and now it's the future

I am such a lazy ass. i havent used this blog for years, but figured i may as well start using it again. somewhere to have a journal that my friends and family can't read. a place to put all my bits and pieces of writing together, favourite pictures etc, and only share the link with strangers or people whom i trust and wish to share things with. depending on how i think they will percieve what i have written. kind of self imposed privacy to avoid censorship.

Tattoo Linkage

I wrote a cool and funky post all about the tattoo I want to get when we go to QLD next week - why I chose it and the designs I was considering.

It was also about this really cool program I watched on the discovery or notional geographic channell about a tattoo shop in Miami called Miami INK. - in it a guy said something about getting tattoos to symbolise different experiences etc throughout his life ~ I kind of got what he meant and decided that although I only want a few right now, in the future I will get more to symbolise things that are important to me.

One especially cool one was a girl got the lyrics " I dont ever want to feel like I did that day, take me to the place I love, take me all the way" done on her foot - kind of using her foot as a note pad - the tattoo was to remember her brother who had killed himself 3 yrs earlier.Actually I found a link so check it out ~ HERE~ you can see images of her and the trace of the tattoo - view the video to see more.

I love the tatt & thought id think about lyrics. It also made me consider that I would actually really like, if not love to become a tattooist. Something I'll research and investigate for my journal.

& now some linkage:

Miami Ink Show

GoldCoast Tattoos

TattooDesign.com Great galleries of heaps of tattoos, all catagorised, just watch the googgle ads(there aren't that many but)





& for my Journal

Article on how to become a Tattooist From the career one website

Another Even better article on a career as a Body Artist taken from the myfuture website

Proffessional Tatooing Association of Australia

List of tattooist organisations Also from the myfuture website

Interesting interview From the www.tattooyou.com.au website

Another Interview - with Megan From the Inner Vision Tattoo Parlour in Surry Hills Sydney

The Tattoo Gallery - A tattoo parlour in Adelaide



Ok so now I have given up - I can't find the angel I saw three or four years ago - But this wednesday night I'm just going to have to go and pound the pavement ion surfers and go looking for it.

I've also found some of the best tattoo designs are at my favourite web place - deviantart.com

check it out in designs and interfaces - then tattoo designs - browse the collection filtering it by top favourites first - that way you get all the best ones


C ya later

Cheers

Violet

Tattoo Reasearch

Today - well It's Saturday , Iv'e just done the hotel and car hire bookings for our trip to the Gold Coast. We will be leaving sometime around the middle of the day on Tuesday. We will then go and get the truck loaded and hit the road. Craig says we should get up there in around 12 hours, he is hoping to arrive at the place we have to go to near Brisbane at around 2 am ish - so that he has enough time to catch some sleep.

Then we will drop the truck off around 7 am and go pick up the hire car & head off to a theme park for the day before we book into our favourite hotel down in Surfers.

And Of course we will be celebrating Andy's 9th Birthday. So he is over the moon - it will possibly be his best ever birthday - going in the truck & then to a theme park & then to his favourite hotel in the whole world. Luckily he got given a portable dvd player thingy so he can watch his DVD's in the truck on his way up to QLD.

Andy will be lucky though as he will get to sit in the passengers seat the whole way, and although not overly comfortable he will be safe and he should be able to get some sleep. Me on the other hand, I'll get comfort sleep, but when awake I have to sit on the bed, as the truck only has 2 seats!!

I don't want Andy travelling on the bed as it wouldn't be all that safe if there were an accident.

Anyways I'm excited about it all. And am now on to doing some research on the kind of tattoo I want to get to celebrate turning 27 and having decided to start my life over.

I watched a program about tattooing last night and a guy on it said that he had tattoo's that told the story of his life, each one was symbolic of a certain point in his life - although I already had decided to get A tattoo - hearing and understanding that has pushed me to decide that I won't stop at one. I won't get more than 1 or 2 this time, but in the future I will get more to symbolise future events.

Anyways some Tattoo links and pictures etc.


