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Death tattoos: Santa Muerte - origins and significations
Santa Muerte (literally Holy Death or Saint Death ) tattoos are extremely popular among the Mexican people. Santa Muerte (also known as Santisima Muerte, Señora de las Sombras (Lady of the Shadows), Señora Blanca (White Lady), Señora Negra (Black Lady), Niña Santa (Holy Girl), La Flaca (The Skinny One), Santa Sebastienne, etc) is the beloved goddess of death who's origins date to the pre hispanic period of Mexico. The origins of the myths of Santa Muerte aren't completely clear, but is quite obvious that the cult of Santa Muerte is a syncretism between Mesoamerican and Catholic beliefs. Mexican culture since the pre-Columbian era has maintained a certain reverence towards death, which can be seen in the widespread Mexican celebration of the Day of the Dead. Death became personified in Aztec and other cultures in the form of humans with half their flesh missing, symbolizing the duality of life and death. In the pre-Columbian Aztec religion, the realm of the souls of the p...
The 5 Cool Ways to Make Your Navratri Ecofriendly
Hey, it’s not about ‘spoiling the fun’. And if anybody tells you that, just turn around and say that ‘it’s all about the spirit of it’. So, let’s get our cool points on the fingertips... Natural idols: Using idols made of soil and natural colour will help to keep the rivers and lakes clean. Idols made of plaster of Paris (PoP) and painted with chemical colours do not dissolve easily and leave behind silt in water bodies. Chemical colours cause much damage to the ecology of water. All of us need to be aware that the most serious impact on the natural environment is due to the immersion in water bodies of PoP idols and polythene bags containing offerings. Rice rangoli: Instead of using harmful chemical colours or paints for Rangoli design, you can substitute them with rice flour, pulse and leaves. Gift them green: Our options include ecofriendly jute and wooden items such as photo frames, wooden kumkum box, wooden key holders, jute clips, etc. You can also make small purses out...
Realistic Portrait Tattoos by Todo
We get this question quite often asking how much Todo's Tattoo portraits run, well it depends on size detail and time. Black and Grey portraits start at $500 and color starts at $700. Here's a couple samples of his tattoo realism and portrait work. Boston Terrier Tattoo Portrait Alice in wonderland smoking Caterpillar Tattoo Crypt Keeper Portrait by Todo The Joker Tattoo portrait by Todo Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Tattoo portrait by Todo Black and Grey Frankenstein monster tattoo by Todo Gorilla in the Mist Realistic Tattoo by Todo The Shining Tattoo portrait of Jack Nicholson by Todo Black and Grey Portrait Tattoo by Todo Realistic Doberman portrait by Todo Realistic color portrait by Todo
Failed tattoos
"If you can't spell, you should think twice before get a text tattooed on your body!" I think that this piece of advice should be written at the entrance of every tattoo parlor. Obviously, there are plenty of those who don't care about this simple rule. Because of the misspelled word "mayd" the meaning of this tattoo is a bit ambiguous: it's a king of love statements or this person claims that he / she used to work for the so-called "Maid for you" company? He's Awsome. Not awesome, only awsome. I could't find this word in the dictionary so I suppose that Awsome is his name. Now, if you meet this dude and he tries to impress you by showing off his awesome tattoo you should say something like that: "Hello, Awsome! Nice to meet you!" ... and she means it: she chose a ridiculous misspelled tattoo instead of a regular, boring one. This dude belive in himself. Too bad you didn't believe in your teachers, mate! I bet they c...
Misleading Advertising may Go Nowhere
On 14 June 2012, the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) – the UK’s independent regulator of advertising across all media – published this ‘quick guide’ to assist brand owners in avoiding the common pitfalls of misleading advertising. If an advertisement is likely to deceive consumers (by including ambiguous or false information, or omitting important information), and is likely to cause consumers to take transactional decisions they would not otherwise have taken (for example purchasing a product or visiting an advertiser’s website), they will be deemed misleading by the ASA. Advertisers should therefore ensure they can substantiate any claims before they make them (other than claims which are obvious exaggerations and which are unlikely to be taken literally by the average consumer), and be as clear and honest in communications as possible. Advertisers are also responsible for substantiating claims made in testimonials, and must hold documentary evidence and contact details...
A failed tattoo? Not necessarily.
The tattoo in the picture below is often given as an example of a failed tattoo (I've founded the same confusion even on hanzismatter.blogspot, a blog which belongs to someone who seems to have vast knowledge of Chinese and Japanese languages). If we consider only the Chinese reading of these characters, the tattoo's meaning is "fool, sucker" - 呆 (pronunciation: dai with the first tone) = dull; dull-minded, simple, stupid; 子 (pronunciation: zi with the third tone) = offspring, child; together they form the word 呆子 (daizi) which means "fool, stupid, sucker". On the other hand, in Japanese 呆子 is just one of the nearly 300 ways (I know, it's hard to believe that there are really that many) to write the popular name "Akiko". In conclusion, this is not (such) a failed tattoo. Similar posts: Stupidity is painful Another failed kanji / hanzi tattoo A cool guy... or a bad woman? Tattoos fails: kanji / hanzi mistakes He has hemorrhoids... and he is pr...