NO TATTOO ROLL CALL

Saying that, pacman munching a row of pills around my bicep... no, that sounds fey written down

I know, however, what I would get if I bothered.

Er, yeah, reprazenting on the untouched by tattoos front. When I was a goff I wanted to get black eyeliner tattooed on to save me having to do my makeup. Thank God I was too squeamish to go through with it.

Thesedays, some are nice, but hey.

Morel eel to the story: tattoos = kiss of daeth.

0nick0

0NICK0

0nIcK0

hmm, still not good.

Someone (drunk bloke in pub) once told me I wasn't a "real man" because I didn't have any tattoos.

Was that when you were wearing your wife's earrings? Because I can sort of see his point :-)

Being in touch with my feminine side didn't stop me kicking the shit out of him.

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv9wahoia61qar86bo1_500.jpg

who needs tattoos when you've got scars

otm! i have awesome scars. but no tattoos.

my birthmark is fading

maybe i need to get it tattooed

None. I might want one some time but not yet...

None yet.

find tattoos pretty ridiculous tbh

I have one that I got when I was 16. I dont think i'll ever get another one

find tattoos pretty ridiculous tbh

that's it, i'm getting a tattoo depicting suburban sprawl across my buttocks

no text - none required

None, but I think about it pretty often. Think I've decided on the subject matter, finally, but I'd like to find a good example from old art and do it right the first time.

As with screensaver, desktop art, etc, would get bored fast with any tattoo, and get a new one, then repeat until whole bady was wasteland of bad ideas

whole BODY I mean, fuck it

That's not the worst idea in the world, though, if it's a testament to where, and who, you've been.

obligatory: my little league baseball coach

I have one tattoo that I let myself get to commemorate an event in my life that I felt - and still feel - was worth commemorating. However, I chose a somewhat obtuse symbolic representation of the event. As such, 1 in every 5 or so grocery store visits, a checkout clerk will ask me to explain what it means. I've reached the point where I can barely tell the story without sounding rehearsed and slightly exasperated. I've had the ink for 6 years now and I sorta wish that I'd kept the deep personal meaning crap to myself and gotten a flaming skull or a bent-over titty woman on my arm instead.

pix?

Yeah the disadvantage of having a tat is you have to have this little 15 second justification/explanation of its existence. NOT TOO MANY clerks want to hear about how the comics code authority came to be. If it's a long purchase I tell them the long version (as their interest quickly wanes) because I'll take any excuse to use the phrase "injury to the eye motif" (thank you saint Jack Cole).

Never considered one. Several years ago I had a nightmare that someone basically did a permanent doodle on my back and I kept thinking forever, it will never come off, forever, forever and was filled with anxiety, anger and sadness. It was all very real. Never.

that's it, i'm getting a tattoo depicting suburban sprawl across my buttocks

― mookieproof, Tuesday, November 29, 2011 8:01 PM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark

must have pretty huge buttocks

*hi fives iatee*

i have a tattoo of a butt on my butt

hey dayo let's hang out on mookie's buttocks, meet u at the walmart parking lot 3 miles east of asscrack street

ps watch out for the brownfield site

No tattoos here. I've thought about it, but it just seems... I dunno, kind of pointless? I've never had an image that I am sure I love enough to have put on me forever. Don't mind other people having them at all; although I am not especially attracted to them, nor am I repulsed. Also, I think some people's are pretty neat - Abbs' comics code one I love, and... did you actually get a lemur/tarsier-type creature tat or did I just dream that?

no longer in this club. don't tell my mom!!!!

I got a misquito bite on one of mine over the summer and I scratched the hell out of it to the point where it scabbed over and now it's faded in a weird way and I'm not very happy about it.

