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Monday 15 December, 2003
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The wonderful Boing Boing pointed to a gallery of "geek" tattoos. I'm not sure about geek, but nonetheless some of the tattoos pictured are really rather lovely. The rest make you wonder about the wisdom of making indelible marks on your own body. I'd draw your attention to this tattoo, followed by this one, this one , this one, this one and this one.

As Jim Ross says on the wrestling, this is, er, very unique.

peteychap said Yeah, I thought similar things. Some were really nice (the binary ones in particular) but tatooing yourself with Quake logos?

I think however the "individual" barcode one is a little deeper than you give it credit for. Could it be a wry comment on how commercialism has branded "those who cannot be categorised" as a category and therefore ripe for exploitation? Though I'll admit it made me think of an old Harry Enfield sketch:

"Why have you got "individual" tatooed on your forehead?"

"Well, my mate had it done, so..." [added 15th Dec 2003]

It might be a wry comment on all kinds of things, but you can make the same comment with a t-shirt - http://www.ntkmart.co.uk/ntkmart.cgi#Viral

On the other hand it might equally be a "hey, that chick in Dark Angel had a barcode on her neck and it look way cool". It could be both. [added 15th Dec 2003]

peteychap said Or "I agree with that chick from Dark Angel re: why she has that tattoo and so will join her in making this statement." At the end of the day it depends on whether the owner of the tat has a brain...

This stuff interests me - why is it so hard to assert your individuality while beig part of a group? There's a lot of strength in being part of a gang/collective/whatever, so why should this diminish your individuality? [added 15th Dec 2003]

It's no crime, but I suspect you are Dark Angel ignorant -

http://www.darkangelfan.com/

http://darkangel.sierra.com/

In Dark Angel, Max had a barcode because she was plucked fully formed from the spawning vat, which is almost the very not-definition of "individual". [added 15th Dec 2003]
"why is it so hard to assert your individuality while beig part of a group?"

now that needs more of an answer than I can fit into this little box ... [added 15th Dec 2003]

peteychap said And there was me thinking Dark Angel was a Goth/skatepunk band. Ah well...

"now that needs more of an answer than I can fit into this little box"

Which is why I only posed the question. ;) [added 15th Dec 2003]


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