There has been a lot of really good advice brought up in this thread. Take it to hart when you consider getting the work done. I had a bad experience 7-8 years ago with a tribal I designed and the artist F*&^ed it up. He went too deep and scarred it up. Luckily, I found a local guy that really does great work, and he touched it up and even added on another piece. Matter of fact, I will probably end up with a ¼ sleeve when all is said and done.
My advice (if it means anything), get it where you will enjoy it. I recommend somewhere not easily seen in public or in a professional environment. Attitudes have changed somewhat, but there is still a stigma attached to body art.
I shoot for the curve... anything above that is gravy.
I hire for a major firm and i cant tell u how many people i have to turn away because of tattoos...and most where vary qualified.sad but true.
Good point. But I don't think I'll vere be working (at a firm) anytime soon. Besides, I have a somewhat foreign name and a record so I'm screwed anyways.
Originally posted by WantsumBier
My advice (if it means anything), get it where you will enjoy it. I recommend somewhere not easily seen in public or in a professional environment. Attitudes have changed somewhat, but there is still a stigma attached to body art.
Taking that into account.
Originally posted by Gerret
Originally posted by MadAce
Frog (don't ask). Not nerdy enough.
whats wrong with a frog? I got a coqui on my chest. Thats a tree frog from puerto rico or other tropical areas.
Frogs don't mean the same to everyone.
Originally posted by WantsumBier
Originally posted by Hades_Warpig
when i get old and bald, i want a barcode on the back of my head HAHAHA
Its been done. Bruce Willis in 12 monkeys I think.
... well not really. Put so far it has been the one where I put the most time in. More than what the meaning of life is and shit like that. At least a full 4 hours. This issue has forced me to ask myself the most profound and deepest existential questions I ever had to ask myself.
In short, I have the opportunity to get a tattoo for a really low price. So far I have turned down every offer I ever had for a tattoo since I don't like being repeatedly pierced with a needle by someone who has been on a speed trip without sleep for the past 6 days an needs a break every 10 minutes to get a needle in his own body to counter the speed so he will at least stop shaking after which he proceeds with taking apart another TV. I also like to keep the chance to contract AIDS and similars to a bare minimum. Call me a snob if you must. But THIS time it would actually be done by someone who I didn't know previously (which would make it a very responsible person) and with a fine discount so I only have to pay for the thin layer of leather I would wear on the chair I'd occupy.
Problem is that Ifrankly have no idea what to get as a tattoo. It's something I've always wanted and always found to be really "wow" contrary to some who only find it "kinda cool". I'm really at a loss and someone suggested I'd ask people who don't know me. So here I am, at the forum I visit the least, with the third largest concentration of nutcases I know of.
It's my first one so it'd have to be smallish (also for medical reasons since I have strange/cool/wtfish reactions to just about everything).
But the requirements I have set for the design are anything BUT smallish. Since I'll probably never be able to pay for a removal and'll have to keep it for all the years that I will continue to roam the earth. And with my luck I'll probably live forever if I have a crappy tattoo. It should.... Entangle my entire personality. Well, all of them. I'm not only a nerd who watches star trek and reads Asimov. Whether I want to or not, there's more to me. So no aliens or shit like that. Don't be a meaningless fashion statement. Screw tribal. Have an as universal significance as possible. Preferably something aliens (yea, I said no aliens but screw that) would understand. So preferably no cultural references. And something not in a language nobody speaks.
Sigh. That's not all of the requirements but still...
Ideas so far: (stylized) Drawing of a cockroach. Can't find a good drawing tho. Altered ouroboros. Schematic of our solar system. Too nerdy. Frog (don't ask). Not nerdy enough. Binary number depicting something really witty and smart () but I can't decide on a number. (some universal biological constante should do) Web of Wyrd. Too... un-universal. But the meaning is nice. And seems all cool symbols have been taken by some wacko religion. I'm not religious.
Sigh. Don't really know what I'm asking for. Some ideas, a way to disect my brain and find something that's equally compatible with all my parts, a design, ... Or some questions I can ask that would deliver answers that would sum me up. If I can't get a good idea I'll just abandon the idea altogether. Thanks in advance for your input.
I was actually browsing the net and looking at tattoos before I came across your post. I got started by fantasizing about a situation in which Enya tattooed an autograph to my bear chest. Then I checked the net and found that some people had actually done something similar to this. One of the tattoos I came across was a Google tattoo.
