Maxwell Brand (seen here a couple times before) writes of his tattoo based on a ModBlog feature from June 5th, 2006 (a difficult choice due to the blown out lighting and unusual proportions),
“My friend Sean Herman of All or Nothing Tattoo was going to tattoo me, but I hadn’t come up with something to get. I flipped through pages of ModBlog pics until I found this gorgeous girl. Then, Sean tattooed her on me. So, it should probably be a ModBlog feature itself…. haha.”
Maxwell, I agree entirely that I need to post this. I love meta-references and meta-jokes, so this is definitely getting modblogged! I wonder what BreedTheCancer (the person whose portrait makes up the tattoo) will think when she finds out (assuming she doesn’t know already) about the tattoo — and being featured a second time in this unusual way.
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173 responses to “What, you’ve got a better source of inspiration?”
im getting gay dogs tattooed on me as we speak
Bradly,
And can we take it you were *masterbating* while watching them lol ….just asking 🙂
I wish just the site of them had it all over b4 i could but hey back to the real reason that we are all here…my mom and how she treats me……:-) EMpReSS besides being my friend would u like to fill the shoes of my mom and ill give u all the Love that I have in this world 4 ever and always..xoxoxoxoxo
Bradly,
As tempting as your offer is, I fear it must be declinded.
All that pent up love scares the hell out of me hehe 🙂
Bradly,
Dam it man you scared the hell out of me, I cannot even spell declind lol
I’m not bothered by the situation of the tattoo. I understand her picture was for reference and inspiration, but its still a poor quality tattoo. meh
I can’t believe the shit fit that is being thrown over this I mean give me a break. That said it is just a tad creepy to have a strangers face tattooed on you but some of us are creepy people and it’s only fitting that we do creepy things like this. And the portrait is not that badly done, the only thing that i see that throws it off is the nose and even that is not all that messed up. Stop crying about ethical bullshit how it’s wrong to get a strangers face tattooed on you do any of you know bhudda? no but I’de be willing to bet that some of you have his face on you
Now I know this girl is’nt a historical figure or anything like that but what I’m saying is that some of the other portraits people have done are of COMPLETE STRANGERS and noone throws a shit fit if someone gets a picture of Bhudda or che or whoever the fuck it is on them just appreciate it for what it is, art, even if you think it is shitty art
Now I know this girl is’nt a historical figure or anything like that but what I’m saying is that some of the other portraits people have done are of COMPLETE STRANGERS and noone throws a shit fit if someone gets a picture of Bhudda or che or whoever the fuck it is on them just appreciate it for what it is, art, even if you think it is shitty art
Ehh.. Not a fan. I agree with most other posts.. Weird to want a random person’s face tattooed on you.. It looks more like a man.. I’m sorry. Not good.. Not good.
Lol EMpReSS the last 2 chicks I dated one was a quadrpaligic and I was to much for her and the last one said just being with me overwhemled her(in a good way but still to much 🙂 But hey post a pic and ill tattoo it on some free space of mine and I think that will be my fix for u 🙂
But on the subjec t of this post here what I feel most people dont understand is the powwer of the tattoo if he had just gotten it done and left it at that we wouldnt be talking about it but he came to a place where the chick resides online and now she is cool with it wich works out real nice but I know for a fact that there are some females out there that would be KRAZY pissed and felt as if there privacy had been totally invaded and wouldnt stop at anything to get that tattoo off the of thats dudes body .The best way i can think to describe it is he is like a PEEPING tOM THAT JUST KNOCKED ON A LADIES WINDOW SOME MAY OPEN THE WINDOW AND LET HIM IN THE OTHERS WELL..~_0 and fuck man if he is so stupid as not to c the other point of view and be thankful that it turned out all right then …in my bOOk fuck him and his dumb ass..so long in the industry and yet so fuckin stupid to the powwers of the tattoo…
gay dogs?
bears?
Ok if soem one snaps a piture of me from far away.. and I have no clue and I never know ..o’well, when Im riding the train and some pulls out there camerra next to me and snaps a picture without out asking Im like whatthe fuck are u doing?or lets say the first case scenario the guys snaps the pic avrything is cool cause i have no clue but then he wlaks up showwing me all his pics I would be once again like what the fuck are u doing but hey Max if its all cool in ur book want to see teh naked pics of ur mom that i have???? ~_0
Bradly,
Oh hell what ru smokin this time, you crack me up.
