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Working Up A Depressive Storm To Elliot Smith: Get Work Done

Now Is The Time To Get Ink Done: Nick Is Depressed The Capricorn gloom set in full blow today. As I listen to Elliot Smith I grow more and more depressed, every second weeping forward towards oblivion. I am alright, I am OK with this. It is just another hiccup, another stagger in the long [...]

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The Tattoo Journey: The Zen of Professionalism

On Professionalism In The Tattoo Journey Tattoo artists are professional, commercial artists and we have to remember all of those words to really get closer to achieving any kind of happiness at work or satisfaction. Sometimes in art we are forced to believe we must make concesssions and it hits our ego, that is what [...]

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Nick Prieve Tattoos Towards Zen With Stefan Brusacoram

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Tattooing & Creativity

The Creative Side Of Tattooing The body artist in sometimes a psychologist, a personal therapist, a healer, an artist, and a mechanic, all rolled into one big bucket of flavor full of color, must of all though she is creative. I had a meeting with a Fortune 500 company yesterday and they asked me what my [...]

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Tattoos, Skulls, Zen And Interpersonal Relationships

Why Drawing Skulls is Good For a Tattoo Artist Last night I destroyed a drawing by trying to take it too far in color and then promptly dumping water on it by accident with one of those little zen waterfall rock structures you can get at Wal-Mart that is supposed to make you calm with [...]

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Tattoo Journey: Challenges and Choices

Where I am Headed Tattooing is a journey, I had to follow Brian Lee Johnson’s vision at www.tatau.us (new site coming soon) and realize my own zen. The journey for self awareness starts with knowing when to say yes and when to say no. Choosing to go back to my roots for a change and [...]

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