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ok…. lets get this out of our system, more tattoos

September 14, 2012

11 Amazing Librarian Tattoos

by

Jim Harness

originally posted on Mental_Floos

There are plenty of literary tattoos out there, and plenty of tattooed librarians. A bit less common are librarians with tattoos celebrating their career choice.

1. Card Catalog Sleeve

Elizabeth Skene has what might be the most awesomely complete librarian sleeve around, featuring a skull sitting on top of a book, with a graduation cap next to a card catalog with a banner reading “Peace and Knowledge.” There is also an open book with pages coming out and turning into birds. Let there be no doubt here: Elizabeth loves libraries. Tattoo by Frank William of the Chicago Tattoo Company.

2. Shhh

The folks behind 8 Bit Library, a librarian blog, wanted to encourage librarians to show their pride in their work, and thus they started Project Brand Yourself A Librarian. A lot of people joined in, including Lauren Comito, who got this lovely silhouette of a woman shushing noisy patrons.

While it seems like the icon merely represents the stereotypical librarian, it actually has far more meaning to Ms. Comito. After discovering that big budget cuts in her library system would mean she would be laid off, she created the image as a protest that library supporters won’t be silenced in the fight to keep their local branches open. She made hundreds of tees and organized a protest that resulted in most of the branch’s funding being restored. After that, it seemed only fitting to get the icon tattooed on her body. If you like the image, you can buy one of the shirts bearing the icon, which will also help support the fight to keep NYC public libraries open for years to come.

3. Super Librarian

Tattooed Librarians and Archivists reader Michelle is a high school librarian who wanted to get something to represent her career. She chose a superhero librarian and based the design on the old-school DC character Mary Marvel and had it inked by Chris Cockrill of Avalon II Tattoo. I think the world could use a few more super librarians, don’t you?

4. Library Icon

Flickr user infowidget also participated in Project Brand Yourself a Librarian by getting the classic library symbol tattooed on her inner wrist.

5. The Book Tree

Here’s another “Brand Yourself” participant, this time tattooed by Anne Marsh of Nemesis Tattoo. Flickr user bookishJulia got the library icon underneath the roots of a tree that has sprung from the pages of a book.

6. Dewey Decimal Number

Flickr user Cardamom is so proud of her role as a children’s librarian that she got the Dewey Decimal number for books on operating libraries for children. Of course, only those well-versed in the decimal system numbers will actually get that reference without having to look it up.

7. Harry Potter Dewey Decimal Number

Great White Snark reader Becca is a full-time librarian who loves Harry Potter. How much does she love the series? Enough to get its Dewey Decimal number tattooed across her back in the iconic font, colored Slytherin green.

8. Egyptian Goddess

Just looking at this piece you’ll recognize it as a librarian tattoo, but what makes LiveJournal user Oh Chris’ tattoo by Kristen at Artisanal Tattoo really great are how many details he has hidden inside the design. For example, the hieroglyphics are phonetic transliterations for the names of his family members and the two open books have images symbolizing his favorite childhood books – The BFG and Jabberwock.

9. Librarian Skull

Prefer your ink a little more hardcore than most of these librarian tattoos? Then, you’ll probably approve of Jason Puckett’s tattoo by Ron Hendon of Midnight Iguana Tattooing that features a bespectacled skull with “crossbooks” and a “librarian” banner.

10. Voodoo Reader

Jim McClusky is a librarian in Washington, so obviously he thinks reading is pretty darn important, even if you’re only a poor little voodoo doll. Artwork by Mary J. Hoffman, tattoo by Curtis James of Anchor Tattoo.

11. Tarot Card

Flickr user whatnot’s friend Diane got this great librarian tarot card featuring a bee-keeping skeleton. I don’t know what makes this skeleton a librarian, but I definitely love the artwork.

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i am back from north country in the wacky world of new york, hows this for fun?

September 13, 2012

Fashion week who cares? we got tat’s.

Designers, by definition, are all about creativity, visual communication, and self-expression. One of the most common ways designers express themselves is by indelibly declaring their status as Homo Creativus in the medium of ink in skin. Like anyone else, designers’ tattoos are often butterflies, skulls, koi, Tardises, or names, but sometimes the ink is a little more graphic, speaking directly to the art, science, and people of design. Here is some of that designer ink; join me again in one week for the second half of this two-part series.

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Pariah S. Burke is a design, publishing, and digital & epublishing workflow expert and consultant bringing creative efficiency into studios, agencies, and publications around the world. He is the author of ePublishing with InDesign CS6, Mastering InDesign for Print Design and Production, and other books for professionals with jobs to do on InDesign, Creative Suite, Adobe Illustrator, QuarkXPress, and digital publishing; author of more than 450 published tutorials and articles; co-author of the InDesign and Illustrator Adobe Certified Expert exams; an Adobe Community Professional; the former trainer and technical lead for InDesign, InCopy, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat to Adobe’s own technical support team; the host of a series of digital publishing, epub, and the business of design Webinars; a freelance graphic designer and publisher with more than 20 years’ experience; a WordPress and social media evangelist; and the publisher of a network of Websites, communities, and tools for creative professionals, the Workflow: Network.

