1994_10 Insight October 1994

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October 5,1994
LIFESTYLE
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO
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INSIGHT
Faculty on Display
Alan Button	
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CSUF students should be
mighty proud of our Art Department. The faculty art show
ended last week, which is sad
for those students who missed
it.
The show featured some
prize-winning art pieces and
many other rewarding works
by the talented faculty of a department that is suffering from
unjust budgetary assaults.
Last summer, for example, a
huge sign on the Via
Tornabuoni, Florence's fanciest shopping street, proclaimed
a show by Bill Minshew in the
prestigious Ken's Gallery. It
featured several of Minshew's
big sculptures, one, of which
Ken proudly told us in an interview, will be seen at the
Fresno Art Museum next year.
Minshew has two small, elegant sculptures in the local
show, both made in Italy last
summer in his unique, sometimes bizarre, often numerous
and always original style.
Then there's Bob Barnes' poignant bronze suitcase, symbolizing the end of a wartime romance. It won a Juror's Award
in the California Works Show
at the California State Fair, and
its compelling message richly
deserved it.
Ray Reichert's creativity and
humor are underlined in Mr.
Joplin Takes Five, an old-fashioned keyboard headrest,
which won first prize in a national sculpture contest at
UCLA earlier this year.
Reichert's humanity is striking in his other pieces, which
deplore the inhumanity of war,
the deplorable treatment of migrant workers, and the violence
of easily obtained guns as murder weapons.
Most striking is a decayed,
rusted carriage as a testament
to his friend, the poet Carl
Zimmermann, who was murdered in the spring of 1993. The
carriage. Reichert says, propelled by three fans, symbolizes the poet's tragically ended
"poetic energy."
Noteworthy also in this show
arc Paulette Fleming's "Coming of Age" series, two somber
painting on the rites of passage
of women and adolescents.
Nary Maughelli shows unusual, vibrant, colorful oils.
Heinz Kusel's surrealistic
themes of eyes and vision
acrylics and El Lund's handsome silver "President's
Medal" are all worthy of acclaim and prizes.
David Bottini is an internationally known sculptor, whom
we're lucky to have on our
campus. He produces prize-
winning sculptors out of his
students, and he makes provocative, colorful sculptures.
His In the Hills, five different
colored poles as trees, complete with bark and earth bases
is, as are all the works in this
show, fascinating and thought-
provoking.
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Tattoos strictly for individuals
Shawn Powers
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The Harley-riding, leather-wearing. Hell's Angel types of past generations aren't the only people getting tattoos these days. It is an art
form that has become quite common
among CSUF students.
A high percentage of tattoo parlor
clients come from college campuses;
many are from fraternities.
"As soon as school starts up. we
see fraternities in here," said Kim
Bearden, tattoo artist and owner of
World Class Tattooing. "Some want
to run out and get their emblem tattooed even before they get in the fraternity."
Members of sororities are also getting tattoos. In fact, women make up
the bulk of customers at World Class
Tattooing. "Our business is about 70
percent women," Bearden said. "It's
more acceptable now. It's a "90s
thing."
Tattoos may be new to some
women, but Mike LeCuyer, a tattoo
artist for 25 years, said there have
"always been more women with tattoos lhan men." They are really good
at hiding them, he said.
The type of tattoos women choose
have come a long way as well. The
rose is still popular, but today's
women aren't "limiting themselves
to the women-types of tattoos,"
Bearden said. "Now, women arc getting whatever they like."
An Aztec-looking sun was the tattoo for Robin Petersen, a recreational administration major. "For
some people it (a tattoo) represents
something about them," Petersen
said. "For mc it was to be different,
to be a little bit individual."
A tattoo is more personal for others. Chad Weisert, an accounting
major and member of the fraternity
Theta Chi, chose the Theta Chi letters to be forever embossed on his
arm.
Fraternity and sorority members
"figure this is a big part of their
lives," Bearden said. "It's a group
they want to remember forever." She
also said that it's a good tattoo to
get, because "it means something to
you. It has value to you," she said.
Sometimes tattoos lose their value.
The most common tattoos that lose
their value are names. Bearden said.
When people come in to get a name
tattooed, we suggest they think twice
about it, she said.
