Literary And Word Tattoos
Of course there are so many different ways to refer to these tattoo designs there are the simple one word tattoos on the wrist that celebrities like to get. There are the foreign language tattoos and even the sayings and poem tattoos. This would also include the whole kanji, Arabic and Celtic tattoo designs. Anything that features writing or letters as the main part of the tattoo would fall into this category and it is currently one of the hottest trends and quickly growing bigger by the day.
These are some of the most popular trends right now based on what people are looking for, search engine trends and feedback from tattoo shop owners. They are provided here to give some ideas to those looking for what to get tattooed. However, it is never advisable to just jump blindly on the bandwagon because someone said it was popular. Instead find thing that you like and if it matched with one of the designs then great. These are meant to spark your own original and unique tattoo designs and ideas. These are trends that interestingly enough are equally popular with both sexes male and female.
If you are seriously considering getting one of these hot tattoo ideas then it is best to check out online the huge amount of tattoo design resources out there. They can give you more ideas and resources and even designs to get started in creating your own unique high quality tattoo.
Ambigram Tattoos
Ambigrams are hard to explain if you have not seen them before. It is a very visual puzzle that just can’t explain or translate well in words as funny as that might seem since they are made up of words. Ambigram tattoos are essential the art of taking two word designs and then putting together so a person can read one word when the tattoo is held upright and another word when it is flipped over. These are very popular and tie well into the whole literary and word tattoo trend as well as they work and look great on the forearm which is also a pretty popular location right now.
Men Tattoos
Men tattoo designs are catching on big time. They have always been around and there have always been artists that specialize in creating authentic Men tattoo designs here in the west however, it has typically been more a fringe movement and had fewer devotees. However, this will change in fact it already has. Right now it is a micro trend of sorts with some short spikes of growth but it is going to catch on huge over the next year. This will include Men cherry blossom tattoos, koi fish, Geisha and Samurai as well as dragon designs. Most of these will be used on the popular locations on the body found below.
Top Tattoo Designs For Men and Women in 2011
Yup you read that title right even though it is still very early in the year it is easy to spot to top tattoo trends and what will be the hottest in tattoo designs for 2011. These trends are so hot that one cannot ignore the big spikes in searches that will produce this year’s top tattoo designs for both men and women. So here is our vote or prediction for the whole 2011 and even into 2011 year in the world of tattoos.
Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
I know the film has been out for over a year and the DVD for a while but I only got to watch ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ – whose original and more potent title was ‘Men Who Hate Women’ (a far more appropriate title given the nature of the book) – the other day. Having read the Millennium Trilogy (this is part one) by Stieg Larsson last year I was always looking forward to the film versions of the books. They’re made for film whether on the big or small screen (infact, I believe this film was originally a two part television film re-edited into a big screen version) as they’re over the top, with plenty of puzzle solving, plot twists, melodrama, violence and filled with well drawn characters engaged in a plot that moves forward at a relentless pace. Underlying the books is of course a number of serious subjects including racism, patriarchal misogyny, sexual violence and globalization – a reminder that all is not well in social democratic Sweden, a country we often view as enlightened and liberal, a country unlike our own.
So, for those of you who haven’t read the books I’m afraid you’ll have to go elsewhere for a synopsis. Suffice to say that the trilogy makes for great holiday reading and if like me you’re prone to reading thrillers late at night be warned; this book and its companions are pages turners and the chances of you getting much sleep are minimal.
So to the film, let me begin by saying that I’m glad I saw the Swedish version first. David Fincher is directing the Hollywood version next year with Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara (Tanner Hall, Dare, The Winning Season, The Social Network) in the lead roles and although I’m looking forward to seeing how they approach it I can’t see quite how they’re going to capture the psychological atmosphere of Sweden well as their Swedish counterparts.
I think there’s an inherent problem with all films adapted from a book written by someone from another culture. To visually express the tonal qualities, nuances and spirit of another culture through film is extremely difficult. This is made all the more harder when you’re trying to condense and stay true to a book that has a packed narrative – and enough plotlines to make a number of films – running to over 500 pages. I have no doubt that David Fincher – a Director I very much admire – will do a great job with the pulp aspect of the ‘Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ and its partner books in the trilogy. However, underneath the surface of the books lie important questions about Swedish society. These ugly truths, the sub text, are far more difficult to thread into the film – as they need to be given space to breathe and tell their own story – and are best approached through tone, rhythm, colour, atmosphere and a Swedish cultural sensibility. It is this aspect of the film that I fear will be lost in translation. So America taking on plot and character, yes definitely, dealing with the dark undercurrent that runs throughout the book and the rest of the trilogy, namely the societal issues that preoccupy many Swedish crime writers including; Henning Mankell, Hakan Nesser, Mari Jungstedt and of course Stieg Larsson, I don’t think so.
Now let’s talk about the film itself. It is not a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination but it’s a good thriller, its star definitely Noomi Rapace – an incredible performance – as the androgynous, bisexual, computer-hacking twenty-something, Lisbeth Salander. She is a cool chick and uber – nerd, the perfect anti – heroine for the 21st century. She’s odd, disturbed, intelligent, highly moral (in her own way), utterly uncompromising, violent, full of righteous anger and dispassionate – a fascinating character and wholly engaging. To be honest I can’t see anyone matching her. She’s going to be a real hard act to follow. Apparently she got the part after the producer saw her in a Sarah Kane play in Stockholm. If you know the work of Sarah Kane then it might give you some idea of the difficulty and depth of character one would need to have to play the part convincingly.
