Rabu, 30 Juni 2010

from: Kim B.
to: tiangotlost@gmail.com
date: Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:43 AM
subject: Tattoo

Your blog is fascinating. I have attached a picture of the tattoo I have on my left shoulder blade.

I got it while in New Orleans and like the shape of it, I'm just not sure how it translates. When people ask, I usually tell them: Stupid American (although at the time I was told it means beautiful or beauty).

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Kim B.

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If this character is intended to be "beauty", , then it is missing a horizontal stroke. However, the joke does not stop there.

Chinese character for sheep is , and what Kim B. has on her shoulder blade does indeed look like sheep with a little dropping.
from: mike h.
to: tiangotlost@gmail.com
date: Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:28 AM

Hi,

I have a similar story to those posted on your blog, my sister allowed a trainee to practise his 'art' after a day of indulgent partying and likewise has no idea what this 'disaster' means.

I really hope you can help.

Many thanks.

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Whoever got this probably over-stretched a book on a copy machine. The characters size are inconsistent. My favorite part is the tattooist even included the period behind .

妙法蓮華經
is Lotus Sutra.

Selasa, 29 Juni 2010

Tattoo Kaki - Foot Tattoos

Tattoo Kaki - Foot Tattoos

Minggu, 27 Juni 2010

Tattoo Geisha - Geisha Tattoos

Tattoo Geisha - Geisha Tattoos

Sabtu, 26 Juni 2010

from: tim
to: tiangotlost@gmail.com
date: Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:32 PM
subject: tattoo interpretation

A coworker of mine has a tattoo he got while he was out partying a couple a years ago and has absolutely no idea what it means. Can you tell us?

Thanks,

Tim

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Why would anyone be proud of tattoo that says: "to commit any imaginable evil"?
from: john r.
to: tiangotlost@gmail.com
date: Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 2:58 AM
subject: tattoo translation help please...

Hi There

I have enjoyed reading through your blog a few times and this weekend talking to my girlfriends sister, I felt need to ask you for help. She was showing me her tattoo, that she had a few years back which is supposed to be Heavenly Girl in Chinese. Having looked at the characters, I recognised the first as being the Japanese Kanji for Heaven, Im not sure it means the same in Hanzi or not, but I could not recognise the last two characters as anything related to girl or woman. Although I can recognise the first character as - (sky, heaven) and the last character which I think is - (government official, official), the middle character is awkward. I think it is - (leaf, block, cake), giving 天丁吏, which I don't know how this would work combined, but all these are Japanese translations anyway. Any chance you can shed a little more light on this?

Thanks very much for your time

John

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It is 天使 or "angel" with 使 not clearly written.
Tatttoo Kanji - Kanji Tattoos

Tatttoo Kanji - Kanji Tattoos

Senin, 21 Juni 2010

Tattoo Malaikat - Angel Tattoos

Tattoo Malaikat - Angel Tattoos

Tattoo Malaikat - Angel Tattoos

Jumat, 18 Juni 2010

Tattoo Alien - Alien Tattoos

Tattoo Alien - Alien Tattoos

Tattoo Alien - Alien Tattoos

Kamis, 17 Juni 2010

from: Alexandria C.
to: tiangotlost@gmail.com
date: Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:24 AM
subject: tattoo translation help please...

I heard about your blog from a friend and decided to check it out cause i am worried about a tattoo i have personally. It is supposed to mean " live for today" but i would really appriciate it if you could help in translating the picture of it attached. Thanks do much for your time!

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Alan and I saw tattoo template of this for sale back in 2007:

生現 “Live For Today”

As is, this gibberish means nothing in Japanese or at least nothing like “live for today” and I don’t think it means anything in Chinese either. The only meaning I can guess is that if it were written 生きて現れる, this would mean “to show up alive” or “turn up alive” as if someone thought dead had appeared alive. Anyway, it sounds pretty spooky, like seeing a zombie!

I think the person who made this up just looked in a dictionary for the word for “to live” and a word that means something like “now” and thought you could stick them together to make “live for today.”

It doesn’t work like that.

Jumat, 11 Juni 2010


For all of you wanting/needing a bit of Half-Continent action as we wait for October/ November/ some time not toooooo far away, Legends of Australian Fantasy has hit the shelves and it has a story of mine in it, a whole new non-Rossamünd, Half-Continent story of 90 pages long! If you can not tell, I am very excited...

