http://thestory.org/archive/the_story_428_Grieving_Through_Tattoos.mp3 When Garrett "G" Sample lost his friend and teenage brother to violence in Philadelphia, he dealt with his sadness by getting tattoos. Plone 2.0 http://thestory.org/archive/the_story_428_Grieving_Through_Tattoos.mp3/logo.jpg http://thestory.org/archive/the_story_428_Grieving_Through_Tattoos.mp3 <h4>Grieving through Tattoos<br /></h4><p class="imageleft"><img class="image-left" src="resolveuid/dc8e5960aca573915f12e65c532ad0a9" alt="Garret Tattoos" height="100" width="100" />Garrett "G" Sample<br /></p><p>Where Garrett "G" Sample lives in Philadelphia, murder is rampant. When his friend was killed and his teenage brother died, "G" tried to find a way to limit his grieving. His solution was to get a tattoo.<br /></p><p>Today, "G" has four memorial tattoos on his upper body. Dick Gordon talks to "G" about how he decides when to get a new tattoo, and how having the tattoos changes the way he grieves. <br /></p><p class="imageleft"><img class="image-left" src="resolveuid/d01ae1925200502933b70d63acc422ba" alt="RIP Tattoo" height="100" width="100" />Garrett's RIP tattoo for his brother, Vance</p><p>Dick also talks with Jeff Bradbury, "G's" tattoo artist over the past 14 years. Jeff works at Popcorn's Tattoo shop in Philadelphia. Jeff says that working with people in mourning has its ups and downs, but he believes his work transforms grief into art that people can appreciate. <br /></p><p><i>Music heard in this story: Dead Homiez by Ice Cube for the album Amerikkka's Most Wanted</i>M<i></i><br /><br /></p><ul><li>See <a title="Garrett &quot;G&quot; Sample's Memorial Tattoos" href="resolveuid/904e32e9982b5c325773508da184b786" target="_self">Garrett's memorial tattoos</a></li><li>See an interactive map of <a href="http://www.nbc10.com/safercity/13405221/detail.html" target="_self">Philadelphia's homicides in 2007</a></li><li>Hear <a title="Trauma Team" href="resolveuid/5dc268e72a567bf24b52b3e5c4d2b4fa/view" target="_self">another interview on The Story</a> about crime in Philadelphia</li><li>View a website that explains <a href="http://people.howstuffworks.com/tattoo.htm" target="_self">how tattoos are made</a><br /></li></ul><a class="addbtn" href="http://www.publicradio.org/applications/formbuilder/user/form_display.php?form_code=608cc948ba9b" target="_self">Contact Us</a><br /><br /><h4>Forklift Follies</h4><p class="imageleft"><img class="image-left" src="resolveuid/4b42b08cff4d69fb2f63990bdc617729" alt="Thomas Brennan" height="100" width="100" />Thomas Brennan</p><p>Thomas Brennan graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts with a degree in art history and an intention to pursue architecture. But after college, he came back to the southeast and started working in construction. He found his new world to be intimidating and completely different from that of the academic world he'd just left. Thomas says the incident he was most mortified over - a forklift accident he caused - is the one that made him a true construction worker. He talks to Dick about what it was like to work in an entirely different world - with an entirely different set of rules.</p><blockquote><p><i>Music heard in this story: Construction by Donald Byrd &amp; Booker Little for the album  The Third World</i><br /></p></blockquote><ul><li>See <a title="Thom's Osha Certification" href="resolveuid/b62fb497279112b067997a3ac48fb4aa" target="_self">what Thomas looked like</a> when he was working construction<br /></li></ul><a class="addbtn" href="http://www.publicradio.org/applications/formbuilder/user/form_display.php?form_code=608cc948ba9b" target="_self">Contact Us</a> Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:00:00