Tattoos

All the silly "tribals" should be done with Infintik. And all those script tatts celebrating teenage pregnancies and mourning fam who got stabbed.

Nice idea. So long as the ink acts no different to standard ink over time then I'd have no objection. Much better for the numpties getting the silly tribal or slag tag

I like the permanence of tattoos. I won't be getting any work done with infinink.

piece on thomas hooper in the guardian today..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/23/tattoo-artists-new-york

^^ From what they say Infinink is still permanent. If I had the choice, my only concern would be look, durability, and use by the artist.

I guess the difference between this and normal ink lazered later or cover-ups, is that you're going in with a possible expectation/realisation that you might change your mind. But to me having something that can be easier removed with less scaring/trauma just seems to makes sense.

I know relatively little about ink, but I met a girl who had a couple of tattoos done in Peru. She later had to have a CAT scan and those ones (black I think) changed colour quite noticeably. Apparently it's due to some outdated methods of producing ink (iron, magnets?). Anyway, point is, I'm sure all ink has developed and improved. This just sounds like another evolution.

What I thought was interesting was they said 17% of people experience "some sort of tattoo regret". Now given that they are marketing statistics, and therefore probably on the favourable side, that sounds quite low to me. Especially as "some sort of" is wide enough to encompass a lot of feelings.

Feeling this:

Like that a lot

About Infinitink, the tattoo is permanent, but the delivery system is novel.
Instead of dying the layer just inside th dermis, relatively superficial and non immuno-reactive, it delivers a set of polymer beads encapsulating biologically degradable dyes. These beads canbe popped by a lower powered laser than the traditional ink, and the products are attacked by the immune system and degraded.
It is in the same layer as that layer allows permanence.

Feeling this:

nice. i also now have this in my head....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w

Cartoon shit is tight, colour is deep and uniform. One of the best I've seen in this style, Tattooist say that block colour like that aint easy to do right.

Both absolutely awesome.

Was talking about this

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Both absolutely awesome.

almost looks like I have sexy legs.
Sexy legs are Rad.

Why?

Unblocked now?

Note: That's not me/anyone I know.

oh my wow

Morgasm are you going to the Rollapaluza on Wednesday?

piece on thomas hooper in the guardian today..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/23/tattoo-artists-new-york

Oh gosh, that bloke "terua" is really obsessed with white skin, isn't he? Too much racism for me, thanks.

This analysis is shallow. sailors didn't invent tattooing, they picked it up from the people they colonised and murdered. it had a lot more significance to white society than just fashion. I read something very interesting about tattooing and white skin in a book called 'transitional whiteness matters' people should read it. It might be on google-books, editor is Aileen Moreton Robinson. The way some white people still today react to tattoos with horror or disgust is to do with their feelings about the purity of** white** skin defiled with non-white ink and more complex issues of white identity and colonialism. Although it is true white skin doesn't look as nice, they do sometimes look tacky.

The beachcombers returned to 'civilization' and wrote books about their tattoos, they sold their stories that's the point they had to produce a narrative white society wanted to buy. Their stories and the pornographic stories of kidnapped** white** women revealed the attitudes of wider society. It is about what tattooing and means to society not what you mean to yourself. Whiteness has changed over the centuries, it is interesting white people are getting tattooed now when **whiteness **is insecure and white skin is no longer, or not much longer, a mark of superiority. I think it is interesting, the outraged reaction of some people to tattoos and your outraged reaction to my comment also reveal a lot.

so my next tattoo:
will be something along the lines of:

in this style:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/geoff4130/3286828770/sizes/m/in/photostream/

not finalised yet, as may go fine detail route... we'll see.

oh and no crown.

why is flickr being cunty?

Hey that is my arm :)

hence the link to your photostream!
it came up when I searched for otter tattoo a few days ago...
which is weird, as its a penguin....

Morgasm are you going to the Rollapaluza on Wednesday?

was not planing on doing so, may do though. I'm sure you'll spot my arm if I do, come say hello.

i absolutely adore this! lovelovelove!

wow, i hadn't looked at that link before. that penguin is AMAZING. absolutely great.

the carton shins look ace, but just thinking about tattoos over the shin and under the knee like that....ouch!

And a line drawing of Rasputin are my next two. Placement undecided...

piece on thomas hooper in the guardian today..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/23/tattoo-artists-new-york

"To a degree, the fine art world has jumped on it. But a tattoo has no resale value. That is crucial," said London-based tattoo artist Alex Binnie.

reminds me of that Roald Dahl short story "Skin", must've read it about twenty years ago but it's still there in the back of my mind somewhere... shiver