Anisya

Might as well laugh.

'course they are!! But not all tatoos are 'tramp stamps' and having a tattoo doesn't mean you're easy and into kinky sex with strangers. What annoys me most is old pervs who think they have the right to talk trash to me 'because I like it'- an assumption made purely on the fact that I have a tattoo on the back of my neck....makes me sick!

Here is the Melanistic Pantera Pardus piece he did on Thea Hogan at American Graffiti in Sacramento...

Cat heads seems to be a good fit for knee-designs.
I especially like these:
Jim Sylvia

Valerie Vargas

All nice but remember that there will always be new generations of people who start at 0 and not only this forum but life on the whole is new for them. ignorance is not always a choice, it's what we are all born with...

From the movie Boulevard Nights; always cracks me up!

Brad Pitt in Snatch.
Fucking awesome.

I know many of you are film lovers but there doesn't seem to be a thread about tattoos in films....I decided to start with my favourite from 'Eastern Promises'
(this picture doesn't include stars on each knee that he had in the film, as far as I remember)
I don't think people realize that most tattoos you see in the cinema are the work of theatrical make-up artists....I think they've made a good job on Viggo and those tattoos are also very important to the film plot as we realize that we are dealing with real Russian mafia, not some plain criminal...and that there is some tragic history behind each of those marks....
Anyone has a favourite tattoo from a film?
Or maybe an opinion on how tattoos are represented by the movie industry? And why is there so much TRIBAL?? In the era of HD TV and digital cameras the excuse that some tattoos don't film well and it's best to use bold black designs is no longer enough to justify all those designs!

Snake pliSskin !!!!

found online....

ok here's mine. was easier than i thought to photo my elbow with the help of a mirror and my iPhone.
done by Chris David, then of TCB tattoo toronto, now he works in BC i think in victoria somewheres.
People are always shocked he did the heart red and that i haven't had it touched up. It looks a little darker in the photo because I used lotion right before it was taken. It could use another pass on the red, it's a little blotchy when I bend my elbow all the way, but it's in there pretty good.

looking at these pics makes me realize i need to get some more shit around that thing!

found online....

Sane would be M. Night Shamaylan... Creator of all things boring. He seems to try too hard to be crazy.

That is another thing entirely!

if you never watch tv or get on the internet, the world would appear to be completely different.

People often get tattooed with new-school designs that look like body paint rather then tattoos. Because of that 'artistic' work tattooing is seen by some as more 'sophisticated', 'civilised' and non-committal. So it is now suitable for housewives, teachers, bankers and other people, who would not get tattooed in the older days. They wouldn't dare. But that is just my own crazy theory (I'm trying to understand tattooing trends in my own country, and the reasons behind it). So if my theory is true, the more people want tattoos the more artists there will be. Supply and demand. Capitalism.

Done by myself at Tattoo Alley in PA. Had to squeeze a little panther head in there that covered some awkward space and some old blue barbed

Stell tiger

And they said that thongs and back hair don't go together.

No way! It's the best of both worlds.

fuck, i would take a shitty line on me any day to have witnessed that story and be able to retell it until i'm 85 yrs old.......and you have proof!! you'll never forget that one. LOL.

Or at my Russian retreat.
Apartment covered with mentally ill resident's graffiti - Boing Boing

'in some respect the commodification of this practices (tattoo) and their claims to be 'art' require as to treat them as no different then any other form of personal consumption in the West. In the words of one clear-sighted enthusiast, 'The guy with 10,000$ worth of tattoos is no different then the guy in an Italian designer suit wearing a Rolex.'
Ed Hardy
1. For each exclusive commodity there is a niche for illegal copies
2. for every standardised and regulated industry there are people committed to operate outside of this industry, often in opposition to it.( think street art- most of it is a nuisance and it IS illegal, mostly quite bad too. But there's no stopping them, it's about personal freedom)
3. Goods that are common cannot be exclusive but having no cash for Nike's trainers never stopped anybody from running. They'll buy Chineese exports.
And I could go on and on with reasons WHY. The bottom line is the answer is as simple and as complicated as the modern capitalist society.