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Turning Adversity into Tattoos and Opportunity

A Disabled Veteran Success Story

By Alexandra Gulkin

Meet Jeff Glasser, a disabled veteran whose refusal to be discouraged by injury will forever benefit the tattoo industry. Founder and CEO of InkFREAKZ.com, Jeff Glasser radiates with eternal optimism and perseverance. With goals to honor wounded soldiers and disabled veterans through non-profit approaches with InkFREAKZ.com, Glasser has found a way to modernize the defining principles of honor and integrity of the US Army.

Five years ago, after completing his Basic and AIT Infantry Training in Ft. Benning, GA, Jeff Glasser was home in West Palm Beach for the winter holidays. Following the short visit, he was scheduled to be stationed in Ft. Lewis, WA. While visiting his family and loved ones, Jeff was in a severe motorcycle accident, leaving him paralyzed and a now retired disabled veteran. In an unyielding gratefulness for still having the gift of his life, Glasser was determined to get a tattoo symbolizing his gratitude to God with a cross.

With this motivation, Jeff escaped from the local hospital where he was being treated. Yes, a literal escape, an impressive act for someone who was severely injured and entirely new to maneuvering a wheelchair. The inspirational veteran returned and completed his hospital stay, preparing to live his life with a few major alterations after having found his way to a tattoo shop nearby and obtaining his new symbol of thanks. It was this experience that Jeff attributes today to be the event that spawned his idea for InkFREAKZ.com

What is InkFREAKZ.com?

A ground-breaking new platform created to integrate the community of tattoo enthusiasts and artists, free of charge. Members of InkFREAKZ.com include artists, photographers, models, shops and tattoo lovers. The website was created and designed by Jeff Glasser, who maintains the growing network out of his home daily.

There is much more to the venture of this tattoo-inspired community than the integration of body art enthusiasts and professionals. InkFREAKZ.com provides artists with the ability to compete in design contests, allows for tattoo-inspired events to be promoted where attendees can RSVP directly from the site and for shops nation-wide to publish available job or apprentice opportunities with their shop. They’ve also begun hosting fundraisers and charity events nation-wide.

The availability for growth and opportunity spans further beyond the tattoo artists, as well. Models can publish their portfolios for photographers to review and schedule photo shoots with. Events can be scheduled and publicized by photographers, models and interested promoters or sponsors. Images of tattoo designs are able to be uploaded, rated, commented on and even requested.

Customers can make their appointment directly with the shop and artist of their choice, with body art that has been personally customized precisely for them. By given the option to scan different designs and artists, InkFREAKZ.com provides potential clients will the ability to find the artist that is the best fit to design their new piece of desired body art.

While the devotion to keeping membership cost-free and donating profits of events back to the community has kept financial gain at a minimum for Glasser, he is confident that the growing community will allow for a plethora of new opportunities in the future. Of these, his first stated mission is to donate support to disabled veterans and wounded soldiers, with further hopes of becoming involved in a variety of other non-profit organizations.

Visit InkFREAKZ.com, the inspiring creation of a determined young man who found tattoos and opportunity in what most would see as affliction and adversity.

 

***© 2011 all rights reserved Alexandra Gulkin. The above article may not be rewritten, copied, published, broadcast, or redistributed without the express written permission of Alexandra Gulkin.

 

About the Author

Visit InkFreakz.com to see the fastest growing, free membership tattoo network created by Jeff Glasser!

Author:     Alexandra Gulkin

Website:  The Gulkin Gazette

Email: GulkinPublishingINC@live.com

“Like many of the artists featured in her articles, Alexandra Gulkin has an unyielding fervency for creative expression. With published political event coverage, articles and poetry as a Yahoo! Contributor, Alexandra exhibits a perceptive ingenuity for pliancy and efficiency in her writing. The Gulkin Gazette, located at alexgulkingazette.com, is her self-proclaimed labor of love, dedicated to the preservation and promotion of creativity since 2009.”

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