{"id":1356,"date":"2015-08-14T22:07:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T02:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2015-08-14T22:07:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T02:07:43","slug":"the-streets-of-pittsburgh-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/the-streets-of-pittsburgh-13\/","title":{"rendered":"The Streets Of Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh is a safe place, I always meet the nicest people on the streets and in the alleys&#8230;\u00a0 Yes, you heard me; the alleys.\u00a0 Recently I was walking out of the side door of a parking garage and came across this gentleman having a smoke in the alley.\u00a0 What initially caught my eye was the smoke and the gritty feel of the alley, a great street shot was brewing.\u00a0 When I got closer I noticed all of the tattoos and asked if he wouldn&#8217;t mind letting me photograph them.\u00a0 The next question was an obvious one, the answer was a little surprising though:<\/p>\n<p>Q. Where did you get your tattoos?<\/p>\n<p>A. Prison.<\/p>\n<p>Q. Really?\u00a0 How do you make a tattoo in prison?<\/p>\n<p><em>I don&#8217;t remember everything because it was actually quite involved but I&#8217;ll give you what I remember:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A.\u00a0 We would make tattoo guns out of a small motor.\u00a0 We&#8217;d take the motor apart, put a pen or pencil eraser on one end, use the pen or mechanical pencil shaft to guide the needle, heat and bend a toothbrush to steady the pencil shaft, use guitar string for a needle, attach needle to the motor after threading it through the pen or pencil shaft, then power the engine and use.<\/p>\n<p>If I were an investigative reporter I imagine I would have to build one for myself and give my wife&#8217;s cat a tattoo&#8230;\u00a0 But lucky for her, I&#8217;m not.\u00a0 Prison or not, this guy was very polite and actually quite clever.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/L1000103.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1357\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/L1000103.jpg?resize=798%2C1200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"L1000103\" width=\"798\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/L1000103.jpg?w=798&amp;ssl=1 798w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/L1000103.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/L1000103.jpg?resize=681%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 681w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/L1000103.jpg?resize=330%2C496&amp;ssl=1 330w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/L1000103.jpg?resize=690%2C1038&amp;ssl=1 690w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/L1000103.jpg?resize=386%2C580&amp;ssl=1 386w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 798px) 100vw, 798px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 If you haven&#8217;t already, bookmark DecisiveShot.com and check back regularly to keep up with The Streets Of Pittsburgh series.\u00a0 If you spend much time in the city then there is a good chance I&#8217;ll see you soon (hope that doesn&#8217;t sound creepy).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh is a safe place, I always meet the nicest people on the streets and in the alleys&#8230;\u00a0 Yes, you heard me; the alleys.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[214,128,142,368,34,367,127],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/L1000104.jpg?fit=798%2C1200&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5xbS3-lS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1358,"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions\/1358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}