Originally posted by one8ung:My body’s not a canvas
My body’s now a toilet wall
"Raised by Wolves"
Originally posted by natePDC:[..]
Well, I do think of that as I think this over. But I can live with that.
If Larry's body is a toilet wall, then I'm not too bothered about mine being such.
Originally posted by natePDC:[…]
1. "Are you tough enough to be kind" from 13 (There is a Light)
2. "Are you tough enough for ordinary love" (Ordinary Love, of course) […]
Originally posted by natePDC:So I am about to take the plunge for my first tattoo, and I've decided that that which I had planned to get second actually makes more sense for the first. And of course, U2 is the foundation.
Two aspects that I'm looking at:
1. Which of two particular quotes.
1. "Are you tough enough to be kind" from 13 (There is a Light)
2. "Are you tough enough for ordinary love" (Ordinary Love, of course)
2. How to portray it:
1. I'm having trouble figuring out how I want it to look. I'm a words person, and thinking of graphic/visual ideas that might be good with these quotes is not my natural.
I think I like the "kind" variation of the quote a bit more. It may be that the melody is biasing me a bit (I like 13's melody a little more than Ordinary Love's. No offense to OL!).
I find kindness and the ordinary actions that the deepest love (a set of doings rather than feelings) requires a sort of toughness and grit to do, rather than to respond with something like anger or indifference. "Loving-kindness" (to use an old formulation) takes more engagement and control than other ways of reacting and being.
The only idea that I have come up with for a visual way to portray and make this something besides that typical "tattoo cursive" is to use something like Bono's handwriting. I know that there's that handwritten OL out there, but I'd almost prefer the 13 (TIAL) variation.
So:
1. Which quote? Arguments (I'm happy to have a good philosophical/theological discussion!) welcome
2. How to make it look at least slightly distinctive?