NO TATTOO ROLL CALL

Thesedays, some are nice, but hey.

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

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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

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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.

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