NO TATTOO ROLL CALL

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'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