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itchy mcgoo wrote:What fucking artist gave a tattoo to our resident ten year old?

Chapter Two wrote:I am not currently a sailor or a whore, but I've had my moments.

I have a small tattoo on my upper left arm. I got it sat on a climbing frame when I was eleven, with a needle and ink from a snapped biro, by a twelve year old. Tattoos are a means of self expression. My eleven year old mind did some lateral thinking on this, and expressed my eleven year old self thus:

JoHN

(That's my name).

I've had that there now for over two thirds of my life. It's kind of embarrassing to show people for the first time, but it's got a beautifully naive thing to it, and reminds me that at that age I was closer to my previous life as a zen monk.

John C3 wrote:

Chapter Two wrote:I am not currently a sailor or a whore, but I've had my moments.

I have a small tattoo on my upper left arm. I got it sat on a climbing frame when I was eleven, with a needle and ink from a snapped biro, by a twelve year old. Tattoos are a means of self expression. My eleven year old mind did some lateral thinking on this, and expressed my eleven year old self thus:

JoHN

(That's my name).

I've had that there now for over two thirds of my life. It's kind of embarrassing to show people for the first time, but it's got a beautifully naive thing to it, and reminds me that at that age I was closer to my previous life as a zen monk.

This is a beautiful thing.

For a brief second, in that photo, it looks like that tattoo is on your... ...?

I'm glad you said upper left arm.

sleepkid wrote:

John C3 wrote:

Chapter Two wrote:I am not currently a sailor or a whore, but I've had my moments.

I have a small tattoo on my upper left arm. I got it sat on a climbing frame when I was eleven, with a needle and ink from a snapped biro, by a twelve year old. Tattoos are a means of self expression. My eleven year old mind did some lateral thinking on this, and expressed my eleven year old self thus:

JoHN

(That's my name).

I've had that there now for over two thirds of my life. It's kind of embarrassing to show people for the first time, but it's got a beautifully naive thing to it, and reminds me that at that age I was closer to my previous life as a zen monk.

This is a beautiful thing.

For a brief second, in that photo, it looks like that tattoo is on your... ...?

I'm glad you said upper left arm.

No, the one on my arse says "crop rotation in the fourteenth century was considerably more widespread after".

eliya wrote:
If you hate a tattoo, look at it like a disgusting scar you may have gotten from a nasty car accident.

Fine, you hate tattoos. Guess that's why you have none. I like tattoos, so I got a couple. Whatever. Maybe I'll hate it when I'm 30. Fuck it. I don't live my life wondering what I'll feel like in twenty years.

A while ago I said I wouldn't get any tattoos because I didn't want to regret them when I got older. Then I was hit by a bus and have several scars on my body that aren't exactly attractive, and I figured at least with tattoos I can CHOOSE what I regret to have on my body. In any case, I have plans to get many.

Also, these people are the people that voted CRAP on makeup. you are obviously a bunch of hippies and it doesn't surprise me that many of you dislike tattoos.

John C3 wrote:
No, the one on my arse says "crop rotation in the fourteenth century was considerably more widespread after".

nice.

Up Scumbag!

kearnsalot wrote:Hi, I'm new. Here's my tattoo.

There's something I like about that one.

For years, I never thought I’d get a tattoo. I’d decide on one and then be fickle and think I couldn’t live with it, what would it look like when I'm 50- the usual bullshit. Despite being in a band with a lovely tattooist for a couple of years now, I still held out.

I decided to get one a few weeks ago, on my 25th birthday. Turning 25 was very odd. An arsonist stalked London, burning chemical plants, factories and historical monuments alike and one of my dear, dear friends lay cold in a police morgue, awaiting release to his family.

This was what spurred me, as I felt such a painful void in my life that I needed something physical to hurt worse, to try and distract me. In short, I needed to bleed for the sake of catharsis.

I went up to my friend’s studio with a copy of the I Ching and with three dirty two pence coins tainted by the ugliness of the world, I consulted it. The question, relating to my friend, was answered with hexagram 45.



Gathering/Massing.

There were so many things that spoke to me- friends gathering together, not being cheap with offerings and most importantly mourning the dead without blame. How I find the book works is that you take from it what meaning you need, and this had it in spades. There was no way I couldn’t get this done, as a constant reminder of Alfie and all my other friends, of my family and of the Tao.



So there it is. In one of the most painful places I could get it done, apparently.

No regret, no blame.

Thanks,

Tom

just got back from getting a new tattoo, what do you guys think?

I think that's based on a Shudder To Think video.