Abbott - I still wanna get the hedgehog/sloth drawing but I'm not sure where.

don't have any, no interest. but i do like talking to people about their tattoos.

hey dayo let's hang out on mookie's buttocks, meet u at the walmart parking lot 3 miles east of asscrack street

u thought i was joking

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr251/mookieproof/dsotm.jpg

no tattoos for me.

i typed that with my eyes modestly averted.

it's just suburbia

i spent a few years thinking about mine before committing to it, then a lot of time trying to find the right person to do it. i actually had the opposite experience of tera: i had a dream that i got a tattoo (when i had never ever considered one before) and i woke up completely convinced that i needed to do it. mine is sort of 'obvious' enough that ppl don't really ask what it 'means' but i also chose something that did have a lot of sentimental significance to me.

i guess this is probably really cliche, but i don't have any tattoos just because i can't think of anything i'd be happy with for the next year, let alone the rest of my life. no matter how old i am or what i'm doing, i always look back 2 years and fucking hate everything about myself. for example, if i got a tattoo a few years ago it would probably be something related to Charlie's "Spacer Woman" because i was totally obsessed with that song. and i'd probably be drunk enough to get it on my neck or something.

totally understandable - i felt the same way, so much amazing art to choose from, WHAT I DO??!! in the end, i didn't pick my favourite piece of art, but i picked something that would translate well and the sentimental significance would always remain.

No tattoos, no problem with tattoos or needles just no tattoos on me at the moment. Maybe someday if I feel like it's important for me to get one, I will get one. Until then, nothing.

I got nothing, and I'm devoid of ideas, unlike smoove. (I enjoy art, honest). This thread plus reading LL's home-made gifts thread reminds me that I don't have a lot of creativity going on. A friend's daughter has plenty, all abstract - I'd probably go to her for ideas if I became keen.

Is there a sandbox tattoo roll call thread?

used to live in a certain alt-rock town and never quite fit in and eventually decided it was because I
1) did not have tattoo
2) did not own pet snake

I got what Fetchboy upthread got

http://www.richardsnotes.org/pictures/new_orleans_water_main.jpg

It's on my underarm, and it turns out that when I lift my arm up, it looks like my armpit is exploding. Might get stink lines on the other underarm.

beneath the stink lines, don't forget: ^ haha

i am completely covered head to toe in tribal tattoos

None, for a stupid reason: onsen

no tattoos, would have to be a text one if I ever got one probably

like wut

None here.

It's on my underarm, and it turns out that when I lift my arm up, it looks like my armpit is exploding. Might get stink lines on the other underarm.

― Sandbox Jesse

this must have hurt SO MUCH.

mine is on my inner arm a few inches down from the armpit and even that was really sensitive.

dying at mookie's little league coaches Steelers tribute--can I just

none except that Partridge Family logo on my inner thigh

the only thing i could ever get close to thinking would be a good selection was one of joe brainard's nancy drawings

http://storage.canalblog.com/56/78/119589/27181762.jpg
http://www.bookforum.com/uploads/upload.000/id02288/article00.jpg

but i don't think i am gonna get a tattoo anytime

Well, I could've been in this club as recently as 2 and a half months ago, but ...

http://s3.amazonaws.com/ink_prod/photos/0321/2430/315534_10150395578282358_513642357_8623890_2140434333_n_large.jpg

No tats here, but I'm still planning to get the ones that I've wanted to get for the last 25 years (a heart with a bow on top on the back of my heels, you all know the jewelry design that I'm thinking about, right?) when I can.

I have none. But when I was younger and obsessed with certain French writers I was on the verge of getting this in the middle of my back. http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/9404/019ud.jpg Very happy I waited.

It's on my underarm, and it turns out that when I lift my arm up, it looks like my armpit is exploding. Might get stink lines on the other underarm.

― Sandbox Jesse

this must have hurt SO MUCH.

mine is on my inner arm a few inches down from the armpit and even that was really sensitive.

― bene_gesserit, Wednesday, November 30, 2011 2:46 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

Oooh gurrrrl, let me tell you. My others are on my back and outer arms, and when others talked about painful tattoos, I always thought either I was tough or they were whining, but this one taught me a lesson. It took about an hour and a couple of times I wanted to cry. I wasn't tearing up, but I still wanted to boo-hoo.

I must have a high threshold of pain. Only the inner elbow has bothered me so far.

I like your piece, Eric.

Though I do feel like you're challenging me to a pain-off.

The pain level depends on the needle size, too - the only time where I thought I might pass out was the last 15mins of the guy redoing line work on my ankle bone

A friend of mine who has tons of stuff said that either his ribcage or the palm of his hand was the worst. I think there are a lot of variables and it just depends on the person to some extent too.

how did "NO TATTOO ROLL CALL" turn into "check out my painful-ass tattoos"

Sandbox rules.

