http://www.bmezine.com/tattoo/A81006/high/n77m-my-chinese-tatto.jpg
有難同當 is a Chinese idiom means "to share the misfortune together". If this was picked from a tattoo template book, I am sure there are many sharing this misfortune.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Sharing the Misfortune
http://www.bmezine.com/tattoo/A81006/high/n77m-my-chinese-tatto.jpg
有難同當 is a Chinese idiom means "to share the misfortune together". If this was picked from a tattoo template book, I am sure there are many sharing this misfortune.
BBC: The Kremlin Digger
Alan noticed something odd about the photograph in BBC's article about Russian journalist, Elena Tregubova.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3227666.stm
Alan says: "The Japanese in the background is obviously reversed. Perhaps the BBC published a mirror-image reversed copy of the photo. Although obviously intended to be Japanese, the text in the background is not exactly legible anyway and it does not seem to make any sense. Maybe the Japanese is reversed on the background image. Who knows? I’m not sure why such a journalist would want to be photographed in front of such a gibberish background. Is this fashionable in Russia or something?"
My guess would be it had something to do with paragraph 3 of the article:
"In one chapter, its author describes a flirty sushi lunch with Vladimir Putin, then head of the Russian security services, the FSB."
Sushi, #42 on list of things White people like.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3227666.stm
Alan says: "The Japanese in the background is obviously reversed. Perhaps the BBC published a mirror-image reversed copy of the photo. Although obviously intended to be Japanese, the text in the background is not exactly legible anyway and it does not seem to make any sense. Maybe the Japanese is reversed on the background image. Who knows? I’m not sure why such a journalist would want to be photographed in front of such a gibberish background. Is this fashionable in Russia or something?"
My guess would be it had something to do with paragraph 3 of the article:
"In one chapter, its author describes a flirty sushi lunch with Vladimir Putin, then head of the Russian security services, the FSB."
Sushi, #42 on list of things White people like.
So, I know I've Been Slacking....
But hey, sometimes we get busy, and sometimes we get lazy, and sometimes we get World of Warcraft at home....
So heres some more tattoos for you to peruse at your leisure.
I did this on a former Miss Deaf America. Flowers on a hip.
Laugh now, cry later tattoo, custom drawn.
Neo-traditional rose tattoo, custom.
Here's a monkey tattoo I did on my brother's girlfriend. It's for her son that likes to scoot around on the floor with his cars.
And I'm gunna toot my own horn here a little. This guy came in with a video of a soccer player with his name in big black roman/greek-esque lettering on his arm, i think, and he wanted his name just like that. I told him how much it was gunna be, and then said I could do it for a little bit less if I could do it in a way that he would like that would be fun for me to do as well. He agreed, and I got to do this, which I think is the best tattoo I have ever done.
All tattoos I do are custom drawn. You can contact me at Myspace, or you can call Freak Show Tattoos at (210)673-7325
Freak Show Tattoos (www.freakshowtattoos.com) is located at
310 Valley Hi Dr, Suite 203
San Antonio, Tx 78227
So heres some more tattoos for you to peruse at your leisure.
I did this on a former Miss Deaf America. Flowers on a hip.
Laugh now, cry later tattoo, custom drawn.
Neo-traditional rose tattoo, custom.
Here's a monkey tattoo I did on my brother's girlfriend. It's for her son that likes to scoot around on the floor with his cars.
And I'm gunna toot my own horn here a little. This guy came in with a video of a soccer player with his name in big black roman/greek-esque lettering on his arm, i think, and he wanted his name just like that. I told him how much it was gunna be, and then said I could do it for a little bit less if I could do it in a way that he would like that would be fun for me to do as well. He agreed, and I got to do this, which I think is the best tattoo I have ever done.
All tattoos I do are custom drawn. You can contact me at Myspace, or you can call Freak Show Tattoos at (210)673-7325
Freak Show Tattoos (www.freakshowtattoos.com) is located at
310 Valley Hi Dr, Suite 203
San Antonio, Tx 78227
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Lebanese Tattoo by Moe Barjawi
Alan spotted this photo of what appears to be Kanji tattoo by Moe Barjawi in BMEzine's gallery:
http://www.bmezine.com/tattoo/A80922/high/n0t6-lebanese-tattoo-moe.jpg
Alan emailed me this after seeing it:
Let me see if I got this right. Some tattooist named “Moe” tattoos himself with his name in the “Gibberish Font” and, thinking this will be good advertising for his tattoo shop named “Lebanese Tattoo,” posts a picture of it on BMEzine.com… They never learn, do they?
What is even more astonishing is that someone has evidently tried to “improve” the original horrible calligraphy (especially on the partial 辶). Did they really think that bad calligraphy was the only problem? The mind boggles.
A badly drawn tattoo, done at a 'professional' tattoo studio. The term first surfaced on the facebook group 'Actually, I think your tattoo is hideous'.
http://www.bmezine.com/tattoo/A80922/high/n0t6-lebanese-tattoo-moe.jpg
Alan emailed me this after seeing it:
Let me see if I got this right. Some tattooist named “Moe” tattoos himself with his name in the “Gibberish Font” and, thinking this will be good advertising for his tattoo shop named “Lebanese Tattoo,” posts a picture of it on BMEzine.com… They never learn, do they?
What is even more astonishing is that someone has evidently tried to “improve” the original horrible calligraphy (especially on the partial 辶). Did they really think that bad calligraphy was the only problem? The mind boggles.
What is even more entertaining is definition for the term "Lebanese tattoo" in UrbanDictionary.com is the following:
A badly drawn tattoo, done at a 'professional' tattoo studio. The term first surfaced on the facebook group 'Actually, I think your tattoo is hideous'.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Name-dropping in American Philosophical Society's Publication
Reader Bryan points me to the latest issue of American Philosophical Society's publication, where this humble little site was mentioned on page 54.
The main article is titled "How Maya Hieroglyphs Got Their Name: Egypt, Mexico, and China in Western Grammatology since the Fifteenth Century" by Byron Ellsworth Hamann from
Department of Anthropology and Department of History, The University of Chicago.
http://www.aps-pub.com/proceedings/1521/1520101.pdf
The illustration shown above had this caption:
Car ornamentation with “Chinese” characters, photographed in Almería, Spain, in August 2006. The third character from the left is dao (“way” or “path”); the rest are nonsensical (or, as James Mathien put it, “Fakenese”). Mayanists might refer to these as “pseudo-glyphs.” Photograph by the author [Hamann].
The article is sixty-eight pages long, so be patient or get a few liters of beer in you before proceeding.
The main article is titled "How Maya Hieroglyphs Got Their Name: Egypt, Mexico, and China in Western Grammatology since the Fifteenth Century" by Byron Ellsworth Hamann from
Department of Anthropology and Department of History, The University of Chicago.
http://www.aps-pub.com/proceedings/1521/1520101.pdf
The illustration shown above had this caption:
Car ornamentation with “Chinese” characters, photographed in Almería, Spain, in August 2006. The third character from the left is dao (“way” or “path”); the rest are nonsensical (or, as James Mathien put it, “Fakenese”). Mayanists might refer to these as “pseudo-glyphs.” Photograph by the author [Hamann].
The article is sixty-eight pages long, so be patient or get a few liters of beer in you before proceeding.
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