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I'm not sure if the author does the article a favor by showing the most common representation of a diamond in line form as tattoos. Who did steal from who here

by sgift 5y ago

I'm not sure if the author does the article a favor by showing the most common representation of a diamond in line form as tattoos. Who did steal from who here when all of them are carbon copies of a symbol? Probably none.

Fnoord 5y ago
I compared the three images and they all have minor differences ie. they're not line for line copies. Its merely a use of geometry + diamond shape, where the geometry makes sense because of how it applies to a RL diamond, and like the old SGI logo it tries to create a 3D effect. There's just not much special about this tattoo (e.g. basic shape, small one instead of large one). It is therefore a terrible example. I'd say the same with the mountains. People think they're super original, and then it turns out they weren't. Cause, surprise surprise, there's a lot of people on the planet, wearing a lot of tattoo's, and the digital era makes it easier for these to be copied and found (searching/finding a copy of the tattoo). Furthermore, it isn't like its copy/pasted. There's real labor involved in making the tattoo, often an example is used. Why can't an existing tattoo be used for such? Well, why not indeed. A tattoo artist wants a satisfied customer, to keep their name, good for business, customer wants therefore best result, etc etc. When GW2 was released, a developer revealed their gigantic tattoo on their back with the logo, a large two in the form of a dragon, covering their whole back. I thought it was really cool, and wondered about copy cats but because it was so huge I didn't expect that to happen (don't think it did). Recently I learned tattoo's don't allow you to sweat well, and whenever I see football (soccer) players with a lot of tattoo's I can't help but chuckle (I suppose you can apply this to all physical sports though I'd love to see a chess player full with tattoo's). Which I find also funny given the context of carefully considering the pro's and con's vs spontaneous.
mc32 5y ago
I could be wrong but didn’t tat shops before the internet just have a binders or catalogs with ideas and tattoo samples for people to pick from? So of course there’d be many people with similar tattoos?
- shaftway 5y ago
  They did, but it was fairly uncommon for you to pick something and get exactly that. It was more of an inspiration, a starting off point. You find some stuff you like and then you talk to the artist and get them to sketch out something based off that but tailored to you. It also provided evidence that the artist had some idea of what they were doing. Really good shops would have pictures from the day of, and then from 10 years later right next to each other so you could ensure the work wouldn't fade or bleed excessively. Now, did some people flip through the book and ask for that exact tattoo? Sure. Some people put amazingly little effort into something that they'll carry forever.

by sgift 5y ago

Fnoord 5y ago

I compared the three images and they all have minor differences ie. they're not line for line copies. Its merely a use of geometry + diamond shape, where the geometry makes sense because of how it applies to a RL diamond, and like the old SGI logo it tries to create a 3D effect. There's just not much special about this tattoo (e.g. basic shape, small one instead of large one). It is therefore a terrible example. I'd say the same with the mountains. People think they're super original, and then it turns out they weren't. Cause, surprise surprise, there's a lot of people on the planet, wearing a lot of tattoo's, and the digital era makes it easier for these to be copied and found (searching/finding a copy of the tattoo). Furthermore, it isn't like its copy/pasted. There's real labor involved in making the tattoo, often an example is used. Why can't an existing tattoo be used for such? Well, why not indeed. A tattoo artist wants a satisfied customer, to keep their name, good for business, customer wants therefore best result, etc etc. When GW2 was released, a developer revealed their gigantic tattoo on their back with the logo, a large two in the form of a dragon, covering their whole back. I thought it was really cool, and wondered about copy cats but because it was so huge I didn't expect that to happen (don't think it did). Recently I learned tattoo's don't allow you to sweat well, and whenever I see football (soccer) players with a lot of tattoo's I can't help but chuckle (I suppose you can apply this to all physical sports though I'd love to see a chess player full with tattoo's). Which I find also funny given the context of carefully considering the pro's and con's vs spontaneous.

mc32 5y ago

I could be wrong but didn’t tat shops before the internet just have a binders or catalogs with ideas and tattoo samples for people to pick from? So of course there’d be many people with similar tattoos?

shaftway 5y ago
They did, but it was fairly uncommon for you to pick something and get exactly that. It was more of an inspiration, a starting off point. You find some stuff you like and then you talk to the artist and get them to sketch out something based off that but tailored to you. It also provided evidence that the artist had some idea of what they were doing. Really good shops would have pictures from the day of, and then from 10 years later right next to each other so you could ensure the work wouldn't fade or bleed excessively. Now, did some people flip through the book and ask for that exact tattoo? Sure. Some people put amazingly little effort into something that they'll carry forever.