Thanks, Jesse. Work in progress still, only on my 2nd session. Was really really thankful to find, during the 1st session, that I didn't feel any really severe pain.

if i got a tattoo a few years ago it would probably be something related to Charlie's "Spacer Woman" because i was totally obsessed with that song. and i'd probably be drunk enough to get it on my neck or something.

― Z S, Tuesday, November 29, 2011 10:39 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

this sounds like probably one of the very few justifiable tattoos imo

http://www.technodisco.net/img/tracks/c/charlie/1069617-charlie-spacer-woman.jpg

would tattoo

want a new tattoo, trying to figure out a way to make a digital waveform image (kick snare kick snare) look cool.

I have a tattoo of a tattoo on me

I have none. But when I was younger and obsessed with certain French writers I was on the verge of getting this in the middle of my back.

When I was younger and obsessed with certain French writers, I got a tattoo of an egg in my ass.

it's one day later and i still don't have any tattoos

Was that supposed to offend me rusty flathead screwdriver?

I actually have an amalgam tattoo on my gum

I could never get one. Not really because I have anything against tattoos, but I know that I would end up hating whatever tattoo I ended up getting within a week. I change my mind too much.

just write on your ass with a sharpie ans see how that feels first - look at is in the tub

I will pass.

Not tats. No piercings. Never have even changed the color of my hair. Not only do I not like it when people try to write on me, I don't even like putting scotch tape on my fingers when wrapping presents at Christmas.

If someone wants to paint their forearm like the side of a '78 Econoline, then have at it. But it's not for me and it's not something that appeals to me.

I really really hate having tape or anything sticky on my hands or arms.

A friend who is a therapist said that he has to cover his arm tattoos for his self-harm group and when seeing new patients or those who were harming themselves.

That's pretty much universal in health care.

not opposed to them and feel they can be quite hot, but don't have any myself. can't think of anything i need to have on myself permanently.

x-post - Yeah. Friend of mine made the mistake of showing up to her first day of nursing school with short sleeves on. It didn't go over well.

Peace sign on my arm when I was 18. Blessedly aborted a pinup girl on the inside of my right forearm when I was 20.

I like tattoos, don't see the "I'd get bored" reasoning (my tattoo is pretty lolz in a bad way but reminds me of a specific time and place in my life), but the only other things I'd get would be visible (forearm half-sleeves) and I couldn't do that without my life being more figured out and while I see my grandfather on a near-daily basis.

my tattoo is pretty lolz in a bad way but reminds me of a specific time and place in my life

Abbott has a good theory on this sort of thing. I do too but I don't really care. I mean, I got my tramp stamp before there was such a thing GODDAMMIT! ;) See also a small Chinese character that is now part of something bigger in part so that it's less obvious.

The next time any of you walk into a roomful of nurses, ask them to raise their hands if they have a tattoo. The only ones that won't have their hands up will be over 40. There's a lot of things that they care about in nursing school that no one cares about in the real world, and this is one of them.

one of our system enginners has all these tats that sometimes show when his sleeves are up - alwyas looks kind of silly / embarassing

Another therapist friend said that the other guy's tattoos could be a good model for an acceptable way of channeling the urge to harm or mutilate yourself.

They work in very different settings.

JacobSanders - no! I was just trying to make the most blatant Bataille joke I could think of. : )

I have one very small tattoo on my upper left leg that I gave myself w/ a sewing needle & calligraphy ink when I was 14. At the time, I did not think it would be permanent, but there it still is.

It is the owl symbol from Twin Peaks:

http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/1105267805/TP20_-_owl_cave_symbol_reasonably_small.jpg

HA! too much Blanchot and jokes take longer to sink in

Eventually I plan to have my arms covered from shoulder to elbow and at least one leg covered from knee to ankle, but I only have bits and pieces in these places now. I think about chest pieces sometimes too but that's a ways off.

Left arm is half sleeved already plus a big one inside the forearm, to the point that I look at it wonder why I don't just cover the whole thing up to my wrist.

