Elderon wrote:
My wife and I taked about tattoos, which is generally a conversation about the dumb things that people get put on their bodies. We agreed that many things are just silly or cliche.
Such as:
Dragons - especially on white guys
Chinese Text Symbols
Barbed wire, chains, fire
Ladies' lower back I'm-a-***** tattoos
Yin-yangs
Flags
Skulls for the sake of skulls
Barcodes
Anything that requires a methaphorical explanation
Letters accross the knuckles
Turning your belly button into something crass
Cartoon characters - This is like buying a yellow humvee. Look at my ink, I'm badass, but not really.
Half decent reasons:
Military - If you belong to a specific group
Religous purpose - Main reason for tattoos throughout history
Elvish wedding band - Neat idea, only ever saw one of these
Scar cover-up
Special/Important purpose or conviction
Essentially, about 95% of people who have ink, get it for the sake of getting it, which is all fine and dandy, but I think it's retarded. Get something unique for the love of Bob. Hell take Enigma for example. Sure he looks like hell, but at least his idea was unique, so points for that.
It's the
Flash Art plague. Almost every shop you go in has walls lined with pre-made art that takes the thinking out of Tattoo's, removing the purpose other than getting "inked"...which isn't really a purpose. Retards just point and say "Stick It", because they think the 15 minutes they spent browsing the art is enough to make a permanent decision about something inked into their skin. I mean, power to them...that's what it's there for (to sucker dumb sh
its into spending their money quick)...but I personally think if you don't put any thought into it, make it original, and maybe even go as far as sitting down with the artist to pre-draw it so it's exactly what you want, there's no reason to get it.
I'm heading down to West Palm Beach in March of '07 for my brother-in-law's wedding, and my wife and I have every intention of taking a day trip to hit up Miami Ink for some new art. It's been about 5 years since my last piece...so I'm way overdue! I'll do something to indicate "Asylum" (...I'll have to get creative...), maybe it'll get onto the show ^^