The other lead character, Mikael Blomkvist played by Mchael Nyqvist, plays his part well as the investigative journalist, the locations are beautiful and bleak, the Director, Niels Arden Opley does a good job of keeping the various plot threads (and there are many) together and the cinematography has a consistent wintery and atmospheric feeling to it.
So, if you haven’t read the books and enjoy a fast paced thriller involving complicated relationships (something the film actually leaves out), great characters, violent set pieces and a cracking yarn then buy them, read them, enjoy them. If you want to be entertained any night of the week then you won’t go wrong by renting this film out from your local video shop. No, it’s not a great film but it’s a good Friday night flick to be watched with munchies. I for one am looking forward to the next two films in the series; ‘The Girl Who Played With Fire’ and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest’ and am particularly looking forward to watching Noomi Rapace play Lisbeth Salander again. As for the David Fincher version with Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, It’ll make for interesting comparisons.
The Real Beauty of a Flower Tattoo Design – Tattoo For girl
Flower tattoo designs definitely deserve to be among the top ten of the most beloved tattoos in body-art history. That is because flowers, like just a few other things, are perfect subjects for any tattoo artist and wonderful artworks for any tattoo lover.
People choose to get flower patterns on their body primarily because of their beauty, which is also the reason why they are so much beloved by tattooists. How many kinds of flowers do you know? There are so many, so different from each other and all so beautiful and colourful – it is easy to understand why they are so popular.
As any other symbol of beauty and elegance, flower tattoo designs are commonly considered feminine tattoos. Just as butterfly tattoo designs, flower tattoos are coloured symbol for delicacy, joy, love… not really what a “real man” would wish to wear for the rest of his life. Nonetheless, flowers tattoos are often chosen by men for the meanings they carry.
As a matter of facts, flowers are not only wonderful designs: each flower has a different symbolic meaning, allowing different people, men or women, to express their individual personality.
For many people, flowers tattoos are symbols of life. They are often seen as a representation of the cycle of life: people see them growing, living and eventually dying. The feeling of death, of something beautiful but in some way always about to end, make flowers even more fascinating, making them beautiful but, at the same time, melancholic symbols.
Tattoos are usually there to express something personal. A rose tattoo design usually express love or passion, but it could have a completely different meaning to me, representing something or someone important in my life. However, it is not bad to know something about the general meanings of flower tattoos.
As said, rose usually express love and passion, but not if they are white. The great thing about flowers is that any detail could change the whole meaning of a tattoo. White roses usually express purity or friendship among women. With a sword through it, a rose symbolize a dangerous love. If surrounded in barbed wire could be a sign for the well known connection between love and sorrow.
Another common tattoo design portrays the lotus flower.Such flowers grow heading for the light at the surface of a still pond and when they finally emerge they blossom into a beautiful flower. Some see Lotus flowers tattoo designs as powerful symbols for spiritual awakening and rebirth. Others take it as an example of strength, for overcoming tough adversity in life, never giving up.
The iris can represent wisdom and intelligence; Daisies tattoo designs symbolize innocence, and are commonly tattooed together with children names; Sunflower tattoos stand for adoration; Heathers represent dreams coming true; Lily tattoo designs are also love by women as symbols of wealth, purity and pride; Narcissus tattoos are for very self confident people and express self admiration, vanity.
Check What Fantasy Tattoo Flash Design Is Right For You
Tattooing has been practiced by many cultures for many ages. In the early years, it was famously done mostly for significant cultural traditions. But nowadays, it is not about traditions alone but fashion as well. Because of this, a wide range of exciting designs, such as the fantasy tattoo flash, has become available.
It can be more challenging to use fantasy as a theme for your tattoo. Mermaids, fairies, monsters, animals, many other mythical characters are what you usually think when it comes to fantasy characters. Not exactly simple objects to draw or design, these mythical creatures take effort to ink on the skin.
But the greater challenge does not really come here. It comes in when a tattoo artist needs to crack his brain because a customer wants a unique fantasy character that is nothing similar to the other existing ones, meaning he will need to really start from scratch in order to make the design.
To come up with a new fantasy tattoo character out of scratch, you must really be extremely creative and imaginative. This is why it is advised to trust a real, experienced tattoo artist to do the designing and inking jobs for you. If you are wondering about the asking price, it can become relatively high.
That is to be expected though since you are not only going to enjoy a personalized but a built-from-scratch, unique fantasy tattoo design that makes you certain you are not going to bump into someone with the same tattoo. And since tattoo artists are professional enough, they can deliver the kind of demands that the customers ask, hence, making the quality often worth the cost.
If you are an enthusiast, you would not mind paying quite a hefty amount for a tattoo. After all, you are going to make an investment that you know will last a very long time, or perhaps a lifetime. On the one than, there is one way for you to obtain a really unique fantasy tattoo design that would not be as costly.
That option is to find a website that offers a database full of fantasy tattoo flash designs. There are tattoo flash websites that offer subscription to the customers in order to get access to thousands of designs available. As these websites constantly update new designs, the tattoo artists are the ones who will benefit most from the option of lifetime access.
The same websites can also be visited by individuals looking for a fantasy tattoo flash design they want to ink on their skin. A minimal fee per design is usually charged. With this option, you get to save some dollars plus you have thousands of unique and beautiful tattoo designs to choose from, thereby, giving you flexibility when it comes to selecting what you want.
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