Just got this on my back about a week ago. I’m guessing I have it uploaded to my album correctly. If you are not familiar with it, check out google. Let me know what you think. I’m also up here for some advice on changing it. If you look at the pic you will notice that the human and satellite are off centered with my back slightly. It was not the artist’s fault… thats how the “message” was originally sent. I know you are thinking, damn man you should have noticed that before…. oh well. I want to know of somethings you all recommend to get it centered. Was thinking about coming back with some color, but I’m open to suggestions. And on another note, I have to dress up Mon through Friday(high school math teacher here) and I’m using A+D ointment. Even though I’m wearing a tshirt between the tat and my dress shirt I still get a few spots on my $$ shirts. Any tips on washing the A+D out?
Hi
That is one beautiful piece. Damn shame that no alien life force responded :p
I love it!
Suggestions –
I am thinking that with the style of tat you could go colour with some nucleotides or the human helix for DNA weaving through the msg.
Also you could perhaps go for some symbolic mathematical equations using pure maths (I am useless at maths but you get my drift).
If you wanted a more comical look you could have an alien with a mobile (cell) on your shoulder 😀
I was advised to use silk (t-shirt) for comfort on a new tat as like you I have to cover up.
Take Care
Matthew
Thanks for the advice man. I’m taking that the off “centeredness” doesn’t catch you as much as it does me. I guess since its on me I’m one to notice the slightest difference in something. I’m actually wearing silks too. Maybe I should have emphasized that. However, I’m still getting spots on my dress shirts. Does spray and wash deal with this? With the color… I am considering bordering the nucleotides and DNA as you have mentioned… along with the human and satellite.
Haha… oh yeah… this message was sent back in 1974. They said it could take as much as a century for a response. Would love to be around then… probability unlikely. I just think the universe is too damn big for this beautiful planet to be the only one that supports life….. and intelligence.
Hi
So it is slightly off centre it is a great (and I will say quirky :)) tattoo that you should wear with pride!
The damp spots is something that has to be put up with I am afraid.
But here is a tip (from my murky past lol) to get blood out of a shirt there are several methods that work really well.
Salt water plenty of salt in some cold water and work it into the stain let it sink in before a prewash – usually lifts it out.
Baking powder can also be used but not good for anything but cotton.
I am not sure what spray and wash is but if it is like our UK vanish it will lift blood but on coloureds have to test as can leave it looking paler.
Silks should be dry cleaned or hand washed – if hand washing add a few drops of clear vinegar and salt to the water it helps the blood breakdown.
Take Care
Matthew
the piece does look off centered slightly when comparing to the reference, but to be fair, your not going to walk around and people caan tell the difference just by looking….. it is a nice piece in an unusual way lol…
as for the blood stains, as said already, you are going have to put up with it im affraid. just dont be tempted to recover the work while at work….. it needs to breath to be able to heal properly.
Hahhahaha….too funny!!
Wisk detergent has always worked best for me when I used to use A&D…but I have a problem with the fish oil that’s in it…so I no longer use it. If you pour Wisk full strength on the stain and rub it in a bit, then use the warmest water you can to wash the shirt it comes out most of the time.
Okay, because I think of weird things and I’ve managed towork 3 16 hours days straight…I’ve got something you could incorporate (somehow) that might be kinda neat. You could use the binary string of the arecibo message…perhaps around the actual mesage itself…and because I want to win my own personal contest for longest post…here is the binary string of the Arecibo message:
0000001010101000000000000101000001010000000100100010001000100101100101010
1010101010100100100000000000000000000000000000000000001100000000000000000
0011010000000000000000000110100000000000000000010101000000000000000000111
1100000000000000000000000000000000110000111000110000110001000000000000011
0010000110100011000110000110101111101111101111101111100000000000000000000
0000001000000000000000001000000000000000000000000000010000000000000000011
1111000000000000011111000000000000000000000001100001100001110001100010000
0001000000000100001101000011000111001101011111011111011111011111000000000
0000000000000000010000001100000000010000000000011000000000000000100000110
0000000001111110000011000000111110000000000110000000000000100000000100000
0001000001000000110000000100000001100001100000010000000000110001000011000
0000000000001100110000000000000110001000011000000000110000110000001000000
0100000010000000010000010000000110000000010001000000001100000000100010000
0000010000000100000100000001000000010000000100000000000011000000000110000
0000110000000001000111010110000000000010000000100000000000000100000111110
0000000000010000101110100101101100000010011100100111111101110000111000001
1011100000000010100000111011001000000101000001111110010000001010000011000
0001000001101100000000000000000000000000000000000111000001000000000000001
1101010001010101010100111000000000101010100000000000000001010000000000000
0111110000000000000000111111111000000000000111000000011100000000011000000
0000011000000011010000000001011000001100110000000110011000010001010000010
1000100001000100100010010001000000001000101000100000000000010000100001000
0000000001000000000100000000000000100101000000000001111001111101001111000
or
00000010101010000000000
00101000001010000000100
10001000100010010110010
10101010101010100100100
00000000000000000000000
00000000000011000000000
00000000001101000000000
00000000001101000000000
00000000010101000000000
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00000000000000000000000
11000011100011000011000
10000000000000110010000
11010001100011000011010
11111011111011111011111
00000000000000000000000
00010000000000000000010
00000000000000000000000
00001000000000000000001
11111000000000000011111
00000000000000000000000
11000011000011100011000
10000000100000000010000
11010000110001110011010
11111011111011111011111
00000000000000000000000
00010000001100000000010
00000000001100000000000
00001000001100000000001
11111000001100000011111
00000000001100000000000
00100000000100000000100
00010000001100000001000
00001100001100000010000
00000011000100001100000
00000000001100110000000
00000011000100001100000
00001100001100000010000
00010000001000000001000
00100000001100000000100
01000000001100000000100
01000000000100000001000
00100000001000000010000
00010000000000001100000
00001100000000110000000
00100011101011000000000
00100000001000000000000
00100000111110000000000
00100001011101001011011
00000010011100100111111
10111000011100000110111
00000000010100000111011
00100000010100000111111
00100000010100000110000
00100000110110000000000
00000000000000000000000
00111000001000000000000
00111010100010101010101
00111000000000101010100
00000000000000101000000
00000000111110000000000
00000011111111100000000
00001110000000111000000
00011000000000001100000
00110100000000010110000
01100110000000110011000
01000101000001010001000
01000100100010010001000
00000100010100010000000
00000100001000010000000
00000100000000010000000
00000001001010000000000
01111001111101001111000
Personally, I would use the first one…since the second shows the picture itself…
:p:p:rolleyes:
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