Meet Luke Pytlik: tattoo artist, ex-Marine, Rotarian
The man lying facedown on the table has no business laughing. At the moment, a tool is firing ink-filled needles into his left calf, combining the concussive force of a miniature jackhammer with the power of a pneumatic drill. “Imagine a thousand moving bee stings,” says Dane Wunderlich, describing the needle sensation with a smile. “Or maybe tiny razor cuts.”
“Or being stabbed with a miniature X-Acto knife over and over,” offers Luke Pytlik, the tattoo artist wielding the humming ink injector, as he creates the Rotary wheel that Wunderlich expects to display with pride for the rest of his…
