I think I remember coming across a thread about tattoos a while back, but I haven't seen one in a while. I got a tattoo about 4 months ago and I absolutely love it (pictures will follow when I get home from work), but I was wondering about the rest of the forums.
Do you have a tattoo? More than one? Do you like it/them?
Do you want a tattoo, but are scared of needles and/or pain?
What are some of your favorite designs or artists?
Discuss, post pictures, etc.
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I'm currently waiting for an obscure art book to come in the mail. It's almost 40 years old, out of print, and has the most fantastic artwork on the cover that I'd like to base my future tattoo off of.
1) Red/Black Red Hot Chili Peppers asterix on my arm because it's an interesting symbol and the album Californication got my friend and I to play guitar and form a band. 12 years later and I'm still playing in bands and writing music constantly. It's a nod to them, not for being a great rock band, but for introducing me to something so wonderful.
2) Pink cloud on my shoulder with the text BAMF in it, as a nod to the comic book industry, which I read and continue to read a ton of, and really introduced me to various forms of visual art as a method of story telling.
3) (soon to come) will be the meteor symbol from FFvii as a nod to video games, which growing up with a single dad who was constantly busy, I was taught far more about morality and the human condition from video games than I was by any other media / mentor. So video games are core to my development, and I want to represent their print on me.
I'll post pictures later.
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I feel it's important that a tattoo is of something of real significance in your life that you will always have a connection with and not regret/want removed due to a change in mind (i mean a break up).
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I only have one tattoo, its a '01' in MICR font on my wrist and was done after my first year of uni studying computer science.
Looking to get two shoulder/sleeve pieces done when I can find a decent place, get some art worked out and afford them. Based on a plaque of the green man we used to have in our garden and a celtic sun god.
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Our tattoos really need to hang out.
So that I always have an ace up my sleeve, you see. I've gotten questionable comments at times, but I don't give a shit, it's mine.
And the clover is for my honeymoon in Ireland, which was just about the most awesome two weeks of my life.
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I guess they must keep a database of everyone's tattoos somewhere.
Thinking of starting with Oscar the Grouch and building on it from there.
Largely I'm waiting to find an idea that I really really am totally absolutely sure of. And I'm waiting to lose a little more weight, so it doesn't get warped or anything.
I've wondered about this too. I see a lot of nice black and white tattoos, but then I also see pretty young people with tattoos that look like they should have been black but are now going greenish and blurry.
How did you ever decide where to put the electrons?
I kind of want a plum pudding model tattoo.
I gotta get totally ripped first, so it'll probably never happen.
Ah, so the fact that I'm a pale freak who hides from the sunlight whenever possible would be a bonus there.
"You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up.
I thought it was ridiculous at first but I have to say it's grown on me.
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I do not have that tattoo
I'm still trying to figure out my backpiece in it's entirety, and also one for the back of my leg. I've been having the itchin' to get another one....
My first is on my right thigh and is sort of meant as a representation of the first 20 years of my life, it's about 4"x4". The word 'Tensan' written above is from the book This Alien Shore, it is meant to describe someone who is terrified of change, yet knows it is inevitable. My second is on my right inner forearm, it's about 6"x4".
These photos are from nearly 3 years ago, the one of the bookmark was taken about three months after it was done. Both were done at Spider Monkey Tattoo in Olympia, Washington. The first was done by Will, the second by Caine. Will is good, but I would highly recommend Caine to anyone, he's especially talented and knowledgeable, not to mention just a really nice guy.
The pain wasn't so bad and I'm saying this as someone who's terrified of needles. Getting a tattoo is a completely different experience than getting a shot, though, so after the first five minutes or so I stopped irrationally panicking. It mostly felt like a continuous first degree burn, when the gun went over areas of skin closer to the bone, it hurt more, and the longer the gun was in contact with my skin the more it hurt. Basically, the initial line work hurts more than filling it in, because there are more continuous lines involved. My now-husband was with me for both tattoos and having him there to talk to was really helpful. If you're lucky your tattoo artist will be able to talk and tat at the same time.
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Shortly I will have a big branch down my right arm. Then I will have to get something similar down my left.
I constantly think to myself that the back tattoo from Planescape Torment is the next thing I should get. But then I remind myself, that no, it is too much tattoo real estate and it is too nerdy. And then I wish I could do it anyway.
Also: The idea that tattoos have to mean something to you to get them is frustrating in the extreme to me. I do not care for this pretentious wankery. I think the other kind of pretentious wankery of "I just think it looks cool, there's nothing deeper behind it" is equally valid. But everytime white people talk about tattoos there is always snobbery regarding motivations out the wazoo.
And what does being white have to do with anything? I have plenty of non-white friends who have tattoos with great personal meaning to them.
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because it's something you will have on you for the rest of your life and if it looks stupid as hell it's somewhat mitigated by having a good reason for it
speaking of which I've been thinking about getting some sort of design based on tracks from bubble chambers, especially ones like this
because they remind me of Koru. But then I saw this and wow
Complete tattoo process here:
1) GIS 'cool physics picture'
2) Save as jpeg with highest compression possible
3) print out and take to cheapest tattoo place nearby
4) get printed on your body until you die
this one looks decent though
I'm also thinking a couple of ravens in this style
referencing Huginn and Muninn because knowledge is really important to me and I am supergay for metal/vikings/norse mythology, and they're not part of norse mythology that immediately gets associated with white supremacists (so I can stay subtle about it, of course)
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you are a silly goose of the highest degree.
Please show it off if/when you get it.
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Oh, ok.
Something rather more effectively solved by ensuring that it's something aesthetically pleasing to you prior to its being meaningful. Of course, if it IS meaningful and aesthetically pleasing then that's ideal.
There's nothing WRONG with getting tattoos with meanings behind them. My complaint is people denigrating tattoos which do not have meaning behind them, and insisting that getting tattoos without meaning is somehow invalid. It always happens (or at least, is phrased in ways suggestive of such an interpretation).
I also have the Rood from Vagrant Story on my back.
I've had plans to get more for some time, but have yet to really come up with something that feels right. I definitely want another on my other wrist, and it's likely to be a dharma wheel...but I can't find the right design.
Passerbye: Will do, if/when I do. It will be quite a while if it's an if though, I want to be fairly certain that I want it in the long term beforehand.
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Truly we are men of the highest caliber, and need to celebrate our good taste.
PS2
FF X replay
PS3
God of War 1&2 HD
Rachet and Clank Future
MGS 4
Prince of Persia
360
Bayonetta
Fable 3
DS
FF: 4 heroes of light
Hah. I hate things like that. The idea that you could get something inscribed on you permanently only to find out that you didn't realize certain people associate it with something you are very much not trying to associate with. I apparently live in a bubble because until very recently I didn't realize that white supremacists had some claim over badass Viking shit. That is really annoying.
I've got a Koi on the left inner forearm. That was just a modified flash piece, since it was a spur of the moment thing when my father and I decided to get tattoos.
I've also got an inverted pentagram with a devil's head in the center, with another inverted pentragram on the devil's head on the left shoulder.
Right now, I'm trying to track down a place that will do the laser cautery branding. I've got a design I want to get on the upper right arm.
If you're going to do a bubble chamber don't go about it half assed, mine fills the top right arm and is a bitch to photo.
Prize goes to the person who guesses the location of my wonky star.
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Tattoos are a reflexion of who you are at the moment you get them.