Thinking On Inking
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Great title for a so-so review...
https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/december-january-2022/thinking-on-inking/
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What a great paragraph:
The book is mercifully short, more essay than treatise, and includes a brisk history and ethnography of tattooing. When it comes to anything philosophical, Mr Miller’s writing combines the qualities of cliché and incomprehensibility: “History demands that we give credence to the magical properties of tattooing even if (or perhaps especially because) they seem anathema to our predominantly secular worldviews. I should confess at this point that I wouldn’t count myself an active believer in tattooing magic …”
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My daughter just got one on her forearm.
Well, we held her off until almost 29. Our theory was that by now she'd have better sense. Dang.
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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It's generally fairly easy to guess somebody's age based on how much they disapprove of tattoos.
I'm guessing Theodore Dalrymple isn't a young man - based on the article, he's in his 70's. Based on his name he's about 130.
I was only joking
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My daughter just got one on her forearm.
Well, we held her off until almost 29. Our theory was that by now she'd have better sense. Dang.
@mik said in Thinking On Inking:
My daughter just got one on her forearm.
Well, we held her off until almost 29. Our theory was that by now she'd have better sense. Dang.
My daughter has several, none that can't be covered easily. I can think of lots of better things to spend my money on.
And I think she, along with many in her generation, are going to seriously regret the ink as they get older.
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It's generally fairly easy to guess somebody's age based on how much they disapprove of tattoos.
I'm guessing Theodore Dalrymple isn't a young man - based on the article, he's in his 70's. Based on his name he's about 130.
@doctor-phibes said in Thinking On Inking:
It's generally fairly easy to guess somebody's age based on how much they disapprove of tattoos.
I'm guessing Theodore Dalrymple isn't a young man - based on the article, he's in his 70's. Based on his name he's about 130.
He's an interesting guy -- now an old fart of course, but was a prison psychologist and physician before he became a cultural critic when a younger man. He hangs around Taki. As to his nom de plume, he "chose a name that sounded suitably dyspeptic, that of a gouty old man looking out of the window of his London club, port in hand, lamenting the degenerating state of the world".
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@doctor-phibes said in Thinking On Inking:
It's generally fairly easy to guess somebody's age based on how much they disapprove of tattoos.
I'm guessing Theodore Dalrymple isn't a young man - based on the article, he's in his 70's. Based on his name he's about 130.
He's an interesting guy -- now an old fart of course, but was a prison psychologist and physician before he became a cultural critic when a younger man. He hangs around Taki. As to his nom de plume, he "chose a name that sounded suitably dyspeptic, that of a gouty old man looking out of the window of his London club, port in hand, lamenting the degenerating state of the world".
@ivorythumper said in Thinking On Inking:
As to his nom de plume, he "chose a name that sounded suitably dyspeptic, that of a gouty old man looking out of the window of his London club, port in hand, lamenting the degenerating state of the world".
Which is fair enough.
As far as tattoos go, of course there are better things for young people to spend their (parents) money on, but there's also a lot worse.
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It's a Brave New World, guys. Folks have green hair, tattoos and Elvis albums.
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It's a Brave New World, guys. Folks have green hair, tattoos and Elvis albums.
@aqua-letifer said in Thinking On Inking:
It's a Brave New World, guys. Folks have green hair, tattoos and Elvis albums.
Thankfully, my kids haven't resorted to Elvis yet.
One of the funniest part of being a parent of teenagers is being pontificated to about things that you actually experienced, such as vinyl and 8-bit computer games.
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@aqua-letifer said in Thinking On Inking:
It's a Brave New World, guys. Folks have green hair, tattoos and Elvis albums.
Thankfully, my kids haven't resorted to Elvis yet.
One of the funniest part of being a parent of teenagers is being pontificated to about things that you actually experienced, such as vinyl and 8-bit computer games.
@doctor-phibes said in Thinking On Inking:
@aqua-letifer said in Thinking On Inking:
It's a Brave New World, guys. Folks have green hair, tattoos and Elvis albums.
Thankfully, my kids haven't resorted to Elvis yet.
One of the funniest part of being a parent of teenagers is being pontificated to about things that you actually experienced, such as vinyl and 8-bit computer games.
"I'd tell you kids the quote from Asland about 'citing the deep magic,' but you were in diapers when that movie came out, too, so, what can you do." -
My oldest and youngest have ink.
Not just small symbols. My youngest has this elaborate, very well done, artwork on her arm. It's "retail price" is somewhere around $1,200. She received a $300 award for Best in Show tatoo at last year's Tattoo convention in Milwaukee.
It really is very nicely done. How it ages is anyone's guess.
My oldest has a few and a large one on her outer thigh area which is a copy of my photo of M45
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