And im not adopting you, pure and simple I cannot cope with a son who whacks off over gay dogs lol.
But here is a hug you will just have to make do with that.
Hugz
I
wtf?
I (emo heart) Toser
This remiinds me of the artist who decided not to tattoo names after asking the girl about the name he was tattooing on her nipple. The guy didn’t know she existed.
Admittedly this isn’t a case of infatuation, but it is still as creepy as fuck.
Count me as someone who would be really pissed off if someone got my face tattooed on them. Same as if they went and copied one of tattoos – they are a part of me like my face (funnily enough) and taking their image ‘cos it look cool!’ is direspectful to me.
Mind you I don’t really post pictures of myself anywhere.
the biggest issue is the tattoo looks like a deformed person. the nose is all screwed up, and there is no depth next to her left eye. stylized is always better.
to all the people saying stuff like “Don’t tell him it looks bad….he is happy with it”
The pic is on modblog and there is a little box at the bottom in which you can write a comment. He’s the tool who got the tattoo and put it on the net, Why can’t people tell him how crap it is.
I hate trolls. I hate people who say things just to get a rise out of other people. You think it’s a shitty tattoo? Fine, say it, it’s your opinion. Think it’s creepy, okay, say it. Wondering if the girl is cool with it? She is. All of these things are valid comments. What you all need to be doing is moving the hell on. It’s not your tattoo. It’s his. He likes it, end of story. You don’t have to look at it when you wake up everyday. In fact, by next week you’ll have forgotten about it. So just get over it. And don’t get upset if people tell you your tattoo sucks. If you like it, it’s all that matters. You don’t have to defend yourself to people on the internet. They don’t matter in your life.
The only people who find flame wars fun are the people who start them.
I agree with Ananke, I wouln’t be too thrilled if someone asked to have a tattoo of my face on them, I would feel a bit weird, like part of myself was being used….
I would really hate if is someone used a picture of myself with out even asking! The least this guy could have done would have been to ask the girl if she minded.. I mean, it’s not like he didn’t have any way to find out how to contact her, her IAM is right there on the orignal page.
I think it’s just plain lazyness on the part of this person, and the fact that if he had asked she might have said no. Can’t say no now, can she *rolls eyes*
Marilyn Monroe portrait tattoo = acceptable because she’s famous?
This girl portrait tattoo = unacceptable because she’s NOT famous? What the fuck kind of logic is that? ALSO, her picture is floating around on the internet, and now all this scandal, so bam. She’s famous. You guys should all just shut the fuck up.
and i used to think it would be cool to be featured on modblog
but knowing that there are modified persons out there who would do something like this, and without even asking the subject of the photograph beforehand, i don’t think i’ll be submitting many more photos to BME
Just curious, but it took this post for people to get worried about submitting photos to BME? A little silly IMO…Basically in this digital age we must accept that our identities basically become public digital property. If we always live in fear of “what if” how can we ever live?
A community like this survives because people support it by sending photos in which are then displayed on the net. It doesn’t take much to realise that once the photos leave you’re email box they can become anything – you relinquish control the moment you press send.
In theory, our identities could be taken from us just by walking down the street. All it takes is for still to be printed off a security tape by a security guard who takes a fancy and walla – your face/body etc. is being used without your consent. (I used to work in the security industry so know this is a valid hypothetical situation…not that I did it, but met some who might have…)
For me, I can at least take comfort that even if an image I submit to BME is used without my consent, it will most likely be used in a manner that I would find in some form exciting. After all, we’re all here because we have a similar interest.
As for the tattoo. Initially I wasn’t going to comment, though since I have written the above…I think the girl is hot in the photo. As for the similarities in the tattoo, I don’t think any tattoo artist is able to capture EXACTLY what makes a person human. For some reason, in every portrait tattoo, there is always something which is missing when compared to the original photograph. Not sure what it is, and it doesn’t seem to be the same every time. I like the tattoo, and if it was mine, I would be happy with its execution, and I really believe that’s the bit that counts.
(By the way, I haven’t read over this again, so if it’s incoherent, or has grammatical errors, bear with me. It’s late, and I just got home from work and couldn’t be bothered making sure the argument is in some form understandable!)
