What's Your Next Tattoo?

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― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Saturday, 6 March 2004 02:57 (twenty years ago) link

Biker Jesus.
-- Allyzay (wt...), March 5th, 2004.

Looks more like one of the Baldwins.

Talk about powers of persuasion. Now I wanna get a kitty tat. You girls have some remarkable taste, I must say. Rose: get the one with the raised paw. Mon Dieu, it's obscenely k-cute.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Saturday, 6 March 2004 03:06 (twenty years ago) link

I was thinking of getting a pair of bright red lips tattoed on my arse.

― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 6 March 2004 04:17 (twenty years ago) link

See, I was thinking of getting a bright red arse ETC ETC

― Matt (Matt), Saturday, 6 March 2004 04:23 (twenty years ago) link

I'm gonna get a tattoo of a butt, with a tattoo of a butt, on my butt.

― butthead (nickn), Saturday, 6 March 2004 06:47 (twenty years ago) link

strongo, get that mace tattoo on your chest where the heart is.

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Saturday, 6 March 2004 07:03 (twenty years ago) link

three months pass...

A few months ago, I saw a show by this artist who had all these old posters, of like cowboys and johnny cash and stuff, and there was one that was just this bird...as i recall, it was sort of a detailed line drawing, black and white, of a cuckoo, maybe? upside-down, like it was diving. anyway, i think it would look good on my arm and now i have birthday money and want to get it done.
i have been doing google searches for so long trying to find something that looks like it, because i am fairly certain i have seen images of that bird before. i have clicked through page after page of images. pictures of pet birds. pictures of dead birds. pictures of slovakian models.
i guess this is really more of a google question than a tattoo question, isn't it? kind of, maybe. but what should i do? i've always wondered where people find their tattoo designs. i know a couple of people i could probably get to draw something like this bird for me, but i don't even really know how i'd describe it to them because i always skipped my art history lectures and therefore i have no idea what style it's in or anything. someone told me it looked vaguely german expressionist, so i did more searches and couldn't find anything. and also, the bird's inclusion among cowboys and johnny cash stuff doesn't really scream "GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM" to me. but maybe, i don't know. maybe it was some kind of secret inside artist joke.
so here is what i want to know: do you happen to possess the world's largest collection of antique bird posters? do you know someone who does? or should i just draw my own damn bird? should i even get a tattoo of a bird? it's gonna be pretty big.

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 17:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Is there any way to get in contact with the gallery/artist?

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:06 (nineteen years ago) link

hm, that could be a possibility. a guy i know had some work up at that gallery the same night, and he might be able to get me that information. see, these are the kind of things i don't think of. this is why i come here. thank you.

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Just as a reminder of what you're getting yourself into, Kirsten, when my sister was younger she got a tattoo of a moon and sun kissing on her knee. Now she wishes she could chop that knee off.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Ew, a moon and sun kissing! Well, I figure I've wanted it for a long enough time and i want it enough that wanting it and not having it is no better than having it and not wanting it. and also, if you really, really want to, there's always something you can do to cover up a tattoo, right?

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah I guess the moral of the story is don't get a tattoo of a sun and a moon kissing.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:36 (nineteen years ago) link

I wish I could get a tattoo for just like, a month.. of a dreamcatcher.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link

you could always tattoo, a tattoo of an aye-aye, over it, at a later date, if you get bored. with it!!

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:38 (nineteen years ago) link

a tattoo of an aye-aye is what you need, kirsten

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:39 (nineteen years ago) link

After years of consideration I've decided what sort of tattoo I want to get: TOTORO!!!

http://lw-fin.org/totoro.jpg

Now I just need to muster up the cash and the courage...

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Mandee, yesterday i left my logic lecture early, giving the professor the excuse that i was babysitting for the child of a couple named "chet and tammy mcmarkelson." i don't know why i even bothered to make up an excuse, let alone the people's names, because he wouldn't have cared if i'd just left. see how you have infiltrated my life?
and yes, clearly a tattoo of an aye-aye is the solution.

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:39 (nineteen years ago) link

aw, Tuomas.

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.cyberarium.com/images/misc42300/01-11-20001.jpg

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do the diving bird, first, and, then, when you get tired of/embarrassed by it, you can tattoo an open-armed aye-aye, beneath it, with a tear in its eye, readying itself to cradle.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Actually, I'd probably want this pic of him/her with the umbrella.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Actually, I'd probably want this pic of him/her with the umbrella.

(x-post)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:45 (nineteen years ago) link

this is the biggest i've smiled all day, i think.

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Tuomas i want a tototat too. catbuses and totoros are the only joy in my life!!