Unfortunately it is currently only an Australian release, but we hope to reach the world with it soon.

Rabu, 09 Juni 2010

Senin, 07 Juni 2010

Teka-teki tatoo di tubuh wanita mirip Luna Maya dalam video mesum bersama pria mirip Ariel masih belum terungkap. Pihak Kent Tattoo Studio yang biasa membuatkan tato untuk para artis dan pernah didatangi Luna Maya, juga tidak bisa memastikan.

Salah seorang pegawai Kent Tattoo Studio, Emil (38) mengaku tidak bisa memberikan keterangan mengenai hal tersebut. Untuk kepastian jenis dan lokasi tato Luna Maya, kata dia, harus Kent langsung yang menerangkan.

"Kalau bos mungkin tahu, soalnya dia yang berhubungan langsung. Tapi kalau saya tidak tahu persis," kata Emil saat ditemui okezone di Kent Studio Tattoos Jalan Venus Timur X No 420 Kompleks Margahayu Raya Bandung, Minggu (6/6/2010) siang.

Emil sempat mengajak okezone melihat video rekaman seorang wanita yang sedang ditato. Dalam video, wanita itu terlihat membelakangi kamera. Seorang pria tampak melukis punggung wanita itu dengan tato motif. Sepintas, perawakannya mirip Luna Maya.

"Yang sedang ditato itu dilihat dari perawakannya Luna Maya. Tapi tatonya bukan di paha, tapi di punggung. Makanya, untuk lebih jelasnya, mending tanya bos (Kent)," kata Emil.

Sumber :
  • okezone.com
  • artis.inilah.com

Minggu, 06 Juni 2010


Tattoo Selebriti Sheila Marcia
Sheila Marcia

Kamis, 03 Juni 2010

Actually I have no idea what number of "question answering" this is, but, you know, just having fun...

Alyosha asked a little while back why there seem to be few/no married folks in the MBTs, and I have to admit myself a tad perplexed by this. I too have realised such a (Freudian?) anomaly, and can only think that it is for the same adolescent reason that many spec fic novels deal mostly with the filially/conjugally unattached - it is simpler; no ties, no needed to refer back home to sooth anxious loved ones, just freedom to go and do and be as the adventure proceeds. Having said, I have quite pointedly had Rossamünd writing and "keeping in touch" with Verline, and refer in his thoughts to her and Frans and Pin, have tried (after committing the cliche of all cliches by making him an orphan) to give him filial connections that require tending - for I see Verline and the two one-time foundlingery masters as an ersatz family to our little adventurer.

... Maybe the non-married thing is a product of my own un-married state at the time of beginning MBT (a state happily reversed at this present time!), or the desire that I think many men of Western culture possess/have inherited: to do their growing on their own - but that is a whole can-o'-worms [TM] that I do not want to open here...

After all this, I am hoping/endeavouring to have a main character (yes, at least 1!) who is attached in the matrimonial way, though whether said attachment comes along for the ride is another matter. Anyone have thoughts on this?

An Annony Mouse was wondering: "Will the movie be filmed in Australia?"

To that my answer is unfortunately at this stage brief - I do not know. You all will be among the earliest to know when I do (my wife, close friends etc will probably get to know first, but after that it will be you.... at least that is my intent!)

chana was wondering: "How old is Rossamünd?It's been bugging me incessantly for quite a while now. Since Threnody must be at least fourteen, that would mean Rossamünd would be twelve/thirteen years old? It makes it just a little hard to relate to him."

Well, I have always found the "fact" of his age a slippery one, but for me it floats around 12ish - remembering of course, that he is small for his age. It is a bit odd I suppose that I should be a little hazy on his years, but the fact of his own "entry" into the world are hazy themselves. I hope this makes him a tad easier to know...

Oh, and me, as to that "something more to the olfactory presence of MBT books", is is I who make that happen, sitting in my lounge room with a crate of bottles of specially made book-cologne spraying every page - it is why you have to wait so long for them to come out; I actually finished writing the MBTs years ago, it is the spraying of this literary perfume that takes the time *looks sadly at tired cologne-spraying finger*.
Tattoo Selebriti Tamara Geraldine

Tattoo Selebriti Tamara Geraldine

Tattoo Selebriti Tamara Geraldine

Tattoo Selebriti Tamara Geraldine

Tattoo Selebriti Tamara Geraldine

Selasa, 01 Juni 2010

Kata “tato” berasal dari kata Tahitian / Tatu, yang memilki arti : menandakan sesuatu.
Rajah atau tato (Bahasa Inggris: tattoo) adalah suatu tanda yang dibuat dengan memasukkan pigmen ke dalam kulit.

