Tattoo, show the ink...

[panther289]

Ok, this is for Rude Rydah
I was reading the "tatto and a job" thread and noticed a lot of different opinions. That being said, there seems to be a number of ST.Ners that are proud of the artwork they have. All the more reason to post it up. If you have the ink, drop off a pic or two.

As for me, none what so ever, though I think they speak wonders of the person wearing them. I do understand that most tattoos tell a story about a time in someones life, good, bad or indifferent.

[shah269]

Here is my little guy.
He's about  8 in long. Nose to tail.

After I got him my life changed. I lost a key person in my life who I felt was allways looking out for me and covering my back and I felt alone and very vulnerable. With out her my life was slowly falling appart and every one was stabbing me in the back. When I got this little guy, all the daggers went away.  

[atypical1]

Mine.




james

[Skrugs]

My buddy, Patch.

[Skrugs]

more

[Skrugs]

last ones

[Ant]

Crikey James, that must have taken a while to finish  
I'll admit I wouldn't one quite that large and complex on me but I can appreciate it!

Shah, that I do like.   Surprisingly understated for you as well, I was expecting a harem of nekkid women or something

[Krismark]

last ones

Is that a GSP?

If so...
I don't need one tattooed on me. Mine is currently on my lap...all 80+ lbs of him.


Very nice.  

[cultureslayer]

Not a great picture, but gives you the idea of the size and location.  Being on my side it always stretches and looks funny when I try to take a pic of it myself.  

Eventually she's going to have a leash in her mouth (I did not realize the first guy was gonna screw it up that bad, Nate was able to fix everything else but the mouth still bothers me) that'll be attached to another dog.

After the first experience (guy had done some nice tatts, just turns out he couldn't do dogs for shit) I've turned into a tattoo snob and only go to really, really good artists.  Next tatt might be in Houston.

[Baron Samedi]

last ones

Why on earth did you allow Cultureslayer to do your tattoo?

[Fourstring]

Yeah, what the hell.

My next door neighbor was a tattoo scratcher when I was in college.  Used to do his work in my room because his was a mess.  He threw a little free work my way when I was seventeen.



Still need to get a treble clef on the other shoulder and get the gay unicorn colors blended a bit.

[cultureslayer]

Why on earth did you allow Cultureslayer to do your tattoo?

Couldn't be me.  I don't have any sleeves, yet.  

[sterling]

Here are some of mine:

[Rude_Rydah]

Waiting for my wife to take some time to catalog the rest, but this is my newest and favorite tattoo.  This one is on the back of my left arm.

[Rude_Rydah]

Here they come.  I apologize for the quality of some of them, skin is difficult to take close ups of, along with the fact the I am a little hairy and in no mood to shave just for you bastards...

I'll post them by appendage.

Left leg:

Hug o War by Shel Silverstein (outside left calf)...

Heart tugging on a girl's dress (me and Alyce) from a Groovie Ghoulies CD cover (inside left calf)...

Me and my family holding hands, done in Italy while I was missing Alyce and the girls (upper left thigh, great place for tattoos because it never gets sunshine, but hard to show people)...

[Rude_Rydah]

Right leg:

Sailing ship (Navy tattoo, back of right calf)...

[Rude_Rydah]

Left arm:

Space ship (Front of left arm)

Spaceman riding comet (Haley's comet, Haley is my youngest daughter, inside left forearm)...

Space ship and meteor (Outside of left forearm)...

Spiderweb (Left elbow, will be colored like stained glass eventually)...

Alien in spaceship (Inside left bicep)

Rude Dog (my nickname, my first tattoo, my favorite even if it is getting old an lighter, left deltoid)

And the alien riding a toaster!!  I love this one!!!  (Right on the back of my right upper arm)

[Rude_Rydah]

Right arm:

Front of right forearm (Wizard and Unicorn with Denise's name, Denise is my oldest daughter)

Red fish (Inside right forearm)

Blue fish (Drawn by me, outside right forearm)

Starfish and filler (From the right elbow down)

Neptune and mermaid (One I'd like to take back, DO NOT GET TATTOO'D IN SOMEONE'S LIVING ROOM BY AN TATTOO ARTIST YOU DO NOT KNOW!!!, right tricep)

[Rude_Rydah]

There they all are, even the one I regret.  I wouldn't undo a single one of them, though.  I'd go back and do a better job of planning the placement, though.

Hopefully my girls will listen to their Dad if they want tattoo's and let me help them make good decisions, especially if it comes to "tattoo parties" and "a guy I know who tattoo's".

I count 21 separate tattoo's.  Including reworking old crappy tattoo's and multiple sittings for the same tattoo's, I'd say I've been under the needle 30 or so times.

If these images in my skin preclude me from working for a company, I am sure there are a dozen other reasons I wouldn't have been a good fit there to begin with and I'd rather screen out immediately.  And believe it or not, I do function in a customer relation role with these tattoo's, I work a little harder to these new acquaintances to get over the "shock" of how colorful I am, but I accept this and just focus on doing a good job.

