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Iron fist shoes do need a helluva lot of breaking in to get just comfy. First time I wore them it took about 20mins to get on, wore them about the same length and was crippled on a chair for the night from then on :pac:
Just perfect now though
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Yeah, when I was breaking in the New Rocks I was kinda the same, but leather's always a pain to break in.Iron fist shoes do need a helluva lot of breaking in to get just comfy. First time I wore them it took about 20mins to get on, wore them about the same length and was crippled on a chair for the night from then on :pac:
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What area would you like to go in? I know for myself, I'm hoping to get into software development, with the ideal target of getting into games dev from there.
I turned down the idea of studying English because although I love English and writing and want to write in some shape or form the only day job, realistically it would get me would be teaching and I thought no way in hell would I do that. Three years on, older and maturer I realise, actually teaching English wouldn't be all that bad as a day job. However the only way now I could do it would be to either do some sort of English postgrad followed by a H.dip or go the undergraduate route all over again. That's too much time for me, I don't want to waste my life studying (no offence to those who pursue pHDs and the like I just prefer working to studying). Also there's no way I could afford any of it anyway, my parents took on loans just to pay for this degree.
I'm still going to try sort out some sort of writing portfolio (and edit my novel) and try get some freelance work maybe although without experience and/or a relevant degree it's hard but the likelihood of being able to support myself with that stuff isn't really viable starting out and there's nothing I could get from this degree I can myself working thing that won't kill me slowly...
Sorry sounds stupid and melodramatic, just annoyed and upset with myself.
Also good look with the leaving and studying and that in the long term. I head software development is difficult. Of course if it's what you want to do long term then it's not as difficult as others might say.
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Don't worry killer your not alone there are plenty of people in jobs they hate, im one of them I love the hours well all the time off but the job itself not so much, I fell into it at 19 done three years training ten years later im still there.
Yehs there other jobs and fields had I had enough sense in secondary school I'd love to do or even back doors in now that I could use to achieve getting qualifications, but my job with shift hours and constant rotating makes doing collage coarses part time impossible and I can't afford to quit and go on the dole either its catch 22, someday hopefully
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Look on the bright side you are still young enough and able enough to do something about it.
Just home from Remis there hurt like a bitch today for some reason, but only one more sitting done and im loving how its looking right now, he reckons another three hours roughly left on it. 0 -
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Simply WOW!!
May have found my next artist after Andy.
Silvano Fiato from Italy. Make a holiday of it
His King Kong piece is still one of my favorites
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I've seen that before alright though never noted the artist
He really does have a distinct style. Nearly every piece is iconic in its own way. An absolute master.
Tattoos should be taught in art at school these days. Make the tired subject alot more interesting and relevant :pac:0 -
I've seen that before alright though never noted the artist
He really does have a distinct style. Nearly every piece is iconic in its own way. An absolute master.
Tattoos should be taught in art at school these days. Make the tired subject alot more interesting and relevant :pac:
Nahh, I'd say vice versa! An awful lot of tattoos aren't very artistically interesting. I'm pretty picky about my art and I rarely see a tattoo that I actually like.
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RhoDoDenDron wrote: »Nahh, I'd say vice versa! An awful lot of tattoos aren't very artistically interesting. I'm pretty picky about my art and I rarely see a tattoo that I actually like.
An awful lot aren't, but an awful lot are.0 -
Ok, prepare for a rant:
The thing about tattoos is that people treat the human body like a blank canvas, which it's not. The tattoos above, while fantastic as tattoos, wouldn't hold up if they were on canvas. They've got a cool-ish subject matter but they're just pictures, really. Art has come a long way from who can draw the best, but I don't think tattooing has to the same extent. I mean, can you imagine if Picasso was a tattoo artist?
The other thing, as I mentioned above, is that people tattoo as if a body is a blank canvas. When you have a living, breathing human, it's crazy to treat it like a flat piece of paper when creating a tattoo. Most, if not all, of my favourite tattoos are ones that flow with the human form and celebrate the human body. I guess it stems from my interest in the heavier aspects in body modification, but I've never been a fan of tattoos like the above work.
Having said all that, that's just my opinion and I don't mean to offend anyone. 0 -
RhoDoDenDron wrote: »Ok, prepare for a rant:
The thing about tattoos is that people treat the human body like a blank canvas, which it's not. The tattoos above, while fantastic as tattoos, wouldn't hold up if they were on canvas. They've got a cool-ish subject matter but they're just pictures, really. Art has come a long way from who can draw the best, but I don't think tattooing has to the same extent. I mean, can you imagine if Picasso was a tattoo artist?
