New Board Tattoo Thread

[donut]

Rad boar.

My cousin wants me to go with her to get her first tattoo (she's getting it on her foot), so I'm probably going to get something while I'm there. Someone give me an idea, no wolves or chickens.

happy alligator? yoga gorilla?

Happy alligator is a good idea.


grammatron is that from something or just some shit you came up with?

[grammatron]

Just stuff we came up with. I could bore you with the themes that inspired it but the bottom line is I like the ocean and I like pyramids.

[grammatron]

thread is giving me a crush on grammatron. v nice

And I haven't even posted my mustache in here.

[donut]

You could never bore me, grammatron. Never.

[jesse]

We want the themes

[grammatron]

Ok, well, I'm fairly obsessed w/ the idea of the passage of time and what I think of as "circles" in life. Like when we find ourselves somewhere we once were before, by accident or unexpectedly, or even places we return to over and over again throughout different points in our lives. For example, my family goes to the same spot in Florida every summer. Same town, same condo building, and for many years the exact same condo (though that has changed several times). This goes back to when I was like 10 years old. We've changed dramatically in the last 25 years, but these places stay the same (more or less). So each time we end up there, that's a circle completing.

Or when I was in high school and I'd drive to Atlanta once or twice a month to play in my punk band, and the route I took always took me by a street called Curran Street (I noticed it cause I have a friend whose last name is Curran). 8 years later or so I ended up living on Curran street. That's a circle.

I could list a hundred examples, most minor. But the point is I find this fascinating how we change and move on while these places continue to exist without us, then we find ourselves there again.

So with this in mind, consider something like the pyramids, which have stood there for thousands of years. Millions of people have come and gone, and they remain, more or less the same, day after day. Pushing this idea to its extreme, I started thinking about a future scenario where the earth was flooded, and these structures were still there, oblivious to the world changing around them. Now, instead of pharaohs and slaves, or tourists and tour guides, the pyramids are surrounded by sea creatures that know nothing at all of the vast history of the pyramids themselves.

Essentially what I did was think about this theme of time passing and worked my way around to imagery that I like a lot on its own (the sea and pyramids). Over the past year or so the idea has gone through different variations w/ different images (hourglasses, skulls, crashing waves, etc) before I arrived at the simple explanation of "ancient Egypt + sea creatures", which is what I told the artist initially. Turns out he's into a lot of the same kind of ancient alien/OOP artifact stuff that I also like, so he pulled it all together wonderfully.

[jewels]

[donut]

That explanation made me think of this half sleeve the guy that did most of my stuff did, and I was going to post a picture (because I think it's pretty fucking rad) but I couldn't find it.

What does OOP mean?

[grammatron]

edit: @ jewels

[grammatron]

That explanation made me think of this half sleeve the guy that did most of my stuff did, and I was going to post a picture (because I think it's pretty fucking rad) but I couldn't find it.

What does OOP mean?

OOP means out of place

So an out of place artifact is something that is discovered existing from a time it shouldn't exist in, such as the Antikythera Mechanism or the Iron Pillar of Delhi.

[jesse]

That's rad gramma. I sort of wish I had a better story than "I like elephants and cassowaries" but it's also like idgaf ya know

[jesse]

this is rad

[nautical hyperblast]

well... i thought i was done for a couple years at least but tomas garcia is in santa ana next week and i called and reserved his last time block. he's moving back to spain soon etcetc...

[jesse]

What are you going to get?

[nautical hyperblast]

that's a good question.
i have no idea. sacred geometry projecting out of a pyramid? an eye projecting out of a pine cone?

[jesse]

pine cone, yes

[grammatron]

this is rad

Yeah this is awesome. I love the lack of lines, just colors transitioning from one to the other.

[jesse]

It's a pal of mine done by the guy who did my tattoos

[jesse]

I've said it before but I'm probably getting a spider soon

[wyatt]

that's a good question.
i have no idea. sacred geometry projecting out of a pyramid? an eye projecting out of a pine cone?

get that weird symbol from black whole or the sacred geo.

[nautical hyperblast]

shit the flower of life? i think i am going to have him do another one of the platonic solids (or a couple?) because i already have a dodecahedron in one of my other tattoos.

[witchfinder]

Time cube

[Gyant]

this is rad

Looks like a t-shirt from Urban Outiffters. The person who did this is a great artist, all those special effects require a lot of talent; this individualism isn't for me though. I understand the artist's need to grow, but this just seems like one-upmanship; how crazy can he get, how many layers, how many colors. As far as the person who's skin that belongs to is concerned it feels materialistic, like fine art, collecting one of a kind masterpieces on your skin.

[grammatron]

[Gyant]

I take back the uninteresting "Urban Outfitters" crack. I don't mean to be petty and insulting.

[Chazzwozzer]

well... i thought i was done for a couple years at least but tomas garcia is in santa ana next week and i called and reserved his last time block. he's moving back to spain soon etcetc...

I met him a few months ago, he's really nice but quiet to the point that it made me almost uncomfortable

he also tattoos super slow but i mean it's totally worth it, I wanted to get tattooed but there wasn't time and I wasnt going to try to weasel my way in

[kid_chameleon]

That's all I can find. The last one is because of my nickname. The rest are just because I like them.

LOVE this, did you have a design beforehand or did your dude work with you to come up with something?

[jesse]

[grammatron]

awesome

[jesse]

This guy sure can do a portrait
http://www.ericmarcinizyn.com/portfolio.html