Friday, February 4, 2011

Temporary butterfly tattoos

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The Butterfly Tattoo is a 2008 feature, based on Philip Pullman's novel of the same name (originally published as The White Mercedes). The film is particularly notable given that despite being a commercial production it actively sought to provide training and experience for young film-makers. The film also used a novel method of financing its production, by selling shares to members of the public.

Chris a naive lad, suspended between school and college, and Jenny, a free spirit fleeing a traumatised childhood, fall in love against the backdrop of modern Oxford. But they are caught in the crossfire, as the past of Barry Miller catches up with him in the form of Carson, a gangster out for revenge.










Thursday, July 23, 2009

Tattoo Motives-Modern and Mixed Motives

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Modern and mixed motives


About contemporary styles of tattooing is actually not a lot of talking. You see them on countless web pages (search engine, Yahoo or Google, type the keyword "tattoo" and certainly it will appear more than one page).
Today probably is not the design, symbol, image, fantasy or realistic images that would not have been tattooed. It is possible everything what can imagine a human (such or other) fantasy.
Common is a combination of traditional or derivation symbols of modern or modified designs, especially in recent times, however, people often
opt for an ancient motifs and returning to Tribal and Celtic (or Germanic or Nordic) design and symbolism. During the current prevailing fantasy motives, scenes from the literary or - more frequently - the film world and the animated cartoon films, and pop-art icon from modern world, new technology and the urban symbolic, figures of famous personalities, singers, actors, in short - anything just you can imagine, thinking or desire.
Among the most modern designs include the 'classic' designs (ships, heart, female characters), then a realistic image (images or photographs; people, animals, landscape), motifs from the heavy metal world (various demons, skulls, etc.) and such other and fantasy or comic-book drawings.

Modern and mixed motives

Monday, July 20, 2009

Tattoo-First Tattoo

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Tattoo-First Tattoo


I think that nowadays the most widespread disease is lack of identity and the consequent search for meaning and itself. Partly because it is actually no solid signs and signals the social environment message to us: This is you. Now you are grown up. You are a man. You are a woman.
Sometimes they did not have these problems. In many traditional societies today are familiar with such as rites of initiation. Watershed, where the girl 'official' (read: socially recognized) to become a woman. The boy becomes a man, a warrior, an adult. The child becomes a member of community.
Such turning points today, and although we believe that them we do not need and that we live in modern society, this archetypal and deeply rooted in the particularities of a man much impact on our lives and thinking, although this fact may not be aware, all this leads to a loss of cohesion with itself, with native nature and the nature around us, and with our real identity.
No, not that I got too ... Here's; the first tattoo is like a loss of innocence, there is no turning back. I say 'first', as often happens, that a man thing 'pulls' and addictive, and the first tattoo followed by the second, third, fourth, etc...

Tattoo-First Tattoo