I was actually going to suggest getting something Anglian like the web of wyrd tattooed on your arm. Anglo-saxons used to wear arm rings as a badge of honor given to them by their lord - usually as a gift given for valor or prowess in combat I think. You could get a golden ring tattoo with Futhorc runes around the circumference and maybe some other imagery. Just a suggestion, but I'd do my research on it before it was a done deal.
"Put your foot where your mouth is." - Wisdom from my grandfather "Paper or plastic? ... because I'm afraid I'll have to suffocate you unless you put this bag on your head..." - Ethnitrek AC1: Wierding from Harvestgain
I am so sorry for necroing this post, but I must know, Did MadAce get his tattoo? Was it my design? Tell me!!!!
You're more than in title to know what is going on with your design. It's alive, but not in tattoo form. I actually showed it to the tattoo-artist and he said it was an original and pretty design and easy to do.
So I was going to go for it... (I even had the actual money, which is completely not my habit)
Then the two people with whom I was going to get the tattoo split up. So no more discount for me because the deal was get 3 tats = minus 50% and this for regular customers (the guy with whom my female friend was involved is a walking canvas).
I was running back and forth between them:
"Really, he does drugs and drinks and is seeing other women, but h's just right for you!"
But apparently my female friend has soemthing called "self-respect".
So that was a bummer. THen I wasted the money on booze and other things (costing me a keyboard and mouse even tho I can't remember what happened to them).
Sad = me cuz no tattoo.
But not so very much because I had a job quite public job for a while which I couldn't have kept with a tattoo (fucking conformist **** *** *** *****).
I'm also trying to get in a reasonably posh school that kicks out people who have visible tattoo's (even tho I think it's illegal to do just that, and it's a quite arty school so it's mainly absurd) and my next job will probably be in a movie theater where they don't like tattoo's.
So yea...
BUT the design is stil alive and this will be my tattoo one day. Probably the same day I don't have a second rate job involving people and when I don't spend money as fast as I usually do. (in a year or so) I'm stil happy cause I have a design that's awesome.
One day! And I'll be sure to mail/PM you a picture!!
Thanks for asking.
@Adreal: Web Of Wyrd is kinda fake to me personally because I don't know enough about Viking mythology.
Originally posted by MadAce Binary number depicting something really witty and smart () but I can't decide on a number. (some universal biological constante should do)
I state you should tatoo "10100111001" on your arm.
I'm of the opinion that if you have to think about getting a tattoo, it's a clear sign that you shouldn't get the tattoo.
A tattoo isn't something that you have to contemplate. It's something that you have no choice but to do, and must do, despite the reprocussions, cost, safety considerations, etc.
A tattoo won't make you different. It won't get the girls. It isn't done for the sake of fashion, and it isn't a chance to be creative. A tattoo is a way of expressing the dark recesses of the psyche in a way that's too difficult to express. It's a way to heal, and a way to ask others to help heal you, without having to "ask" per se.
Used in this way, tattoos can be a source of spiritual comfort. Anything less, and the tattoo becomes something that you have to justify, rather than the tattoo justifying you. Put another way, if people are talking to you because they want to know about your tattoo, they aren't interested in you, but rather, the tattoo.
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Thanks, MadAce. Good to hear it is still alive. Since then, I haven't had a chance to make even a half-decent tattoo. Other than the one I'm planning on getting next month (maybe!), I haven't had much inspiration for body art. If I had a need to make another, maybe, but right now, no.
I was watching that show Inked a while back and they had this drunk guy walk in asking them to tattoo Elmer Fud on his buttcheek, pointing his shotgun into the crack with a speach bubble saying "come out you waskally wabbit"
You could always take a page out of his book
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There has been a lot of really good advice brought up in this thread. Take it to hart when you consider getting the work done. I had a bad experience 7-8 years ago with a tribal I designed and the artist F*&^ed it up. He went too deep and scarred it up. Luckily, I found a local guy that really does great work, and he touched it up and even added on another piece. Matter of fact, I will probably end up with a ¼ sleeve when all is said and done.
My advice (if it means anything), get it where you will enjoy it. I recommend somewhere not easily seen in public or in a professional environment. Attitudes have changed somewhat, but there is still a stigma attached to body art.
I shoot for the curve... anything above that is gravy.
whats wrong with a frog? I got a coqui on my chest. Thats a tree frog from puerto rico or other tropical areas.
when i get old and bald, i want a barcode on the back of my head HAHAHA
Its been done. Bruce Willis in 12 monkeys I think.
I shoot for the curve... anything above that is gravy.
Taking that into account.
whats wrong with a frog? I got a coqui on my chest. Thats a tree frog from puerto rico or other tropical areas.
Frogs don't mean the same to everyone.
