Coolio or not coolio?

http://www.yourmeatismine.com/

Not cool. And is that a nasty scabby knee?

I've seen some ugly tattoos in my day, but these are extra fugly!

Motherfugly Ugly...

Wouldn't that hurt? Crayons don't glide across skin.

That is either a man with disturbingly feminine legs, or a woman with disturbingly hairy ones, but either way that is a fucking ugly ass tat.

OMG you're right Ginny. He's wearing boxers.

I think the guy had to shave his leg prior to the procedure?

This reminds me that when I went on vacation recently, I was astounded at the number of people sporting tattoos. I know tattoos are common and trendy for the under 25 crowd, but most of these people were 40 - 25 years of age.

I was at Disneyworld and saw many thousands of people that week, so I think this is probably a reasonably representative sampling of whitebread middle class America. I didn't realize tattoos were so popular. Granted, I haven't really been able to do much research on the subject, considering I haven't been to the beach or pools in quite a while. But, the fact that it was hot and that everyone was showing more skin than normal finally gave me a glimpse at America's underbelly.

And it was not pretty.

What really surprised me not only was the sheer number of people with tattoos, but the very high proportion of people with bad tattoos. I'm talking about poorly done (cheap and low quality), unoriginal (picked out of a book), or horribly faded (unmaintained) tattoos there were. For every 10 tattoos I saw, I'd say nine fell into one or more of three previous categories.

I'd like to think that I'm not horribly biased against tats as I actually considered getting some kind of tribal thing on my shoulder/bicep when I was nearing 30. I'm now very glad that I didn't.

But to answer your question, tOdd. The tattoos you showed are neither unoriginal, nor poorly done, nor horribly faded. So they are probably in the top 10% of tattoos out there. Not my thing, but as far as tat's go, they are good.



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It really doesn't get any better as you show more pictures of it...

Here's one for Squidoo:



here's one I actually like:




Several more good tattoos are in the science tattoo emproium:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/science-tattoo-emporium/?nggpage=12

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What shocks me, of my friends who have tattoos, are that they don't seem to be particularly picky about who does the tattoo. I mean, if it were me, I would not go to the first strip mall tat place next to the titty bar and have the guy ink me up.

When I worked briefly at petsmart, there was a woman who would come in with these japanese style tattoos and butterflies that were sooo awesome looking. She also had a really cool dog.

I love this one:


http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/science-tattoo-emporium/?nggpage=4&pid=200

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Hah! That's like Phoebe from Friends' "Tattoo of the world as seen from a great distance."

"It's how my mother sees me from heaven"
"Your mother is up in heaven saying where's my lily you wuss!"

Ahhh, I love it when you guys quote Friends.

..."Frank writes, 'Hey there! I didnt tattoo science, science tattooed me! Im coming up on being five years free of testicular cancer thanks in part to this tiny tattoo that helped the technicians correctly align my Guidant radiation treatments.'"

I like all of these tattoos. Even that freaky first one. I liked it even more once I saw the fish and worm.

This guy does super cool work:

http://www.anilgupta.com/

Check out the miniatures gallery in the portfolio.

Really crappy tattoos are often "jailhouse tats".

eta: I just checked out that link tOdd originally provided...that is another accomplished imaginative tattoo artist.


I am

I don't get it....

What is that piece of skin to the far left of the picture tOdd posted, up on this thread...???

Top quesses:

Asscheek?
Ballsack?
Penis?

Definitely asscheek. If it was ballsack, there'd be tears.

I LOVE these. All of them. I would get the fish one in a heartbeat.

I don't give a shite 'cause I got my Guinness Stout!

Hello All,
I m glad to visit htis forum and would like to visit it in future to get more information.
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celina

Then don't spam the place!

one of my cousins got a tat about 15 years ago.

It's a friggin' mess.

It's supposed to be a sailboat but it's hard to tell. Yeah that bad. He got the blue outline done and then it's almost as if tat dude fell asleep because one side of the tat just smears like the ink ran.

He's always wanted to get it fixed up.
Never did.

brutal.

I lurve the fish and worm!

If you are looking for a tat Ginny, my niece is an artist- I can hook you up. The place where she works is on Beach and Adams in HB.

We had dinner with her a couple of weeks ago. She is a real sweetheart- but still, she has tats all over the place in no particular order or theme. That's the part that bugs me. If you are going to do that- try and have some order to it- otherwise your body looks like a telephone message pad.

Also, I guess there is a worry about mercury in the ink now. None of the dyes are FDA approved. The red inks cause allergic reactions. All reasons I will probably never get one.

All of mine are black/shades of grey. If I get more, they're going to be parts of old maps for a theme. That way, they can fade and look better over time. Made to look like crappy, old maps.

Land sakes alive, the steak's alive.

I tried three times to get another tattoo in the past month (black line drawing of the Cutty Sark, a la an old book illustration, on the same principle as yours, Dr. Z) but each time something got in the way. Guess it was fate telling me to use the cash in a different way.

Huh. I'm going to a party on Beach and Warner tomorrow and I'll already be drunk, maybe it's fate.