out the size o a piece of notebook paper and can have anywhere from one to forty different pictures on them. The studios are usually rather protective of these as each page costs anywhere from two to seven dollars. Of course customers do not have to chose their tattoo from the flash, they can bring in their own pictures from the internet, television, magazines, even your very own artwork or drawings. Their repetuar consisted of hundreds of different things tribal desighns, flowers, surreal objects and scenery, skulls, an assortment of animals, and any number of other things. It was quite impressive. From this room the piercing room branches off. Inside there is a reclining dentist's chair, a counter, and cabinets. It's full of medical grade equipment, sanitizing solutions, and Dixie cups. It is really not that much difference in appearance to an ordinary examining room that would be found at any reputable doctor's office, with the exemption of the pictures of past piercings pinned to the walls. The last main room has a large pool table and a coke machine. There are four doors in this room one leading to the bathroom, and the others leading to small tattoo roooms. The rooms are decorated by their designated tattooist. Kevin's room was covered from top to bottom in very interesting pictures. On top of the shelves sit macabre action figures of Spawn, Kiss and Ozzy. It is slightly cluttered with all the various trinkets, but it is interesting. It was in this room that I gave the interview. Kevin Spainhour has been giving tattoos for over seven years. He began as a tattoo enthusiast. He received several from a man named "Bull" at a shop called "Dynamic Design." He ended up spending so much time there, even when not getting tattoos that Bull took him in as an apprentice. Kevin reminds me that this was just his experience. Eventhough he fell into it many people plan and prepare for it by attending a school of the arts. Af...
