tattoo advice
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- rabattski0
well if you run the numbers you'll see that there is more variety in tattooed skin than in non tattooed skin thus proving my point that non-tattooed skin lack originality as well.
obviously you're not tattooed (or you find pleasure in pulling peoples legs). but i'll bite anyways.
"it seems more people are tattooed now than every before"
that's right. it has become less of a taboo (although one can still run into problems) so you'll see it more and more. but is that bad? people have been getting tattooed since the history of mankind. it's one of the oldest art forms around. is it bad it becomes more apparent?
"originality? how many people get tattooed with something they've designed?"
ok. this is where i think you don't have any tattoos. let me return it with a question. why would people buy a painting? why don't they paint it themselves? is owning a painting you didn't paint unoriginal?
"or simply from some flash book?"
there i partially agree. although to some certain extent there are classics, let's say a man's ruin, a death before dishonour? a lot of people have them. does that make them original? now let's leave the artists intepretation from such a classic aside, it's part of a cultural heritage. maybe it does not have the actual meaning to them it does have it's cultural meaning. but picking flash and just slap it on without any artist interpretation is indeed not smart.
"clip art on my body? no thanks.
that's your opinion and your a bit too limited view on how it runs. this also partially answers previous remarks of yours. a tattoo artist, a good tattoo artist, draws himself, most of them paint, sculpt, do whatever. you don't go to a tattoo artist and ask flash because you don't go to a painter and ask him if he can paint you a van gogh. both won't be really motivated, because both have their own thing going on and although they can copy it they won't be psyched about it. so you just tell 'em what you want, where you want it, and let them create it. that is how it really goes. custom work. your view on walking in a shop, picking number 12 from book 4 is what lack of knowledge will do.
"todays culture gets meaningless tattoos for status reasons"
the reasons are diverse as there are people. you cannot generalize it for all. yeah some do it for the wrong reasons so what? does that mean it's meaningless to all? prove to me that you're right that tattoos have no meaning these days. because todays motivations are as old as the history of tattooing itself. that plus it includes a huge bagage of cultural history in it.