realistic67

The Idea....

I like tattoos.....I love them on women..... A girl with ink is so much more interesting than one without. Plus, it's a chatting possibility. As I have never smoked I can't do the, " Have you got a light " routine.

So I told a lot of people this last year I was going to get a tattoo. It 's sort of a 40th birthday present. And for a whole year I looked and thought of all thease designs. Celtic ones ( which are kind of overdone... And I'm not really celtic. - my brother has one -of his many tattoos - is a celtic knot. It's terrible. And he had it covered up. )

I looked at japanese style... and the japanese stuff I like is really intricate and big. I think you need a real handle on the art form to ask for it right, and get a result your happy with, as a patron. Then I looked at really bold Germanic style runes for inspiration. That's the family background and I've always like the gothic darkness of german runes. Plus, I don't see it alot. So it would be different.

But, all the casual exploration of that imagery led me to site upon site of Neo - nazi Skin head web sites and Jewish anti- defamation league, watch dog sites. Damn those Nazi's!!!! Why did they have to have such a sexy imagery catalog. I mean, when a guy gets a tattoo there's this wish to have something strong and edgy. Show off part of that tough guy persona. But, I don't want to come across as some crazy, genocidal, hill billy, race monger.

So right now I'm looking at the above image and taking the gemini symbol with the stars. And then finding an artist who can render it in that raised, wild, cubist graffiti art style. with an electrical hazard symbol ( which is a gemini connected symbol for communication and power ) through the centre of it.

I assume most people have good reasons for why they want something inked forever on their bodies. At least I would hope they do. Something sacred to them. Me, I'm a gemini. I was born when this particular symbol was being used as a beacon of science and technology doing something bold and positive. After the end of the last word war. The romance of space exploration was pushing boundaries and making man think of the earth as a whole being. Fragile and blue. And as I was a little kid. right before Star Wars ruined the idea of space as a human adventure. ( and made it a toy market...) We all dreamed innocent dreams of escaping the bonds of earth. And exploring the heavens.

So now I need to search thru graffiti images to give the artist an idea of how I want to manipulate the greek symbol. The alley of vancouver are festooned with images. And I have all the time right now to explore.