Sheep! We continue to pay for these people? Even while the rest of us go without?

Posted on May 18, 2012 by

First of all this will most likely make people angry.  You have been forewarned!

We keep paying taxes and services keep getting cut.  However, you notice that those in government are still getting paid more every year.  Their pensions are safe and sound, even though all the while the rest of us take pay cuts, lose jobs, lose benefits, and still continue to pay more in taxes.  The government pensions are not sustainable!  We cannot continue to pay for people that are in a position that was originally designed to be a voluntary position with no pay.  The elected government positions were never supposed to have the pensions they get now.  They were never supposed to get a retirement for doing an elected voluntary public service position.  You know there is something wrong when people will spend tens even hundreds of millions of dollars to voted into a position that was not supposed to even be a paid position.  Does anyone see the obvious corruption?  We as a people need to clear the slate of all of this nonsense.  Take away the pensions of these people!  Our budgets might go towards being balanced.  We pay more in taxes, but get less services.  We cannot continue to pay for these leaches of society.  We have all been ripped off.  When will we wake up and put a stop to it?

I know many are going to be mad at me, but that is okay.  I don’t understand how you can think it is reasonable to take away the pensions of people that have worked at their jobs for 20 plus years.  There are many that have had their pensions taken away from them and they are hard working honest people.  We have all watched and allowed it to happen.  Yet, the elected officials continue to give themselves raises, increase their pensions, and cut everyone else in the process.  When will we take their hands out of our pockets?  When will we all wake up and see things as they really are?  Our communities suffer from the cuts to law enforcement, fire department, nursing, teaching, roads, bridges, and parks.  Are we really too scared to look at the truth?  Are we all that lazy?

Wake up America.  We have had our country stolen from us by government and the banks that run our government.  We have been bought out by thieves! I am sorry that I have failed my grandchildren by my silence while this all took place.  Maybe someone will listen…Maybe it is too late…

 

C/S

Scott “Scotchie” Chapman

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Modesto Art for sale…

Posted on May 14, 2012 by

Modesto Art for sale….

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Modesto Art for sale…

Posted on May 14, 2012 by

Modesto Art

Sabor, Jen, and Scotchie have prints for sale. Take a look and if you like any of these paintings let us know. We have a large assortment of paintings and prints for sale. Contact us at dclt@dclt2.com and we can send you some thumbnails pics of available art work.

There are many prints other than these. These are just a few of the prints for sale. If you are looking for vintage tattoo flash contact us as we have lots of vintage flash for sale as well.

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AB 300 MA. Relax and take a deep breath.

Posted on May 12, 2012 by

We have talked to many of the tattoo studio throughout California and we thought it would be nice to mention things that have been brought up in the past weeks.

Yes, we train for Blood borne pathogens, First Aid, and CPR/AED.  Our training center is certified through ASHI (American Safety and Health Institute.  We meet the CFR 29 1910.1030 OSHA requirements for BBP training.  There is a difference from county to county as far as the CPR/AED, First Aid requirements.

CPR / AED 4.5 hours $60.00
Basic First Aid 2.5 hours $40.00
Blood Borne Pathogens 2 hours $50.00
Full package of all the above is a two day course that is 10 hours
CPR/AED, Basic First Aid, BBP 10 hours $120.00

There are differences from county to county regarding studio requirements as well.  Counties can differ on the requirements for sinks, walls, ceilings and floors.  We highly recommend that you become friends with your county inspector.  Ask questions, ask question, ask questions!