The only one that I regret (and it's pretty regrettable) is that I decided circa 1995 that getting a tribal tattoo would be AWESOME but I wasn't ready to have it visible yet. So I got it on my lower back. Someday I'll have to turn it into a giant black rectangle.

I used some of those temporary stick-on tattoos that wash off with soap a few times. I think hearing that Offspring lyric about getting a 31 instead of 13 when I was a teen forever scared me away from getting a tattoo....

"skin untouched by ink like ever"

i've managed to live 40+ years by this rule and cannot see the situation changing.

will be interesting to see what happens with my teenkid given the popularity of such things these days.

there's a gal in the nursing school here who has a FACE TAT. she got it immediately after being accepted (or so i've heard), and is now (shockingly) running into trouble getting placed into clinical rotations to finish her training

Face tattys legit kinda freak me out

I've seen them done well on occasion, but mostly they are fucking mental.

I have no, neither does wife.

2 kids, as mark e says it will be 'interesting' to see if either want when older. Guessing not.

I don't really know many people with tattoos. I'm old obviously.

Oh, I know quite a few. They are younger, admittedly, but then again...

well, i have heard my teenkid use the phrase 'tramp stamp' in regards to certain styles of tats, so i'm hoping that my teenkid is of the same opinion as me.

cos there's no doubting it, they look great when the skin is all youth'd up, but add a few years and beers, and that stuff can end up looking worse for wear.

and i've not seen enough flesh of my social circle (thank the lord) to make any call re who has one or not.

and i've not seen enough flesh of my social circle (thank the lord) to make any call re who has one or not.

Yeah, that's more like it

Never bought the "what will that look like when you're old and grey" line of logic. When I'm old and grey, my tattoos aren't going to be what makes me too embarrassed to go out in public. It'll be my old, saggy, haggard self that keeps me indoors.

i still don't have any tattoos

hi-5

i figure that by the time we are old and grey the laser technology to remove these things will have advanced to a simple, painless procedure. and that we'll all have robot butlers.

Never bought the "what will that look like when you're old and grey" line of logic. When I'm old and grey, my tattoos aren't going to be what makes me too embarrassed to go out in public. It'll be my old, saggy, haggard self that keeps me indoors.

OTM!! for a long time, i thought 'oh but what about when i'm OOOOOLD?!?" but then i realised that i wouldn't be showing off those bits of skin when i'm that old anyway so it won't matter. another thing for me was that i'm not particularly enamoured with my body, so i didn't feel like i was "ruining" my leg by get it half covered in a tattoo.

As covered as I aspire to be I'll never get face, neck, or hand tattoos. I believe strongly in the "nothing you can't hide while in front of a judge" rule.

i don't know when i'll get another one but i have a couple things that i wouldn't mind having on me forever (himalayan tahr, tree shrew).

i am just going to end up covered in weird mammals (the first one was a pangolin).

Just gis'ed pangolin and, damn, that's like the perfect tattoo animal.

Anyone have words of wisdom on making a bunch of individual tattoos work together? I like all my tatts (except one tiny huge mistake) but the next step has to be something to integrate them all into something that makes sense, otherwise I'll just be a mass of disparate marks.

here is my pangolin (1st tattoo at 32):
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-kkVIq1Yc42Q/TpJfLwuJRFI/AAAAAAAAALU/yrak4Lky9EQ/s512/cid_497.jpg

it looks a bit lighter now that it's healed.

ugh i did an image search on "waveform tattoo" and they all look terrible. back to the drawing board, i think.

Nice. Were you the one saying that your underarm tattoo hurt? It looks like it took a long time.

it wasn't that bad until the last 45 minutes, when my tattoo artist was coloring over the parts that had already been tattooed. it took about 2.5 hours total!

ayo uninked btw

jess3, find the best tattoo artist in your area and just tell them you want to integrate all your pieces - if they're any good, they'll figure out a great way to do it for you.

Yeh, you're right. I realized that was a pretty useless question. I was just thinking "aloud."

the answer is clear anyway - massive rebel flag goes with everything

i checked -- no tattoos yet

By the time all of us are old, no one will be bothered by tattoos. Tattoos will be as mainstream as having your ears pierced.

