The Bucket List
Jul. 26th, 2008 11:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I'm watching this show on tattoos on the History Channel - they're showing New Zealand moko, the Polynesian version of moko, tattoos that are sewn under the skin, this old Japanese tattoo artist who basically hand-paints tattoos with a sharpened chopstick - he's a true artist, doesn't use stencils or drawn outlines & his work looks like those delicate Japanese watercolors... The pain looks exquisite. I ache for it.
Eventually I've got to go back to New Orleans and get a tattoo from there.
There's this artist from Australia that I'd love to get a tattoo design from - but she's not currently taking commissions ;) I have a vision of a bear and a drum. I still need to get my snakes finished, eventually, can't really put any more ink on til I finish what's on my plate. I'm going to end up taking a second job so I can complete my skin. It makes me feel unfinished, like I'm on hold waiting for what's there to come out, like a butterfly emerging from a cocoon, caught on stop-motion film.
Rob's gone to bed, I'm up playing WoW & watching people getting tattooed - and prisoners getting tattoos removed. That looks painful, too, but not in a good way. I only regret one tattoo - that stupid faery on my leg. Another eventual - a cover up. One of Coop's fat lil' devil girls. I'll have to go to Venice Beach for the cover up, since that's where the faery came from. I'm kind of glad I didn't get any dolphins or unicorns, hah.
It's funny - the other day I was thinking to myself that we've been lucky over the years - our a/c has never frozen up. I jinxed us, because this afternoon it did. It got warm in here fast but at least the weather today was more humid & stuffy than blazing hot. It was up to about 90ºF in here & it's taken it all night to come back under 80º (hey, whattya know, lj accepts alt codes, lol). It made Rob more miserable, but we whipped out the fans & he just sat on the couch in his boxers.
Edited for Ow-Fuck-Ow Factor: I just watched someone get ink injected into their EYEBALL! Ow Fuck Ow! It makes my whole head itch just thinking about it. I have a real problem with eyeballs getting messed with... That movie, Fire in the Sky, never watched it because all I had to see was the guy strapped down w/the device holding his eye open & the needle headed straight for it... I stood in front of our t.v. wanting to hide my eyes but masochistically drawn to watch in stark horror as a tattoo artist filled a hypo w/blue ink and placed a large blue spot on some guys eyeball - and then proceed to fill in some other guy's eyeball completely w/blue ink. The guy w/the all-blue eye eventually wants to get UV-ink filled into his fucking pupils! I'm going to have nightmares, I see it coming. Why would someone even think that putting a tattoo on an eyeball was a good idea?! And then talk about what might happen if the victim flinched while the hypo was being inserted? Didn't they realize I was watching and they've traumatized me for life?!
Eventually I've got to go back to New Orleans and get a tattoo from there.
There's this artist from Australia that I'd love to get a tattoo design from - but she's not currently taking commissions ;) I have a vision of a bear and a drum. I still need to get my snakes finished, eventually, can't really put any more ink on til I finish what's on my plate. I'm going to end up taking a second job so I can complete my skin. It makes me feel unfinished, like I'm on hold waiting for what's there to come out, like a butterfly emerging from a cocoon, caught on stop-motion film.
Rob's gone to bed, I'm up playing WoW & watching people getting tattooed - and prisoners getting tattoos removed. That looks painful, too, but not in a good way. I only regret one tattoo - that stupid faery on my leg. Another eventual - a cover up. One of Coop's fat lil' devil girls. I'll have to go to Venice Beach for the cover up, since that's where the faery came from. I'm kind of glad I didn't get any dolphins or unicorns, hah.
It's funny - the other day I was thinking to myself that we've been lucky over the years - our a/c has never frozen up. I jinxed us, because this afternoon it did. It got warm in here fast but at least the weather today was more humid & stuffy than blazing hot. It was up to about 90ºF in here & it's taken it all night to come back under 80º (hey, whattya know, lj accepts alt codes, lol). It made Rob more miserable, but we whipped out the fans & he just sat on the couch in his boxers.
Edited for Ow-Fuck-Ow Factor: I just watched someone get ink injected into their EYEBALL! Ow Fuck Ow! It makes my whole head itch just thinking about it. I have a real problem with eyeballs getting messed with... That movie, Fire in the Sky, never watched it because all I had to see was the guy strapped down w/the device holding his eye open & the needle headed straight for it... I stood in front of our t.v. wanting to hide my eyes but masochistically drawn to watch in stark horror as a tattoo artist filled a hypo w/blue ink and placed a large blue spot on some guys eyeball - and then proceed to fill in some other guy's eyeball completely w/blue ink. The guy w/the all-blue eye eventually wants to get UV-ink filled into his fucking pupils! I'm going to have nightmares, I see it coming. Why would someone even think that putting a tattoo on an eyeball was a good idea?! And then talk about what might happen if the victim flinched while the hypo was being inserted? Didn't they realize I was watching and they've traumatized me for life?!
