GOT A HUGE NEW TATTOO

[Music] okay that's it needle is in the arm does this hurt you as much as it hurts me Roger no Oh [Music] you [Music] [Applause] so you've seen you've seen that footage before I've talked about I've talked about in this vlog a number of times when I went to Afghanistan as a journalist I went there with my friend Scott Campbell who's this fantastic tattoo artist and he and I we linked up with these special forces guys these US Air Force pararescue jumpers and we set up a tattoo parlor in the middle of the warzone now there's one soldier in particular named Roger you've seen him on this vlog before and when we were there we tattooed Roger and he was the most kind of emotional about the process he himself when he got back he started tattooing he started giving people tattoos and he's now a pretty successful tattoo artist soldier we met in the war zone gave a tattoo to it was such an emotional experience for him that he is now a tattoo artist [Music] a lot of heat - thank you I go on the Brooklyn that's a surprise man if you have a good weekend morrow they said you promised to teach Rosa Blasi I'm going to keep you out of love Marlon you can count on me [Music] so this year this is saved tattoo this is Scott Campbell the guy that I was in Afghanistan with the tattoo artists this is his tattoo shop and he's not here but look at this guy welcome please it's good the reader you look like a tattoo artist today what is new uh oh yeah yeah Michelle did that the last night is meant for you Roger you're running out of canvas I am the chart spot [Music] the players [Music] now drive play that play yes we want to go yeah but you know just kind of treatment really do see because if you do this familiars this is Roger start that tattoo artists not Roger the soldier and what he and I are doing to sort of merging our experience together as human beings in Afghanistan and then now our strains together as artists is that fair oh yeah yeah it's very articulate I mean it's emotional for me to sit here and think about tattooing you because it wasn't for you and Scott and whatever you want to call serendipity in life I wouldn't be here doing this for you you know meeting you guys in Afghanistan like we did is what I'm hearing [Music] punishing and [Music] it's just unreal man the timing you know how things work out you know I'm not a religious guy but I feel like I'm a very spiritual guy and I've been in the military the special operations for like 20 years and just the timing and the way this is all worked out is a pretty phenomenal it [Music] it's it's really heavy stuff I mean maybe I was just at a point in my career to where needing you guys affected me the way that it did but it definitely I was open to the change in the the risk of dive and ends so in any of that long very long Rodgers tattooing me here [Music] understand what does said you were kind of talking about traditional spot for something a date/time stamp would be on the ridge I've waited that symmetrical [Music] see I've always wanted Roger to tattoo me and I've always waited to the right excuse I don't really care what the tattoo is my feeling on tattoos in general is is it's what they represent more than a sort of artistry that's why all mine are just really terrible lines it's a pretty special experience for for me I hope for him too you know what's really interesting about that sometimes you can be what are we saving ourselves for you know Roger shaving me down tattooing it was kind of awkward to shame another man but it's given us used to doll not that good or bad I mean I mean it's obviously a good thing now you just initiate my army nor shave my whole body ah we need a privacy screen I'm more than happy to shave your whole body all right on my wife beater on I'm going to go ahead and get comfortable here now the idea was for Roger to do a small tattoo on me but we just kept making it ten percent bigger and ten percent bigger and ten percent figure we're going pretty big okay that's it needle is in the arm [Music] beautifully I can't we're having a great time it's uh you know we've got to see each other over the years but I don't think anything really is intimate well I guess there are other things but this is very identified as we're gonna get and so I'm enjoying to be able to give back and do something personal for you with all the things you've done for me [Music] they could mean nothing or they can mean everything but what's really interesting is it's bringing something very intangible tangible if not just for the ritual of it but for what you're gonna be left with you know for the rest of your long we're almost done we're done rods where are we the gun stop we're on the just clean up a little bit because it's what you do what I like it I'm Casey Casey all right a little bit of Ross I like yeah I can't be here I'm gonna clean up speech and all I asked for Roger before he started the tattoo was to kind of do what he wanted to do Roger I'm wondering if you can explain to the audience what this is and what it means you know with my long military career I guess you know I've always been very drawn to samurai culture and one of the things that the samurai would adorn themselves with were paintings within samurai culture they knew they would never have this proper burial and so they wanted to kind of like celebrate the beauty of their life while being alive and so they would adorn themselves in peonies and just kind of botanicals and so this is a peony that I drew up this uh I've tattooed on people just the dearest human beings in my life it means a lot to me to be able to put it on you and I've actually got it tattooed on me this is an outline as well so just to be cool and I didn't want any shading or any color I just wanted to line yep through there thanks Roger yeah oh man yeah this is so the one request I did have from Rogers that he had to sign it he had to sign my tattoo and this is it that's the peony in the master signature and that's the peony and then that's the signature you're stuck with me forever now Roger gladly like I'm in a couple of other movies about my tattoos and how I feel about tattoos and the basic premise of those videos is that tattoos for me are about making permanent a moment or an experience in your life that's why like half of my tattoos are literally just dates or notes so I want to remember something and for the rest of my life but I see that mark on my body I want to think of that moment and this gigantic awesome samurai peony that Roger just gave me really represents like you know Rogers one of the most extraordinary human beings ever met in my entire life in the experience of knowing him the circumstances with which we met it's a delicate art of my life and who I am and that's what this is about all right Roger I want to thank you again you are a brilliant artist sir [Music]

Channel: CaseyNeistat

Views: 2,429,838

Rating: 4.8326826 out of 5

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Id: xGoegViDrwo

Length: 10min 34sec (634 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 12 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/willdogs]

Roger is a living saint. What a humble hero

[u/zdav92]

This is not a vlog ( last video was not a vlog too). Very Good video tho Look like he stopped vloging

[u/kinoflo]

This is the one tat he should get shaded and colored in. Cool story behind it though.

[u/RiRoRa]

I'm going to say something I suspect is a really unpopular opinion but I'm saying it anyway.

I feel Casey is milking the shit out of his trip to Afghanistan. The endless talks about how it changed him, how proud he is, the photos of him in military gear, him posing with the squad...

Dude. Chill. You didn't serve. You went to a base a few days to film a documentary about tattooing soldiers. Your brother actually served and more cool about it than you.

I understand it felt special to him and it's good they did a nice thing for the soldiers. I just think he's portraying it like some heroic act or like he actually served. Not cool.

There. My opinion. Commence down votes.

[u/A113-09]

I'm not one for tattoos but I quite like Casey's philosophy behind them, his seem unobtrusive and more worthy of being permanently on your body.

In one of his earlier videos he talks a bit more about getting tattooed, worth a watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2h9ISla-fQ

[u/randomroguer]

Nice that it means something to him but I'm not that impressed with the tattoo. Couldn't figure out why it looked so odd to me. Then I realized it's not really his style.

[u/RadomilKucharski]

I was expecting a click bait fake tattoo.

[u/[deleted]]

he ran out of old videos so he's just going to revisit and milk old videos.

[u/Prs4service]

3:33 Sparks be like 'ok phag, just keep keep promoting me while I lisen yo punk azz bullshit'