Dalam istilah teknis, rajah adalah implantasi pigmen mikro. Rajah dapat dibuat terhadap kulit manusia atau hewan.

Rajah pada manusia adalah suatu bentuk modifikasi tubuh, sementara rajah pada hewan umumnya digunakan sebagai identifikasi.

Rajah merupakan praktek yang ditemukan hampir di semua tempat dengan fungsi sesuai dengan adat setempat. Rajah dahulu sering dipakai oleh kalangan suku-suku terasing di suatu wilayah di dunia sebagai penandaan wilayah, derajat, pangkat, bahkan menandakan kesehatan seseorang.

Rajah digunakan secara luas oleh orang-orang Polinesia, Filipina, Kalimantan, Afrika, Amerika Utara, Amerika Selatan, Mesoamerika, Eropa, Jepang, Kamboja, serta Tiongkok. Walaupun pada beberapa kalangan rajah dianggap tabu, seni rajah tetap menjadi sesuatu yang populer di dunia.

Menurut Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, tato berarti gambar (lukisan) pada bagian (anggota) tubuh.

Sumber : wikipedia.com

Kapan seni merajah tubuh/ tato mulai ada?

Keberadaan merajah tubuh di dalam kebudayaan dunia sudah sangat lama ada dan dapat dijumpai di seluruh sudut dunia. Menurut sejarah, ternyata rajah tubuh sudah dilakukan sejak 3000 tahun SM (sebelum Masehi). Tato ditemukan untuk pertama kalinya pada sebuah mumi yang terdapat di Mesir. Dan konon hal itu dianggap yang menjadikan tato kemudian menyebar ke suku-suku di dunia, termasuk salah satunya suku Indian di Amerika Serikat dan Polinesia di Asia, lalu berkembang ke seluruh suku-suku dunia salah satunya suku Dayak di Kalimantan.

Tato dibuat sebagai suatu symbol atau penanda, dapat memberikan suatu kebanggaan tersendiri bagi si empunya dan simbol keberanian dari si pemilik tato. Sejak masa pertama tato dibuat juga memiliki tujuan demikian. Tato dipercaya sebagai simbol keberuntungan, status sosial, kecantikan, kedewasaan, dan harga diri.

Teknik Pembuatan Tato

Ada berbagai cara dalam pembuatan tato. Ada yang menggunakan tulang binatang sebagai jarum seperti yang dapat dijumpai pada orang-orang Eskimo, Suku Dayak dengan duri pohon jeruk, dan ada pula yang menggunakan tembaga panas untuk mencetak gambar naga di kulit seperti yang dapat ditemui di Cina. Bukannya tidak sakit dalam proses membuat tato. Sebenarnya rasa sakit pasti dialami ketika membuat tato di tubuh, namun karena nilai yang tinggi dari tato, dan harga diri yang didapatkan, maka rasa sakit itu tidak dianggap masalah.

Ada berbagai jenis dan ragam bentuk tato, tergantung dengan apa yang dipercaya oleh suku-suku bersangkutan, dan di setiap daerah umumnya memiliki persepsi yang berbeda-beda tentang tato, meski pada prinsipnya hampir sama.

Tato di Beberapa Daerah

Di Borneo (Kalimantan), penduduk asli wanita disana menganggap bahwa tato merupakan sebuah simbol yang menunjukkan keahlian khusus.

Di Cina, pada masa zaman Dinasti Ming (kurang lebih 350 tahun yang lalu), wanita dari Suku Drung membuat tato di wajah dan pantatnya untuk sebagai tanda bagi keturunan yang baik.

Di Indian, melukis tubuh/ body painting dan mengukir kulit, dilakukan untuk mempercantik (sebagai tujuan estetika) dan menunjukkan status sosial.

Suku Mentawai memandang tato sebagai suatu hal yang sakral dan berfungsi sebagai simbol keseimbangan alam.