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big

Oct 11, 2002, 09:32 PM

depends on where it is placed, on a flabby area (under the arm where there are a lot of nerve endings) its gruelling.

though on the top of your arm, its not bad at all. More numbing than anything else, but on BONE! OMG! that is just all wrong

and please do not get some silly cartoon like tweetie bird or taz. you will want to wait to do it (if you even do) to design something your self, and really really be comfortable with it.

I suggest using a permanant marker to "practice" it on your self, to see if you would like what you drew, to be there forever.

you'll either feel totally dumb, or worse, really be ok with it, and it'll turn into this nasty habit.

I try to put off getting one every two years, ugg, its addicting

Durandal7

Oct 11, 2002, 09:36 PM

I don't think I'll ever get a tatoo. I'm just not a body art/piercing kind of guy.

diorio

Oct 11, 2002, 09:38 PM

So... I guess its not good to get a naked women tatooed on your shoulder unless you want it forever. I'll keep that in mind. I've also heard of those who get scrotal tatoos, which to me is totally insane. You don't do this do you?

bombensington

Oct 11, 2002, 09:51 PM

Originally posted by big
dMore numbing than anything else, but on BONE! OMG! that is just all wrong

i have a tattoo on the top of my foot, yeah it hurt so freakin much...but then after awhile it was just super numbing.

a good piece of advice is to not get any tattoos where you can't easily hide them. for me i can just wear shoes and no one is the wiser - but for some it's a lot harder. if you get one when you're young and stupid make sure it's something you can hide later when you are older and wiser.

and yes, they are addicting...i want another one too.

scem0

Oct 11, 2002, 10:41 PM

Like durandal, I am not a tatoo guy. Well, I am only 15, but I'll never get a tatoo. I can't imagine being 75 with a tatoo. And I have no idea what I would get it of. The only things I really like are apple and kung fu. Not good things to have a tatoo of.

beatle888

Oct 11, 2002, 10:54 PM

My friends ex boyfriend had flames tattood on
his wanker...he also had it pierced and he loves
to show it off (im in los angeles so it's not that
weird). The damn thing reminds me of a 67
chevy with flames and chrome.

big

Oct 12, 2002, 01:18 AM

ha ha ha ha ha ha ah ah ah aha h aha ha ha ha aahh aha ha

sorry, 67 chevy... yeah, I know a guy with several Prince Alberts....ummm, no piercings here, nor ever.

I want to get full sleeves. and probably will sooner or later.

I don't mind being 70 with old wrinkly tats...it'll still be intimidating, and scare my gandkids. I started on my upper arm with a celtic band. and need to find some one realllly good to finish it for me.

I practice Architecture, so usually I wear a suit, so it showing is not an issue. However, a nice Polo will reveal a little when I strecth, and one or two of my "Harley Davidson" clients love that their Urban Planner is kinda a bad ass.

In any instance, the only difference between people with tats & those without.... you know the saying

scem0

Oct 12, 2002, 02:08 AM

Originally posted by beatle888
My friends ex boyfriend had flames tattood on
his wanker...he also had it pierced and he loves
to show it off (im in los angeles so it's not that
weird). The damn thing reminds me of a 67
chevy with flames and chrome.

Insane and (this is just an opinion) stupid. Why?!?!?!?

dreamlance

Oct 12, 2002, 01:01 PM

I've been told it's really skanky for a woman to get a tattoo but beside that idea, I can never decide on a design that I would want to keep for the rest of my life. I muddled with the idea of getting a dragonfly on my lower back since I like them and maybe some Japanese kanji with it but maybe I'll just stick to henna :)

Piercing and tattooing private organs definitely isn't something on my list of things to try. Wouldn't that just hurt like hell?

Mr. Anderson

Oct 12, 2002, 01:13 PM

no tatoos, and won't ever get one, not interested. And I couldn't imagine my grandmother with a bunch of tatoos - that would be just plain weird. But probably by the time you all get old and think about removing them, there will be an easy way to do it - maybe even a home kit ;)

But I really don't hate them either, and don't really think much of them in general, its just not for me.

