film related tattoos
I’ve got a few, but I don’t feel like actually posting pictures.
A play on the classic “Mom in a heart” tattoo on my bicep, but with the word Kino.
The caged canary from Berlin Alexanderplatz on my right forearm.
A small Jean Cocteau sketch.
oh, yes… and the ))<>(( symbol from Me and You and Everyone We Know
There’s always more to come. I’m designing a somewhat massive Twin Peaks piece right now, which will be placed on my skin when I get back to NYC and actually have some extra cash in my pocket.
I’ve got such a short attention span that a tattoo of any kind would be a disaster, especially if I could see it myself! I did want to put the cinema countdown number somewhere though, you know, the old black and white radar like thing that they used to put on film leaders 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 beep.
This is silly… but I have a gray scale tattoo on my lower forearm. It’s a circle and occasionally people see it and think that I have the current Criterion ‘C’ tattooed on me!
I’m gonna get the RKO tower on my arm. Because I’m a nerd.
After I taught him The Stunt Man a few years ago, a student had the great image from the ads for that film tattooed onto his upper arm.
One of the proudest moments of my teaching experience!
“5, 4, 3, 2, 1 beep”
Hehe, just a minor detail: the beep goes on the number 2. “5, 4, 3, 2 beep, 1”.
:)
—PolarisDiB
“5, 4, 3, 2, 1 beep”
Hehe, just a minor detail: the beep goes on the number 2. “5, 4, 3, 2 beep, 1”.
:)
—PolarisDiB
Jimmy Buffett (who has tattoos) has a song about them which describe tattoos as a “permanent memory of a temporary feeling.”
If you are still going to go this route, note that tattoo artists doing one-off art will not be as good as stuff they are familiar with and have mucked up already on earlier guinea pigs.
I have a Nosferatu tattoo on my right leg on the outside and on the inside of the same leg I have the criterion cover of Eyes Without A Face. On my wrist I have the Rebel Alliance symbol from Star Wars
I heard that girls really go for those Nosferatu tattoo’s, is this true?
I think that my mouse is sick.
very sick.
So far it seems they do
I’ve got the eraserhead baby tattoo’d on my face.
If I got one it would look like this…
I’m considering getting a small “8 1/2” in the style as it is on the Criterion cover… Possibly on my ribcage or latissimus dorsi muscle (back).
http://www.betz.lu/media/blogs/b/8andhalf.jpg
I have the Rebel Alliance tattoo on my leg
Col.dax, that is fucking win!
classic
Well, I was going to try to top my other one, but T.252.AM destroyed anything I could have ever possibly done.
aw come on man, there’s got to be something to top this !
> but I admit, Snake Plissken’s uber-phallic torso tatt is pretty damn good.
One day I hope to get “sic transit gloria” in very elementary, Wes Anderson type cursive. Maybe I’ll even dot the “i” with a bee.
Tattoos are sooo 2001. You all realize they’re for trendy followers, right?
No one finds my eraserhead joke funny? damn I thought i struck gold.
I would agree with you on 70-80% of the people who end up getting tattooed, Eli. The type of people who get tribal designs when they belong to no tribe, or celtic designs (even if they are descended from the Celts), any sort of stand-alone kanji symbol, or the oft-tattoed, always annoying tiger/dragon/koi fish.
But, if it’s something that you truly care about, or something you’ve dedicated your life too (in the case of this thread, cinema) than you really can’t say it’s merely a case of people being trendy followers.
And yes, I have quite a few non-film related tattoos, some that I look at now and think, “Really… why did you do that?” but I don’t regret getting them. And thankfully those particular ones are small enough to not be much of an issue.
It is funny Kurt. But it drew a horribly disturbing image in my mind, and I stopped laughing.
I’ve been toying with the idea of getting “I’m finished.” in small text on the back of my neck.
A good 95% of tattoos are stupid, and of the 5% that aren’t stupid, about 95% of those look piss poor, anyway. But, what are you gonna do. Trends be trends, and the kids love the stupid things. I’ll probably end up with a tramp stamp of a butterfly someday just to try and convince people to like me.
I gave myself an inkless tattoo for a film. That’s more or less the same thing.
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Anyone have any? I don’t have any tattoos but I’ve been toying with the idea of getting the Ikiru cover from the Criterion edition. Anyone have any cool ones they could post?