- And I didn't know which arm to put in
because obviously like getting kind of a mystery tattoo
in a glory hole is terrifying.
- I don't really think I put too much meaning
to the tattoos I have on my body.
- I just saw a piece of art that I liked,
and I thought, "Oh, why not just put it on my body?"
- I think I've loosened up a little bit with tattoos now
where I'm like, "Alright, I'll get one
"with you in solidarity, like that can mean something."
- If my brothers wanted to get a matching tattoo,
I don't need other reason than that, you know?
- It's fun to like have some friends or people that you know
where it's like, "Oh, yeah if you're around,
"would you wanna to get tattoos or something?"
- Actually, down the street, I saw a little poster
that said Scott Campbell is doing,
you know this famous tattoo artist,
he's doing this art experience.
This sort of centerpiece attraction of this gallery show
was this hole in a kind of fence,
and everybody that goes to the show,
you get a raffle ticket.
There was a line around the block,
so I didn't expect to get picked,
but I got picked, right when I got in.
- I decided that day at work and then I walked
across the street to the tattoo shop.
It was an autograph of George Harrison,
and the symbol was on that photo.
He's like, "Oh whose autograph is this?"
And I said, "George Harrison."
He goes, "Oh that's my favorite Beatle."
Like I did no research on the tattoo artist.
I just ended up with this guy that was here,
and he ended up telling me all
of his stories about the Beatles.
We grew up in the same area. It was cool.
- So I got my wife's name tattooed on my arm.
For me I knew being with her would be forever,
and you can always change it, I mean.
But no, but I think overtime she realizes
how much I love her, and I don't think I need
the tattoo to prove it.
And I think she was wise enough to realize it then,
and I was impulsive to not.
- There's no doubt getting a tattoo
at your apartment when you're like 20
by someone who is not fully experienced
and partially that is peer pressure.
And I remember always showing my friends, I'm like,
"Hey look at this really sick tattoo I just got on my knee."
And you could kinda always tell they're like,
"Oh yeah, dude, that is so cool man,"
yeah, when really like .
Then I knew I had to get it redone so I paid
like a real amount of money to get it professionally done
by this guy named Will Koffman.
- You just sort of put your arm in,
and then over the course of the next hour and a half,
I felt a tattoo being drawn on me.
And then I pulled it out and, in front of a bunch
of onlookers, I unwrapped and saw the tattoo
that I got for the first time.
I mean at first I was like, "Wow, it's a skull and a rose.
"That's about as tattoo as a tattoo gets."
But it's kind of gorgeous.
- This one is actually a Jonathan Pylypchuk piece.
He's a Canadian modern artist, so I told him,
"It's my 30th birthday.
"Would you draw something that is me?
"Like what you think what I am or what we are."
But he didn't like break it down and say,
"The pot means this," and dah, dah, dah.
Because it's modern art.
It's what you're gonna draw from it.
- Sometimes I look at my tattoos as just art,
but then there's times where after the fact,
I'll be like, "Well, I was going through something then.
"Like this definitely has meaning."
I don't know what made me get BELIEVE especially on my face,
but like believe, I believe in God.
I have like a strong sense of faith.
When I'm out in public, or wherever I'm at,
I'll see someone lookin' at it,
and someone will tell me a story about how they believed
in themself 30 years ago and started their own business.
- I don't even know if this is true,
but some very spiritual person was telling me
that the word, "Hallelujah," means "Praise the mystery."
And that's always been kind of a mantra of mine,
so it just felt like this embodiment of an idea
that I really sort of have lived my life through.
If like whatever this is, it's both like big and small
cause you know we're all kind of insignificant
so who cares if you get a tattoo you don't like?
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