Clown Exposure: 100 Percent Against

Here's part 12 of Clown's Noisecreep Photography Blog - Clown Exposure.

Considering all the crazy things Slipknot percussionist Shawn Crahan has done over the years, it's kind of funny to hear him talk about how he was once so opposed to the idea of a friend getting a tattoo on his face that he spent 31 full days trying to convince the dude not to get inked. Then, when he realized his pleas were falling on somewhat deaf ears, not only did he take a Polaroid picture of his friend getting the work done, years later he pulled it for inclusion in Clown Exposure, labeling it '100 Percent Against.'

"The gentleman's name is Satone, and he was my tech for the very first Slipknot record," Crahan tells Noisecreep. "He's a very close friend. And the man tattooing him is Jack Lowe. He owns a tattoo shop in Des Moines, Iowa called Skin Kitchen, and that's where a lot of us in the band get a lot of our ink."

Like many of Crahan's Polaroids, '100 Percent Against' was manipulated so that the integrity of the development process was interrupted and the picture took on an entirely new design. The heart of the picture is intact, but the image now contains wavy lines and scratches -- and the edges feature red, psychedelic smears that almost look like lipstick prints.

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