Bene g, that's fresh.

no tattoos and I've lived my entire adult life in Portland so

<3 the crusty hedgehog pangolin!

Jesse, the integration thing was one of the things that prevented me from delving in for the last few years. I eventually decided I just needed to have it all conceptualized at once and make the plunge.

No tats so far after 36 years although I've toyed with getting one of the Stereolab cartoon guy from their early album covers.

Here in Austin it's unusual to not have a tattoo

disappointed that nicole doesn't have this tattoo tbh

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f1/Detroit_Red_Wings_Original_Logo.svg/220px-Detroit_Red_Wings_Original_Logo.svg.png

i didn't feel like i was "ruining" my leg by get it half covered in a tattoo.

Can I say your leg tat is PERFECT and GORGEOUS? I wish I had that talented of a tat artist in my area (that and the bank to get one).

I have been thinking of getting some full calf piece like that, sleeves seem like a bad idea as a public school teacher. In fact there is another student teacher in my grad program teaching seventh grade biol. He looks like Benjamin Franklin, long wavy grey hair and tiny wire frames, but fully covered in tats except on his face & hands. I went to observe his class and his kids were giving him amazing levels of shit about it. "Why does a REALLY OLD MAN have SO MANY TATTOOS?? YOU ARE TOO OLD TO HAVE TATTOOS!" So while I can talk for days about how I'll still love my tats when I am old and wrinkled and they are all weird saggy blurs, I do not want to have to up my class management game to avoid being grilled about WHY ARE YOU SO OLD AND ALSO TATTOOS OMG???

And even if I did up my game it would still happen.

i don't really wanna encourage you, but i have a lot of faith in yr game

This is life, the one you get, so go and have a ball.

Students will mock regardless of what you do, so might as well do what you want.

hahaha

Don't worry guys I am not holding back my truest of dreams.
I did decide I was going to try and get an apprenticeship when I'm done w/college so I can be a tattoo artist in the summers, though.

oh! ok

is that yr truest of dreams?

thank you abbott! that means a lot coming from an artist i truly admire. my tattoo guy is one of the top names in the profession (h3nry l3wis), and yes he is pretty expensive, but i knew i would only get it done if i had full confidence in the person doing it. i'm getting it coloured first week of jan! i def want to get my other leg done, too, and also half sleeves (shoulder to elbow), but that is some serious cash so may not happen.

also: abbott, i really hope you go through with the apprenticeship, bc you would be an exceptionally awesome tattoo artist.

My husband's a very good artist. (He almost got a job with Disney in the early seventies, except that they didn't like men with long hair in their studios any more than they liked them as customers at Disney World.) We've been looking in to getting him a job as a tattoo artist if he can't get on disability, but we have no idea how to go about doing such a thing.

i'd like to go on record as saying that pangolin is pretty fucking awesome

Christine if you're husband is a good artist perhaps Pixar would be a more lucrative career?

Christine it probably would not be the kind of job where you go from having no money to having a paycheck in a very short time. You start out doing an apprenticeship with a good tattoo artist. An apprenticeship is usually not free, you have to pay the tattoo artist (and why shouldn't you? you're getting a lot of professional help). Even if it is free that's weeks/months where you're not making money. And once you have those skills under your belt, it's still not a steady job, and there are many costs associated with doing it. Like starting any skilled job, it takes some initial investment if you want to do it. Not to be SUPER DISCOURAGING but oops lol I just was.

I think to make it a full-time career you really have to be passionate about tattoos & tattoo culture & you have to hustle pretty hard. My friend & former manager at Kinko's started his own shop w/his wife after quitting Kinko's and I think it was 3-4 years before he was in the black with it. They are both talented artists and also workaholics and I really think the latter is the key to their success. He was happy in the years the shop wasn't profitable because he was doing what he truly loved, but he was also working as a waiter in his spare time and putting in 80-90 hours of work a week between his two jobs. And still putting in 60-70 as just an artist now. I don't know if this is the most typical story but it does take a ton of effort, I think, to get anywhere useful with that career. And I think you have to really love tattoos.

