Michael Solomon:  

I work at Silver Reef Casino in Ferndale, WA, I have been there since opening week, f'n se7en years ago!!Oh where does time go? During that time, I've accumulated 6 tattoos in all. 1 being my intitials, MWS. 2, a spontaneous idea that is, "Son of A Fisherman" which has a story behind it. 3, my native design tattoo. A figure holding up a salmon over his head to the sun while in a canoe; with 1-LUV written into the sun's rays, which turned out to be muy late Uncle Creig Julius with his back turned, holding a fish. 4, a memorial tattoo for my cousin Jade, with his first name and his birth year and not, 80/06 & about 3 mos. later, I got a black flame surrounding his name with some bad bad ass shading around it (tat no.5) And I got a memorial tattoo for my cousin Jason. It has 2 Pac's tribal band that was on his left wrist and forearm with RIP BIG J on it, tat no.6. Ironic, I was the Tupac fan and he was the Biggie Smalls fan. We used to actually fight with fists flying and wrestle over who was the better rapper. Take swings and punches and wake up with scratches and bruises and scrapes and your knuckles, bruised..fun times. I don't quite think I'm done with the ink, just yet. You get one and you get another one. And you get another one, and you have this idea about another one; etc. etc. their addiction is quite true. I have an idea about Dear Mom..., a memorial tattoo for my mother, Vera, who past away when I was 20, which was 12 yrs ago, as of 070409. It's been so long, and there's just so much that I could tell her and uh,...yeah. The idea concept is Dear Mom...-inside a scripture, trailing my arm bands on my left arm. Yup, the tattoo would actually make people cry.. I have an idea about a dragon and tiger yin-yang, circling each other in 2D with a wind stream in betwee...Expand for more