“I wear gloves all day long, which keep my hands fairly soft,” says Miller. Tools? For the most part, we use tattoo machines anywhere from an ounce to six ounces apiece. We use pigments. Most of the tattoos we do, we use surgical skin markers to draw under the skin, then tattoo over it. And […]
“I have to be careful, think about closing doors and stuff like that more than anyone else does,” says Millner. Tools? A guitar, flat-pick, sometimes a slide. How did you learn your craft? I started playing when I was a little kid, on the banjo before I picked up the guitar. As far as […]
Fire in the hole: Sometimes when he’s welding, stuff ends up burning. “It happens more often than you would think,” says Shreves. Typical workday? We’re always behind. We begin in the morning, and depending on where we are with the stage of the build, we start fabricating right away. On the weeks that we have […]
The right-handed Wood says he never gets cramps in his hands, even after working on typewriters all day. Typical workday? I get here around 8:30 in the morning, and go to about 5pm. We answer the telephone, take service calls as they come in. Myself, I stay in most of the time now working on […]
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From expert calligraphers and tattoo artists to typewriter and eyeglass repairmen, Charlottesville is home to plenty of people we can only call handy
What are you working on right now? Recently, I have been working on the files for a new book of photographs taken along Route 36 in Kansas. Flood Editions will be publishing the monograph of these pictures next spring. I basically drove back and forth along this two-lane highway over four years whenever I traveled […]
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What are you working on right now? I am about to start Cabaret at Four County Players, and I’ll be playing Sally Bowles. Tell us about your day job. I work at Bittersweet Clothing in the Glass Building. I love it. I’m basically there every day, sometimes half days, sometimes full days. I’m into […]
Answering the need Regarding your January 5 article, “Will Work for Meds,” the good news that was missing from the story is that since November 2007, United Way-Thomas Jefferson Area has had our Medication Assistance Caseworker, Helen Frye, at Region Ten nearly five days a week. Our RxRelief Prescription Assistance Program helps low-income, uninsured […]