Thread: Straight razor tattoo

FUD,

What type of info are you looking for? Info on "modern" ie. electric tattooing and piercings or ancient tattooing and modifications?

Are you looking for origins or simply interesting info. I can get some titles for you, but I'm sure that most would be carried by your local Chapters/Barnes and Noble sort of store. Tattooing is fairly popular now, so everything from the history to technique, is being published.

Anything in particular you are curious about?

Basic trivia? Swallows (the birds) are tattooed on sailers for luck, as swallows are known to travel out to sea, but not too far as they aren't water birds. This means that if you see a swallow while at sea, you must be close to land, even if you can't see it yet.

I think that's a great first design. I think you should create a series of designs from it, some with banners, others with hearts or such. I'd love to see them. My first tat (if I can ever convince myself to spend the money on it) will be a petrified dinosaur. A Tyranosaurus-X.

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Originally Posted by FiReSTaRT

However, if you're so eurocentric you don't consider other cultures civilized, then think of the Romans. They used tattoos to mark their legionnaires. They were worn like badges of honor.

You're not getting my point at all, which by the way was originally made in jest. For years bikers and ruffians were the modern customer base for tattoos.

The term "civilized" is a "eurocentric term" which quite frankly is an insult to body art. If you want to insult body art go ahead and call it civilized. (No offense Kyle, I know you weren't insulting anyone).

As for the romans, this is the same group of people that loved watching their coutries leader don animal head masks and dance around in the public arena while biting off the genitalia of bound prisoners who could not fight back and who's crimes were often no more than practicing an unapproved religion. Oh yea, that's REALLY "civilized"

The "tea party" in american history was very "civil". They even swept up afterwards.

The various chinese societies have also practiced suicide rituals, human and animal sacrifice, and many other 'barbaric' religious activities for thousands of years. Just because they were the first with in ground septic systems and printing presses didn't make them immune to the very things that the "civilized" world has abhorred for centuries.

The very nature of body art is "uncivilized", the original branding, burning and cutting of the flesh to the constant tapping of a nail or needle causing painful punctures and wounds that had to be tended for weeks to avoid unwanted scarring and infections.

Originally Posted by shavethebadger

FUD,

What type of info are you looking for? .

Matt,

Most of the above. I love reading history and trivia. I'm aware of the modern techniques using the electrically powered needles, etc. I worked in a tattoo parlor as a young man . I've read snippits on the origins and theories. None of it's critical. I just love the history of most anything, especially things that were once rejected as barbaric and are now considered simple trends.

Originally Posted by FUD

Matt,
I just love the history of most anything, especially things that were once rejected as barbaric and are now considered simple trends.

Like straight razor shaving?

In any case, I am reluctant to use the term "civilized" for the human race in general these days... We have a lovely track record in that regard:
1) 3,000,000 people hacked apart with machettes in Rwanda.
2) Terrorists killing thousands of people by crashing planes into buildings.
3) A certain country's leaders sending young soldiers to die invading a country that doesn't threaten them in any way by using fabricated evidence of chemical weapons as an excuse.
If that's civilized, then I'm a hermaphrodite. We still have a long way to go before that term can apply to any nation on this planet.

The reason I was trying to downplay the barbaric aspect of body art is that it has also been used in reinforcing the social structure of our predecesors.

Originally Posted by FiReSTaRT

3) A certain country's leaders sending young soldiers to die invading a country that doesn't threaten them in any way by using fabricated evidence of chemical weapons as an excuse.

I guess some 5000 Kurds do not count?

Glen

Wow, this thread is going drastically wrong. So, here's a bunny with a pancake on its head.

Originally Posted by SharkHat

Wow, this thread is going drastically wrong. So, here's a bunny with a pancake on its head.

Thanks for pointing that out. I thought the same thing after I sent my last post.

Glen

Originally Posted by SharkHat

Wow, this thread is going drastically wrong. So, here's a bunny with a pancake on its head.

Thank god this is the off-topic forum.
Otherwise, I would almost expect a 'how to shave a bunny' posting....

Redwoood