Barnadreams Solar tattoos

HISTORY

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The idea. First steps. The media. Conventions and meetings. Customers. Future scope. About the author. (Click the pictures to expand).

The idea.

Everything started with a very simple idea: if after wearing a watch, a trace remains on the skin, then you can wear a sticker to make the sun brown all your body except that zone.     But that's not all: a lot of things have improved since the creation of Barnadreams.     At the beginning, the tattoos were basically stickers. They were made of a medical band which brought good enough results.     With the arrival of the 3M medical band, everything improved: as the materials were better, they were more resistant to water, heat and creams.     In addition to that, the sticker that is worn on the skin is phosphorescent: it shines in the darkness.     The latest feature, very interesting, is that the sticker will be also available printed in colors, so while you'll be wearing it, you'll show a more beautiful shape or photo.

First steps.

After the idea came to José Marín, he was informed of the way to create his own enterprise. The initial capital was the money he had won a few days before with a football bet and with lottery.     He patented the product, passed Sanity tests, bought a computer and began to look for customers and suppliers. The first one was a distributor that did a sale test in Málaga. As the results were good (half of the production was sold), they started to get sold in the whole Mediterranean coast.     Since then, he has gradually increased his sales, and has been offered to companies for doing tattoos with their logos.

The media.

Some papers, magazines, and TVs have often made reports about Barnadreams, and sometimes its Manager has been invited to. -Program 'Ahora' from Antena 3.     A report that explains the basic stuff about Barnadreams.     -Program 'Sabor a verano' from Antena 3.    Demonstration of how the tattoos work, with an auto-tanning cremate. (Even if the result aren't the same).   -Program 'Web d'estiu' from Televisión española.    A report about the new invention for the summer.    -Program 'Caiga quien caiga' from Telecinco.    A short interview between José and Tonino, who was visiting the Galàctica 99 fair.   -Program 'Les mil i una' from TV3 (Televisió de Catalunya).    José appears next to Jordi González, the presenter, doing a demonstration of the tattoos.   -Gavà Televisió.     Report about José Marín and his invention.    -El periódico (del verano).     A piece of news on front page (Today`s theme section) about the launch of the solar tattoos.    -Magazine EL MUNDO.     Explaining article that reveals all the advantages of the new fashion in tattoos in comparison to another methods.   -Lecturas.     A little article about the new invention.   -Muy interesante.     Another article about the invention.   -CNR.     This page comments new ways for tattooing. There's a reference to the solar tattoos, but the prize is wrong.   -Ideas & Negocios.     It explains the way of tattooing with the solar ones.   -Primera Línea.     Two articles dedicated to the solar tattoos, 'a funny way of corporal decoration for the summer'.

Conventions and meetings.

Furthermore, Barnadreams has been in fairs, conventions and meetings, sometimes explaining its invention and sometimes promoting it.     In Tattoomania 98, Barnadreams (which was invited by www.suntattoo.com), got this diploma from the Cultural Association of Tattoo Masters.     Colors of the Universe is an international dance music festival that took place in Barcelona. There it was Barnadreams, selling its solar tattoos in a stand.     In Galàctica 99 (a national fair of inventions), Barnadreams introduced the solar tattoos, and got a diploma that 'recognizes the extraordinary merits and potentials of the innovation presented by José Marín Parés, who has been classified on the Great National Prize of the Inventive.'

Customers.

These are some of the cutomers who have bought solar tattoos to Barnadreams:     Fortuna (mark property of Altadis) gave a tattoo with its cigarettes during a time. This model is one of the most complex and hard to put, as it's formed by five parts (the three letters and the two horizontal bands).     The City Council of Gavà (native town of Barnadreams) requested a special model of solar tattoo: a circle in which was perforated a G and several triangles around.     The magazine Cáñamo gave with each copy of its 19 number a tattoo-leaf. It was a tattoo with the shape of a marijuana leaf (the magazine's logo). This model can be combined of two different ways: by wearing the interior shape (the leaf), or by wearing the circle in which the leaf is.     Les Carpes del Cel also requested one: this one was a gleaming moon.     Comercial Atheneum distributes the solar tattoos among the Mediterranean coast (from Gerona to Málaga, plus Canarias and Balears). They're sold in newspapers stands and souvenirs shops, so they are available to everyone who lives in that area.    At Cancun (Mexico), Importación y Exportación distributes Glow Tattoos, made by Barnadreams, and which are fluorescent.           Throughout the Internet too there have also been many customers. In Spain, solar tattoos have been sold to all the communities; and at international level, tattoos have arrived to a lot of European and American countries.

Future scope.

The process is not fast, but, after seeing the conditions, Barnadreams wants to do a lot of things. It's already possible that the sticker which is worn on the skin for a week not to be so plain, but it will have printed a coloured photo. Then, you will wear, for instance, a person's photo or a picture during as long as you want (though a week is sufficient), and when you remove the tattoo, the silhouette will remain. If the business goes ahead, it would be studied the possibility of creating automatic dispensers of tattoos, to be placed at commercial centers and æsthetics boutiques. As time goes on, the tattoo will be sold in more shops, more companies, more countries, ...

About the author.

José Marín Parés is an artist and inventor. He likes to play the battery as a hobby, mainly to discharge adrenaline. He also paints pictures to relax, being inspired on musical CD's covers. Supertramp: Crisis? What Crisis? Eagles: Hotel California The Police: Live. (Stewart Copeland's detail). Look the lower part of the drawing.     It sure runs in the family, since his cousin, Ricardo Marín, is also advancing in the music's world: he has recorded an album and has been singing with the artist Raimundo Amador and sharing scenario in several occasions with B.B. King, who collaborated with Raimundo. José, who gave him two paintings, conserves his autograph.     David Summers, in his latest work Basado en hechos reales, includes the song Échame un cable, with lyrics from José Marín and music from Ricardo.     As he says, his best creation is his son. He is called Josep, like him, and at the left photo we can see him with one of the solar tattoos on his arm. He sure will collaborate with Barnadreams and help his father to triumph when he gets older.     José Marín had another idea besides the one of the tattoos: it's the auto-opener plug. It's also patented, but he doesn't work in it since he works on his other invention.     It's a plug thought for the bottles of milk and for all those that have a piece of paper which has to be removed to open them. The plug has incorporated wedges that make a hole in a zone to allow the liquid flow out, and another hole in front so that the air could escape.