This isn’t specifically about Zinn’s koi, but why the popularity of them? It seems like every website, book, flash sheet, and shop artist have a zillion different ones that all essentially look the same. I’m not knocking, I’m just curious as to where they come from and what meanings are carried with them.

It’s safe to say we’ve met. 😀 Unfortunately, geopgraphical differences make spending time impossible, so mutual online hobbies come in handy.

Luckily for you, you won’t have to harm your ears listening to it. It’s a poem.

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

ee cummings

Hello Zenn! I actually got my first ink in Charlotte NC, at a place called Ink Links. If Elmo is still there, definitely try to make an appointment with her – she’s one of the best. She did the piece on my right outer arm if you get the chance to see it.

When choosing a tattoo, go with something you know will mean something to you for the rest of you. All of my inks are based on symbols, each with a meaning deeper than the needles that were used on me. I prefer to have a story or something to say with each one when someone asks “What is that?” or “Why’d you get that there?” If nothing else, get a quote from your favorite book, poem, movie, or song.

I dig the right arm piece. I’ve kind of ruined one of those for myself with the placement of my forearm tats, but I enjoy a big intricate design down the arm.