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i hope that didn't kill the thread. i'm anxious to see how many other women there are out there with constructivist tattoos

I think the thread was pretty dead to begin with. The only people who ogle my arm are people who regrettably have skulls or tribal bands on theirs.

Another archinect user has a pretty rad architect tattoo. Can't give it away though.

a shame. maybe with all the entries the two of us have given it, it'll start to attract attention. i want to see someone who did sleeves of The Peak...

go figure myriam beats me to the punch...

I have Corbu's modular man on the back of my right calf. Myriam like it more than she likes me, but I'm used to that by now.

nice work.

don't worry there are others out there. I've got an old school sacred heart over a city burning in the background on my arm.(not a sleeve..yet)

Sofya - that's gorgeous...I had in a thread a while back about getting Ronchamp on my shoulder. Its nice to see that I'm not the only one addicted enough to mark it with ink

btw i never did get it :(

exquisite.



that's some amazing craftsmanship.

I have ink on my back and in true designer fashion, I feel that the composition is incomplete. Is it weird that it might be addicting, this magical tattoo art? It's bilaterally symmetrical so I've got to do something to throw it off a bit but keep it harmonious. No you don't get to see it.

i have a tat of pruitt igoe on my ass...

i'm designing mine now and have been for about a year.... problem is that i prolly wont be able to work in a firm once it's done cause it's starting at my index figure...up my arm...to the back of my neck ...up the the opposite ear...mirror image on both arms/sides....... yup, i think after that, i'll be self employed and working in a shop...... ohh snap, i already do.......

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DubK- all body modification is addicting. People who get pierced, stretched, inked, implanted, whatever, almost all find it addicting. I've been wanting to rework my tattoo almost since the moment I got it done. I wanted mine bilaterally symmetrical too, but every artist I showed it to took one look and laughed, telling me that it'd be illegible within two years (apparently I got carried away on the detail). So I scaled one quarter of it up and dropped the foursquare design.

Isn't there another archinecter with the Modular Man on his back?

I can vouch that stretching is addicting: I originally was going to stop my lobes at 0gage, but now I'm up to 7/8" and 1" is awefully tempting (nice and even value, etc.).

237amdotcom: I know what you're talking about. I want to get knuckle pieces but thats a big jump I'm unsure of taking because of the exposure. Plus I'm around sawdust a lot and that could make healing a bitch.

someone posted some pics of some tats of eames and mies chairs a while back...

here's the link

sofya's ink is MUCH MUCH cooler though...

and she's received media attention...

Yes! Mild fame on the internet! Will you guys be my friends now?

architphil: thank you!

wow, you got a real nice tatoo. could you sign me an autograph?

Pixel- I thought I could stop at 8g, but then I found out how flimsy glass is at that size. Now I'm at 6g so that I can wear nice spirals and such, and am noticing how many things only come in 4g and up.... *sigh* Def. will stop by 2g though, as 2-0g is typically considered the 'point of no return'. You don't find piercing itself addicting though, just stretching? I'm highly frustrated at my offices attitude towards body mods, keeps me from getting things I want.

bubpip, I'm sorry, I can't do autographs. My arm is currently attending fashion photo shoots and giving interviews, so you'll have to speak with my rep. I was just kidding about that whole "friends" thing, you know how it is, doncha?

CIAO!

sofya, that is one beautiful tat. i don't have any myself, but my best friend has about a quarter of his body painted. that includes one on the bottom of his foot. ouch.

sofya: did you get that a local shop? if so which one?

rationalist:
I'm not a fan of a lot of ear work, so I have just my lobes. my septum is an 8g (I think) and my labret is a 10g. I had my madison for awhile but had to take it out after a piggy-back ride went sour, although I have been thinking about doing it again. from that experience I've descided that surface piercings are too picky, and I have no desire to go below the waist with anything (although it has crossed my mind). the ears call a lot of attention to themselves with people not used to piercing, so I'm trying to keep things in check. I hate it when people go overboard with piercings just to get piercings and any sense of symmetrical balance it totally lost.

pixel: yeah the local artist's name is Erick Lynch; he works at Redemption Tattoo in Cambridge, Ma.

