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Long long ago I was a tattoo artist. With very careful needle adjustments, color choices, and a steady hand, this is already possible with conventional inks. Si
by aristus 10y ago
Long long ago I was a tattoo artist. With very careful needle adjustments, color choices, and a steady hand, this is already possible with conventional inks. Simple example: white ink is titanium oxide, basically sunscreen, and breaks down rapidly with exposure to UV.
But you are still gonna have scarring and roughening. If you're gonna get ink, be prepared to have it for life.
Also, testing on pigs? Like, live pigs? I'd pay money to see that. :)
- bluerobotcat 10y agoA Belgian artist did this too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUcX0owdIhY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUcX0owdIhY
- bluerobotcat 10y agoI just realized the video doesn't say. The artist is Wim Delvoye (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Delvoye https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Delvoye).
- ChristianBundy 10y ago> Also, testing on pigs? Like, live pigs? I'd pay money to see that. :) Disgusting and shameful behavior, I can't believe that attitudes like this still exist.
- PeCaN 10y agoCan't blame someone for finding pigs getting tattoos quite amusing. :-) You know full well that it's not a big deal and you're just making edgy comments for the sake of edgy comments. For fuck sake dude, it's a pig. If you actually care about living things, do something about the slave labor used to source raw materials for the computer you wrote that on. I'm going to guess your conviction is about living creatures in pain, not about pigs in particular. One of these is much more disgusting than the other. Honestly who gives a flying fuck about a pig getting a tattoo.
- lfender6445 10y agowatching the video the pigs seem pretty comfy for the most part. i would have thought they'd be squealing and writhing
- ggus 10y agothey are sedated. (the author say it in the wiki article)
- CydeWeys 10y agoHell, out in the real world, animals get eaten alive all the time. Getting a tattoo isn't even close to the worst thing that can happen.
- pyre 10y agoThis is specious logic. You're saying that anything up to, but not including, getting eaten alive is ok because "it could always be worse."
- PeCaN 10y agoI suspect your parent's point was that saying putting tattoos on pigs is "disgusting and shameful" is a little odd, given that animals eat each other all the time (which is presumably not disgusting nor shameful).
- pyre 10y agoThe logic doesn't work because the two acts are not necessarily equal. Let's take another example: Would you equate the following items? - Torturing an animal to death for fun. - Killing an animal quickly and eating it. They both end up with the animal being dead. Does that mean that they are equal and that you can't find one "disgusting and shameful" but not the other?
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- aristus 10y agoI meant more in the sense of watching someone try to tattoo a 100kg hog, and how hard they'd get bit. But you are right, it's probably more like little adorable Wilbur pigs. :(
- jamespo 10y agoYes, I thought pig tattooing as a spectator sport died out in the 70s.
- TrevorJ 10y agoWhy? They are testing if the tattoo fades or not, there's really no chance of adverse effects. The worst thing that happens is a pig has a permanent tattoo.
- cafard 10y agoA friend's daughter does tattooing, and from the friend I heard that apprentice artists work on pigskin. I had imagined footballs, but no, this is obtained from slaughterhouses or butchers. Anyway, I guess that footballs aren't made of pigskin.
- aristus 10y agoPigskins, oranges, old shoes, dumb friends... :) But they are talking about tattoos that fade because they are broken down by a biological process, which makes me giggle picturing Arnold The Pig with "Born 2 Trot" on his hock.
- maxerickson 10y agoTitanium dioxide does not break down in the presence of UV. Any fading would likely be from migration.
- aristus 10y agoYou are correct. Tattooists aren't known for their biochem chops.
- hoodoof 10y agoDo the pigs have beards and skinny jeans on? Perhaps ear piercings with giant holes? Hipster hogs.
- dang 10y agoYou've posted a lot of unsubstantive comments to HN. Please don't do that. We're hoping for a higher signal/noise ratio here.