I took a look, it appears they are going to the mines singing “high hoe”. Butt on the bright side at least Bashful is leading the charge.

Maybe one of these days, assuming Avalon in Pacific Beach is still in business.

New keyboard, sir! Or at least a napkin, please…

All tattoo/copyright opinions aside, I absolutely love what the artist did for Snow White’s dress. I dislike the original as it doesn’t match and the artists couldn’t decide what time period it’s in. Not that those problems have been fixed, but it certainly looks better.

Actually, you have to have some serious cojones to get a large-sized tat AND put up with what the haters will undoubtedly say about you. You’ve got to be pretty confident to do that. So, whoever said tat-wearers are insecure…I really doubt that.

As a writer, I would lean toward a text tattoo, but then, a picture says a thousand words. I don’t know. I have to get my cojones back from my wife so I can think further upon this.

It means that I have chosen NOT to have tattoos. Do not confuse this with not being ABLE to have a tattoo. I could have a tattoo if I desired to. I do not. Now, you may find this a bit odd. You may think, doesn’t every normal BoingBoinger want to have at least one tattoo of his/her/its own?

We are a group of adults who all share at least one common desire: we do not wish to have tattoos of our own. We are teachers, doctors, business owners, authors, computer experts, cupcake-bakers, makers, knitters – you name it. We choose to call ourselves “inkFREE” rather than “tattooless,” because we feel the term “tattooless” implies that we’re missing something we want – and we aren’t. We consider ourselves inkFREE – free of the loss of personal freedom, money, time, dermal area and energy that having tattoos requires.

Because being inkFREE-by-choice is rather frowned upon by our counter-cultural-centric society, finding information (or links to information) is difficult. Most of us are almost afraid to ask someone who might know where we can find what we’re looking for. . .the disapproving stares and cries of, “How can you not want a tattoo?!” often send us into a form of “hiding.” We feel like freaks and don’t realize exactly how many of us and exactly how much information is actually out there. This comment attempts to remedy that problem.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-lampshade-that-drives-its-owners-mad-strange-truth-behind-20th-centurys-most-disturbing-object-2117357.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30028295@N07/4280805303/in/set-72157623102003419

No halter top in the way and a tad lower to see at least MOST of the design.

you ask: “though I wonder if we’d think so if it wasn’t in tattoo form”
Maybe not, but that is irrelevant. Art is always inseparable from the medium. The medium has its own limitations and all that. Even canvas has interesting limitations. Look at the Dutch masters (Vermeer and such) and see the amazing colours and textures they got. Not done on canvas, but on specially treated hardwood panels.

An ink piece on paper vs an ink piece on wood vs an ink piece on skin all have different characteristics.

I know quite a few people with tattoos, and although the “look at me” attitude fits some (as well as silly youthful decisions) others have done art which is generally not seen by anyone else (living in northern europe and having a tattoo on your back…. not the most visible of places.. same with legs above the ankle, and high on the arms).

Plenty of extremely self secure people with tats. I don’t have any, but aim to have a large one done in the future, a concept piece. It will be hidden by clothes almost all the time, and is for myself and my wife/family

I’m in the camp of people that wants to fill his back with tattoos, but still is struggling to find the right designs that I can live with a few years from now.

It has gotten a little easier now that I have a baby daughter, since commemorating those sorts of things is easier and will help pop my tattoo cherry, so to speak. :)

Why does it have to be necessary? Can’t it just be fun? Have you considered the possibility that she’s not doing this to please you, but to please herself? I don’t see why people would need to defend what they do with their own body, especially when it’s something spectacular such as this.

Mind you, I’m not a tattoo fan. I only have a single wedding tattoo, and that’s it. And most tattoos are pretty lame and boring in my opinion. But this one is pretty spectacular. You rarely see colours like this in tattoos, and the whole thing is very nicely done.

As far as the insecurity thing, I couldn’t tell you for certain why people push that idea so much. Easy excuse to be a dick to other people I guess, since the “insecure attention whore” thing falls apart when you’re making that claim about people with full back, chest, sleeve or leg tattoos that are nearly always covered by clothing.

I am a designer / artist. I am into textures, surface features, stuff like that. Skin is so fascinating up close. The variety of textures is incredible. Now, add the visual excitement of a wonderfully executed tattoo and man, you got sumpthin awright!

But, to the implied query posed in the posting, to wit:
Would Disney go after the person who has a tattoo of their characters rendered by a non Disney certified artist? I see them trying to go after the tattooist but not going after the tattooee.
Thoughts?

Thank You. The person who’s the owner of this beautiful piece of artwork needs neither your approval nor your narrow minded and poorly reasoned judgments.

I’m always surprised how much “anti-Happy Mutants” commentary this kind of post on BB gets…

Possibly, of course, she has disfiguring birthmarks or something. That doesn’t appear to be the case, but while I usually find birthmarks and so on endearing and character-making (even on girls with otherwise beautiful, flawless skin), I can sorta understand why someone would chose to cover such things up with tattoos.

Yep, basically I just don’t understand tattoos. This girl has a beautiful body – why is this necessary? And for those that *don’t* have beautiful bodies, tattoos can only really make things worse.

I don’t mean to cause offense to tattoo-wielders, just airing my worthless opinion. To be fair, I have seen well-done and beautiful/meaningful tattoos that totally seem appropriate and fitting for their wielders, but those are very rare exceptions.

I’m ignoring the copyright issue, since I think it’s irrelevant, so I thought I’d better mention it once :)

That said, I have a large surgery scar on my torso and if tattoo artists hadn’t told me that tats don’t do very well over scar tissue, i would have wanted to tattoo a big zipper there.

Someone once told me, if the Nazis ever return and you end up in jail/in a camp, they’ll take your tattoo from your body and turn it into a lamp shade.

Why not paint it on a t shirt? That’s much more safe and sensiible.