Sunday, February 13, 2011

What do your tattoos mean?

They mean fuck you, that's what they mean.


I didn't really watch the video below because I could not give less of a fuck about graffiti. Let's see, there's Banksy, and uh, the other guy there, captain what's his face...um. But this quote that The Daily What highlighted really jumped out at me. “Graffiti is mostly designed just to look good from a moving vehicle… Not necessarily in the history books."

Think about it next time you're about to ask some poor sap what his tattoos mean. I don't know, dude, what does your shirt mean? This line of questioning always puts people on the defensive, like all of a sudden they're at a job interview. Are you like the head of creative at this bar? You considering me for a design gig at the firm? I didn't realize I was going to need to present an artist's statement when I stopped off for a beer tonight and flapped my arms around. Next time I'll wear a  man burka if it makes you act less boring. Why not ask me about something less obvious, like whether or not it's cold enough for me today. It is, actually, thanks for asking.


Watch the video after the thing plus a bonus video of my new favorite sport that's totally not horses fighting.


“Graffiti is mostly designed just to look good from a moving vehicle… Not necessarily in the history books”: Robin Gunningham introduces us to the man behind the garbled voice in B Movie — a short film about Banksy, whose real name may or may not be Robin Gunningham.

B Movie from Robin Gunningham on Vimeo.

OK,it is horses fighting.




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5 comments:

luke going to bed said...

No offense to people who ask that I actually like, shit just gets a little old.

Anonymous said...

"I can never think of anything meaningful enough to put on my body."

How about my balls?

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"Are you like the head of creative at this bar?" and the rest of the paragraph made me lol.

I really hate it when old men see my tattoos when I'm at work, and then have to let me know they have a dream-catcher back piece and lift up their shirt to show me the 30 hour work in 3 sessions. And then continue to show me his native american chest piece to then apologize for not shaving his old man burly barf chest. I never ask to see any of this. NEVER

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You're making me feel bad about my Native American inspired chest piece of a wolf fighting a dream catcher.

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