Hopefully, when I'm old enough, I'll be accepted as an eccentric, then I'll REALLY be able to be the guy who lives in my head!

[fasterbusa]

Atypical1, how did you come to pick Sisyphus?

[atypical1]

Atypical1, how did you come to pick Sisyphus?

Nicely done. I have always been an existentialist from way back. Albert Camus and his essay "The Myth of Sisyphus" was really the inspiration for it. It took me a long time to decide what to get.

My next will be Prometheus.

james

[Skrugs]

Krismark,  What is a GSP?

[Max Wedge]

Mine-



Not a great picture, a lot of glare.

[cultureslayer]

There they all are, even the one I regret.  I wouldn't undo a single one of them, though.  I'd go back and do a better job of planning the placement, though.

That's one's faded enough it'd be easy for a good artist to cover up.    I'd not let many people mess with my tatt in fear of them making it worse, but if you find someone that's really good then it'll work great.

I might be getting a part time job soon, I think part of that money might go in the tattoo fund.

[Baz]

I think we should get the skipper to set up a Tat fund for you.

We donate money for a free tattoo, STN members get to pick the design.  

[Krismark]

Krismark,  What is a GSP?

German Short-haired Pointer

[Skrugs]

German Short-haired Pointer

No. Springer Beagle.  I had to put him down in March 2007.  Tat was done Jan. 2008.

[Krismark]

Sorry to here about losing your buddy...




GSP pups look very similar to your tattoo. I bet he was a good looking dog.

[ride+dive]

My tat

[Rude_Rydah]

There's no need to fear!  Underdog is here!

Good on ya...

[Slonishku]

I don't have one yet, but I was planning to get one as a memorial for a close friend (Nate) who passed away a in July of '07. Just as it was coming together and I was getting ready to come home from Afghanistan, another close friend, who was like a brother to both Nate and I, was killed in Oakland. That threw me for a loop in a lot of ways, and I'm thinking of creating something for both of them. (Anyone familiar with the East Bay Rats and/ or Godspeed in Oakland, CA would know both Nate and Aaron).

Also, and much less profound, I agreed with some other fanatical Florida Gator fans that we'd get Gator tats if Florida wins the National Championship again next month. But we were drinking, and maybe they don't remember.  

I have a conceptual idea of another that would symbolize my naval service, including my time in Afghanistan and (maybe) the Bronze Star I was awarded there.

[Mr. Whippy]

Necro!

My daughter has a new tat:



She's a math/physics double major.

[Giaka]

Semi old school military tat.    Its about 30 years old but I did have it re-inked 7 years ago on November 10th.  

[miles]

Here's mine, the moment it was inked.  I don't plan on getting any others.

[cultureslayer]

Necro!

My daughter has a new tat:



She's a math/physics double major.

She likes pi  

[Mr. Whippy]

She likes pi  

 

[Bounce]

My first


the embellishment some years later by Reverend Dark in LA

 

[cultureslayer]

 

It's obviously an attempt at humor, otherwise she would have used theta instead of x.  

[McHack]

I've got 3, but no pics...

1)  A Lung,  w/ an ashtray mounted on top,  bleeding tar down over it...  
2)  A cartooned up SR-71
3)  A Cross of Nails.

[Mr. Whippy]

It's obviously an attempt at humor, otherwise she would have used theta instead of x.  

It's Euler's identity. e^∏i+1=0

One of the "Beautiful" equations.  ...or so I am told.  

edit:  I asked her if she'd get in trouble for cribnotes.  She just let me know her Linear Algebra prof approves.

[cultureslayer]

It's Euler's identity. e^∏i+1=0

One of the "Beautiful" equations.  ...or so I am told.  

edit:  I asked her if she'd get in trouble for cribnotes.  She just let me know her Linear Algebra prof approves.

Yes, but that x represents an angle in the complex plane.  

e^ix = cos(x) + isin(x)  

Because it's really an angle, theta is often used.  I think my complex analysis prof. would have failed me if I'd used x, but professors are allowed to be odd when teaching grad level math classes.

[Mr. Whippy]

Yes, but that x represents an angle in the complex plane.  

e^ix = cos(x) + isin(x)  

Because it's really an angle, theta is often used.  I think my complex analysis prof. would have failed me if I'd used x, but professors are allowed to be odd when teaching grad level math classes.

Just saw that on Wiki.  I guess it's a specific form of the general equation you stated.

I never got to complex analysis.    

[Jason F.]

Not a great pic but right calf....


Left lower thigh, knee, and left calf piece is in the works but not going to be done until next year at the earliest.

[sleazy rider]

Left arm done this past spring.



Right arm, done in September.

[McHack]

My left forearm!

[antvq]

My left forearm!

That is impressive.  I've not seen one that actually looks 3D before.

[Mr.Black]

An old small piece of geek cred.

[Fourstring]

An old small piece of geek cred.

Please talk my wife out of getting same.  

[squeezer]

Please talk my wife out of getting same.  

I think she should get it. It's awesome.  

[Mr.Black]

Please talk my wife out of getting same.  

