How to Disagree – The Hierarchy of Disagreement
This is not related to tattoos at all, but very relevant to some of the comments I have been receiving on the blog lately. Click here for a more detailed description of each of the levels of the hierarchy. If we’re all going to be disagreeing more, we should be careful to do it well. [...]
Turning Tattoos Into Fine Art
Most people don’t associate tattoos with fine art. But as more art school graduates end up in tattoo shops, the body art is increasingly influenced by artists from Jackson Pollock to Helen Frankenthaler. Nice article about fine art tattoos. Thanks to Tom, a reader of my blog, for bringing it to my attention. The comments [...]
Reader: If you pollute your body with piercings and tattoos, expect low-paying service jobs
The following comment was posted as the “comment of the day” on the Denver Westword Blogs page. It was written in response to this article: Five reasons restaurant employees should be allowed to have tattoos and piercings I like to go to restaurants where the staff has a lot of piercings and tattoos because it’s [...]
More Thoughts On Why People Get Tattoos
I read an article this morning that reminded me of a draft post which I have meant to finish for quite a long time now. It was titled ‘Roy Exum: No Need For Any Tattoos‘. The author spends much of the article describing his scars in great detail and recounting the experiences that lead to [...]
Google Search Tips
I do a lot of searching for tattoo related new stories and have learned a few tricks to help streamline my search process, resulting in a much more efficient use of my time. Since I am usually searching for current new stories I do a majority of my searching on Google News rather than a [...]
Call to readers: Why do you dislike tattoos?
My recent Irrational Arguments Against Tattoos post was intended to discuss some of the most commonly used, although admittedly weak, arguments against tattoos. I received the following comment in response to that post: This blog is clearly confirmation bias where the author is attacking the lowest common denimator’s opinion against tattoos rather than real issues [...]