Pat Herrmann: Tattooed Hero

Tattoo Artist With Cancer Paints Urinals To Cheer Patients

NBC11 met a 21-year-old tattoo artist who is a patient at Lucile
Packard Children's Hospital who has found a way to use his art to
connect with younger patients who have cancer.

Pat Herrmann spends nearly every minute of every day drawing. He told
NBC11's Marianne Favro that is his way to escape.

"The cancer I have is a small round blue cell tumor. A rare pediatric
cancer," Herrmann said.

Herrmann said he is now trying a new medium and his canvas is urinals.

He started with his own, but has since customized 50 for the younger
patients.

He said he is still getting requests.

Herrmann is also creating pictures for the children on his floor.

Herrmann said although he was a comic book artist who loved to sketch
zombies, he found himself drawing fairies, frogs and turtles.

Hermann has 40 tattoos and a nose ring. He admits his looks scare some
of the children at first, but said his talent usually wins them over.

He told Favro that drawing for other people is not only rewarding, it
kills the time.

Fellow cancer patient Cory Degara, 7, had a special request of
Herrman. He wanted to see Superman against a ghost rider.

Hermann is three times older than most of the patients here, but he
said the children have connected with him and now he wants to give
back.

He said he is designing a coloring book with input from all the
children on his floor.

Favro said thanks to Hermann, Degara was able to escape the land of
leukemia, radiation and chemo and join the land of superheroes. /copy
and paste from http://www.nbc11.com/health/13591207/detail.html

Kids loooooove drawings. The reporter may have gotten Degara's request
slightly wrong, however. It was probably Superman versus Ghost Rider
rather than "a ghost rider".

Just a guess.

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Curt

On Jun 29, 10:49 pm, Curt <curtja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Tattoo Artist With Cancer Paints Urinals To Cheer Patients
>
> NBC11 met a 21-year-old tattoo artist who is a patient at Lucile
> Packard Children's Hospital who has found a way to use his art to
> connect with younger patients who have cancer.

Just thought you'd like to know (as if you care):

Taken from the terms of use of NBC11:


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Kavin

Kavin Taylor wrote:
> Curt wrote:
>
> > Tattoo Artist With Cancer Paints Urinals To Cheer Patients
>
> > NBC11 met a 21-year-old tattoo artist who is a patient at Lucile
> > Packard Children's Hospital who has found a way to use his art to
> > connect with younger patients who have cancer.
>
> Just thought you'd like to know (as if you care):

There's some kind of contradiction there, isn't there, Kav?

a) "Hey, I thought you'd like to know."
b) "Ha! As if you care!"

Anyway.

> Taken from the terms of use of NBC11:

Hmm. What are the restrictions on posting the contents of their Terms
of Use? ;o)

[...]

Finite time, Kavvy. You've succeeded in whittling away a few seconds
of my limited time, but at what cost? Enjoy your day.

--
Curt

On Jun 30, 12:05 pm, Curt <curtja...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hmm. What are the restrictions on posting the contents of their Terms
> of Use? ;o)

Oh, I'm sure I'd get a pass for pointing out your violation of federal
laws.

But then, I did it more to point out something, something you either
don't get, or don't care about.

Websites sell advertising. The advertisers expect people to come to
the website. By posting content, you prevent the advertisers from
having the opportunity. That is wrong.

Artists should respect copyrights. It is their only chance to protect
work. I guess since you aren't an artist, and have nothing you can
sell, you don't care. Perhaps you think it makes you an anarchist.

What is your saying?

Oh yes: it reflects on you.


> Finite time, Kavvy. You've succeeded in whittling away a few seconds
> of my limited time, but at what cost?

See above. No cost to me. How about you? Hows that karma thing
working for you right now?


Kavin

Kavin Taylor wrote:
> Curt wrote:
>
> > Hmm. What are the restrictions on posting the contents of their Terms
> > of Use? ;o)
>
> Oh, I'm sure I'd get a pass for pointing out your violation of federal
> laws.

Excuse me, Sheriff Taylor, but maybe you and Barney Fife could solve
that one murder-suicide and let the website advertisers worry about
the impact of people posting articles to RAB.

> But then, I did it more to point out something, something you either
> don't get, or don't care about.

Oh, I care. I caZZZZZ

> Websites sell advertising. The advertisers expect people to come to
> the website. By posting content, you prevent the advertisers from
> having the opportunity.

Actually, by posting the article and the link at the bottom, I'm
possibly driving more customers to their websites. Duh.

> That is wrong.

*You're* wrong. Don't hear me crying, though, do you? (That's not
crying, Kavvy, it's laughing. Fyi.)

> Artists should respect copyrights. It is their only chance to protect
> work. I guess since you aren't an artist, and have nothing you can
> sell, you don't care. Perhaps you think it makes you an anarchist.

Back to my nap. ZZZZZ

But first...

Q:
> What is your saying?

A:
You are a turd in the punch bowl.

What do I win?

> Oh yes: it reflects on you.

Okay, Pee-wee.

> > Finite time, Kavvy. You've succeeded in whittling away a few seconds
> > of my limited time, but at what cost?
>
> See above. No cost to me. How about you? Hows that karma thing
> working for you right now?

(looks around)

Seems fine.

--
Curt