D

beatle888

Oct 12, 2002, 01:25 PM

yea their not for me. i know a few people
that wish they never got them. for me im
not much of an exhibitionist. and i never
thought they would make me "cooler"
than i already am :) so i just never got one.
really does not interest me at all. matter of
fact i think...well.....never mind.

jelloshotsrule

Oct 12, 2002, 01:26 PM

i'd consider it. but it'd take a good design to get me swayed....

i think i still have a 10% discount card for the place i got my ears (tragi) pierced.

good ole van....

medea

Oct 12, 2002, 02:41 PM

Ive got a tattoo of a panda.....it's just black and in the form of a chinese cutout.....

big

Oct 12, 2002, 03:36 PM

yeah, but where is the panda?

Im in the middle of scanning in design, and pasting them on myself (from a camera jpg)

its actually working out really well! I can see what it'd look like more or less. so cool...

If I can find a few mins, I'll post a gif tonight as an update.

sickboy_osX

Oct 12, 2002, 04:27 PM

I am a Licensed Tattoo Artist and Peircer, and I got turned on to Macs because I was tired of the Graphics Programs I used Blue Screening when I would try to draw a peice in. So I started using a Mac.

I have some Logos of a Punk Band that I used to Roadie for on my right arm and I hope to have full sleeves too much to the objections of the girl I am marrying next summer, but come hell or high water I will have at least one arm done....

I put my self through college doing tatoos at a local shop, because I would beg the head artist/owner EVERYDAY and he got tired of me, and finally brought me on.

It is fun, I love Body Modifications!

I have my date set for my next set of tattoos (The Apple Logo around my wrists)

big

Oct 12, 2002, 05:16 PM

Just got back from my local shop....

have to set an appointment, understandably so, but I can not wait for my next one, I would love full sleeves, just too expensive.

these guys have great looking work, but they charge $100 an hour, hell, even the principle in my firm doesn't charge that much!

sickboy_osX, their work looks good, is that price fair?

jefhatfield

Oct 13, 2002, 10:00 AM

Originally posted by sickboy_osX
I am a Licensed Tattoo Artist and Peircer, and I got turned on to Macs because I was tired of the Graphics Programs I used Blue Screening when I would try to draw a peice in. So I started using a Mac.

become a nude model artist...those babes won't blue screen on you:p

big

Oct 13, 2002, 04:39 PM

ha ha, that reminds me of when I almost became a nude model for a college art class

In the end I chickened out, I just would have been too emberased had it had been "cold" in the class, or say, a really cute girl....

oh man, that would have been bad!

rainman::|:|

Oct 13, 2002, 06:11 PM

Yeah, i've got a (small) tat... it's a little curly-tailed lizard with his tongue out in henna red (it's a henna design too)... it's on the side of my ankle, part of it is right on bone, but i didnt think it hurt that much. kind of like a really distant bee sting or something, more annoying than hurtful... every time she started back with the needle, i impulsively wanted to jerk my leg away, but when she was in the middle of a pass it wasnt too bad...

my partner got one the same day, henna red and henna design of a ring of dolphins on his pelvic bone right under his waist. i think he really felt it more than i did, it being so close to ... and all, but he still took it like a champ :)

it was one of those weird "i have a few hundred bucks" times and we were both relatively stoned (when it started anyway), we had only been together a month buy decided to get tattoos together. Ah well, two years later we still like 'em :)

pnw

sickboy_osX

Oct 14, 2002, 03:09 AM

I dont know i would have to see their work.

But just FYI I charged 120.00 per hour, but i Usually didnt do it by the hour, but I did it by the peice, you should ask the ink slinger near you, if they would do it by the peice instead of by the hour. sometimes that works.

rugby

Oct 14, 2002, 10:30 AM

I've got a dragon on my back left shoulder blade. It's about 6"x6" Pretty cool, I got it on my birthday 2 years ago (year 2000 was year of the dragon and it was my 25th birthday).

jefhatfield

Oct 14, 2002, 10:42 AM

Originally posted by sickboy_osX

But just FYI I charged 120.00 per hour, but i Usually didnt do it by the hour, but I did it by the peice, you should ask the ink slinger near you, if they would do it by the peice instead of by the hour. sometimes that works.

wow, that's a great living!!!

i charge $75 an hour for techie stuff, but i don't get 40 hours a week like the more experienced techies/shops in the field who clean up big time

i should become a tattoo artist instead...sounds like more fun and much better pay:p

i knew this guitarist who made no money with music turn to tattoos...first he got a job here and there working from home and as he got better, he got full time work, and as his clientele grew, he had to get a shop and hire other artists to keep his clietele happy

i don't know what he charges, but since tattoos have gone big, i think he has succeeded wildly

mischief

Oct 14, 2002, 10:48 AM

I have no mods and don't plan on any unless I get a chance to sculpt my scrawny ass a bit more, put on some weight and get symmetrical.