"They'll argue until their face turns
blue that they're going to be with this
person forever," she said. "A month
later, they're in here wanting the
name covered up."
Regrets come to mind when discussing tattoos or any type of body
art. It is a permanent process that
isn't right for everyone.
Weisert said he received pressures
from older fraternity brothers who
had tattoos, and he thought it "would
be kind of neat" to have one. If he
had it to do over, Weisert said. "I
don't know if I'd do it again."
For those who just can't live with
the unwanted tattoo, there are options. One can have the tattoo redesigned to their liking or have the tattoo "covered-up," as it is called in
the business.
"Cover-ups — that's an artwork in
itself." Bearden said. She added that
it takes an extremely good tattoo artist to be able "to make a cover-up
not look like a cover-up."
Complete removal of the tattoo is
achieved through a process called
Ruby Red Laser. It is a surgical procedure that is done by a dermatologist. "The laser just kinda draws the
ink to the surface of the skin,"
Bearden said. "Il does leave a scar,
though."
If the thought of a possible cover-
up or surgical procedure doesn't deter you, then what about the pain involved in tattooing? Bearden said
the degree of pain depends on where
on your body you get the tattoo.
"It didn't hurt except on the bone
area," Petersen said. "When the
needle hit the bone, it kinda made
me break a sweat."
Others describe Ihc experience as
irritating.
Getting a tattoo is like "taking a pin
and scraping il on your skin over and
" over." Weisert said. "You get numb."
Drinking yourself into a stupor to
avoid the pain is no longer allowed
in most tattoo shops.
"We don't like to work on people
who have been drinking," Bearden
said. "The alcohol thins their blood,
so they bleed more."
Alcohol has also been known to
change people's demeanor a bit, too.
"They have to behave themselves
when they're in here." Bearden said.
Customers mind their manners or
pay the price — literally. "Prices
subject to change according to
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Eloisa Fotioo sports her turtle tattoo her left ankle. Tattoos are
becoming more popular among college students.
customer's altitude," reads a sign in
World Class Tattooing.
Tattoos, minus the altitude, cost an
average of S60 to S80 at World Class
Tattooing. Bearden said. "Smaller
patterns run about $35. Names about
$25."
Prices may vary from shop to shop,
but you gel what you pay for. A clean
shop is important lo most people,
Bearden said.
World Class Tattooing takes cleanliness very serious. It doesn't allow
smoking in the shop.
One sign states another policy, "Absolutely no food or drinks — that
includes spit cups."
With AIDS and other health scares
around, customers arc concerned
aboul instrument sterilizaiion. "The
machine and its parts are sterilized
through a process known as steam
auto clave," Bearden said. "It's what
the hospitals use."
Reused needles are a fear to most
people who get tattoos. When the tattoo artist opened a brand new needle
package, Weisert said his fears were
put to rest.
Your parents' reaction to a tattoo —
now that is something to be scared
of. "My mom freaked out," Weisert
said. "It caught her off guard, to say
the least."
Identification is always a good reason to get a tattoo. "If my parents
ever had to identify me at the
morgue." Petersen said. "They could
just look al the sun on my ankle —
instant I.D."
Zzah'll groove ya
Zzah, the jazz band from Hanford, plays in a style uniquely Zzah. The Zzah sound is a mixture of Wesi
Coast groove with an East Coast attitude. The band is made up of four talented mucisians, keyboardist
Richard Garoogian, guitarist Rod Borges, bassist Duanc Andre and drummer Mark Shuklian. The band
has been creating their sound for almost two decades. Zzah was scheduled to play Oct. 4 at CSUF.
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For those interested in a vacation from the gangsta rap
and alternative tunes that
dominate the music world today, there is Galliano. Sweeping in from the London scene,
they are a band lhat in the next
few months will be sure to
take the music listening world
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Galliano is Rob, Valerie,
Spry, Snaith and Steve. Relatively new to the American
scene, this quintet has decided
that this nation's public needs
a lesson in peace and harmony. Delivering a message
of brotherhood and love to all
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With titles such as Blood
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Like any beginning group
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youth of this nation (marijuana), it could prove fairly
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of words having any depth.
Common mistakes are made
by this group in an attempt to
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Galliano is a group who produces a sound that could truly
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