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        <pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:09:47 PST</pubDate>        
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                <title>Art and Copyright theft at work!</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:40:40 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ As an art community, I'm encouraging anyone with a spare buck to take a look over at this fellows work and buy if you can, or donate a buck or two (a little adds up fast) to help this artist out, and keep his copyright on his intellectual property. It's his art, he should be able to keep it!<br /><br />Consider this a chance to stick to a genuine asshole, while helping out a gifted metal worker.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/users/outgoing?http://www.johntunger.com/legal-defense-fund.html">[link]</a><br /><br />Re-post to your own journals and social net sites. By helping him, we help ourselves.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~takkless</author>
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                <title>Orphan Works Legislation</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:07:34 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ <a href="http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=Columns&column=MindBiz&article_no=3605">Read This!</a><br /> <br />My life and career aren't the easiest, but I have fun, and I have high hopes. I'm confident and dedicated to my love and abilities in my field of artistic endevours. To think that someone could take away my chances for a fulfilling career in an artistic field simply because I don't have the money to compete with the them, based onthe new laws they managed to pay congressmen to pass frightens me. It frightens me because after all the changes I've seen taking place in the world, I know how close it is.<br /><br />Please take the time to read this article and do a bit of research. Know what's going on. Then write that letter, make that call, make your voice heard. If too many people believe it's going to happen no matter what, it will.<br /><br />If enough people know they can stop it by their screams of indignation, it will be stopped.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~takkless</author>
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                <title>Post Dragon Con</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:18:26 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Well, I've amde it to and past Dragon Con, and I'm feeling a little like a boat with no rudder. I made a couple of contacts, and I spent four days with some great friends, got many, many pictures, far more than I usually take, and I had the best time I've ever had at Dragon Con. There may be some hope for this convention franchise yet.<br />
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The exhibit booth at DC was fun. Mostly sat around, yelling at people to stop for a moment and get a quick shot of their costume, sketched out the occasionally drawing here and there, and kept general morale at a peak. My friend Desz started a quote sheet for the con, and I dominated most of page one fairly quickly with gems like, "I am SO squeezing your tooth paste from the middle," and "Run, Pimp, Run!" Good times, good times...<br />
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Time not spent at the booth, I was found wandering about Hilton and diving into the dealer room and the rest of the Exhibit hall. I kept my camera at the ready at all times, and got some great shots of some truly well-made costumes, and some not-so-well-made costumes as well. I shot over to the Hyatt for the speed sketch competition, and I knew I should broke that chick's kneecaps before we got started. I may have had a chance. I'm taking it next year, with the gods as mah witness!<br />
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Another week, and I hope to have completely re-integrated with civilian life.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~takkless</author>
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                <title>New Digs</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:46:23 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Ok, so as my second genuine post, I'd like to announce that I've reunited with my family, and it feels so good. For the past two years, I've been living between Atlanta and Charlotte, driving down to work at Sacred Heart tattoo in GA, and coming back up to Gastonia, NC to be with my wife and kids for my weekend. I've now found a small, lovely shop in Hickory, NC, a mere 45 minutes from my house, and it is here that I've set up shop, for the time being at least. While I'll miss my friends I've made with the Sacred Heart Familia, my family comes first, and the reputation will come to me, if it takes a while.<br />
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The shop and business have slowed down rather inexplicably. While it's expected to happen every year, it's a bit early yet, and it might not be so bad if I was caught up on my bills in the first place. Suffice to say, if you'e in the area and have been thinking about getting a tattoo, or getting one started, now is the perfect time! Baby needs a new pair of shoes!<br />
