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