Claudia Rodriguez

So my homegirl, Mari, and I went into Tattooland the other day to get some tats.    We’re not new to the experience but you definitely can’t call us ink addicts (yet). We went to Jack Rudy’s shop up in Anaheim. Jack Rudy is famous you know.  He d idn’t create black-and-gray single-needle tattooing, but he unquestionably perfected it 30 years ago and he's pretty much an underground celebrity especially in the tattoo community. Black-and-gray tattooing basically means that the artist uses nothing but different shades of black ink to design a tattoo.I didn’t know much of this information myself until I started talking to the guys at the shop, Big Chuey and Antonio, who hooked Mari and me up. Ok, ok enough with the lecture I am here to talk about my tattoo which by the way took me about 2 years if not more to conceive or at least match the concepts I had in my head with an image.    I’ve always wanted an Aztec warrior to adorn some part of my upper body. A warrior with  the Aztec codic

Note:    I suggest you read my first entry- posted on my myspace page myspace.com/claudiadebdp so that this entry makes some sense to you My friend and BdP supporter extraordinare and future film critique Party Ahn asked me on Friday, premier night of Dickwhipped show, during our Q&A session, what it felt like to work with video.    It was a great question especially coming from someone who works and has a deep interest in that medium. Honestly, our time and minds have been so wrapped around the production of the show that I don’t think I had a chance to process the whole experience of producing the work to give her an answer I felt good with.    In other words I hadn’t had the distance from the work to think about how it was for me to take part in its creation. But    I feel like I’ve had time and so here goes- this is how the experience felt.    It was beautiful.    As a writer I anchor myself- my art in words sometimes more securely than other but that’s what I do.    I almost c