Its been done. Bruce Willis in 12 monkeys I think.
Not to mention our bald friend, agent 47.
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I am so sorry for necroing this post, but I must know, Did MadAce get his tattoo? Was it my design?
Tell me!!!!
I was actually going to suggest getting something Anglian like the web of wyrd tattooed on your arm. Anglo-saxons used to wear arm rings as a badge of honor given to them by their lord - usually as a gift given for valor or prowess in combat I think. You could get a golden ring tattoo with Futhorc runes around the circumference and maybe some other imagery. Just a suggestion, but I'd do my research on it before it was a done deal.
"Put your foot where your mouth is." - Wisdom from my grandfather
"Paper or plastic? ... because I'm afraid I'll have to suffocate you unless you put this bag on your head..." - Ethnitrek
AC1: Wierding from Harvestgain
You're more than in title to know what is going on with your design. It's alive, but not in tattoo form. I actually showed it to the tattoo-artist and he said it was an original and pretty design and easy to do.
So I was going to go for it... (I even had the actual money, which is completely not my habit)
Then the two people with whom I was going to get the tattoo split up. So no more discount for me because the deal was get 3 tats = minus 50% and this for regular customers (the guy with whom my female friend was involved is a walking canvas).
I was running back and forth between them:
"Really, he does drugs and drinks and is seeing other women, but h's just right for you!"
But apparently my female friend has soemthing called "self-respect".
So that was a bummer. THen I wasted the money on booze and other things (costing me a keyboard and mouse even tho I can't remember what happened to them).
Sad = me cuz no tattoo.
But not so very much because I had a job quite public job for a while which I couldn't have kept with a tattoo (fucking conformist **** *** *** *****).
I'm also trying to get in a reasonably posh school that kicks out people who have visible tattoo's (even tho I think it's illegal to do just that, and it's a quite arty school so it's mainly absurd) and my next job will probably be in a movie theater where they don't like tattoo's.
So yea...
BUT the design is stil alive and this will be my tattoo one day. Probably the same day I don't have a second rate job involving people and when I don't spend money as fast as I usually do.
(in a year or so) I'm stil happy cause I have a design that's awesome.
One day! And I'll be sure to mail/PM you a picture!!
Thanks for asking.
@Adreal: Web Of Wyrd is kinda fake to me personally because I don't know enough about Viking mythology.
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I state you should tatoo "10100111001" on your arm.
Wise move, MadAce.
I'm of the opinion that if you have to think about getting a tattoo, it's a clear sign that you shouldn't get the tattoo.
A tattoo isn't something that you have to contemplate. It's something that you have no choice but to do, and must do, despite the reprocussions, cost, safety considerations, etc.
A tattoo won't make you different. It won't get the girls. It isn't done for the sake of fashion, and it isn't a chance to be creative. A tattoo is a way of expressing the dark recesses of the psyche in a way that's too difficult to express. It's a way to heal, and a way to ask others to help heal you, without having to "ask" per se.
Used in this way, tattoos can be a source of spiritual comfort. Anything less, and the tattoo becomes something that you have to justify, rather than the tattoo justifying you. Put another way, if people are talking to you because they want to know about your tattoo, they aren't interested in you, but rather, the tattoo.
__________________________
"Its sad when people use religion to feel superior, its even worse to see people using a video game to do it."
--Arcken
"...when it comes to pimping EVE I have little restraints."
--Hellmar, CEO of CCP.
"It's like they took a gun, put it to their nugget sack and pulled the trigger over and over again, each time telling us how great it was that they were shooting themselves in the balls."
--Exar_Kun on SWG's NGE
Thanks, MadAce. Good to hear it is still alive. Since then, I haven't had a chance to make even a half-decent tattoo. Other than the one I'm planning on getting next month (maybe!), I haven't had much inspiration for body art. If I had a need to make another, maybe, but right now, no.
Sigh.
I'd like to see it too, whenever you get it. It's kind of unique, I'd never thought of putting such a design on myself, you'll be unique at least.
Or you could just get one of those tribal tatoos around your upper arm, just like the 10,000 frat boys around here have :P
I was watching that show Inked a while back and they had this drunk guy walk in asking them to tattoo Elmer Fud on his buttcheek, pointing his shotgun into the crack with a speach bubble saying "come out you waskally wabbit"
You could always take a page out of his book
No required quests! And if I decide I want to be an assassin-cartographer-dancer-pastry chef who lives only to stalk and kill interior decorators, then that's who I want to be, even if it takes me four years to max all the skills and everyone else thinks I'm freaking nuts. -Madimorga-