Retail and Hospitality - Tattoo Artist

A Survey of Tatts!

Middle Secondary

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Numeracy

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking

1. In pairs, you are to conduct a survey of the type, size and number of tattoos within your community.

Develop a survey to explore:

• Age of participant
• Number of tattoos
• Where on the body
• Size of tattoo
• Type of tattoo - words, symbols,
• Intention to have more tattoos - type and size
• Reasons for the tattoo
• Brands used? Why? Why not?
• Any tatts removed? Successful? Why? Why not?
• Regrets? Explain

2. Use SurveyMonkey to develop your survey

What did you discover about your survey? Is there a rise of tattoos in your community? What is the average age for someone with a tatt?

Explore the results and make an evaluation.

3. Read the following article from The Conversation: Peak Tattoo? The end of body art rebellion as corporate logos get under the skin: 5 August 2014

4. List the psychology of tattoos. Did anyone in your survey have a "brand" tatt like Harley Davidson? What were their reasons? Were the reasons similar to the research described in this article?

"The Original Tattooed Lady"

 Secondary

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and social capability

1. View the following video from Lateline, 20 May 2015 about The original tattooed lady...

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2.  Write down all the statistics stated in this report. What changes have occurred since Bev started being a Tatto Artist? How did Bev become "Cindy Ray"? What have been the changes in clientele since Bev started?

3. What lessons can be learnt from "Cindy Ray" or Bev Nicholas? Any regrets?

The Law and Tattoos

 Secondary

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy

1. "More than 20 percent of all Americans have at least one tattoo, and for millennials that number jumps to almost 40 percent.

What could be more intimately a part of you than a work of body art permanently inked into your skin? You probably assume that the tattoo on your body belongs to you. But, in actuality, somebody else might own your tattoo. Recent lawsuits and events have shown that tattoo artists and companies can have intellectual property rights in tattoos worn by others, including both copyright and trademark rights." (Source: The Conversation)

Read on...The Conversation 8 August 2016:

2. Create a list of the lawsuits presented here and their outcome.

3. What are the requirements to receive copyright protection? Research whether it is the same here in Australia.

4. "A report this week from the Australian government’s National Industrial Chemical’s Notification and Assessment Scheme (NICNAS) shows what’s in the ink that’s under the skin of more than 2 million Australians and about 100 million Europeans. And it’s not pretty.

The report found 471 different tattoo inks likely to be used in Australia made up of 89 unique chemicals. They interviewed 22 professional tattoo artists and sourced 49 specific tattoo inks likely to be used in Australian tattoo parlours for detailed chemical analysis.

Of the 49 inks NICNAS tested, only four complied with the European standards.

The major concern was the presence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), a group of chemicals known to be carcinogens. PAHs were found in more than one-fifth of the samples tested and in 83% of the black inks tested.

Other non-compliant components include barium, copper, mercury, amines and various colourants." (Source: The Conversation)

Read on...The Conversation 9 September 2016

5.What would you consider to be the legal ramifications of these findings?

6. Consider an older article from 2013: The Conversation

Is the evidence presented still valid after the findings of the article in 2016?

7. Hold a debate:

The Legal Ramifications of Tattooing.
To dye for?
Is the Jury still out?