Rich Stremme Zoom Call

On Friday, November 7, our Macaulay Seminar class was able to have a zoom call with Rich Stremme. I found this zoom call to be interesting, as Mr. Stremme was speaking about the history of tattooing and his experience with tattooing. The art of tattooing is not something that I have really thought to learn about, so hearing this type of experience was really insightful to me. I really appreciate the way Mr. Stremme story tells and how he is able to truly show his passions in his speech, which definitely helped in learning about the history of tattooing. I found it interesting how the methods of tattooing were like when the art style began to develop, and it was also cool to see how far back the history of tattooing goes. Additionally, Mr. Stremme had lots of cool and interesting stories about his experiences with tattooing, especially the ones of him working with Pat. I found the story he told about the group of sorority girls who wanted identical dolphin tattoos to be funny, but also found why Pat would not want to do the same tattoo and would rather have originality and expression in the tattoos. I also really appreciated how insightful Mr. Stremme was when he was answering questions, as he took his time to actually think about the answers and bring in different life experiences associated with these questions. I really enjoyed the zoom call as it such an eye opening presentation and a fun way to learn the history of an art style!