Sarah
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Monthly Archive for October, 2005Page 2 of 5
Highlights from Needled (which anyone with any interest in skin+ink should read daily):
- To Die For Clothing — T-shirts and other fun kit with designs by actual tattoo artists.
- BellaVendetta.com [NOT SAFE FOR WORK] — BellaVendetta seems sort of like SuicideGirls, except with more of a fetish angle (”Every shoot I do is like an entire art project. Today, we will be exploring zombie clown porn. Every aspect of it is an art.” - The italics are mine.), male models (”I want to get many more boys. It’s funny because pornography is such a male dominated business, yet, I have the hardest time getting boys naked. They’re all so self conscious.”), and perhaps less drama.
- The World of Tattoo — An encyclopedic book on tattoo. Apparently filled with trivia like: Catherine The Great had incredibly obscene tattoos, which she believed increased her sexual attractiveness.
- Inked Magazine — A glossy tattoo magazine? I got my subscription. Did you?
- Coast Guard tightens rules on tattoos — One of the guys in my motorcycle class was an Air Force recruiter. He told me I could still get into officer training at my age with my Aerospace Engineering degree and technical career background. He said the ink would be a problem, though. I told him no worries.
In Katrina’s wake, a tattoo boom in New Orleans
Tattoo artists report a surge in demand for designs that celebrate New Orleans: fleur-de-lis patterns, “NOLA,” after the city’s widely known abbreviation, and even a symbol modeled after the weather-map depiction of hurricanes.
Between returning residents, construction workers pouring into the battered city and the National Guard troops preparing to pack up and head home, demand has been brisk.
It is interesting that tattoos have become mainstream enough for just about anyone who lives through a significant event (9-11, Katrina, etc.) will at some point think to themselves “I should get a tattoo to commemorate this.” Heck, there are firefighters that have never set foot in New York who have gotten FDNY memorial/tribute ink just because of the “brotherhood” in the job.
I think that’s great.
Version 2.0 of OpenOffice is available (they are still working on the OS X port, though). You should get it.
I’m totally and completely stuck right now.
I have listened to the Specials‘ version of the song “Pressure Drop” (also features on the Gross Pointe Blank soundtrack) over a dozen times in the past two days (plus the Toots and the Maytals version a few times for good measure).
This isn’t entirely unheard of for me — last time it happened, though, it was the entire American Idiot album.
I’m not entirely sure what brought this on, but the song makes me borderline ecstatic. (Comment about my questionable sanity redacted.)
At any rate, bless the Specials.
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