However: My wife has 3, She has a very well executed sleeping western-style dragon in the small of her back (about 6"wide x 5" High) in purple and green; a white pacific north-west Dogwood bloom lifesize on her right hip that she got just before the wedding to honour my BC heritage; and the kanji for "strength" centered just below the collar line on her back about 3" square done to look like rippled water. She has 2 conservative ear piercings per ear and she's quite insistant that I pick a design soon for myself.:rolleyes:

There are a very few rules it seems:

Genital mods seem to corrolate to "small-johnson syndrome"; tats on the hands are usually assumed to be an "underworld" thing; webs on the elbows and ring tats CAN GET YOU KILLED. Other than that it's a matter of taste.

jelloshotsrule

Oct 14, 2002, 10:54 AM

who here has a neck tat? is that as painful as i've heard?

Moxiemike

Oct 14, 2002, 11:04 AM

Originally posted by beatle888
My friends ex boyfriend had flames tattood on
his wanker...he also had it pierced and he loves
to show it off (im in los angeles so it's not that
weird). The damn thing reminds me of a 67
chevy with flames and chrome.

I am SO sure I know the guy-- did he go to school in Pittsburgh, pa?

m

sickboy_osX

Oct 14, 2002, 10:17 PM

My first tattoo was when I was 16, It was awesome, I was scared that the artist would find out I wasnt 18 yet, so it was a hella thrill. Someday I will have the money to finish my sleeves, and a Local Artist let me use her equipment after muine got ripped off, to do the tattoo on my fiance. It was awesome. I am hoping that by getting the Apple Tattoo on my body it will help me get a job because it has been my goal since before I could remember that I wanted to end up working for apple.

big

Oct 14, 2002, 10:24 PM

is Apple that liberal? What's it like there? what does average joe blow apple employee look like?

Rajj

Oct 14, 2002, 11:05 PM

I got my first tat when I was 16 for $20.
I'm very distinguished, so I my name in Russian:p
I now have three tat's..... a biohazard symbol and my last name wrapped around my arm like a cyclone:D

cr2sh

Oct 15, 2002, 12:04 AM

after a tramatic period in college i got a star in the soft of my left shoulder, right where it hinges... i always stood beside the lyric 'you've got to trust your instinct and let go of regret, youve got to bet on yourself now star, because thats your best bet' and i figured it was time...

when i was younger i hated the idea of having ink, but the end of that summer i had very little to show for all the love and adoration i had put into to people in my life and i really couldn't find meaning in anything. i'd always seen ink as meaningless designs, but after that ****, i know... it is as much a scar, a memorium, a tribute to my own strength as it is anything else.. sometimes in life i forget things, and if i need a symbol to remind myself of a time in my life when everything just went away, what it felt like to be in that much pain, and how close i actually came to sticking that razor in my arm... and most importantly, how ****ing stupid it would have been - than i have it now. i don't regret getting my tat, not for one second.. and everyday when i take my shirt off i'm reminded of how much i love my parents and of how many possibilites there are in this world...

sometimes people say things like 'you know you're going to have that the rest of your life..' they couldn't be more right...

marcsiry

Oct 15, 2002, 02:17 AM

I have three tattoos. I got each as a souvenir of a trip.

My first, in Singapore, is a stylized Merlion (national mythic animal of Singapore) on my right arm. Rather than the static side-view commonly associated with depictions of the Merlion, I designed a more active pose (I'm an illustrator myself) and the tattoo artist took it from there.

M second, on my left arm, is a tiki I got done on Kaua'i, Hawai'i, on my honeymoon. I did some research on tikis while I was there, but I ended up picking a particular tiki because it looked cool, not because of any meaning behind it.

My third is an alligator, on my right shoulder, that I got in Key West, Florida. In a similar but reversed position to the Merlion below it, it acts as a nice counterpoint.

I tried to get the Asahi horse-dragon done in Japan, but it's difficult to find a tattoo parlor there, due to cutural stigma. I couldn't think of an appropriate symbol while I was in France for a short time, so I missed out there.