The other thing, as I mentioned above, is that people tattoo as if a body is a blank canvas. When you have a living, breathing human, it's crazy to treat it like a flat piece of paper when creating a tattoo. Most, if not all, of my favourite tattoos are ones that flow with the human form and celebrate the human body. I guess it stems from my interest in the heavier aspects in body modification, but I've never been a fan of tattoos like the above work.
Having said all that, that's just my opinion and I don't mean to offend anyone.
Well for you the body mightn't be considered a blank canvas but by man tattoo enthusiast's and tattoo artists it is. Also art is open to interpretation what you may view as artistic I may consider utter crap that's the beauty of it. For me Silvano Fiatos work is art, not just a "cool-ish" picture not many people have the skills that allow him to be fantastic tattoo artist that he is. Much like some people think Picasso was an amazing artist and also a lot who don't.
Also any artist I have ever had any dealings with of coarse have always took the flow of the human body into account, never would an artist treat the skin like a piece of paper placement is always carefully considered to suit the flow and shape of the body, it's never a case of ah sure well just bang this here, it be grand.
Heavier body modifications and tattoo's also generally go hand in hand with one another not on polar opposites.0 -
Marty McFly wrote: »Well for you the body mightn't be considered a blank canvas but by man tattoo enthusiast's and tattoo artists it is. Also art is open to interpretation what you may view as artistic I may consider utter crap that's the beauty of it. For me Silvano Fiatos work is art, not just a "cool-ish" picture not many people have the skills that allow him to be fantastic tattoo artist that he is. Much like some people think Picasso was an amazing artist and also a lot who don't.
Also any artist I have ever had any dealings with of coarse have always took the flow of the human body into account, never would an artist treat the skin like a piece of paper placement is always carefully considered to suit the flow and shape of the body, it's never a case of ah sure well just bang this here, it be grand.
Heavier body modifications and tattoo's also generally go hand in hand with one another not on polar opposites.
Of course it's open to interpretation, and I used cool-ish to refer to the subject matter. Obviously there's a lot of talent that goes into making a tattoo look that realistic, but I just don't see why it would stop there. While Picasso may have had his share of haters, he's widely accepting as an incredibly innovative artist who helping redefine what art could achieve. That, for me, is a lot more meaningful that a picture. But again, just an opinion.
A tattoo has to take the body into account, but I'm talking pieces that really flow with it and are based around the body part, instead of just accommodating it.
As regards heavy modding and tattooing going together, they do, but not the same style of tattoo that you see every day. I follow a lot of heavily modded people and you can see trends in their tattoos, trends that tend to involve a lot more heavy blackwork, geometric designs and abstraction than just images.
But of course I acknowledge everyone's right to an equal opinion on the subject, and I don't expect many will agree with my view on the matter 0 -
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Whoops, seems I started some discussion.
I in no way meant that the above would be considered art per se, but that tattoos do have a place in the art world - hence why not taught within the subject at school. I mentioned it more as an after thought to my previous statement.
Picasso is mentioned of course, he would be classed alongside Michaelangelo, Botticelli, Raphael, Caravaggio and Leonardo in their contributions towards art and their roles in redefining it. However, in school, whilst I could appreciate their contributions and talent, it bored me as they were existent so long ago.
Modern art was barely touched in relation to tattoos, photography, comic character design, etc. All of which to me are relevant in the broader sense of art. Ask Donatello to create a fast talking, pizza loving, upright walking turtle and he wouldn't have a clue why in the name of God you'd want him to do that :pac:
I appreciate the traditional art methods/mediums in art, but as a young student I would have loved to learn art in the broader sense as opposed to the stricter interpretations regarding the subject 0 -
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Whoops, seems I started some discussion.
Discussion is great
Tattoos are of course art, they're just a different kind and all I was saying is that as pieces of art in their own right, a lot of tattoos aren't very ambitious.
As for teaching tattoos in school, they would have to be teaching tattoos that meant something to the world of art. While the above tattoos mightn't be ground-breaking, there are plenty of tattoos that are incredibly unique. Having said that, a lot of piercing and heavier modding could be considered ground-breaking art too, but society-at-large is a bit too squeamish for that at the moment :pac:
Lastly, not everyone found it as boring. I personally loved surrealism, cubism, and most art from 1900 onwards! Tattoos won't be everyone's cup of tea either 0
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