tattoo quotes

Death could come at any time, Angelina Jolie says. The tattoo is a strong reminder to live fully in the moment and never have regrets.

Tattoos aren't meant for everybody and they're too goddamn good for some people.
~Lyle Tuttle, tattoo artist, author, and lecturer.

People have asked me, what about your tattoos when you're ninety? Why would it bother me then? I would still want to get tattooed even when I'm a grandmother.
~Nicole Miller, noted fashion designer

Beauty is skin deep. A tattoo goes all the way to the bone.
~Vince Hemingson

Quirky is sexy, like scars or chipped teeth. I also like tattoos - they're rebellious.
~Jennifer Aniston

Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful.
~Pamela Anderson

Tattoo the pristine flesh
What is permanent anyway?
This ink only lasts 'til the grave,
Skin and ideas decompose
That which we did compose.
~Corri Alius

Ink to paper is thoughtful
Ink to flesh, hard-core.
If Shakespeare were a tattooist
We'd appreciate body art more.
~Carrie Latet

Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies.
~Jon Anderson, "Epidermal Dalis," Chicago Tribune, 6 October 1994

The only difference between a tattooed person and a person who isn't tattooed is that a tattooed person doesn't care if you're tattooed or not. ~(Sign often seen in tattoo shops)

Love lasts forever, but a tattoo lasts six months longer.
~(Anon)

For someone who likes tattoos, the most precious thing is bare skin.
~Cher

tattoo research

presentation

good is traditional tattoos, for my presentation i decided to touch on a few brief points seeing as we only have 2 minutes available to inform our associates. the sectors i chose were:

• What is meant by tradition
• Examples of the work
• Pro's and con's (colour and image etc)
• Stereotypes and
• Other tattoos and my own opinion on them

I chose a black background with a dark rose red for type in gothic mc to give an old school

traditional vibe. The choice in colour suggests it is based towards men, which is not true but

in tradition's opinion, it was more of a man hobby.

Here are a few example slides of the presentation:

The majority of the slides are visual as I am going to explain the images rather than

bore everyone with words on a screen. (I did spell colour right... Americans)

Traditional tattoos are good.

Why traditional tattoos and not any other styles such as old school, henna or tribal.

well the reason for this is i personally find traditional tattoos far more interesting than any other form out there for how unique they are in comparison to tribal which being covered in tattoos myself i know all tattooists HATE doing them:

"Guy came in today asked for a tribal.... told him we were all out of black ink"

Nice quote from my old tattooist in Wigan. the fool believed that they were out of black ink

as well... :/ idiot...

erm yeah well basically here are few examples of why i HATE tribal tattoos full stop:

They have a nickname.... slag tags. cool?

every girl that needs pod to give them a make under has one of these attached to their back.

They always look amazing after a few years time.. bold black ink is always a winner.

Everyone that has a slag tag, has a chav boyfriend who has a tribal on his arm.

Prejudice i know but in the visual communication word, this communicates average.

now don't get me wrong these mass produced tattoos that everyone has arn't the only

choice in tattoo that bores me or makes me think god thats stupid, these fellows below

gross me out..

What complete and utter mongs.

They don't even look good, if you want too look like a tw at the end of the day go ahead and get this done.

Then theres guys like this who really take the p155

Looks wicked awsome man, you are going to be a BABEEEEEEE magnet.

it's for all bad reasons like these i love traditional tattoos. they don't try too hard to impress

and don't come with half the consequences as others.

the thing i love about traditional tattoos is the legacy, history and age from the designs, the uncertainty and apocryphal they are. I believe that the designs are amazing.

Here are a few sketches of traditional ink:

my favorite thing about them is the colour palette used, it is limited and is based around CMYK in bold.

See.. they are just awsome.

What is good

It took me a while to finally stop making lists of what is good and actually choose something I wanted too do. I narrowed my list down too around about 35 options ( a bit like the x-factor)

Here are two of my lists with what is not good about them:

Some of my final topics got narrowed down even further, it got to:

Yellowcard

Tattoos

Boyband

Hayley Williams

Type

Ipod

Fall

bmx

Screen prints

Front Magazine

and Drums

Well in all essence I had too choose one but i wasnt sure which, so I asked myself, which i knew more about and would like too learn more about so it was clear of my decision which would be unique to what anyone else would choose in the class ( as we all hate a clash )

Traditional tattoos.

Design for print powerpoint presentation (One)

Okay, for my presentation for design for print, i decided too get a bit of background
knowledge on the different kinds of print that was and is out there today. I discovered that the first form of printing was developed in 200AD and was called Woodcut printing. In researching woodcut printing many dates have arisen in claims of when the dates of development where but according too my research the earliest examples of woodblock dated back to before 220AD and where formed in China, this process only hit Europe over 1200 years later.

here are some finished examples of the process:



My favorite type of print is Lithography after researching into some of it's finished examples. I adore the fact that limited colours have been used too make something so astoundingly attractive in visual format.

Litho was invented by Aloys Senefelder in the late 1700's but only came into its full artistic function in 1890 with colour prints of another artist, Pierre Bonnard.
As this is abbreviated and i don't wish too include ALL my slides from the presentation i have decided too leave it after i showed a few examples of screen printing which influence me as a designer.

I am going too experiment with screenprinting a LOT more this year because i <3 the outcomes acchieved in the process and i believe it makes your work so much more special than Ctrl P

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