Yeah number 124 u hit it exactly wrong on the head… thats why this post blew up so fuckin big like it did like as in if u cant even get some consideration and a little respect from fellow Md Bloggers the what the fuck is this world comming to???? and who can u then….If he had just tatted a random chick this wouldnt have happened but knowing wherre she is and how she could be contacted pretty Ezily if he took a little time and effort then it would have all been cool.But Joe fuckin Shuckatelly thinking that since he worked so long in the industry and must know everything and evry1′s feelings…..had just way to much time on his hands that maybe could have been better spent do the fuckin dishes..makes his shops aura look like crap with his lame ass attitude..now back to me on the other hand I am holdong auditions for the space that I have left free on my right hand pinky so plz submit any drawings or pics to [email protected] ~_0
if it were me i’d be flattered, if it didnt look like crap…
even if she’s okay with it, he probably should have got her consent first.
and bears? realy? i dont think you can justify this by comparing her to wildlife…!!
i honestly dont think it would have been published on modblog if it wasnt accompanied by the ‘reference’ image, and if i’d have seen it without the ‘reference’ image i’d still think it looked like crap.
each to their own i guess. If he’s happy with it, thats fine…
Please, whenever I finally get around to posting pictures of that portion of my face that displays my septum piercing… if you absolutely have to use my likeness without permission, as has been pointed out, I can’t do much to stop you. However, it would be nice, from a purely aesthetic standpoint, if you didn’t carry me into immortality with my SEPTUM JEWELRY CROOKED. Thank you. o_O
that tattoo is horrendous.
Max, you should have asked her. That’s why this is such a big comented on pain in the ass. B/c it’s damn creepy, and this is a community. I agree with the person that said you wouldn’t get a neighbor’s face tattooed on you.. and yeah.. I won’t be submitting much more, especially when you say my original work becomes flash, and some shmo like you can get my face on their body with out asking.. ;;shudder;;
I’d rather pay the money for IAM then.
meh, it’s old news anyway. it’s a sunday, blog catch-up..
this is all turning out pretty hilarious…….why in the world would I care if someone I wanted to get a tattoo of didn’t want me to? Where does their opinion about what I should get on my body come into play? It is much less “stalker” to get a tattoo of a random face than to get a tattoo of a celebrity (but I have one of those two, I’m sure a few of us do). I have other tattoos by other tattoo artists of pretty girls that were taken from a sketchbook bought at a bookstore. Now, the sketches were done from models that posed, and the sketches look exactly like them. Since we chose a picture out of a book to tattoo on me, should I have contacted the model to see if she minded? She isn’t famous, but her picture was published. If you got a tattoo of a random “PERSON” in a national geographic, should you get the permission of that old man in Italy who’s picture you thought would make a good tattoo? He isn’t famous, but his picture was published in a magazine. Sorry you guys are upset when some one gets an original “TATTOO”, and you guys probably all have the same dumb shit. I’m covered with fun stuff that I love. I started with flash like most people, and then I learned that the possibilities are endless. I have tattoos of pink poodles, fish tacos, scientists making muffins, crashing spaceships, Frank Zappa sitting on the toilet, bugs, gold skulls, some pretty girls, and other fun stuff. WHO CARES?! And yes, my profession and my experience do give my comments validity. Check out more awesome stuff at allornothingtattoo.com
1.) I’m not a fan of portrait tattoos
2.) That tattoo isn’t very accurate
3.) gg getting a tattoo of a random person on yourself!
Max,
Is this you with the bunny ears, im dying laughing hehe
http://www.allornothingtattoo.com/maxbrand.html
Well that is a little creepy in my books, and the artist needs to brush up on his portraite skillz,
creepy
she is pretty tho :>
Fuck u and ur shop Max u all could suck donkey fuckin cock till it cums in ur fuckin mouths U and ur idea’s blow big fuckin loads of useless sperm…but …hey I gurantee u this………………………………..~_0
O man I am so sorry I went and looked at all the beiutifull art work the ur magnifacent shop does and I take back evrything that I said…I called them and mailed in a check for an appiontment to get some tattoo work done…evry1 here I am so excited and so very lucky and thankfull I will update and post the pics jts as soon as I get the work done!!!! p>s. Max im not really sure what I want to get could u plz suggest somthin for me???Thanks and once again I am so sorry for my ealier attitude and comments 🙂
Bradly,
Im pleased you apologised, Max looks and seems like a very decent man.
