Tatto For You

How does one go on after a silence of two months? A strange thing it is to disappear so abruptly - all I can say by way of some manner of compensation is that there has been A LOT of good work going on for the next Half-Continent story (rather than the much anticipated Harlequin romance set in outback Australia... sorry about that folks, I know you were all longing for it so :) - a synopsis written, various passages penned and muchas muchas muchas research and invention going on. The upshot right now of this is that in going much deeper into the construction and function and crewing of a ram I have discovered that some of the information about gastrines and rams given in MBT is now revised. I must confess myself a tad perplexed: how am I to proceed? The normal process is to present your world full-formed upon the world, an unshakable rock of continuity and consistency. Yet here I am tweaking and changing and - more properly - refining ideas all the time, as I have always done. What con...

from: Nick to: tiangotlost@gmail.com date: Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:56 AM subject: unknown calf Hi there, My brother got this tattoo on his calf many years ago, has no idea what it means. Can you help???? Thanks, Love the blog. Nick First of all, the character is not correct. It is either missing a stroke in the left radical or having one extra. The intended character could be: 枠 means "frame; spindle, spool, reel". or, 粋 means "pure".

This was posted in Checkoutmyink.com: http://www.checkoutmyink.com/tattoos/inkdazfukaz/tattoo-3 Too bad 愛 is mirrored.

from: Pat B. to: tiangotlost@gmail.com date: Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 6:34 PM subject: Brad the Art Guy : Business is steady. I'm in Hong Kong now and in my class we're looking at Chinese folk religion at the moment, so I went looking for a picture of Laozi and found this ... thought you might enjoy it. Blog: Brad the Art Guy Post: Business is steady. Link: http://bradtheartguy.blogspot.com/2010/10/business-is-steady.html "There was a man in North Carolina who got me to draw a portrait of Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu, which he had transferred to his arm by a talented tattoo artist." Brad the Art Guy's rendition of 道德經 looks nothing like the real thing .

from: P. McKown to: tiangotlost@gmail.com date: Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 7:32 PM subject: Academic citation Hi Tian, I'm an undergraduate at an American university and was so inspired by your website that I decided to write a research paper about Chinese textual tattoos. As I was combing through an article looking for additional sources for my paper I noticed that your website was mentioned. It's an article called "The Blood-Stained Text in Translation: Tattooing, Bodily Writing, and Performance of Chinese Virtue" by Daphne Lei, which I've included as an attachment. Your website is mentioned in the second entry in the end notes. Keep up the great work! ----- Daphne P. Lei, University of California, Irvine - The Blood-Stained Text in Translation: Tattooing, Bodily Writing, and Performance of Chinese Virtue (PDF) Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 82, No. 1, pp. 99–128, ISSN 0003-549. © 2009 by the Institute for Ethnographic Research (IFER) a part of the George Washington...

from: Tom De R. to: tiangotlost@gmail.com date: Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:47 AM Can you please tell me what this means. My brother got this last week and is an idiot. 自律 means "autonomy" and 樂 means "joy". However due to the location of the tattoo, one can make a cheeky remark of this young man is "taking care of business himself".