I recently had the honor of interviewing two alumni who have certainly had an impact on my work and I am sure some of my peers would say the same. Eric Ruby hails fromβ¦. The original screenplay for the film was more faithful to the game in that it had graphic violence and strong language making it a R rated script. My advice was simple: put down a non-refundable deposit.
Anything that you commit to having carved into your flesh is personal. You sat through the pain, you bled for it, you chose to wear it on your body for as long as your body lasts. I have tons of pieces of flash tattooed on me - one of my favorites being a potbellied mermaid with an exposed, hairy vagina. For one, tattoo flash represents the roots of American tattooing.
Also, when I look at it, it brings be right back to when I got it tattooed on me. I was 23 years old. I have a piece of Ed Hardy flash on my shin, before Ed Hardy designs became synonymous with date rapists. My boyfriend tried drawing his version of it for me, but his version had long, girly eyelashes. For years I could feel people staring at it in public, wondering why a young girl had such a bizarre, old timey circus looking tiger on her shin.
Then a few years later people started recognizing it as an Ed Hardy design, which sucked because at that point Ed Hardy was the official all-over-print-shirt brand. It holds a lot of memories. For my birthday, the coffee shop where I worked help a pancake eating contest in my honor. The winner got a tattoo from my friend Chris Smith.
We tried to make them, anyway. Turns out, for as much as I liked to eat them, I had no fucking clue how to make pancakes.
