blog #5

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The article “Permanent Irony” written by Daniel Genis published in Newsweek Global 2014. This article mainly talked about the different ways the generations of tattoos have changed and what stereotypes of people have them. It mentions how in the latest generation there have been breakthroughs in technology which changed some things about inking and introducing the liquid crystal designs, along with glow-in-the-dark imagines and also removing things with electromagnetic rays. It says “each artist has his own recipe,” and then it goes on talking about what else they use but the main ingredient they all use is carbon. They also use a chess piece or other plastic that is burned under cardboard and the soot is scraped into either a shampoo or saliva. They say that the beauty of a bad tat is when the letters are blurred, lines aren’t straight and infections are guaranteed but they are definitely permanent. Lastly it talks about how the prisoners either are tatted because their gangs require it or they do it for a tougher imagine.

I thought this article was really interesting because I knew there were always tattoos and they were not as cautious as they are today with the whole disease thing, but the thing that caught my attention the most was that they concentrated mostly on the prison aspect of tattoos. I would have never thought back in the 1890’s getting sent to prison and being tattooed was a thing. Also, I was shocked on how they stereotyped the men by what kind of tattoos they have on and that they just focus on me men. The thing I 100% agree with is that no matter how the tattoo looks and if it gets infected it is totally permanent.