Plus I totally love his fluffy ears 🙂
haha….yeah……that’s me in the bunny ears. I have a fun job. That might be why I have a positive outlook on most things. I always spend my time representing myself and what I believe. I never waste my time insulting people. That kind of stuff is rude, and shows a lack of respect, and doesn’t belong in a community setting. But, everybody’s differet. So yeah……that’s me in the bunny ears…….myspace.com/maxbrand
oh….and Bradley….as far as ideas…..I think you should get portraits of Corey Haim and Corey Feldman. We’ve been dying to do those…..
Max,
I love them ears, gotta say if I worked with you be kinda hard to stop laughing tho hehe 🙂
Kool attitude also.
Hugz ♥
i think that’s stupid, to choose something to tattoo few minutes before it..and it’s stupid to tattoo someones face who you don’t know. and this tattoo is awful. blah:/
Coomon #139 I use t think like u butafter reading Max’s cumbacks and the fact that he works in such a cOOl shop and has many other cool way thought out tattooos and u must respect the fact that he has been in the industry for over 10 years put all that together and hopefully u will change ur mind and jion the I support Max and his tattoo’s fan club…Go MAx U rule in my bOOk !!!!!!! ~_0
Ok I did some quick rersearch and since I couldnt find anything on iether Corey how about A real cool tattoo of Frank Zappa sitting on the toilet of a crashing space ship with pink bunny ears on eating fish tacos but the kicker will be that all of this will be a tattoo on a scientist making muffins for his pink poddle tatooed somewhere on me??? Hey my mom said that I can have 2 friends come over after school on tuesday Max want to be 1 of them??? ~_0
There you go Bradly, for you to give the once over 🙂
http://www.coreyhaim.us/
http://www.nndb.com/people/908/000022842/
no….and that isn’t a very original idea…..come up with something original, I dare you…..
Hmmmm I guess ill go with my second choice….ur face tattooed on my nuts and my cock will be ur nose…@[email protected]
Wow! I can’t believe how riled up people are getting over this, this is fucking crazy.
The thought of a person thinking that a photo of yourself is so special/ unusual/ gorgeous enough to grace his skin for life seems an incredibly sweet thing to me.
Also, I can’t believe how many people are slating the actual tattoo. Given most of the attitudes here I could bet on someone bitching if the tattoo was an exact shade-for-shade copy as well. This guy can’t win!
I personally really like the style of the tattoo, it seems like it’s chosen to downplay the fake lashes & eye makeup in favour of highlighting the lips in high detail and a richer colour. I’m more drawn to the tattoo’s lips and warm toned cheekbones than that of the model.
Given that theres been some really bad tattoos that have been posted on here and have been praised for quality, I’m baffled as to why theres so much negativity over this!?
Jus my two pennies on a really out of hand thread 🙂 x
I think my next tattoo will be the face of the guy who got the misfits skull tattooed on his face.
It will be a masterpiece.
wow. Even if you never see the picture this is based off of, it’s obviously pretty bad. The tattoo’s got a different face shape, looks about forty years old, fake tanned, and just… awful. If you’re going to get a pretty girl tattoo’d, make the tattoo pretty. What’s the point otherwise?
Oh, and even if her septum jewelry is crooked in the picture, fix it in the tattoo. It makes it look sloppy otherwise.
This is a few days old but fuck it, i wanna comment and i’m in several camps.
1. The tats not my style but hey if he likes it then fine.
2. Everybody screaming about privacy and violation, GROW THE FUCK UP! She put her image on the internet end of story. This is no more “creepy” then somebody getting celebrity portraits done on them, of which their are hundreds if not thousands on BME.
3. Bradly dude just wow, ur a fucktoss mate, i know your trolling for attention but enough is enough, go shoot hoops with your 8 yr old friends.
and 128 her septum jewellery is crooked in the original photo open your fuckin eyes!
Unless you were implying that you would want it straightened in tattoo form, in which case maybe your not a fuckwit. But I don’t hold much faith.