At the second annual Rail City Tattoo Festival earlier this month, 48 tattoo artists from Vermont and beyond gathered to share expertise and showcase their art. More than 1,000 people showed up at St. Albans City Hall for the two-day fest; many of them left with fresh ink. The convention was organized by Jhon and Jodi Rodriguez of 100 Candles Tattoo, a studio just down the street. A well-known tattoo artist originally from Colombia, Jhon brought to the event some friends from his home country who currently live in New York. Throughout the weekend, the hum of tattoo machines blended with loud music as dozens of people offered up various parts of their bodies for inking. In her latest episode of "Stuck in Vermont," Seven Days senior multimedia producer Eva Sollberger visited the family-friendly fest and met some artists and visitors. She even got a temporary tat, thanks to two young aspiring artists. Sollberger spoke with Seven Days about filming the episode. Why did you feature this festival? I had never been to a tattoo convention before, but I have featured a few tattoo artists in my videos over the years. I thought it would be interesting to see a lot of people being tattooed at once, and it really was. There were dozens of people sitting and lying down in different positions while tattoo artists hunched over them. The drawings are so intimate and colorful, spanning a huge range of styles. And these tattoos will be on these people's bodies forever. There was something very primal about it. How have tattoos changed over the years? Tattoos date back thousands of years and have a variety of meanings in different cultures around the globe. I am amazed by how much people's perception of tattoos has changed in my lifetime in the U.S. When I was a kid in the 1980s, I didn't know anyone with tattoos in rural Vermont. It was something that was very fringe and associated with sailors and freak shows. By the 1990s, when I was living in Northern California, more of my friends started to get tattoos, but it was still considered pretty risqué. Fast-forward to today, and they are ubiquitous. According to the Pew Research Center, 32 percent of Americans have at least one tattoo. Now you see them on everyone, including celebrities, police officers and politicians. And yet you don't have one…