{"id":568,"date":"2008-07-21T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T19:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=568"},"modified":"2008-07-21T13:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T19:59:00","slug":"my-questioning-phoenix-tattoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/my-questioning-phoenix-tattoo\/","title":{"rendered":"My &#8216;Questioning Phoenix&#8217; tattoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/2688122949\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3096\/2688122949_cb90d11c80.jpg?w=400\"  class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/> <span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/2688122949\/\">Roy&#8217;s finished &#8216;Questioning Phoenix&#8217; tattoo<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/royblumenthal\/\">royblumenthal<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\"> Here&#8217;s the answer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Nope. This didn&#8217;t hurt much at all.<\/p>\n<p>It was more of a sort of vibrating vague sting, that numbed out after about ten mintes.<\/p>\n<p>The tatt is Marcus van der Tuin&#8217;s interpretation of my interpretation of an illustration I saw on one of Roger von Oech&#8217;s Creative Whack Pack.<\/p>\n<p>To anyone who hasn&#8217;t noticed the subtlety, the positive space (the red and black) forms a schematic phoenix looking to the left, with wings raised. The negative space forms a strong question mark.<\/p>\n<p>When the colours settle, this will be a very painterly piece of skin. It&#8217;s not discernible now, but everything is blended and shaded and graded. I&#8217;ll post a pic in a week or so, when it&#8217;s looking more like it ought to.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, if you&#8217;re in Cape Town (cos that&#8217;s where Marcus is based &#8212; he was in Joburg as a guest of Missing Link for two weeks, doing tattoos for their friends, staff, and clients), book yourself a session or two with Marcus. <\/p>\n<p>He really knows what he&#8217;s doing, and comes from the advertising and design worlds. He really knows his aesthetics, and he&#8217;s absolutely awesome at shading. I&#8217;m going to ask D&#8217;ave at Missing Link to zap me a pic of his tatt, done by Marcus. It WILL blow your mind. It&#8217;s astonishingly good!<\/p>\n<p>Contact Marcus at his studio. He&#8217;s at METAL MACHINE, 49 Shortmarket Street, Cape Town, South Africa. <\/p>\n<p>Phone +27 21 423 0688.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.missinglink.co.za\">Missing Link<\/a> for my new tatt. You guys cook! And thanks to Marcus for the beautiful interpretation.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in seeing the series of videos I streamed live to the internet from my Nokia N91, here they are&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Questioning Phoenix<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/qik.com\/video\/134434\">Part 1<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/qik.com\/video\/134444\">Part 2<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/qik.com\/video\/134453\">Part 3<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/qik.com\/video\/134460\">Part 4<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/qik.com\/video\/134466\">Part 5<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/qik.com\/video\/134469\">Part 6<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/qik.com\/video\/134475\">Part 7<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/qik.com\/video\/134476\">Part 8<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/qik.com\/video\/134479\">Part 9<\/a><\/p>\n<p> &#8211; Camera phone upload powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shozu.com\/?utm_source=upload&amp;utm_medium=graphic&amp;utm_campaign=upload_graphic\/\" target=\"_newwindow\">ShoZu<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and <a href=\"http:\/\/snipurl.com\/visualfacilitator\">visual facilitator<\/a>. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roy&#8217;s finished &#8216;Questioning Phoenix&#8217; tattoo, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. Here&#8217;s the answer&#8230; Nope. This didn&#8217;t hurt much at all. It was more of a sort of vibrating vague sting, that numbed out after about ten mintes. The tatt is Marcus &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/my-questioning-phoenix-tattoo\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My &#8216;Questioning Phoenix&#8217; tattoo<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p521FP-9a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}