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30 March 2006

Being part of the design community is sometimes embarassing.

post by: Specklet at: 11:38 | 23 comments

Body art for furniture? ROFL.

What about when your settee grows up to be a full-sized couch and is embarrassed and wants it lasered off?

posted by matildaben 30 March | 11:44

I don't mind the tats, but my couch just got its cushion pierced, and my sack keeps banging on the new hardware. It's gone vegan, too, and is really getting kind of thin and faded. I'm thinking of dumping it for a nice, plush leather lounger.

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 30 March | 11:59

I can only gape in amazement that people get paid to come up with these things!

posted by cmonkey 30 March | 12:00

IRFH: I think in my next personal ad, I'm going to refer to myself as a "nice, plush leather lounger."

posted by matildaben 30 March | 12:03

And it's not just the rediculousness of the concept, it's that they are about ten years behind the times. I mean, who gets those tribal tramp stamps anymore?

What kind of client could I possibly have who would look a at this and go "yeah, that's a great idea!"?

posted by Specklet 30 March | 12:03

I don't mind the fabric nearly as much as the writeup.

posted by Hugh Janus 30 March | 12:04

For a while there, I thought that pug dogs were the new Prada bag. I guess now those little symetrical patterns on the lower back, just above the ass-crack are the new pug. At least, that's the concensus at 24hour fitness.

posted by pieisexactlythree 30 March | 12:07

Of course, this is a gym where the members don't complain about being subjected to My Humps on the hi-fi every 30 minutes.

posted by pieisexactlythree 30 March | 12:08

I mean, who gets those tribal tramp stamps anymore?

Way, waaaaaaaay too many people, according to the tattoo artists I know.

"So what tattoos won't you do?", I asked the friend-of-a-friend who did one of my monkeys and my binary.
"Patriotic shit and those fucking tribal tattoos"
"Do people ask for those a lot?"
"Yep. At least once a day."

Granted, his shop is in San Diego, so maybe that has something to do with it.

posted by cmonkey 30 March | 12:08

Of course, this is a gym where the members don't complain about being subjected to My Humps on the hi-fi every 30 minutes.

*makes a note to never, ever, ever go to 24 Hour Fitness*

posted by cmonkey 30 March | 12:09

We are the goon squad and we're coming to town. Beep-beep - Beep-beep!

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 30 March | 12:10

"those fucking tribal tattoos"

That sets off my bullshit detector - what "tribe" exactly does this refer to? I know people get these things, but really, what are they?

I'm thinking it's something along the lines of the guy who thinks he has a Confucian proverb on his bicep, although it really says "unreliable delivery service" in Chinese characters.

posted by pieisexactlythree 30 March | 12:16

Nothing says "non-conformist individual" better than a mass-produced faux-tribal knock-off dripping down your ass-crack. "I, state your name..."

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 30 March | 12:22

I want to be different, like everybody else I want to be like
I want to be just like all the different people
I have no further interest in being the same,
because I have seen difference all around,
and now I know that that's what I want

I don't want to blend in and be indistinguishable,
I want to be part of the different crowd,
and assert my individuality along with others
who are different like me

I don't want to be identical to anyone or anything
I don't even want to be identical to myself
I want to look in the mirror and wonder,
"who is that person? I've never seen that person before;
I've never seen anyone like that before."
I want to call into question the very idea that
identity can be attached

posted by pieisexactlythree 30 March | 12:27

I'm still wondering what "tribe" makes this stuff.

i luv indianz cuz theyre so spiritual lol

right?

posted by pieisexactlythree 30 March | 12:32

That sets off my bullshit detector - what "tribe" exactly does this refer to? I know people get these things, but really, what are they?

They usually look like this, with strong stylized lines and a simple design, and are almost always generic flash art that six thousand other fratboys have around their biceps. They were "inspired" by traditional aboriginal tattoos throughout history, not from any one tribe specifically, which sometimes looked like this(from 1911). Here's a gallery of historical tribal tattoos.

posted by cmonkey 30 March | 12:34

Sheesh, pie, impatient today? :)

posted by cmonkey 30 March | 12:35

I suppose - It's just that Westerners coopting "native" stuff, and fetishizing, in a "noble savage" kind of way it is a pet issue of mine.

posted by pieisexactlythree 30 March | 12:46

We're all people.

posted by Hugh Janus 30 March | 12:48

A friend of mine saw a girl at the bank with what looked like "n00b" tatooed on her shoulder. He was too shy to ask, unfortunately.

posted by pieisexactlythree 30 March | 12:52

It's just that Westerners coopting "native" stuff, and fetishizing, in a "noble savage" kind of way it is a pet issue of mine.

I agree; it's a really irritating fad. But I also don't understand why people get flash art, in any style, tattooed on themselves to begin with.

posted by cmonkey 30 March | 12:55

I think I'll buy the T-shirt.

posted by pieisexactlythree 30 March | 13:05

HER (indignant): "Hey hon? - I saw your tattoo on a loveseat today. Are you sitting on someone else?"

HIM: "....."

Somewhere in the industrial section of the metropolis, a loveseat smokes a cigarette and stares out at the moon.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 01 April | 13:12

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