Month: July 2021

Tattoo with me workshop v.2

Attendees

1. Ben
   Emerging tattoo artist as @its_whutever_init_pokes
   
2. Brenda
   MA applied imagination in the creative industries, CSM
   
3. Juda
   Emerging tattoo artist as @ranx.juda

PRE workshop questions

• Can I ask if you have any tattoos?

• Have you ever designed a tattoo yourself?

• Do you know much about the process?

• Can I ask – Have you ever wanted to have the exact same tattoo as anyone else?

POST workshop questions

• Can I ask you to introduce yourself?

• Can I ask why you wanted to attend the workshop today?

• What do you feel you gained from this workshop?

• Can I ask what this workshop made you think about the tattoo process and the industry?

• Let me ask you about your tattoo you created, how do you feel about it?

• Would you feel ok if someone wanted to copy that tattoo you designed and created?

• Do you think you felt differently before you came here today?

Feedback for the intervention workshop video

(intervention = testing my question)

1. Get help with the video, camera man needed for close up
   
2. Shorten up the video
   
3. Add before and after interview (find out the change)
   
4. Let the attendees talk to each other and get information

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• Could mixed my old idea (NFT)
  
  HOW TO REGISTER IDEA?
  
• Registher tattoo, design work
  NFT as verify
  
• For tattoo artists “if you value your for maybe you should protect it”
  
• PATENT + NFT|
  
• Prove of originator (Digital signature)
  
• For the website “collection/ archive” (soon to be BANK of tattoo)
  – Register detail of artist -so can identify them
  – start with myself

David’s suggested I should ask and attempt to answer myself is:

• What did I learn?
• What is my current understanding?
• What do I still ‘not’ know that I need to? (This should inform your ‘next steps…)
• How does this relate to or develop my question?
• How can I communicate this as ‘evidence’ of my reserach development?
• How do I effective capture this data so it can be information?

One of the attendees of my intervention workshop shared their experience with a friend who is interested in learning about the tattoo industry and becoming a tattoo artist.

The attendee recommended my workshop because they expressed an overwhelmingly positive experience and felt that other people should also share the same.

During the conversation, while I organised the new person coming to my next intervention workshop the new individual told me how massive and impact my first workshop had on the recommender.

According to this person, the attendee of the first workshop has been empowered, motivated, and has a in their words, “more oomph”.

My intervention workshop apparently gave the attendee the confidence and knowledge to be re-assured in working without theft of their work, and again from the new attendees words “said (she) would not have had the confidence without the workshop”

I am encouraged by the positive outcome of this workshop from this independent feedback, and extremely happy to learn that my idea and implementation is having a good result.  I look forward to further results from my next intervention to use effectively in final conclusions.

https://rareink.co/artist/@_hand_job_tattoo

During a collaborate session with one of my cohort where we exchange idea of the direction of our project regularly

After sharing experiences, thoughts, and ideas with each other project

I have come to the idea of having a platform where tattoo artists can claim by date that they are the principal owners or the ones who created that tattoo

as archive

as a collection

like creative commons

like a bank of original tattoos registered

Recognition, Validation and it calls out those who copy

Because they don’t get into legal trouble, followers will know that it’s not the original

like a platform that exhibits the very raw initial tattoo designs

https://www.tattooarchive.com/research_center.php

https://www.tattoodo.com/explore?lat=51.50853&location=London%2C%20GB&lon=-0.12574

I have been thinking about the central theme of my project, the protection of an artists original work, and considering the broader implications of this. The music industry is one where this is most problematic for artists, and on re-watching a film I have seen once before called ‘Yesterday’, I felt an overwhelming sense of relevance to my project, and to the wider world of creatives and originality of ideas.

For those unfamiliar, the film is about an unsuccessful singer songwriter called Jack Malik who is struck by a bus during a worldwide blackout. After recovery in hospital, and while drinking in the the pub, his lifelong friend and manager gave him a guitar to replace the one broken in the accident. Malik chose to play the Beatles ‘Yesterday’, and was greeted by shock and awe from his friends who had never heard it before. After some filler scenes, Malik realises that through some unknown force he has entered an alternate dimension where the Beatles never existed, and therefore none of the songs they ever wrote existed.

This leads Malik to recall all the great songs the Beatles wrote, and claim them as his own, leading him to be regarded as the greatest singer-songwriter ever known. In one scene, Ed Sheeran who guest stars (and puts in by the way and excellent performance) challenges the upcoming star to a songwriting competition, and after Malik presents “The Long and Winding Road’, Sheeran dejectedly proclaims Malik is “Mozart and I am Salieri”.

The film ends with Malik, after having achieved super-stardom being the acclaimed the single greatest artist of their generation, or of several, predictably admitting he stole all the songs, and going back to live the quiet life in quiet Suffolk with the films love interest, ignoring the doubtless criminal charges of fraud, intellectual property theft, breach of contract, and numerous other problems would ensue. Doubtless this was a Hollywood schmaltz ending designed to appease the movie going masses.

However, ludicrous ending aside, the film on second viewing made me think about a subtext of it, which has wider implications. How can creatives, in a world of so much noise, when everything great has already been created before, find their voice, and make something that matter, be heard?

This is hardly a new question or idea, indeed, typing into google “creatives everything has been done” comes up with 17,700,000 results, the first 20 of which are listicles on how to move past the “Everything’s Been Done Trap as a Creative”. Yet this contradiction illustrates the central problem, even my thought itself, and the films underlying premise are unoriginal, indeed, increasingly, everything is unoriginal.

Turning now to my project, in a world where everything has been done, it begins to become increasingly clear that copying will become the standard. This thought needs further exploration, as it has the potential to have profound effects on my project which is focused on the protection of original work, and preservation of copyright.

I have posted this on my tattoo account to be open to everyone and here are some responses

Tattoo artist (@spooky_jon_tattoo) has commented and agrees that education is a good idea for change for my project

Brenda from MAAI

@ranx.juda emerging tattoo artist

Tattoo with me workshop

Attendees

1. Stephen Teodore
   26 years old
   MA applied imagination in the creative industries, CSM
   
   Why did you come?
   – I want a new tattoo that made by myself and this is a great opportunity to get one.
   
2. Emily (emerging tattoo artist as @chickandpoke)
   21 years old
   BA English at UCL

Why did you come?
– want some tips and learn how to tattoo

The original number of people whos agreed to come to the workshop is 7 people

Turn out there are just two that came…

This is the difficulty I found with a free workshop as I don’t know if I can rely on them to come and what level of interest they have.

Date and time is another problem as its not fit to everyone schedules

The workshop went well and they both have learned to value of tattoo and the process of tattooing