POST YOUR INK (let's see your tattoos)

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Cool tattoos everybody! (Admittedly I love the 1-up mushroom the most! It doesn't even look like a tattoo)
I would love to get a tattoo, and I might get one when I'm legally allowed to (my mom is very anti tattoo, so she would never let me get one until I'm old enough to make my own decision)
My sister has a cat on her ankle, but nothing else yet. She plans on getting one for every marriage in the family though

Anatomical heart done by Jay @ Skin Illustrations, Maidstone, Kent
10/12/2007


Closeup of above tattoo.


Vertebral Column minus Sacral Vertebrae & Coccyx (Mutual agreement to not go THAT far. lol)
Done by Jay @ Skin Illustrations, Maidstone, Kent.
Started 18/07/2008 Finished 30/09/2008

I have a left sleeve but I don't think that I've posted enough times to post a pic.

that sucks

Sure you can, all you do is type [img]copy%20and%20paste%20the%20image%20url%20here[/img]

Personally I don't go to the hassel of creating a photobucket account, i just go to my facebook, find the pic i wanna post, right click on it, select properties and copy and paste the image's URL in the message body. If you hover your pointer over the third button from the left it should say below: Insert Image:

You can always preview your post to see whether you are doin it right.

I don't have a facebook account. I don't want one either. I have some problems with the idea of networking, wrongplanet is almost too much. I do have a photobucket account however. I'm not sure about how to get an image on here aside from waiting another few days and posting it from photobucket. I love your tattoos though. Frankly, I'm not the most computer proficient person on the planet, aside from certain adobe programs, then I know what I'm doing.

This is one badass back piece, Adam:!: Where did you get your new spine



..SV..

That cool Liz, facebook doesn't appeal to everyone. I guess you may have to follow photobucket's instructions. Unless of course there's another way that someone else here can suggest.

Cheers very much. I got it done by Jay at Skin Illustrations in Maidstone, Kent.

He's awesome, and I trust him with all my tats.

I do not understand why anyone would want to permanently illustrate themselves. The more I think about it, the more bizzare it seems

I don't know exactly know why Greyhound, but after I started I found it really hard to stop! Could be that I just like being part of the whole neo-tribal thing or could be that I just like living art. Who knows. I used to like face painting when I was young. I probably still would if I could get away with it. The only real issue that I have is people thinking that they can grab me by the arm in the supermarket when ever they feel like it!

Interesting - I have heard many people say that about tattoos. Although 'addiction' after the first doesn't explain the need for the first.

The first one wasn't a need, more of a curiosity. Maybe it's slightly generational. I'm 29 now. I have no idea how old you are but most of the people that I idolized were tattooed. My parents thought that I was out of my mind. Some people who are in my are group have no desire for one themselves, they do however have a certain level of understanding about the phenomenon of tattooing as a current cultural expression. It's also a very profound feeling, something that is hard to explain while it's happening.

Thank you for your explanation.


I am twenty.

In my own opinion, and through my observations, tattoos are a way of making a permanent statement. One of the most stereotypically common tattoos is: "Mother" or a lover's name. Its a way of making a statement that nothing can erase. Something that nothing can refute. Even in a way, a way around the idea of I.D.S.T. (If Destroyed Still True).

Gravestones for example. They are made so that the words engraved on them are immutable and will stand the test of time for at least as long as a great amount of time will allow. It's the same thing with tattoos. The only difference between gravestone engravings and tattoos is that the engravings is on unfeeling stone or marble and tattoos is ink injected into flesh. The idea that it is in a way mutilation is only incidental to the entire matter. It is acceptable to mark an inanimate piece of stone or marble, but not human flesh.

Some see them as a means to commemorate something. For example some sailors have a tattoo of the ship that they served on, or soldiers have tattoos of the unit/squad/service/etc. that they served with.

Myself for example if you look back you will see I have 2 biological tattoos. A heart because I think, speak and act from it, and a spine, to remind myself of my own personal self-fortitude. To remind me that I have my own mind and with that the right to use it. To stand up for myself when I feel under attack or when I have a point, and to not back down when I know I am right. In essence, to have a back-bone. And also due to my deep interest and fascination with biology, the spine itself is a symbol of strength and fortitude.

And in my own opinion, there is no better way to tribute myself, my mind, my heart and my soul than to place an immutable mark utilising an art form to tell the story of my strengths. The pain factor is merely a bi-product. A necessary evil in order to attain the mark. No pain, no gain. What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.

I have these tattoos as a reminder and a tribute to myself and my faculties as I move forward in life I am given strength and meaning by the very psychological tools I possess.

I guess the one thing that most people who have something against tattoos is the pain factor incured while getting a tattoo, and that in doing so can be classed as self-mutilation. But if you follow self mutilation through to it's logical conclusion, then we are all self-mutilating whenever we walk out our front doors. We all do damage to our bodies by breathing our atmosphere, injesting chemicals, animals and plants and moving our bodies.

Only in a pure, sterile, but also fertile euphoric and eupotic existance could we ever be free of all the forms of self-mutilation.

We are all indebted to a relentless countown towards death, and the actions we take in life can in a lot of cases speed up that clock. So to count ourselves as above the idea of self-mutilation as something that's avoidable, well I believe that's just pure idiocy.

I hope this has answered your confusion and possibly enlightened you to the mentality encapsulating the idea of tattoos.

now wrongplanet doesn't think I'm a spammer...

That's pretty damn awesome. Does it go all the way around your arm?

yes it does, I'll try to post a better pic, once I take one...