Things you must have: Infection Control Prevention Plan (Exposure Control Infection Prevention Plan) the name differs county to county, MSDS binder, training modules (engineering control), job categories, job tasks, and HIPAA management.  Autoclave requirements concerning spore testing and autoclave certification schedules.  There are some great options out there for your autoclave schedule.  You will need to run a class V indicator in your autoclave along with an indicator in each bag unless you have a peel pack with an indicator on  the bag (most bag do).  If you are using the tube style of bags you will have to put in an indicator strip in each bag. You are required to spore test monthly at a minimum. There are other requirements that are added depending on the county.  Some counties require  you to run a thermometer in the autoclave that records the temperature or have a printer on the autoclave that records the temperature and cycle time.  You can resolve all of this by running a spore test every time.  There are spore testing companies that can help you with that.  You will need a bathroom sink, clean room dirty sink (some counties want a clean room clean sink as well), and a common sink for the artists to wash their hands ( some counties want a sink a every procedure area), all sinks must have foot pedals, or knee pedals, or motion sensor faucet.  Must have hot and cold water! Must have motion sensor hand sanitizer and motion sensor soap dispensers at every sink.  Touchless hand towel dispensers as well.  Many counties are requiring motion sensor hand sanitizer dispensers in every procedure area as well.

A long list at best.  I think my best advice would be that you really need to find out what your county is asking for and meet that by 1 July 2012.  Many will have to end up moving and some will have to close.  AB 300 MA is going to separate those that want to be in the industry and those that do not.  For better or for worse this will make this industry come out of the dark ages.  The tattoo industry is full on mainstream now and I do not think, IMHO, there is any turning back.

Lastly, we do not travel away from our studio or training center to do training.  It would be very expensive to say the least for us to travel and do the training outside Stanislaus County.  We can, but it would cost you more than what you could find locally.  You can go to the hsi.com and find a training center in your area.  The American Safety and Health Institute is OSHA compliant and meets or exceeds all requirements for the training you will need.  You can find HIPAA training online for around $25.oo and you can find much of the training for that for free on the states health department website.  We can help you write your Infection Control Prevention Plan for $300.00.  You might be able to find someone in your area to help you write it.  Again, we would have to go to your site in order to help you write it, so having me travel a long distance will not be cost effective if you can do locally.

Good Luck!

C/S
by Scott “Scotchie” Chapman

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Dos Changos Locos Training Center: ASHI Training Center.

Posted on May 9, 2012 by

Dos Changos Locos Training Center.

Yes, we are a registered and certified training center for American Safety and Health Institute!  We are instructors for CPR/AED, First Aid, and Blood Borne Pathogens. If you are in need of any of the above certifications contact Pattie Chapman, Manager of Dos Changos Locos Training Center, and she can get you scheduled for your classes.  We are focusing on the tattoo studios in the Stanislaus County area first.  We can train your staff to be compliant in the following areas: HIPAA, CPR/AED, First Aid, and Blood Borne Pathogens.  We meet all of the OSHA / JCAHO standards that you will have to be trained for in order to comply with AB 300 MA.

We will be scheduling classes for the general public after July 1st 2012.  As for right now we are only scheduling legitimate tattoo studios and their artists.  Those will be on a first come first serve basis.  The classes consist of no more than 10 people at a time.

We are not a tattoo school!  We are not training scratchers!  These classes are meant for compliance with the new state regulations. You do not have to be a tattoo artist to take these classes.  These are safety classes that many industries require for employees; examples would be coaches, teachers, manufacturing, etc.  We can train law enforcement, fire department, and EMTs.  So if you need training in the above certifications contact us.

Pattie Chapman, Manager of Dos Changos Locos Training Center. Located at 1404 Crows Landing Road Modesto, California.   209-571-8282

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Grafitti Art? Is It Art When It Damages Property?

Posted on April 22, 2012 by

As an Artist I am conflicted about the art form. For example: I do not like the scrawl or sloppy crap that is loosely called tagging. I do like some of the crisp clean lettering that I would call tagging. When it comes to the pieces / murals, I think the pieces are beautiful. Now, the problem that society has with all of this “street art” is that much of it is on private property, bill boards (destroying advertising), city walls, public parks, and this “street art” destroys or defaces what we all pay taxes to maintain, or for the business owner destroys their advertising. This is an age old problem that goes back to the ancient times during the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, etc. humankind has felt the need to express themselves with art since the time we lived in caves. We as humans feel this deep need to express ourselves. We express ourselves through music and art daily. It seems to me that it is almost as important as food. I do not know what I would do without art, or music.

