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JasonHanks ♂️ [21355095] [2012-03-16 06:42:03 +0000 UTC] (United States)

# Statistics

Favourites: 37; Deviations: 35; Watchers: 14

Watching: 15; Pageviews: 12588; Comments Made: 41; Friends: 15

# Interests

Favorite visual artist: Alex Grey (today)
Favorite movies: Fight Club, Office Space, Star Wars, and all kinds of kids movies, (lucky that I chose to have kids so I get to watch all these awesome animated movies).
Favorite TV shows: Don't watch it! it's bad for you!
Favorite bands / musical artists: Tool, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Queens of the Stone Age and the list goes on and on, depends on what time of the year it is...oh yeah and Pantera.
Favorite books: The awakening of intelligence (Krishnamurti), the Kybalion (free ebook on Google - short read)

# About me

Born and raised on the west coast bouncing between Sacto/Bay Area CA, and Kelso/Longview WA, I'm a husband, a father and a lifelong artist. Growing up without and eventually learning to despise television (AND MARKETING AND ADVERTISING) is what I attribute the hours of free time that I used to develop my eye and love for the arts. Although I am artistically self taught I attribute it to staying open to what I could learn from other artists or "standing on the shoulders of giants". Washington State University graduate...wish I'd have majored in art instead of electrical engineering (kinda,.. that physics stuff is pretty friggin cool).

While working as an electrical engineer contracting for PG&E in CA, I answered an ad on Craigslist in April of 2009 and completed a short apprenticeship with Alan Waiczis of Columbia Tattoo in Vancouver WA. Later that summer, I met Brandon Whitaker and his mother Kathy of Surreal Skin Tattoo and Piercing in Longview WA and in February 2010 began working in their shop.

I feel extremely fortunate to have found a talented, friendly and open group of friends to learn and grow from: Brandon Whitaker, Larry "Bones" Haddick, Jessica Boaglio and my man Vance Aase. I could go on and on....