I think she should get it. It's awesome.  

Knowing what I have heard of your wife, I'm surprised she doesn't already have that and Trill tats.

[Hickey]

On my left shoulder. I got it in college and had it touched up this past Summer.

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[miles]

An old small piece of geek cred.

A high school friend of mine got one just like that when he turned eighteen.  A couple of years later he moved to San Francisco and worked as a dominator, with his own dungeon and everything.

Not that there is any provable connection, mind you.

[Mr.Black]

A high school friend of mine got one just like that when he turned eighteen.  A couple of years later he moved to San Francisco and worked as a dominator, with his own dungeon and everything.

Not that there is any provable connection, mind you.

My rack is your rack.

[sfalexi]

Here's my tattoo of Kokepelli (modified to make it look like he's playing the clarinet) and my tribal armband.

Pay no attention to the leopard pattern on my arms.  I used a motorcycle jacket that had a weave pattern for the summer, but got a funky sunburn pattern.



Alexi

[scottzilla]

This is my Spiderman Tat that I got in Prison.

[jadziadax8]

Necro!

My daughter has a new tat:



She's a math/physics double major.

I approve!  And yes, it is a beautiful equation, especially when you plug in pi for x/theta.

What's next?  Pics of the Higgs boson?

Knowing what I have heard of your wife, I'm surprised she doesn't already have that and Trill tats.

I don't want people asking what the arrow is pointing to when the inevitable sagging happens.

If I'm feeling trill, I just free-hand the spots with eyeliner.

Now, a flaming oboe down the back would be totally cool.

[McHack]

That is impressive.  I've not seen one that actually looks 3D before.

www.ryanhadley.com

Check him out,  flat out impressive artist!

[ConPilot1]

I'd show you all the two Bast statues I've got on either calf, but I'd hafta take my boots and socks off. Not today.

[Mr.Black]

I'd show you all the two Bast statues I've got on either calf, but I'd hafta take my boots and socks off. Not today.

We're good, thanks.

[shawn and gwyn]

i only have one.. and it realy sucks . one of these days when i hit mid life. i will get it fixed. however the wifes is great. . here is a pic

shawn

[ConPilot1]

i only have one.. and it realy sucks . one of these days when i hit mid life. i will get it fixed. however the wifes is great. . here is a pic

shawn

that is pretty awesome. great design + symmetry. Looks well done.  

[cbsnbiker]

Now, a flaming oboe down the back would be totally cool.

Are you an oboist?

(Have we had this conversation before?)

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Me: no tattoos.

[coho]

I've heard of a rusty trombone, but not a flaming oboe.
Is that like an oral roberts?

[Lawn Dart]

Here's mine, the moment it was inked.  I don't plan on getting any others.

Those of you not in Cali may not fully understand this tat.  

This is, second perhaps only to Sisyphus, an incredible tat by meaning.  I am still stunned by the reasoning of this one.  And truly, I appreciate this singular tat more and more each day I spend on the road.

VIVA KOMMIEFORNIA!  (*or however the heck you spell it.)

[jadziadax8]

Are you an oboist?

(Have we had this conversation before?)

Played for 13 years (yes, all the way through grad school).  Always thought it would be cool to have an oboe tat with flames coming out of the bell.

What's the difference between an oboe and a bassoon?

The bassoon burns longer!

[Papa Lazarou]

Slapper tags.  

[NWTrtle]

My only tattoo.  Wraps around my arm and has a total of five turtles in it.  Four of them, two larger and two smaller, represent my wife and I and our two kids.  The fifth is more of a ghost turtle (not as detailed and fades away) that represents my wife's little brother who died a couple weeks after our son was born.

[county]

What,  nobody got a Swastika  or at least an Iron Cross....this is a MC board.

[cbsnbiker]

What,  nobody got a Swastika  or at least an Iron Cross....this is a MC board.

I remember once meeting the boyfriend of one of my students after teaching a beginning riding course. The guy had swastika tattoos on him and swastikas (and other offensive stuff) on his beanie helmet and such.

 

[Mr.Black]

Some old stuff from long ago and far away.

[scottzilla]

Nice fish.

[Slonishku]

Those of you not in Cali may not fully understand this tat.  

This is, second perhaps only to Sisyphus, an incredible tat by meaning.  I am still stunned by the reasoning of this one.  And truly, I appreciate this singular tat more and more each day I spend on the road.

VIVA KOMMIEFORNIA!  (*or however the heck you spell it.)

That BEGS for further explanation... pleeze?

[miles]

That BEGS for further explanation... pleeze?

You're a Californian- you should understand it well.

[919]

Here's mine, I am not particularly religious, I was raised catholic and I am of Celtic descent (Irish & German) so I felt it was fitting.  A good friend of mine drew the artwork.

This is a photo of a photo, this picture is special to me because it was taken by a friend who wanted to use her antique wooden box camera and submit it for a tattoo / photography contest.  If I recall correctly she came in second.  It is the best photo I have of the tattoo.  Also it is very difficult to take a picture of the center of my own back without being a contortionist.......