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Also Dragon Con is looming ever close. The September issue of Dragon Magazine, and Dungeon Magazine will have a full page add for Quicksylver Productions in it detailing our showcase there. It's my work in print, ya'll! I can't wait to see it. What's more, it will be a super-sized issue, as it's the last printed issue. After this, they go all web, so be sure not to miss it.<br />
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That is all. Keep your eyes on the stars, keep the engines cool, keep flying.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~takkless</author>
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                <title>Temperence, by Libellula</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 11 Nov 2006 17:10:09 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ MAJOR ARCANA - THE TEMPERANCE - NUNO GOMES<br />
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Here runs the river you glimpsed in prayer.<br />
It's chill and pure, quick with ancient trout that speak.<br />
Gills fanned, silver at ease in deep pools,<br />
they gossip of prophets and warfare,<br />
of the metallic fate of all heroes.<br />
<br />
Mute irises flower on the bank<br />
but keep their stories locked in root.<br />
At their base, thyme smothers dull rue,<br />
blooms under rosemary, tells its own<br />
sunny tale of ease and simple growth.<br />
<br />
Gabriel stands before the herbs,<br />
dawn at his back, absorbed by his task.<br />
Water pours between two cups he holds<br />
and as it flows from hand to holy hand,<br />
the destroyer of Gomorrah is still,<br />
transfixed by control and containment.<br />
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This peaceful land is the end of the boneyard,<br />
the source of myth, the garden of fable,<br />
and yet, beyond it, a dirt path winds eastward,<br />
upward toward mountains: an uneasy trail<br />
for those who must know what lies beyond heaven.<br />
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I found this poem very.... relaxing. Very much like the card it's written of. Since I didn't want to lose it, and wanted to see it often, i decided to place it here. I hope Libellula won't mind.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~takkless</author>
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                <title>A little about me</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 04 Nov 2006 20:17:47 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ I'm a husband to one, a father of two, and I've been tattooing professionally now for about 4 years. I got my apprenticeship in Gastonia, NC, near Charlotte, and I've worked for three companies in that time between Atlanta and Charlotte, till I found my home here at Sacred Heart Tattoo 3 in Norcross, GA, near Atlanta. As the better half of "The Brothers Grimmer," I've came into la Familia here at Sacred Herat knowing I had allot to learn, and so learn I have, picking the brains of every co-worker I've come into contact with. I truly count my co-workers, including my brother at the main shop in Little Five Points, Atlanta, as MAJOR influences in my work. Without all of them, I wouldn't be the artist I am today. As for illustration, I became "involved" with comics back in high school, as all good geeks do. From there, the gateway drug as I call it, came D&D, Rifts, Cyberpunk, and all my formative Role Playing years. You can't play allot of Dungeons and Dragons and not learn a little something about courage. It was only natural I should pick up the pen and pencil and start sketching out characters. Ten or so years later, I started getting good at it, since I'd started tattooing by that time and found myself drawing all day everyday. As Commander Mark said, draw draw, practice your drawing everyday. He wasn't just whistling Dixie, kids. With no formal education though, it's taken me this long to figure out some tricks I probably could have learned far earlier on. I'm also recently entering a period of experimentation and finding a style I'm comfortable with. Artists I look up to (read: Idolize) include: BROM, Luis Royo, Jim Lee, Ed Benes, Scott Williams, and Bernie Wrightson. And Stan Lee, who let's face, gave me my start. Ah, Stan. What I use: Tattooing- I have two next generation machines I've tuned up with the help of my co-workers, Mikey and Tom into separate color and black-and-gray shaders. I have one Danny Knight liner I picked up at our Atlanta Tattoo Convention this past June. I use Pelican ink for black and grays, and eternals and intenze pigments. Illustration- I like the Staedtler 980 lead holder with nonphotoblue and standard leads. Speedball superblack. It's black as a witches heart, lemme tell ya. I use a number one round for my brush. A soft natural bristle for wide passes, and a stiff bristle for line work and tip control. I'm learning to use Paintshop Pro 7 and cs2, and hope to bust out with some colored pieces here in the near future. It's slow moving though, for my work schedule. I'm an easy going spirit, for the most part. I welcome critics and the occasional line. I hope to be able to post back here more often than I ever did my livejournal. I'm still guilty over that thing... I got real friends in there. Feel free to chat to me. I'll get back to you. If I dont, forgive me, I'm still working for a living.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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