Mats also sent me a few videos of the process for your entertainment: I had written to Mats asking him for a photo of the finished product and received this response:
Hi Crazy,
Getting better by the day. I actually had to go on a 14 day
long treatment with antibiotics after I realized it was infected.
It’s all good now though, got a few small areas that needs to
heal, then I’ll take the pictures of the finished product.
//Mats
So I waited patiently for 14 days and then received this message:
Hi Crazy,
What a story this turned out to be!
Last time we spoke I had the infection going and went on the
antibiotics cure. Well, here’s the kicker. I actually had
to be hospitalized due to the bacteria entering the
bloodstream. I think it’s called sepsis in English? Anyway, I’m
allright now, but the tattoo refuses to heal completely. I’ll snap
a picture of it real soon and send you.
Take care.
//Mats Mats had really gone through the wringer in the name of Crazy Aaron and it didn't go unappreciated. He followed up with another letter about how he discovered putty and how the love of putty led him to tattoo my face on his leg.
So how did this start?
I love putty!
First time I came across putty I was sitting at work, pretending
to actually get some work done.
Surfed the web and I don’t know how, but I came across a site selling putty.
I searched for more info and found puttyworld.com.
Red putty, Yellow, Coral (a bit harder), Heat Changing, Glow in the Dark, MAGNETIC?
To weird to be true, I had to have them all!
How to feed my growing addiction?
First order was a cautious one:
1lb Aura
1lb Krypton
Next order was close to 25lbs, but by then I’d made a few believers here at work,
I only ordered about 18lbs for myself. ;-)
Fast forward a few years, always had a bunch of puttys around the desk, moved
up a bit on the corporate ladder, wasn’t able to play as much with the stuff as I used to.
Then for some reason I just stopped playing with it. Started wearing a shirt
to work, met a girl, bought a house, got a dog. Life was good, life was
predictable. But there was something missing.
One late night while unpacking one of the gazzilion boxes from the move
I came across a tin of putty. Played with it for a while, it was grimy and
hairy (yes, hairy, if you’re a puttyhead you know what I mean by this.) but above
all, it was strangely alluring. Just as the first time I tried putty. I was hooked again.
This time the infatuation was deeper, more real. Dare I say love?
I realized I was a puttyhead. Never again would I put the
stuff in a box and forget about it.
What’s a better expression for love than a tattoo? Many famous couples do it
and so did we (me and the putty, not me and Aaron)
The thing is that putty is quite shapeless and thus
a bit hard to draw or make a tattoo of. That’s why I chose the official logo
to be my tattoo.
Mats
So, there you have it. Go ahead, why not get your own Crazy Aaron tattoo. You will be rewarded!
Best,
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