Sometimes a ReBlog is not an option.
I don’t have a clue as to WHY. But – I can SHARE!! YAY!!
I saw this quote posted on – Dancing With The MS Monster
Laughing in the face of multiple sclerosis
12/19/13
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen
BECKI’S BOOK BLOG
Where your Book Addiction is Normal.
♦ There is NO such thing as too many books.
♦ It’s not cheating if they live in different books.
♦ It’s not fair that the world carries on like nothing happened when I’ve just been cut to shreds at the hands of a paperback (or Kindle)
♦ Abibliophobia is not a silly fear. (Fear of running out of reading material)
♦ Born to read, forced to work
And, most importantly, never forget…
READING IS SEXY!
These words may bring visions of museums and libraries to mind,
but that is not where I’m headed. Not this time.
“A MORTAL WORK OF ART”
In the summer of 2003, Shelly Jackson put out a call for people to be part of a 2095-word story published exclusively in tattoos, one word at a time, on the skin of volunteers.
The first tattooed word (SKIN, the story’s title) is on Jackson’s own wrist and subsequent words are slowly being issued in story order, based upon applications Jackson feels speak to her.
I’ve become obsessed with this project.
The story is a closely guarded secret and the volunteers are able to read it only after they’ve been inked. If she has her way, the complete text of SKIN will never be made publicly available, in print or online.
Once a chosen person has gone through the forms, contracts, non-disclosures, etc. & gets their ink, from that point on, they are referred to as ‘Words’. Participants will receive a signed and dated certificate confirming their participation in the work and verifying the authenticity of their word.
Tens of thousands of applicants for a 2095 word story makes me think that my chances of being accepted into the project are pretty slim, but, this project is… alive, for lack of a better term. And, as life is apt to do… it ends. The story may never be fully realised, as it seems possible that before the last word has been “born” one of the others may have died. The author is quite aware that many of her words could outlive her. But this seems to be part of her grand design, an integral part of her artistic vision: “As words die the story will change; when the last word dies the story will also have died.”
A side note on the death of her ‘words’ – “The author will make every effort to attend the funerals of her words.”
* Further information available here -http://www.ineradicablestainstain.com/
That is one version of combining art & literature.
The art becoming the literature.
And, although that is what inspired this post, I’d like to talk about different types of literary tattoos. There are a gazillion examples of this on the web.
Some beautiful, some horrendous, some inspiring, some fun…
Paying homage to a favorite author…
Or, a certain book that changed your life..
Some people choose poetry…
They may cause others to stare… But, you know why they’re there!
(I’m reluctantly adding pics of my vampire bite tattoo here, because I hate how it turned out. My love of vampire lit started at a young age, and my obsession took over with Anita Blake. Sadly, it has become my most hated piece. Especially when tweens approach me and say something moronic, like ‘Team Edward’. I hate those people.)
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I wish I could find an artist to fix these, without making them bigger & uglier. ::sigh::
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Literary quotes have become a huge market.
This is a tattoo from Stephen King’s Bag of Bones, from the quote: “When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing.” I have always liked this quote, and, since it is one of my besties favorite books… I chose this example…
And, this ‘Fear & Loathing… ‘ one just kicks ass…
Done by Ryan @ White Lion Custom Tattoo in Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
I could post hundreds of inspirational literary quotes…
“Question everything. Learn Something. Answer nothing.”
“One flew east, One flew west, One flew over the cuckoo’s nest.”
And, of course, one of the best…
“STAY GOLD”
The best tatts are ones with meaning. Something special, unique to the bearer. It could be something as simple as a date, or as elaborate as… something big and elaborate.
One of the coolest tatts I’ve seen lately is this –
Do you perceive it as the author’s skin being pulled back, to show the story within? OR, do you see it as the story bursting out of the author, too powerful to be contained? Either way… it speaks.
This one marks a special occasion, the authors first publication date –
I would love to see your ink! What, when where, why…
Post links in the comments.
Any authors wanting to duplicate Shelly Jackson’s project, I’m down!
One last thing… Grizz, how strange is this?! Unless I ran across a random picture of you while Googling… It’s bizarre!
“I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.”
~ Anne Rice
I want all posts like these to post directly into Legendary Lines of Literature, so everything is grouped together nicely.
I think the only way that will happen is if I edit each new one in.
I don’t like that. What are your suggestions?
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