Whoa!, I really hate tatoos, but this one really impresses me

Nice

Posted by RoQ on 27 June 2008 @ 8am

Not to mention that only 4 or 5 of you have ever been found in California waters.

Posted by Rick on 27 June 2008 @ 9am

I love the idea that the meaning can (and will!) change.

Posted by karen on 27 June 2008 @ 9am

Beautiful. Are you gonna add color later to him (her?)

Posted by April on 27 June 2008 @ 9am

Squid? What squid? (love that). Looking forward to hearing what you name him ;)

Posted by myla on 27 June 2008 @ 9am

VERY nice work. One of the best tattoo explanations a friend had was for a tribal piece on his leg. Claimed it was an Eskimo symbol for “May the seed of your loins be fruitful in the belly of your woman.” :-)

Posted by Mike J. on 27 June 2008 @ 10am

There’s a joke in there somewhere about being well-armed, but I think I’ll leave it at that. As for names, I vote for either ‘Jules’ or ‘Verne’. :)

Posted by Geoff on 27 June 2008 @ 10am

If you make squids the Web 3.0 thing to have, then people will just think I’m a follower when I get mine. Did you have this art prepared by the studio or did you take it to them? I think I am going to San Francisco for my tattoo.

Posted by Nicole on 27 June 2008 @ 10am

I’m not a big fan of tattoos either, but this one is pretty cool. The outline looks pretty great, is shading really going to improve it?

Posted by Jerry on 27 June 2008 @ 10am

Badass. And on the very same day a giant squid washes up in your state of California: http://tinyurl.com/5nmqjt

There’s probably something very eery and very cool about that. Something that has to do with souls, and connections … or something.

And when you want to start that shotgun collection out in the woods, gimme a call. I’d be down for some shooting some tin cans w/ ya.

Posted by Josh Bryant on 27 June 2008 @ 10am

awesome.

Posted by cait on 27 June 2008 @ 10am

That is seriously nice work. And very brave for your first tat! Who did the ink?

Posted by Meri on 27 June 2008 @ 11am

So badass. Congrats bro!

Posted by Derek Davis on 27 June 2008 @ 11am

Whoever that tattoo artist is, she’s quite good (assuming same as your wife’s). It’s great work. Sounds like your brain is settling in around it just fine. Well done.

Posted by Richard on 27 June 2008 @ 11am

What, no cthulhu?

Posted by Caroline on 27 June 2008 @ 12pm

It’s gorgeous! I don’t answer the why question really, except to say that at age 50 (when I got mine), even my mom wouldn’t care anymore. Can’t wait to see the shading.

Posted by Julia on 27 June 2008 @ 12pm

wonderful!!! show the colors when you do it!

Posted by luciana on 27 June 2008 @ 12pm

I can’t wait to go out for cocktails and play Captain Nemo with my olive skewers. Arrrgh… she’s never take me alive… harpoons in the tentacles.. aim for the eyes … be careful of the beak. Lash me to the table skipper!

Posted by Kevin-John on 27 June 2008 @ 2pm

You are such an enabler! Between your influence and seeing them on all my friends I am actually seriously pondering a tattoo. PONDERING mind you–I am afraid that I am so changeable I’ll be something different in 20 or 30 years.

It looks fabulous…very beautiful. I love how the tentacles twine down around your forearm.

Posted by Birdy on 27 June 2008 @ 3pm

yes, name the artist please. really nice work-black and grey or color?

Posted by mel on 29 June 2008 @ 5pm

20,000 Leagues, baby.

Posted by christopher on 30 June 2008 @ 11am

I was JUST having a conversation w/ my son about tattoos in the car on the way home. He is 6 and totally picked up on the idea that since a tattoo is there for the rest of you life it should mean something to you, whether it’s literal or symbolic. I actually jotted myself from the car to remind myself to make a blog post about it.

Long story short, nice tat!

Posted by Aimee Greeblemonkey on 30 June 2008 @ 7pm

I’m out of it for a little while, and you get inked! And inked, too!

Posted by Rasmus on 30 June 2008 @ 7pm

I think you should leave it as line work. Looks wonderful!

I have actually been more aware of people’s tattoos and remembering all the reasons I have had over the years for getting one, not getting one this week. Thanks!

Posted by Jeremy Zilar on 1 July 2008 @ 5am

NICE. That looks like great work. You sure didn’t bother dipping a toe in for your first tat and went straight for it! HUGE!

I’ve been itching for a new one and this isn’t helping…

Posted by Travis Schmeisser on 1 July 2008 @ 9am

When I see tats like this one I can only wonder what the hell I was thinking when I got my tats when I was 17. A very badly done skull and even more corny sword/eagle/snake tat. Yours is a better choice, for sure!

Posted by Marcel Klomp on 1 July 2008 @ 10am

I’m impressed!

Posted by Rachel on 1 July 2008 @ 10am

hehe Nice. I love the making up new meanings bit… I have a few like that. I just wanted them is all but everyone else doesn’t know that.

Posted by Debra on 3 July 2008 @ 10pm

The Hawaiian creation myth suggests that the squid is the only survivor from a former alien universe

Posted by Mark on 4 July 2008 @ 2am

Very nice!

Posted by brian on 4 July 2008 @ 8am

And a handsome squid he is! Did you name him?

Posted by Devorah on 8 July 2008 @ 6am

“I could take on a wail”, too.

And “Squid is necessary when you work in a networked environment, bandwidth-wise”.

Posted by Stéphane Deschamps on 11 July 2008 @ 12am

Oh, very cool. I’ve always wanted a tattoo, but I’m too fickle to commit to a hair color, let alone ink on my skin.

(I think a squid is especially appropriate for the writer part of you - in a “got ink” double entendre sort of way)

Posted by Melissa Bartell on 14 July 2008 @ 11pm

or you could just say you’re a sucker for cephalopods!

Posted by kimblahg on 26 July 2008 @ 5pm