Any every day aspect of life may seem dull, but the way people present these elements to the public can portray different and interesting perspectives. The development of online writing, specifically blogs and Facebook, allow people to portray any personality they wish. How permanent do these online writers want their public personalities to be?
This project is an expansion of the fourth project "Show Me Your Tat." Tattoos are an every day subject, but also a permanent one. We see tattoos every day, but what does permanently writing on your body mean? People get tattoos for a variety of reasons, from family to favorite band. Tattoos can be seen as expansion of online writing: permanently sending people a message about yourself. People with tattoos write to the public every day. I e mailed, facebooked, and blogged people to send me pictures and/or descriptions of their tattoos. Their descriptions could be as simple or complicated as they want. Some people only told me what their tattoo looks like and some people gave additional information of when they got it, what it means to them, and why they chose that part of the body to be tattooed.
I have taken four steps in order to expand on this project. First, I found more tattoos. When I encountered people with tattoos, I asked if I could take a picture or if they would tell me something about it. Second, I grouped all of pictures together so you can see the comparisons in this every day yet permanent subject. Similar to placing blogs with subjects about the every day, such describing what you've been doing for the past three hours, in a list, the meaningfulness or pointless has been emphasized.
See the grouped pictures of tattoos here.
Third, when I named and listed the submissions to this project, tattoos became even more every day. Placing a simple name to an obviously important aspect of the body makes the relationship to the owner's tattoo and personality more interesting.
Check out which tattoo seems the most interesting to you based on its name. Click on one of the links below.
3 L's
American
Angel
Arm
Art
Band
Barbed wire
Bass
Bishop
Butterfly
Crest
Dempsey
Dove
Dragon
Dub V
Fairy
Family
Fish
Flamin'
Frat
Gemini
Goblin
Grandparents
Hager
Halo
This project is an expansion of the fourth project "Show Me Your Tat." Tattoos are an every day subject, but also a permanent one. We see tattoos every day, but what does permanently writing on your body mean? People get tattoos for a variety of reasons, from family to favorite band. Tattoos can be seen as expansion of online writing: permanently sending people a message about yourself. People with tattoos write to the public every day. I e mailed, facebooked, and blogged people to send me pictures and/or descriptions of their tattoos. Their descriptions could be as simple or complicated as they want. Some people only told me what their tattoo looks like and some people gave additional information of when they got it, what it means to them, and why they chose that part of the body to be tattooed.
I have taken four steps in order to expand on this project. First, I found more tattoos. When I encountered people with tattoos, I asked if I could take a picture or if they would tell me something about it. Second, I grouped all of pictures together so you can see the comparisons in this every day yet permanent subject. Similar to placing blogs with subjects about the every day, such describing what you've been doing for the past three hours, in a list, the meaningfulness or pointless has been emphasized.
See the grouped pictures of tattoos here.
Third, when I named and listed the submissions to this project, tattoos became even more every day. Placing a simple name to an obviously important aspect of the body makes the relationship to the owner's tattoo and personality more interesting.
Check out which tattoo seems the most interesting to you based on its name. Click on one of the links below.
3 L's
American
Angel
Arm
Art
Band
Barbed wire
Bass
Bishop
Butterfly
Crest
Dempsey
Dove
Dragon
Dub V
Fairy
Family
Fish
Flamin'
Frat
Gemini
Goblin
Grandparents
Hager
Halo
Isaiah
Jerry
Judge
Meeting
Meiyo
Meso-American
Metal
Mountaineer
Name
Orange
Parrot
Papaw
Peace
Psalm
Sign
Skull
Star
Stars
Step
Swirly
Symbols
Thorn
Tribal
Virgo
Wedding
Wings
Woodrum
Yankees
Finally, I was interested if there are any relationships between the area people live and the types of tattoos those people have. To better examine this point, I created a map with all the submissions using the Flickr website. To find out where people call home, I searched for each person on Facebook and learned their hometown. If one was not listed, I used whatever location they claimed. Obviously, my project is somewhat focused on college students, but participants want tattoos for a number of different reasons no matter where they call home. For those who commented on their tat, it seems that experience is the biggest influence in choosing a subject.
Look over the tattoo map here. (Zoom in and out to see marked entries, or click on the blue dot of an entry that interests you.)
Jerry
Judge
Meeting
Meiyo
Meso-American
Metal
Mountaineer
Name
Orange
Parrot
Papaw
Peace
Psalm
Sign
Skull
Star
Stars
Step
Swirly
Symbols
Thorn
Tribal
Virgo
Wedding
Wings
Woodrum
Yankees
Finally, I was interested if there are any relationships between the area people live and the types of tattoos those people have. To better examine this point, I created a map with all the submissions using the Flickr website. To find out where people call home, I searched for each person on Facebook and learned their hometown. If one was not listed, I used whatever location they claimed. Obviously, my project is somewhat focused on college students, but participants want tattoos for a number of different reasons no matter where they call home. For those who commented on their tat, it seems that experience is the biggest influence in choosing a subject.
Look over the tattoo map here. (Zoom in and out to see marked entries, or click on the blue dot of an entry that interests you.)
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