I recently moved back to NYC after being in LA for 13 years. While I was there, I got heavily involved in motorcycle culture- so when I go back for a visit I'm going to get my first moto-oriented tattoo-- pistons, gears, flames, the whole bit. That will go on my left shoulder and probably cost quite a bit :-)

groovebuster

Oct 15, 2002, 02:39 AM

I have a tattoo. A little white pigeon on my right arm.

Just like the symbol... :)

My wife has a tattoo too. A humming bird on her upper chest. When she's a necklace it looks as if the bir is "drinking" from it.

groovebuster

Giaguara

Nov 22, 2002, 11:52 PM

Heh... i have an Apple tattooed on me... :D

big

Nov 23, 2002, 12:05 AM

NO! you dont! post a pic?

Giaguara

Nov 23, 2002, 12:11 AM

Hint: You can find it .... [ signt. ]

I use nasty javas... = i dont show anything for the windows users... :D

big

Nov 23, 2002, 12:19 AM

Nice ass! & you do have a tat of an Apple! wow!

secondly, please cut the music out of the site, I hate that. But those pants look mighty fine!

MacBandit

Nov 23, 2002, 01:05 AM

I personally have no need for tattoos. I have enough accidentally inflicted scars on my body from bicycles, motorcycles, etc.. I don't desire scarring my body on purpose.

big

Nov 23, 2002, 01:22 AM

the only difference between people with tatoos and those without, is that people with tatoos dont care if you have 'em or not

MacBandit

Nov 23, 2002, 01:30 AM

Originally posted by big
the only difference between people with tatoos and those without, is that people with tatoos dont care if you have 'em or not

I don't care either. It is your body after all.

Giaguara

Nov 23, 2002, 09:15 AM

Big i have practically forgotten already that there are any musics .. .. maybe because i use chimera (IE only for the few things that really don't work with it..). ok, i'll have a clean-up next week for the musics of the other parts than poems... :p

Heh, seeing that Gates related signature...

http://digilander.libero.it/Mulattabianca/kissmyapple/kissmy1s.jpg

Ok I am proudly a platform racist.. (= no windows even on my peecee please...) :D

That's what the win-users see when trying to see the tattoo....:p

big

Nov 23, 2002, 10:28 AM

he he, I like your attitude!

Timothy

Nov 23, 2002, 10:36 AM

I'm attaching my tatoo...I got it when I was 32, so, no "impulsive alcohol-induced, too young to know better" scenario for me! :)

This tatoo, self-designed using a myriad of symbols, represents my search for truth and knowledge. I have it around my right ankle.

P.S. Sickboy...I noticed you're from Pocatello; my wife, who is a musician, was on tour, played a show at a bar in Pocatello (First National Bar?) and met a tattoo artist at the show, and got her first tattoo in Pocatello. That wouldn't have been you, would it? I just can't fathom there being that many tattoo artists in Pocatello...

big

Nov 23, 2002, 10:45 AM

good for not "closing" the tat around yourself, this typically is bad voodoo

Royal Pineapple

Nov 23, 2002, 08:09 PM

Originally posted by cr2sh
after a tramatic period in college i got a star in the soft of my left shoulder, right where it hinges... i always stood beside the lyric 'you've got to trust your instinct and let go of regret, youve got to bet on yourself now star, because thats your best bet' and i figured it was time...

311 all mixed up
good call
love them ;)

big

Nov 23, 2002, 08:16 PM

I miss 311, they used to be the happen' band after high school. Played at every party I went to. That was a great song.

Royal Pineapple

Nov 24, 2002, 04:35 PM

Originally posted by Giaguara
Heh... i have an Apple tattooed on me... :D
not a bad ass eather ;)
i didnt know they made mac fans like that ;)

wdlove

Nov 24, 2002, 05:00 PM

I wouldn't want one myself. Its a personal decison, as long as the person know the risks!

Giaguara

Nov 24, 2002, 06:04 PM

Originally posted by Royal Pineapple

not a bad ass eather ;)
i didnt know they made mac fans like that ;)

Thanx :D

My ex's were complaining they prefer a bigger one ... :rolleyes:
... not a bigger mac fan of cos :D
i won't meet windows users anymore ... ;)