Welcome to the Gentleman's Journal

Welcome to The Gentleman's Tattoo Journal. This is a new online publication specifying in all areas of the tattoo industry. The Gentleman's Tattoo Journal  means to be a mediation between Tattoo Artists and Tattoo Art Collectors. We will feature everyone from Celebrity Artists, to the Collectors who wear the artists' ink. Their stories are what bring us together.

As we all have gone to our local tattoo shops when we turned 18 (or sooner); getting our first tattoo was a mark of pride and our own "Right of Passage." Of course, our parents and possibly peers thought, "Oh shit. There they go, another person getting another crappy tattoo. Going down life's shitter and never amounting to anything.  Fuck!" We've all been there. The disowned, the religiously persecuted, the drunken tyrants, the

princesses, the proud and stupid scholars, the ink virgins, the old men and young boys, the faithful and the sadned weakened in memorium; we've all had our reasons to get our first tattoos. But, our world and views are not the same.

 As world thinkers in an ever growing mass population, we are becoming lost and less significant than people were 100 years ago.  We are losing touch with our individuality and therefore push harder to use our body art as a means of self expression.  The unfortunate realization, that if we are here breathing for just a short while, in the broad view of all humanity, we as people don't matter.  Unless our actions have significant consequence to affect others over the entire world, we don't matter. Our push to be someone and make something happen is an ever reoccurring ambition we all share from birth. However, we are not all allowed the opportunity to excel in the ways we hope. It is only the handful who we look up to, who we are jealous of that are "lucky enough" to be successful and not have to be ever clawing and fighting through life to gain a sort of stability and relief.  We as human beings can mark our lives with our significance and that is about all we can do for now until we are noticed.

Thus our tattoos....

We are able to bond and separate ourselves with our art. Our tattoos have become our self expression and our lost tribal right to humanity. Tattoos bring us together and literally define us to others. Those of us who get and give tattoos share in our experiences through our ink. The shitty thing is that my tattoos are the only thing I can take with me when I die. Ergo, tattoos are what we have to mark our lives. Give them or collect them, we all get to be a part. 

This is The Gentleman's Tattoo Journal

 -Jake Weaver