Comments on: The art of the social outcast http://www.nouse.co.uk/2008/05/30/the-art-of-the-social-outcast/ Award-winning University of York Student Newspaper and Website Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:06:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Bronx347 http://www.nouse.co.uk/2008/05/30/the-art-of-the-social-outcast/#comment-52053 Bronx347 Fri, 30 May 2008 18:10:08 +0000 http://www.nouse.co.uk/2008/05/30/the-art-of-the-social-outcast/#comment-52053 "As a tattoo snob. I believe all tattoos have to in some way ‘mean something.’" Of course they mean something, it's "HEY! LOOK AT ME!!!" It's all about phony edginess masking self-esteem insecurities leading one, with few to no exceptions, to the most insidious forms of attention whoredom. In a post-modern world where almost everything that is everything has been accomplished, people scurry about trying to get through the game without being insignificant; indeed, insignificant is the NEW significance. Plus, the whole "body art" (lol) gang are the biggest load of undeserving self-backpatters on the planet! Imagine the canvas-maker claiming high-levels of artistic grandeur based on the efforts of Pollock, Van Gogh, Matisse, Gauguin, Mondrian, Miro, Picasso, Whistler, Rubens, or Basquiat; if not completely ignored, they'd be greeted with howls of derisive laughter! [Sidebar: that's 10 universally renowned artists off the top of my head, and I'm not even an arts expert; I defy ANYONE to come up with 10, no 5, no ONE tattoo artist of similar note! I rest my case.] Finally, there's nothing that SCREAMS conformist lemming more than a self-proclaimed non-conformist. When you have people of all walks, from the most powerful corporate moguls on Wall Street to lowest ghetto/trailer park plebe, sporting ink; I think the edginess card flew out of the window long time ago. Do. Achieve. Accomplish. Invent. Perform. Create. Those who aspire to the above are the real non-conformist as everyone is content to be the benefit reapers instead of the benefit makers. “As a tattoo snob. I believe all tattoos have to in some way ‘mean something.’”

Of course they mean something, it’s “HEY! LOOK AT ME!!!”

It’s all about phony edginess masking self-esteem insecurities leading one, with few to no exceptions, to the most insidious forms of attention whoredom. In a post-modern world where almost everything that is everything has been accomplished, people scurry about trying to get through the game without being insignificant; indeed, insignificant is the NEW significance.

Plus, the whole “body art” (lol) gang are the biggest load of undeserving self-backpatters on the planet! Imagine the canvas-maker claiming high-levels of artistic grandeur based on the efforts of Pollock, Van Gogh, Matisse, Gauguin, Mondrian, Miro, Picasso, Whistler, Rubens, or Basquiat; if not completely ignored, they’d be greeted with howls of derisive laughter! [Sidebar: that's 10 universally renowned artists off the top of my head, and I'm not even an arts expert; I defy ANYONE to come up with 10, no 5, no ONE tattoo artist of similar note! I rest my case.]

Finally, there’s nothing that SCREAMS conformist lemming more than a self-proclaimed non-conformist. When you have people of all walks, from the most powerful corporate moguls on Wall Street to lowest ghetto/trailer park plebe, sporting ink; I think the edginess card flew out of the window long time ago.

Do.
Achieve.
Accomplish.
Invent.
Perform.
Create.

Those who aspire to the above are the real non-conformist as everyone is content to be the benefit reapers instead of the benefit makers.

]]> By: The Historical Fact Checking Fairy http://www.nouse.co.uk/2008/05/30/the-art-of-the-social-outcast/#comment-52049 The Historical Fact Checking Fairy Fri, 30 May 2008 16:17:03 +0000 http://www.nouse.co.uk/2008/05/30/the-art-of-the-social-outcast/#comment-52049 Given that George IV had been dead for over thirty years in 1862, are we to assume that he was exhumed, and taken to Jerusalem specifically to be tattooed? Additionally, for George V to have been George IV's son would have required some impressive nineteenth century sperm-preserving techniques, given that the former was born in 1865, the latter having died in 1830. These revelations would probably have come as a fairly unpleasant surprise to his hitherto supposed father, Edward VII. No historical fairy cakes for you. Given that George IV had been dead for over thirty years in 1862, are we to assume that he was exhumed, and taken to Jerusalem specifically to be tattooed?
Additionally, for George V to have been George IV’s son would have required some impressive nineteenth century sperm-preserving techniques, given that the former was born in 1865, the latter having died in 1830.
These revelations would probably have come as a fairly unpleasant surprise to his hitherto supposed father, Edward VII.
No historical fairy cakes for you.

]]> By: Christian http://www.nouse.co.uk/2008/05/30/the-art-of-the-social-outcast/#comment-52042 Christian Fri, 30 May 2008 14:56:06 +0000 http://www.nouse.co.uk/2008/05/30/the-art-of-the-social-outcast/#comment-52042 Wow, didn't know BNG was that well known. Great article. Wow, didn’t know BNG was that well known. Great article.

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