Shit, didn't know Redemption was open already from the renovations. I have a piece I wanted to take in and have done there, I'll have to ride by sometime and see when they could fit it in.

Hey, you guys that are into stretching, you should try this: give birth.

;-)

bah-dah-bump!

Hmm, Pixel, you wouldn't like my little collection, as I am not into symmetry. But I agree about going overboard, there's a point of saturation at which it's just not attractive anymore.

LB- I'll pass on that, thanks.

not so much symmetry, but a symmetrical balance, i.e. one side is more pierced friendly to the point of looking rediculous.

i am modification-less... just 100% stock like the day i was born :-(

Why the frown? That's your choice- if you like yourself 'stock', there's no reason to frown about it!

I got a small cross on my right shoulder when I was 19. A lot of my friends and family were convinced it was "just a phase" and I regularly get asked if I regret it. I think people think I just don't seem "the type of person" who has tattoos. I quite like that though.

I've been wanting more ink for a while and had a consultation today with a tattooist here in London. I have been working up a triangular armband (flat bottom, point on shoulder) made up of stylised leaves. The leaves look somewhere between part of a William Morris wallpaper and a Grinling Gibbons wood carving (but flat, obviously). The band has an opening in it in the shape of a stylised house.

I might post a picture of it here before and after I get it done. I'm also getting a large 5-pointed star around my original cross. I hope no-one mistakes me for a Texan.

I've never thought of getting a tattoo of a building. I guess it just seems too much like hero worship for me. I really like Sofya's one though, probably because of the level of stylisation. If I was going to get an architectural drawing etched into my skin I think it would have to be something by Lebbeus Woods.

lebbeus woods and zaha's drawings both look like they belong on skin

i'm just waiting for the anticlassical discourse that ensues after someone posts their ionic column penis sleeve

Amazing!

I'm curious to hear what people have said to you about it.

I like the idea of getting a skyline as an armband. wish I had some connection to a cool skyline so I'd have reason to get one.

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good taste; swiss francs have always been the best looking currency

wantanfon5:

Living in Boston, I most often get asked if the tat is of the Zakim Bridge:


However, "Is that Boston?" and "Is that New York?" are close seconds.

I've also been asked if it is, of all things, my alma mater--MassArt:


Notable guesses include:


and


and a control tower at Logan Airport

the MassArt tower of doom!?! that just made my day (and its only 9:45am)!

Women… with… constructivist… tattoos.

Just when you think it’s safe to go back on the internet sofya goes and makes me face a dark, all consuming fetish I never knew I had and now can never forget.

How can I ever look at a woman without a constructivist tattoo now? How can I get back to being normal? Do I want to? Are their porn sites for people like me?

Though I suppose Pruit Igo on the ass would be even hotter.

Oh, oh wait! What if I got that famous picture of Cabrini Green being blown up tattooed across my chest. Then I could learn how to flex so that it looked like it was collapsing (like when I was ready to rumble, na'mean)

Maybe then I could attract a hot WWCT.


Seriously though, S: very cool, I’d ogle your arm any day.

I'm getting Chops to ink out an old Drafting Compass from Germany next month on my forearm. Greyscale.

my god we're nerds...

what's your next one going to be, sofya?

you should do an Iwan Leonidow tower all the way up your forearm

better than having a celtic armband!

someone should get one of the italian futurists on them.

myriam: you got it!

5: see myriam.

[Well to be honest I am very impressed by some of Zaha's urban-sprawl paintings, but there's only so much real estate - no pun intended - on the body to cover. The back is a poor canvas to me because then you can't enjoy looking at it, and if I get any more arm tattoos I'll be less employable than a freshly-minted interior designer *ba-dum!*)