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Young Sam Kim @ Emmanuel Fremin gallery

May 25, 2012

last night mary and i  were delighted to attend the opening of a koren montage artist Young Sam Kim @ Emmanuel Fremin gallery at 547 W. 27th Street Suite 508 , New York, NY 10001  212.279.8555    646.245.3240

gallery entrance

waiting for the crowds

as Young Sam Kim bio says ” Young Sam Kin is a photographer, living both in Long Island City, New York and Busan, Korea.  He was born in Busan, Korea in 1978. With unknown etiology, his hearing became profoundly impaired at two years of age. At age three, he began drawing and painting lessons, using visual language as a form of communication.” read the rest here

then the crowd finally appears with the  opening of the gates on a rainy night in manhattan

crowd

we were quite impressed with the artists vision and history. not living in another persons world it’s hard to understand their perspective. Young Sam Kim art crosses that boundary visually so even i can see a POV from his perspective. confinement, freedom and release are his themes.  cool huh?

my favorite piece

all though it’s pretty hard to just pick one because there were others i liked as much.

of course here is Young Sam Kim ready to welcome everyone

welcome

and here are a couple wild and crazy guys just ready to tell you all about the exhibit

Young Sam Kim artist & Emmanuel Fremin gallery owner

mary learned about the artist and his new wife of one month whom she was introduce to. the couple knew each other since the seventh grade but just now got married. i being a male would have never even thought to learn something like this as i asked Young Sam Kim about his creative process. mary brings a human side to our lives which helps balance out who we are. i listen to her most of the time and it helps me be a better person. the yin & yang of a relationship.

being in love and being with love is such a pleasure that really lightens ones life, giving one breathing room to just enjoy the what ever we come across. so do stop down to Emmanuel Fremin’s gallery and see what they have to offer. i am sure you can find something interesting.

jene

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Scanning Around With Gene Gable on creative pro com, 1939 graphic illustrations

May 17, 2012

A garage-sale find of three small children’s books highlights some great 1937 illustrations from a little-known artist by the name a Th. D. Luykx.

Kids grow up these days taking a lot of things for granted. The electricity that comes out of the wall, the gasoline in our cars and the steel in our skyscrapers are all just there and have been for so long it doesn’t seem like any big deal. I don’t even know if we teach kids about the history of these and other industries — much of it would seem like ancient history I suspect, and does it really matter how electricity is made or what goes on in a steel mill? Kids these days are probably a lot more interested in how iPhones are made.

But in 1939 when the illustrations in this installment were published, there was still a lot of fascination with big industry, and we were proud as a nation at the infrastructure we had built for these things. Today’s images come from a series of three books published by the George Duplaix Company in New York: “Oil Comes to Us,” “Electricity Comes to Us,” and “Steel.” The authors are different for the three books, but the illustrator, one Th. D. Luykx, is the same, and each book follows the same format.

I tried to find out more about Luykx, but a rudimentary Google search only brought up references to these books and nothing else that I could find. Could be these were a one-off effort, at least of books where credit is given to the illustrator.

And I can’t really tell in which medium Luykx worked in — the illustrations are brightly colored and, in many cases, limited to two colors, red and black. The high contrast and stark lines indicate a mechanical rather than illustrative process; there are halftones in the printing, and some colors seem slightly out of registration on close inspection, so I suspect each color was produced as a separate layer in whatever process Luykx used.

The books are pretty straight forward, telling in pictures and limited text the stories of how we make steel, how we drill for and refine oil, and how electricity is produced and brought to the home.

Like so many printed products of the time, full color is limited to certain spreads, and the artists was limited to two colors for many illustrations. These make for the more interesting work as far as I’m concerned.

Illustrating kids’ books is always a challenge, especially when dealing with technical topics. Luykx did a good job of being technically accurate and fairly detailed, but general enough to appeal to kids with limited knowledge of the subject matter.

I’m not sure why I was so taken by these three books — together they make a wonderful set and I have to wonder why the publisher did not do more (at least no others show up on Google). Perhaps it was a series that just didn’t take off.

But I’m glad I found them and will keep my eyes open for any additional work by Luykx. It would be interesting to see if he did fine art as well. His technique seems very unique to me.

i’ve read creative pro emails for years having learned some pretty cool stuff along the way. this is just a small part of what they post, if you find it interesting i’d drop by and give it a glance. creative pro

jene

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