Gerard Coughlan
Designs
A brief history of me...
I qualified with a Higher Degree in Animation and Illustration from Athlone Institute of Technology. This course allowed me to build up the skills and knowledge necessary to move onto my next phase of artistic learning, an apprenticeship in tattooing. I've been tattooing now for eight years with a client base that comes from around the world and have been very fortunate to meet some of my heroes and tattoo them.
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Roll The Dice
if you're going to try, go all the
way.
otherwise, don't even start.
if you're going to try, go all the
way.
this could mean losing girlfriends,
wives, relatives, jobs and
maybe your mind.
go all the way.
it could mean not eating for 3 or 4 days.
it could mean freezing on a
park bench.
it could mean jail,
it could mean derision,
mockery,
isolation.
isolation is the gift,
all the others are a test of your
endurance, of
how much you really want to
do it.
and you'll do it
despite rejection and the worst odds
and it will be better than
anything else
you can imagine.
if you're going to try,
go all the way.
there is no other feeling like
that.
you will be alone with the gods
and the nights will flame with
fire.
do it, do it, do it.
do it.
all the way
all the way.
you will ride life straight to
perfect laughter, its
the only good fight
there is.
​
Charles Bukowski