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Windsor is Forever Tattoo Day: Fourth Batch Completed

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The fourth batch of appointments for Windsor is Forever, a collaborative project with Jason Sturgill, have been finished. Here are the results: three Windsor tattoos by Dave Kant, Steve Jones, and Jon Jimenez.

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The man himself, Jason Sturgill, got a nice ambiguous Colbert-inspired design tattooed by Jon Jimenez.

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One participant got the Windsor rose / bridge design on the back of her shoulder.

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Jon Jimenez added some detail to his Windsor rose / Ambassador Bridge design.

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One participant got a simplified version of the Windsor seal.

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Here is the finished Windsor seal with the outer ring removed (tattooed by Dave Kant).

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Windsor is Forever Tattoo Day: Third Batch Completed

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The third batch of appointments for Windsor is Forever, a collaborative project with Jason Sturgill, have been finished. Here are the results: three Windsor tattoos by Dave Kant, Steve Jones, and Jon Jimenez.

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Here is another version of the Windsor seal Dan Bombardier found (tattooed by Dave Kant).

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Here is Dave Kant tattooing a Windsor “W” on a participant’s lower leg.

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…and the finished product by Dave Kant. Check out that amazing line work.

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This is the look of pure joy, the moment you realize that you have an awesome salt shaker tattoo on your arm.

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Here is the finished work by Steve Jones. He added a bit of extra shading to the sides of the shaker. Awesome.

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Windsor is Forever Tattoo Day: Second Batch Completed

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The second three appointments for Windsor is Forever, a collaborative project with Jason Sturgill, have been finished. Here are the results: three Windsor tattoos by Dave Kant, Steve Jones, and Jon Jimenez.

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Here is a detailed mayfly design done on the shoulder by Dave Kant.

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Here is a design Jon Jimenez did of a rose with the Ambassador Bridge nestled inside.

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Here it is, in ink! Jon Jimenez ended up tattooing his own design and adding a few extra details.

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Here, Steve tattoos a rose on the forearm of one participant.

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Steve Jones’ added some depth to the original design on the fly.

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Windsor is Forever Tattoo Day: First Batch Completed

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The first three appointments for Windsor is Forever, a collaborative project with Jason Sturgill, have been finished. Here are the results: three fine tattoos by Dave Kant, Steve Jones, and Jon Jimenez.

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The first appointment was a simplified Windsor seal completed by Dave Kant.

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Process shot of the second appointment, a mayfly done on a participant’s ankle.

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Here is the first iteration of the mayfly tattoo design, done by Jon Jimenez.

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Process shot of the Sandwich Town Windmill Design.

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Here is the completed Sandwich Town design done by Steve Jones. Please stay tuned for more updates from the day.

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Join us on March 16 for ‘Tell: Detroit’ at the Detroit Mercantile Co.

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In poker, a “tell” is a change in a player’s behavior that gives clues about their assessment of the situation. In the city of Detroit, such clues from residents about the deal they have been dealt are often ignored and misrepresented. Tell: Detroit brings together a group of documentary film makers and Detroit residents to create a collaborative documentation of urban resilience. Tell your anecdote about vulnerability, solidarity, community, or courage.

Saturday 16 March, 10am – 4pm
at Detroit Mercantile Co.
3434 Russell Street Eastern Market Detroit, Michigan

Download Flyer / Join Facebook Event!

Tell: Detroit brings together a group of documentary film makers and Detroit residents to create a collaborative documentary of urban resilience.

Tell: Detroit will produce an open access, free archive to document the experiences of the people of Detroit following the declaration of the city’s fiscal emergency by Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder on 1 March, 2013.

Anyone can contribute an anecdote to Tell: Detroit. We want to collect and disseminate short stories about vulnerability, solidarity, community, and courage. We are committed to documenting the neglected reality that Detroit is much more than a financial crisis. Tell: Detroit asks what else we need to know, remember, imagine or construct to accumulate different images of the city together?

Tell: Detroit will be filming at the Detroit Mercantile Co. on Saturday, March 16, from 10am – 4pm. Artists, film makers and community activists will greet you and find the right setting for your story. We can record your anecdote in public, in private, on video or audio. Come share your story and be part of this open archive.

For questions, suggestions, or donations, email:
info@improbableporomechanics.org

Because Tell: Detroit is a crowd-sourced archive, we are relying on people to contribute by spreading the word – so, please tell anyone you think would be interested in sharing their stories.

Thanks, and see you at the Detroit Mercantile Co. soon!

Tell: Detroit is sponsored by:
Institute of Improbable Poromechanics—Enthusiasts of Urban Leakage (Detroit)
Broken City Lab—Artist Collective & Civic Space (Windsor) 
SCAPEGOAT—A Journal of Architecture, Landscape, and Political Economy (Toronto)

with Producers:
Paige Sarlin (The Last Slide Projector, Buffalo)
Alessandra Renzi (Infrastructure Critical, Milwaukee)
Stephen Zacks (Flint Public Art Project, Flint)
Scott Sørli (Convenience: gallery, Toronto)
Andrew Herscher (Detroit Unreal Estate Agency, Detroit)