BraveHeartFan;3421343 said:
I'm not saying that they're for everyone, or even cool, or any of that. But I'm curious about this.
How is the art work, and creativity part of it any more stupid than if someone did that exact same design on a piece of paper?
If that was drawn, and looked that good, on a piece of paper would the art work and creativity still be stupid?
Forget the fact that it's on someones skin. No one is asking you to put it on yours or even talking about the fact that it's on skin when they are talking about the actual work itself.
It's a form of art, no different than a painting in terms of the work itself and the creativity of that work.
I, personally, wouldn't get anything like that on my skin but the design, the artwork itself, as a stand alone piece is amazing.
Look, I just don't get it okay. I never have. I never will.
I grew up on a ranch. I've branded cows and horses. I've seen race dogs get tattoos in their ears. I've seen bulls get a ring in their nose.
Perhaps I identify this ritual with those and don't get the attraction. Or the fact that slaves were often tattooed and so were the Jews taken to the concentration camps and to me there is negative connotations to the whole process. I don't see a positive connection to branding a human.
I see a lot of tattoos that memorialize someone's death. "In Loving Memory Of..." I don't get that. I have never understood a desire to announce to world you are in pain because you lost someone. I see it on cars all the time out here. The car is "in loving memory" of someone? I just don't get it. Call me dense. I probably am.
I am deeply religious and I don't get crosses and shrines by the side of the rode where someone died. Why don't they put them at their homes if they die at home? Why not at hospitals if they die there? Why not at homes anyway?
Today's advancements in pigments and artwork is certainly better than the stuff that looked good for a year and then gradually degrades until it is a blue splotch. But I still don't think they look good enough to ever pay someone for it.
I see a lot of guys who seem to think having a tat makes them tough. Gangs out here in particular are fond of them and prison tats are very popular. Like it's some kind of badge of honor. What honor? To be involved in a gang or to have gone to prison is an honor? Not to me.
What's worse is how many extremely poor people have them. No food, but damn, they can afford bad tats.
So many of the tats are completely redundant too.
Kids names. Yawn.
Skulls. Oooh, those are so scary.
Flames. Yeah, I really think his arm is on fire.
Tribal arm bands. I really believe a Polynesian culture made you a warrior.
Spider webs and spiders. I take a broom to the real ones.
Oriental symbols on non Oriental people. Sushi advertising?
Yin and yang. On a person so unbalanced it is laughable. Most wouldn't know taoism if it kicked them in the jewels.
I can't draw and I won't pretend to be some kind of art critic. I have never seen a drawing, painting, or any other kind of art and thought, "gee, I'd like to have that all over my body."
So while those drawings or art may be very good, I just don't get it. Yeah, the Spider man thing is intriguing. It's a freaking comic book that was brought to life on film by Tobey "Goober" MaGuire. In a comic book, I consider the art to have a purpose.
On the human body...Naw, I just don't see it. I look at the gears in the guy's arm and the only thing I think is, all that blue ink is going to be a splotch one day. His whole forearm one big blue splotch.
I can't give that a thumbs up. I can't even pretend to think it is cool.
