Ual is welllllll tatted

ew

Its as valid an opinion of tats as yours is

it was always going to happen though so I thought id get in early.

I dont mind the tribal tattoos or the ones that have deeper meaning like something relating to a passed love one or something like that. Its more the 'im just going to get a tattoo because YOLO' type tattoos that ive always found distasteful.

You say you don't like tats that have no meaning and yet the majority of tribals floating around are exactly that lolwut.

I have no tats my self but I hate when people get that holier than thou attitude on the subject. It someone elses body not yours. If they appreciate the art and want to get tatted up so be it.

Love that, does it symbolise anything or just thought it looks cool?

I've got 3, need 1 covered up, what did yours cover?



Edited by iridium1010: 18/10/2013 08:43:10 PM

Symbolises a lot of things that I hold dear, I'll jot them all down one day.

It's covering an old Trogdor tattoo that I got when I was 19 only to make a girl feel better about the tattoo she was getting too.

You say you don't like tats that have no meaning and yet the majority of tribals floating around are exactly that lolwut.

I have no tats my self but I hate when people get that holier than thou attitude on the subject. It someone elses body not yours. If they appreciate the art and want to get tatted up so be it.

Goes the other way though when people have no originality at all or will get shitty backyard jobs.

I don't agree with tatts or think they a good idea, but sometimes you see some that look quite cool and well done. I prefer when people have a proper meaning behind their tatts.

agree...to many wanna be's and try hards..........

It's a good fucking thing they hurt or every cunt would have one.

Wait a sec...

[quote=zimbos_05]like notors tatt...pretty lame

Lame to you, maybe, but it holds incredible symbolic importance to me.

I'm sorry that your life is so unfulfilling that you find the need to try and bring everyone else to your level of misery ;)

From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it’s different. Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home.
That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character building experience.

There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.

Iridium,

In terms of meanings - the entire piece was inspired by my daughters names (which was inspired by my love of space etc). Her first name in Gaelic means "Fiery", in French/German it means "light, torch, bright" and in Greek it means "precious; sun ray, shining light". Her middle name is the Thai word for "glimmering".

The section down the bottom is a tribute to Voyager 1, and Carl Sagan's "pale blue dot" speech.