Whenever I see people with leeves and other very visible tattoos who otherwise look like they are productive members of mainstream society, I want to ask them what they do for work. Of course visible tattoos are no problem in jobs like tattoo artist, head shop proprietor, hairdresser, or maybe some artists, but are all those inked people in jobs like that?

I guess also: chef/cook, bartender in certain places.

But the ones who commute during 9-5er rush hours?

Eric H., do you anticipate your sleeve be an issue in work down the road?

Don't forget graphic designers!

Really anything but Sales and the finance-y stuffy jobs, p much. You keep 'em covered for the interview, and after that it's no one's business except yours, unless you're going somewhere to represent the company or etc.

Nope, Jesse. No one really cares what the behind-the-scenes TV employees look like, and if I find out they do, well, I'll just switch to long sleeves.

I actually am a graphic designer, but at a university library. Ive worked in IT as well. My brother-in-law is very heavily tattooed and is a philosophy professor (and a DJ, I guess). The other people I know with visible tattoos are both fine arts professors. I really don't know that many people with visible ink.

The most heavily tattooed person I know is in a PhD program for neuroscience or some insanely smart shit, doesn't seem to have had any effect there either.

That's my fallback plan. To get a PhD.

i know two recently-minted docs (one ER, one pathology) that have full sleeves on both arms, and have heavily tattooed legs as well

So I think we can safely say that visibly tattooed people do mostly all the same jobs that non-visibly tattooed people do, except maybe, like, teach at a Baptist pre-school. I think the okay-ness is probably limited to arms, though, in terms of what you'd see in public? I can't imagine face or neck work being quite as acceptable.

Pretty sure full sleeves + neck + scalp = consigned to work at Pizza Luce, but I could be wrong.

I'm putting my resistance to the forearm tattoo idea I've had for a long time at +/- 2 more months, will upload a pic if I do it

that was always an issue for me earlier - what if i end up in a job where tattoos aren't acceptable? but i'm almost 32, i think it's pretty clear that if i haven't worked in that kind of environment so far, i probably never will. and like joygoat, i would never get hands/face/neck tattooed.

hey christine, if your husband is artistic there are a bunch of other ways he could utilise those skills that would be a lot cheaper/easier to implement: little original drawings, cards, that kind of stuff, is HUGE on etsy.com - you could start a store and try selling his stuff? not much overhead involved.

I'm 37 and can't imagine ever ending up working somewhere that would care about tattoos. Even if I did I can always roll my sleeves down.

Also, based on the general dress aptitude of university libraries and engineering school IT departments - where I often feel dressed up by wearing a clean button down shirt and long pants - I can't imagine that tattoos detract from the general dress code.

Pretty sure full sleeves + neck + scalp = consigned to work at Pizza Luce, but I could be wrong.

― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Saturday, December 3, 2011 11:11 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

+ hard times + t-rock

Would work at all those places, tbh.

After spending a lot of time in Portland the food service professionals in Minneapolis seemed pretty under-tattooed by comparison but breakfast at the triple rock more than made up for it.

i kindof really want to get this on my right calf

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3486/4030801293_e6c84ab2f3.jpg

it would have to be done like really well though, its not the kind of thing you can get away w/ half assed.

If I were to get a madonna:

http://www.hitomimatarese.com/pages/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Jean-Fouquet-Madonna-and-child1.jpg

With the red green angel background running Escher style around the limb.

Er,
http://www.hitomimatarese.com/pages/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Jean-Fouquet-Madonna-and-child1.jpg

and red blue cherub tiles.

i like how he's pointing at his ma
<-- hey look over there

Debating Milo Goes To College cover w/ no text vs. I Don't Want To Grow Up w/ the words top and bottom. The former was a much more important album to me, the latter a better design...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uB-0D-gV8mY/SMESX4F53BI/AAAAAAAALbs/IvhqWOFmprA/s400/descendents

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/67/Descendents_-_I_Don

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7156/6455531803_f519bba588_z.jpg
Untitled by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

that was a quick decision.

I don't think it even matters anymore. Tattoos are now mainstream and prob the majority under say 30-35

Although ¡maracas!.jpg might be an exception

Awwwww

http://www.okgossip.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ashton_KUTCHER_TATTOO.jpg