Tattoos where do you stand?

Originally Posted by Encephalon

Deni once told me he wanted to get "6:10:50" tattooed on the back of his neck. I STILL think it's an awesome tattoo.

As for me, I'm currently toying with the idea of putting some Aesop Rock lyrics on my inner forearms. I REALLY wanted to use "Must not sleep. Must warn others." but Aes himself already inked that on. I might still do it but I'm more hesitant to do it now that the man himself has them.

In short, Krel: Fuck you.

No, no. I -have- it tattooed on my back. Except it isn't the number. I have the clock tower in a ghost town vista set to 6:10:50.

I did once drunkenly threaten to get it tattooed on my arm in the same style that Donnie Darko gets the count down to the end of the world on his arm. Then I sobered up.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Actually, in North America tattoos are much more common, Zeph.

According to Alfred Gell and Demello's books on the subject, in the 50's you were looking at roughly 8% of the US population, and now it's up over 30. So a huge increase, actually.

As anyone who knows me already realises, I'm a huge booster of tattoos. Call it modern tribalism, art, expression, whatever. I've done years of research on them, amassed about 4000 pages of people's personal stories concerning their own work, and an endless supply of stories and experiences from artists. If you have any real interest in this subject, you really should have already read Gell and Demello, but if you haven't, do yourself the favour.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

On an unrelated note, I miss Confederate Rebel.

YEEEHAW TOBY KEITH!

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Furby

Not all tattoos.. If you take good care of them and have them touched up when they need to be touched up along with the fact that the person takes care of their body. The tattoo won't look like shit. ya know?

I personal have 5. 2 on each arm and 1 in the back of the neck.

Is the one on the back of your neck a barcode? I bet ten bucks it's a fucking barcode.

Also, no, no matter how well you take care of your body, you will eventually be wrinkly and the tattoo won't look good. it's just a fact of the medium. But so long as that tattoo has meaning to you, you really won't care.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by RacinReaver

That just made me think of what's going to happen to people with face tattoos and whatnot. Then I thought of Mike Tyson as an old man and scared myself.

Like Mike Tyson will live to old age.

I was speaking idiomatically.