A K tattoo - I've wanted to get a K tattoo for years ~ to celebrate and commemorate Kurt Cobain, we have the same birth date feb 20th & he died at 27, so now that I just turned 27 I wish to get my K tattoo. As a teen I carved a K into my chest with a razor blade, kind of over my sternum, now I wish to get a tattoo there, similair to the way his widow, Courtney Love did in these pictures. However mine will be in a different font all together.

However it will also , in some way or another, pay homage to Kurt's Own K tattoo, which he did himself on his right forearm (he was a funky lefty!)

these tattoo images came from http://www.vanishingtattoo.com

Grunge Assignment

Links Ive used in my grunge assignment

http://www.seattleweekly.com/music/0608/cdreviews.php

http://members.aol.com/groovydougie/quizzes/grunge.htm

a grunge tutorial http://www.greycobra.com/tutorial/Antique_Grunge/

http://www.rhapsody.com/genre/more?genreId=393&pageid=rotw.genrehomepage&pageregion=B1 =- amazing stuff

http://hsc.csu.edu.au/pta/scansw/grunge.html

a good written resource

http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.asp?p=27007&rl=1 new style grunge

http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/features/finch/finch2-19-04.asp

and if that aint enough Im fucked

The COlour Of LIFE!!

More links!!

http://www.colormatters.com/entercolormatters.html - really cool top ranked on google

http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html colour scheme generator
http://html-color-codes.com/ html color codes by visibone
http://www.colourtherapyhealing.com/ healing through colour therapy
http://www.echalk.co.uk/amusements/OpticalIllusions/colourPerception/colourPerception.html -colour perceptions and illusions
http://www.colorquiz.com/ - 5 minute colour test
http://www.webwhirlers.com/colors/wizard.asp colours on the web colour wizard
http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/Ishihara.html - colour blindness test the ishihara test
http://www.vischeck.com/ image correction for colour blindness.
http://www.wattyl.com.au/DIY/UsingColour/Visualiser/Default.htm - wattyl colour visualiser
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/color-blend/ colour blender
http://colour-dreams.net/smile.php colour dreaMS

Copyright Links

Just a bunch of COpyright Links for my journal

http://www.copyright.org.au/
http://www.copyright.com.au/
http://www.whatiscopyright.org/
http://www.whatiscopyright.org/
http://creativecommons.org/

Artists Rights

http://www.arsny.com/
http://www.rightsforartists.com/
http://www.give-credit.com/
http://www.pirated-sites.com/
http://www.artshub.com.au/ahau1/default.asp

http://www.caslon.com.au/ipguide17.htm

And thats it for now at least

Kurt Cobain

I want to check this out at TAFE

http://www.oekakicentral.com/mainhall/viewani.php?xcord=413&ycord=450&recno=4051

its from the srtist who did this
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/7049826/
@ DA

A Slow Saturday

It's saturday again, instead of going out and actually living - again I find myself holed up in front of the computer - I want it so bad that I'm scared to try and grasp it - afraid that it won't make me happy, that it wont live up to my expectations.

I'm just looking for a stock image @ deviant art so that I can make an ID for my Deviant Art account
Considering my site name & adress and my kind of new online persona is - Digital Princess... I'm looking for someone I can turn into a dark princess.

I'll let you know if I suceed.

Violet

XXOXX

Links from today

Dinosaur designs
Grunge ideas and stuff
10 years later - black table
sub pop
sitepoint design list
sitepoint.com
sitepoint get grunge project
art uproar

Version 3.0 Misprinted type

& that's it for now

Multimedia II

This is probably going to be a pretty boring blog - I've created it as kind of a way to document my journal for the multimedia course I'm doing - As I don't have WORD on my computer I need somewhere I can type shit up and then print it out at TAFE, This seems to fit the bill.

On the plus side, I can document all the sites I stumble upon to include them in my hardcopy journal - again using TAFE's printers and ink and crap rather than my own - can u tell I'm a dirt poor student.

that's it for now. a plug for my real site that should soon be online Digital Princess


Some cool links:

Silverstars
a really cool artist I found At Deviant Art - definately check out her tutorial for the geourgeous Queen of Hearts.

Create - Your - Yourself - South Park Style
A cool little interactive site to create your own south parjk style self - I'm going to have to do this and print it HC for my journal