen in a window and called for a demonstration.
was a wise man to see that in the office of U.S. patents Pat Edison machine had expired, and so with some minor alterations, including an ink reservoir at the tip of the barrel and move the engine and therefore the weight, four inches of the hand (had to stop a little fatigue when using this device), also the needle bar may now hold a total of three hands - O'Reilly patented the first electric machine tattoo on December 8, 1891.
So a few days ago was the birthday of this machine: barely meets ... 119 years old!
The tattoo world would never be the same. The machine itself was not revolutionary, it was actually quite simple, but if the idea that electricity could help in the tattoo. This concept changed the business forever ... And Edison got his own tattoo as a form of payment: is tattooed on his forearm five points, suggesting a die.
George Burchett (the first tattoo artist who appeared on television in 1938) bought the electric tattoo machine and started using in his shop. It was a success! Will eventually improve the design, including a switch to stop the machine, and include a double coil, an improvement introduced by the Englishman Alfred Charles de Cockspur.
How does the tattoo machine?
While O'Reilly's machine was based on the rotary technology of Edison's engraving device, modern tattoo machines use electromagnets. The first machine based on this technology was a single machine patented coil Thomas Riley in London, just twenty days after O'Reilly filed the patent for his rotary machine. For your machine, Riley placed a modified assembly of the door bell on a brass box. The modern two coil configuration was patented by Alfred Charles, also of London. Because it was so heavy, a spring was often tied to the top of the machine and the ceiling to take most of the weight of the operator's hand.
Most modern tattoo machines can control depth, speed, and strength of the needle of use, which has allowed tattooing to become a very precise art form. Such advances in precision have also produced a style of facial tattooing that has attained mainstream popularity in America called dermapigmentation, or "cosmetics" permanent.
The machines vary in patterns and forms but the performance is basically the same. All have the rod with needles up and down rapidly piercing the skin to penetrate the pigments.
This occurs when two coils are magnetized and attract the inertia bar down, the bar moves down, and having the rod, the needles pierce the skin, when the bar is lowered, the contact pins are separated each causing a break in the circuit, then the machine stops, the coil is demagnetized and bar goes back to normal position by removing the needle from the skin. When climbing, the contact tips touch and the process repeats again and again. Is a magnetization and demagnetization circuit where the bar goes up and down, this happens at a rate of fifty (50) times per second, according to the cycle of current and power with which you use, the human eye sees only movement, and only perceived the typical and characteristic hum of a tattoo machine.
Each artist will tune their tattoo machines in a manner most appropriate to the way tattoos. The proper force must be present to ensure that the needles can penetrate the top layers of skin, which vary primarily only in the energy and current variations of the machine to machine, and force requirements based on the amount, configuration, and type of needle. Stroke length and the speed at which the tattoo machine runs can vary greatly depending on the speed of the hand of an artist and the personal style of tattoo.
This custom of tattooing, so fashionable today, "actually refers to the most primitive and magic of human history.
Info taken from:
http://www.clarin.com/viajes/tatuajes_0_338366177.html
http://www.fotolog.com/sta_tattoo/76546095
http://www.pisitoenmadrid.com/blog/2009/07/edison-y-los-tatuajes/
http://www.cuerpoyarte.com/2008-09-02/3404/la-maquina -de-tattoos-modern-a-invention-of-% C2% BFtomas-edison /
http://www.mailxmail.com/curso-tatuajes-artisticos-nivel-inicial/maquinas-fuentes-alimentacion
And of course, the page of my tattoo:
http://www.huarpesstudio.com.ar/
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