SeeSea

Hobby. Diving pretty much dominates our vacation planning.

Skulls while diving is not cool. I've seen partial skulls on Japanese wrecks sunk during WWII, along with various other bones. It's very sobering. Your skull is way more cool. When we were designing my sea scene back piece, I wanted to give a nod to all the wreck diving I have done, and actually thought, "Hey, I've seen skulls diving and lots of tattoos have skulls! I should include one!" Then the thought just got really fucked up in my head when I tried to picture a bone with bits of soft coral growing on it laying under all the critters. Nope.

This made me smile :)

This is great. You articulated what I was feeling but I wasn't able to convey - the imbalance of power and why the yellow fever tattoos bugged me and the other ones don't. No problem. This thread has a lot of good discussion, and your reference to something being "classic" is also another good point - that at some point in time down the road when time has passed, it doesn't/shouldn't matter anymore.

Is that what I said? No, that's a stretch. Yellow fever, as in the current cultural "creepy white man with Asian fetish" and it's objectification of Asian women because of their race. I, personally, think it's odd for a white guy to get a full rib piece (the sample I saw, but can't find it now) of a modern Asian woman in a sexualized pose simply because she's Asian. But that's me.

Narwals - wow. I've never seen one. I've only seen humpbacks from the surface - can't imagine seeing them while diving. O_O You've got a nice bucket list - that's a good way to plan your dive vacations.

Very cool - love the hammies! My back will have some schooling hammies at the top against the sun like this and I can't wait. Yours looks great! - - - Updated - - - Welcome - there are a few divers here getting sea creatures. You and I have a lot in common - I am also getting my own pictures tattooed on my back with the same idea - that the tattoo is stuff I've taken pictures of and my own memories. It's an awesome way to remember dives, right? :D I've never been diving over in your neck of the woods. So you mentioned hammerheads and sharks - what's the 3rd creature you're looking to see?

Yeah, I just saw one about "Yellow fever" getting Asian women tattooed on non Asians. That seemed kinda odd to me to do something like that if the woman was just a random representation and not a friend/family member.

The article basically says that facial hair goes through cycles in terms of desirability, and that the swing from hairless to full beard (for example) is precipitated when the renegades go full beard followed by some others who like being out of the mainstream, and then beards reach critical mass when the trend catches hold and everyone wants one. Then the renegades start shaving to be different and the cycle starts all over again. Except the cycles are many years long ... and then there are the I-don't-give-a-shit-about-trends who keep shaved/bearded/whatever regardless of the trends. Kind of interesting, and a phenomenon that extends beyond trends in facial hair. I can think of bell bottoms ... high waisted/low waisted jeans ... Please god don't let the high waisted stuff come back! Or the god-awful one piece bathing suits with the massive leg holes that extend all the way up to the waist. I want my waist showing from the TOP, not the BOTTOM of the suit!

I love the shading that goes all the way around the bubbles. It looks like he's diving way deep and that the bubbles are carrying some evil light inside them. Really cool. This would make a great sign at depth at the opening of a cave system. Much better than the traditional skull and crossbones!

:: curties :: I'm enjoying the thread - it's certainly turned out to be more fun than I originally thought it could be! And I've learned a lot, and three bandeaus should be showing up in my mailbox sometime soon! :D - - - Updated - - - Welcome @MrsGougeTheEyes - love your username. I hope that's really who you are, or it's a good joke on someone ... :D

We had to do that with my bed a year ago. Saw one side of the box spring to get it down the tight bend in the stairs to the basement. And then had to spackle and repaint the hole in the wall trying to force it around the corner. Hubby says the bed's not coming out again unless it comes out in pieces.

Tripped across this on my FB feed this morning. Beards: Too Hip For Their Own Good | I Fucking Love Science

Yeah, that stinks. The marker as it's tattooed isn't a valid color combination. You're gonna get a confused captain seeing that in the channel! If recoloring the top would just make brown, then one option to get it a little closer to a valid configuration is to cover just the top light with green or whatever to make it dark and make it larger with green around the outside so there is some green surrounding the center light, to make it look like the entire light at the top is green. Unfortunately, that's still not a valid color combo because the base is red, but unless you've got someone who understands navigation markers, I wouldn't worry about it. Just say it's based on the Somalian navigation system or something ... but wait, I doubt the pirates are worried about complying with red-right-return!

^^^ Wow it's nice to see this coming along! The colors look great! At least you have some color and a lot of coverage to carry you though the intervening weeks.

Ugh - sorry to hear that. I hope everything gets itself sorted out and get back on track.

^^^ Little stinker!

Thanks for this - I just went over to check them out, and they are currently running a sale on the bandeaus for Easter. Buy 3 or more, and save $20. Since they are all only $18, that means buy 2 and get a third free! And that's what I did! Coupon: bunny

Every time the ink has come out, except for one area of a grey t-shirt I was sleeping in. It's a little dark but maybe in a handful more washes it will be gone. I use regular soap and water and scrub at the ink, using my fingernails if necessary. Then throw it in the wash. Sometimes I've used the Spray and Wash stuff if the material is lighter colored and the ink is dark. @ThatGuy - haha funny! That generally happens the first day or so after we work on my back, and sometimes there's enough ink and colors to make out the sea critter we worked on! I can't figure out what you had done, though. Kinda looks like a rorschach test of a ship.

This is my boy, Leo. Today is a very important day for Leo - it is his 1 year anniversary for being off insulin. He was diagnosed with diabetes in August 2012 and we started a tight regulation protocol that has a high success rate in "curing" diabetes in cats. Cats are the only creatures that can be cured. The protocol is very intense - shooting higher doses of insulin, testing blood glucose on average 6-8 times a day (ear sticks) and being available to feed different carb amounts of food, and squirting honey when needed during potential hypoglycemic events. The goal is to keep the cat at the bottom end of normal glucose values to let the pancreas heal. If the protocol is started within about 6 months of diagnosis, there is about a 70% success rate. We spent 9 months of hell getting him off the juice. I never slept more than 4 hours in a row, was up multiple times a night testing, sometimes up all night surfing him on honey when his pancreas unexpectedly sputtered out some insulin to compound the insulin I'd just shot into him. We had some scary nail-biting nights, but it was all worth it. He's off insulin and back to being a normal cat. He only eats low carb food, but other than that, we saved a furry little life. Diabetic cats are often put to sleep by owners who don't know their glucose can be regulated and that they can live long lives, even on insulin. Most vets don't know cats can be cured. (BTW - he's an indoor cat now.)

@Breakme - whatever is working for you, just keep doing it - no itchies would be heaven! I think the healthy route you are doing would be best - I am trying to treat the healing process like I am getting over a cold and have to take care of myself. And the fact that I seem to be fighting a cold isn't helping much! Good luck and don't jinx the healing.

Neat. I could see making custom tattoos for a group running a race or something. About 20 of us ran one of those foam fest obstacle races and we ran in costume - this would be cool to add to a custom look.

Wow - a lot of her stuff is incredible. I have no idea how it will hold up over time as a tattoo, but they sure are nice to look at fresh and new.

Neat! Don't worry - you're cool. It's a semiclosed-circuit rebreather. They vent bubbles. ;-)

Love. This.