Christian is one of the rare Tattoosday subjects with whom I got greedy.
My normal
modus operandi is to ask people for an offering of one of their multiple tattoos. I let them choose and I am happy to capture one piece and move on.
But in the course of photographing Christian's choice, I saw his other two tattoos, and requested to include them in the post, as well.
Christian is a filmmaker and the two tattoos he offered as a set were drawings from the storyboard of his film, "The Duel":
Positioned as such, Calico Joe Jackson (on the right) and Remington Turk Dakota (on the left) occupy different arms. In their natural state, the two creations of Christian's imagination, they have their backs to one another, pistols drawn, in classic duel-readiness positions. Below is a still from "The Duel," produced by
Elwood Gentry Productions.
As his creations, he proudly wears them on his sleeves to commemorate his first major creative undertaking. See the trailer from the film
here.
Above Calico Joe Jackson, on his right bicep, there is a familiar sight, an image from one of the first commercial films made,
Georges Méliès' 1902 classic A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la Lune):
It's a famous shot, with a bullet lodged in the eye socket of an anthropomorphically-surprised moon.
This film as inspired generations of film-makers and Christian loves the fact that such an early cinematic effort was steeped in science fiction and special effects.
Finally, I had to take a photo of the third tattoo:
That is the logo of
Hunter S. Thompson, who invented the concept of
Gonzo Journalism. As a huge fan of the book
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (see my
BillyBlog post
here), as well as Dr. Thompson's other writings, I greatly appreciated Christian's nod to the late great Hunter S.
All of these pieces were tattooed by the amazing
Bert Krak at
Top Shelf Tattooing.
A hearty thanks to Christian for sharing his work with us here on Tattoosday!
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