Tattoos

For my 76th birthday, I decided I wanted to do something new, something I’d never done before. The question was, what? The month prior, my partner had gotten a clever tattoo on his arm. His left arm had a long scar on it, from his wrist to his elbow, where he’d had an open fracture ...

or Mondrian Meets Heisenberg I liked my first tattoo so much that I decided I wanted another one, on my other hand. But, as before, I wanted an unsual tattoo, not one using typical tattoo concepts. One of my favorite artists is Piet Mondrian. His goal was to reduce art to its most basic elements. ...

The target this time is my right forearm. I’ve cycled through several different possibilities for this. For example, the Lorentz time dilation equation plays a role in many SciFi stories, including Heinlein’s classic Time for the Stars, where it plays a central role in the plot. it also turns out to be ...

This one is still kind of up in the air. Right now, after the Kandinski tattoo, the main blank space I have is my left forearm. My right and left shoulders are also possibles, along with neck and scalp areas for smaller tattoos. Scalp and neck tattoos are especially intriguing since Steven ...

These are miscellaneous ideas, mostly for smaller tattoos. First, if the Escher idea won’t work, there’s always this remnant that’s just the wave equation, with or without the background. I like the idea of Kanji symbols, too. Here are four, in particular, that I like. These could be stand-alone symbols, symbols with the meaning in ...

I wrote to the tatoo artist in Singapore who originated the design I liked and asked permission to re-use it. Alas, he declined. SInce I can’t go to Singapore to have him do it, I’m not going to be ble to use the exact design I’d hoped for. I still like the middle section–which is, ...