Now with all that said… As a business owner that makes its bread and butter with art, I cannot agree with destroying other peoples property. For example: A billboard costs anywhere from $1200 to $1800 a month. You have to buy your ad that will cover that billboard. To have an ad printed up that covers that billboard will cost around $1500 to $5000 depending on how elaborate the ad is. Someone paints on your $5000 ad and I think that you would be angry. If you are a small business owner that might be the only ad that you were able to have made because of the cost. That is why I think that is criminal.

I do feel that we need to find a way to let people express themselves. There are some ways to do that and one of those ways is by using plastic wrap that is wound between trees or poles and then painted. You can leave it up for a while and then you can actually cut it down and even frame it and sell it. We as an art community need to try to pull together to help those of our art community find a way to express themselves without causing damage to the cities we all live in. If the point is to destroy, deface, or make a political statement then those people taking part in that deserve to face the consequences that go with the actions they partake in. If you are that angry with your community then you should have the guts to stand up and own it. Either that or take part in groups like the occupy movement. Destroying our cities only give other artists a bad rap.

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Children. I sometimes forget…Children say and do the darndest things.

Posted on April 20, 2012 by

I remember Art Linkletter and his show.  He had that phrase about, “Kids say the damndest things.”  I was young then and still remember it vividly. Good old simple humor that was not pornographic or outrageous.  It was just the funniest stuff that kids would come up with.

Fast forward to today.  I teach English at high school and I have 10th and 11th grade kids.  Some will say young adults…I say kids!  They are kids!  They have no clue about some of the things they say or do, much less why they do any of it.  Kids that are always in trouble do not really know why they are lashing out; they just do it.  There are rare cases where the kid has had very adult like experiences early on that molded and twisted their thinking, but I think that is the rare case.  For the most part in my humble opinion is that kids do not have the slightest clue, and that makes for all the humor needed to get you through the day with teens.

Picture this:

  • Assignment: Make a video of one of the acts from Julius Caesar.  The act must have all the scenes like the original play.  You must try to update the language.  You can use; sock puppets, show box puppets, act it out, use animation, most of all use your imagination and have FUN.
  • Kid makes a video of Act 3. (the assassination act)
  • Kid does a shadow box play of this act using popular animation show on TV.
  • All characters are printed out and put on pencils.
  • Time for assassination scene the kid tapes sword to character that has hands down at the sides.  Picture it yet?
  • Character stabs other character in the back repeatedly.  Picturing this?

The kid did not even notice until a roar of laughter from the entire class and myself included.  The sword taped to the character looks like the sword is coming from the groin area.  Now the character with the giant sword shaped penis is stabbing the other character in the back / butt.  The kid was so embarrassed because they are very innocent.  They had not realized what it looked like cause they had not watched it.  They had only video taped it and put it on YouTube.  Red in the face the poor kid looks at me and tells me that they are so sorry they did not know it looked like that.  By the way mom, dad, and younger brother had helped out.

It is days like this that makes me love my job as a teacher.  I have lots of these events weekly of teens using the wrong words, wrong phrases, etc.  Teens are just kids, and not much different from when we were kids/teens.  Try to have patience with them because their minds are mentally disabled from all the hormones.  It is like you are drunk during your teen years.  When you wake up sometime in your late 20′s early 30′s, hopefully, you will ask yourself, “What the hell was I thinking?”  The answer is…You weren’t thinking at all.

How do we know we were not thinking?  Ask a teen a question and one of the most popular answers is going to be “I don’t know.”

  • Who left the milk out? “I don’t know.”
  • Where is your homework? “I don’t know.”
  • Did you have homework? “I don’t know.”
  • ad nauseam ……

If you have a teen in your house… Bless you.  Things will get better.  They are just ignorant children in a partially adult body.

C/S

Scotchie Chapman

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