The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos from Bookworms Worldwide by Eva Talmadge, Justin Taylor
My rating: 5/5 cats
so yesterday on our AIFAF, brooklyn-style, i remembered just one more thing i hate about summer: hipster tattoos. in the winter, so many of them are safely tucked away under ascots and ironic adidas warm-up jackets and suit jackets with elbow pads worn over seventies t-shirts with skinny ties… but in the summer….halter tops and wifebeaters reveal airbrush-style unicorns and clever rebus tattoos or the artwork of friends or those awful stars…
although i am kind of in love with this one:
but so i sort of have a love/hate relationship with this book. on the one hand, i kind of love that someone wanted to get an infinite jest tattoo… on the other hand, i feel like it could have been a lot more awesome than it turned out…
you can see it for yourself, it makes my head kinda hurt:
but, yeah, at one point in my life, i really wanted to get a portrait of byron on my upper arm. i had actually designed an entire sleeve, which would have kicked ass, if i had ever won the lottery or married a rock star or met a pro bono (and very skilled) tattoo artist or something. but it was not to be, and i am just boring skin-colored. unless you’re buying. and in that case, yeah i totally still want it…
but i love flipping through this book, and their website:
some are awesome:
some are “oh, dear”:
but all of them are nerrrrrds.
and i can get behind that, even if they are hipster nerds. wear sunscreen, though, kids…
i just gave myself a literary tattoo! it is wuthering heights!! see the sad face?? that’s how you know!!
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/…
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