― Ade (Adrian Langston), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Boohoo, I just found out my video copy of Totoro isn't working anymore! I haven't had a VCR for a few years, though. Nor a TV set. But I could've watched it at a friends place. Boohoo!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:32 (nineteen years ago) link

I have the bootleg Ghibli DVD boxset. watching it is like getting a handjob from God

― Ade (Adrian Langston), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.tristone.co.uk/davespace/images/stick25.gif

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:43 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.neverwhere.org/~steve/graphics/lemur/ayeaye/jersey_ayeaye.gif

diving cuckoo Vs. diving aye-aye

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link

five months pass...

Got new tattoo as part of my Christmas from Kev. I'm really really pleased with it. Been contemplating this design for ages (kokopelli) and felt that the time was right.

He's a wee bit inflammed just now, doesn't help that my t-shirt keeps sticking to him mind. I wish I had a scanner to show everybody!

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Monday, 29 November 2004 12:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, and Kev got one too - an egyptian interpretation of a stork. It's like a magic eye poster trying to figure out what it is.

Kokopelli - fertility
Stork - babies

Spot a pattern?!

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Monday, 29 November 2004 12:27 (nineteen years ago) link

aye-aye - eternal love

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 29 November 2004 12:31 (nineteen years ago) link

two years pass...

I have just booked my appointment for my first (and probably only ever) tattoo. I went in and arranged it but didn't have the money on me for the deposit. When I came back the guy asked me what price we'd agree on; I told him i didn't remember (even though I did). The receptionist asked the artiste again and ended up accidentally knocking twenty quid off.

It's gonna hurt like fuck innit?

― Uptoeleven, Saturday, 14 April 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't actually want one, but I think I'd pick something geeky/nerdy like this:

http://i19.tinypic.com/2rr748y.gif

― StanM, Saturday, 14 April 2007 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

later on, kirsten got a tattoo

― RJG, Saturday, 14 April 2007 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/04/30/dawkins/story.jpg

― kenan, Saturday, 14 April 2007 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I have just booked my appointment for my first (and probably only ever) tattoo.

that's what they always say. apparently once you crossed the line, you'll be getting more. :-)

― stevienixed, Saturday, 14 April 2007 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I have a masochistic side so I wouldn't rule it out. This one has been five years in coming though so we'll see. I also have an abundance of scars that I haven't paid for.

― Uptoeleven, Saturday, 14 April 2007 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I have been planning for four years to get one of an ampersand. Maybe this summer or fall...I finally found a high-quality shop, anyway.

― Abbott, Saturday, 14 April 2007 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I am currently deciding whether or not to get another one. If I do, it will be this:

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/expatrica/glad3.jpg

I'd want it exactly like that with the black square background, probably on one of my shoulderblades. We'll see.

― ENBB, Sunday, 15 April 2007 00:29 (seventeen years ago) link

If I were ever to get a tattoo it would have to be something totally fucking cheesy and vulgar, like a naked woman holding a python standing on a flaming skull.

― chap, Sunday, 15 April 2007 01:18 (seventeen years ago) link

http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/Descendents-Poster-C11790656.jpeg
either baby or baby/"I Don't Want To Grow Up"

― milo z, Sunday, 15 April 2007 02:00 (seventeen years ago) link

either that or this one turned into a silhouette
http://johnsoncity.blogspot.com/uploaded_images/London-Calling-744583.jpg

― milo z, Sunday, 15 April 2007 02:01 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.deathrock.com/rudimentarypeni/images/logo_a.gif

― scott seward, Sunday, 15 April 2007 02:04 (seventeen years ago) link

full back tattoo, of course.

― scott seward, Sunday, 15 April 2007 02:04 (seventeen years ago) link

And now we know why your use name is Milo!

― ENBB, Sunday, 15 April 2007 02:14 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

UpDATE. Sorry tis so big.

http://bp2.blogger.com/_wDynUkctbqQ/RjpY_0RTHUI/AAAAAAAAAAk/jflraU2hxrI/s1600-h/DSCN2704.JPG

― Uptoeleven, Thursday, 3 May 2007 22:04 (sixteen years ago) link

that's on your arm or leg? sorry can't see very well...

― stevienixed, Thursday, 3 May 2007 22:06 (sixteen years ago) link

my lower left leg - sorry tis not a great pic, can't figure out my housemate's camera

― Uptoeleven, Thursday, 3 May 2007 22:11 (sixteen years ago) link

Image is not coming up for me.

I am achieving AMPERSAND TAT in August on a trip to Albuquerque.

― Abbott, Thursday, 3 May 2007 23:44 (sixteen years ago) link

i'm thinking either this:

http://www.transname.com/chinese_tattoo.gif
(think it means 'strength')

or something with more of a tribal vibe like this:

http://www.inkworm.co.uk/images/tatts/samples/tribal_spider_tattoo.gif

― creme1, Thursday, 3 May 2007 23:56 (sixteen years ago) link

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