intellectual properties

swirls and dots

when i was trying to design my most recent tattoo, and when i picked out the new design template for this website, this was the sort of line art style i had in mind: Boards of Canada: Music is Math (vimeo music video)

beautiful! now, if i could just get my tattoo and design template animated….

~via

fine line envy

i just saw a photo of vera’s new tattoo, and suddenly i have a lot of regret about mine. mine was a cover-up and the placement on my body was a little awkward, so there were some limitations, but i wanted finer lines and smaller dots like vera’s and was more or less talked out of it by the guy who inked me - he said it would bleed too much and eventually look blurry. i sort of moved away from the vector art idea when he told me that and moved toward the more organic shape that i ended up with. but looking now at hers compared to mine, hers is much more the style i was going for, and i’m sort of jealous and suddenly mine just looks like an ink blob, without any sense of the cleaner line art style i originally wanted. i still think i might try to find someone who can add more fine lines/smaller dots added onto mine to try to achieve the aesthetic, but man - tattoo jealousy/remorse kinda sucks. or, maybe i get another one…..

squiddish

this covers a tattoo i got while on spring break in college. i’ve spent many years wanting it covered up with something cool (i really like tattoos, and while many may disagree, i think the idea of having them on my body when i’m 80 is AWESOME and i will probably get more!), but always got snagged on what kind of design. recently i’ve been really inspired by baroque line art, such as this by SF artist Hannah Stouffer, and also sea creatures, such as this (thx deborah), and so i worked with an artist here in berkeley on the design and finally did it. i might have more fine lines/tendrils added to it at some point, but after 2+ hours under the needle on tuesday i was done for this round, especially since DURING the tattoo process the flu hit me and so in addition to clenching my fists in periodic episodes of pain, by the end i also had a 100+ degree fever and the chills. at first i thought i was having a reaction to the ink and/or physical stress of the pain, but it just so happened that the flu really hit me during the 3 hours i was at the tattoo parlor and i’ve been sick for the past 2 1/2 days. a bad confluence that was, but my fever finally broke last night (i swear i could feel my whole body relax the second it did) and i’m feeling better now, and the tattoo is healing quite nicely.

it’s been a long and interesting week.