Cyprus-Forum.com

[kensmessenger]

Yeh and I think you must be one of them, what a couple of saddo's you are.
Some people are eternally cynical CCCB...professor my arse and some people have closed minds and are never willing to see anothers point of view and rather than learn are happy in their ignorance (dinizaksulu).
For diniz something a little more recent:
Although the Tattoo Artists of today are incredibly talented and are to be admired by those of us less gifted. They are not the first of their kind to be appreciated by their contemporaries. There have been others gone before them who have brought beauty and colour into the lives of their clients and patrons.
One such person was Tattoo Artist Sutherland MacDonald who was born in the mid 1800’s. Sutherland who learned tattooing in the army was one of the most popular artists in Great Britain at the end of the 19th century. Journalists often featured him in magazines and newspapers but Sutherland had little time for them, preferring to convince the public of his artistic abilities by giving them sight of his human canvasses. This in soirees at his Regent Street premises, possibly the forerunner of the Tattoo Conventions of today, although on a smaller scale. In April of 1897 The Strand Newspaper reported, "MacDonalds work is the best tattoo the world has ever seen". “His tattoos”, so they said, “haven't just caught up with the Japanese but have even overtaken them”. In the same year Le Temps in Paris wrote “MacDonald has raised tattooing to a form of Art” and the French L'Illustration periodical certified him in 1900 as “The Michaelangelo of Tattooing".
Sutherland had followed the style of the Japanese craft, which worked with up to 20 colours, overworked them and used them on European designs. His bright green tattoo colour wasn't achieved anywhere else in the world. His strength was in the impressionistic designs of animals (dragons, birds, tigers, snakes, lizards and others) by using coloured woodcarvings as templates. He was the first Tattoo Artist to convert paintings from well known Famous Masters, e.g. the head of Christ by Guido Reni, into large back piece tattoos. His shop on the Piccadilly Circus in London was more like an Artists Studio and members of the Higher Nobility and Royalty were regular guests. His customers included such exalted persons as, King Edward VII of England, Czar Nikolaus of Russia and the Sultan of Johore, India. But in his Studio a King could sit next to a Cobbler, Sutherland made no distinctions. Like most of his counterparts today he was no snob and would happily appreciate clients from all classes of society. He continued with his craft, tattooing in London until his death in 1926.
Now, 73 years after his death, skilled artists are once more putting the Art into Tattooing and we are seeing the most amazing artwork, some of almost photographic quality. I think Mr Sutherland Macdonald would be proud of the successor’s to his title “The Michaelangelo of Tattooing”
By the way CCCB business is booming as you will see if you watch Rik2 around 10pm on Thursday

[CBBB]

By the way CCCB business is booming as you will see if you watch Rik2 around 10pm on Thursday

A channel that no one ever watches?

[kensmessenger]

There you go being cynical again.....lifes too good for so much misery....smile for chrysaake!!

[CBBB]

I smile quite frequently, especially when I see idiots covered in tattoos.

[kensmessenger]

Why is it people with low intellect prefer to resort to insults rather than attempting an intelligent conversation.

[kensmessenger]

Why is it people with low intellect prefer to resort to insults rather than attempting an intelligent conversation.
If you took the time to investigate you would find that there are many very intelligent people from all walks of life who are proud to have tattoo's and enjoy wearing them. The fact that they do have Tattoo's however would not make them look down on you or consider you an idiot because you dont. Being intelligent they would respect the fact that you could have a different point of view without neccessarily being an idiot.

[denizaksulu]

Why is it people with low intellect prefer to resort to insults rather than attempting an intelligent conversation.

ffs..You dont get intelligence and tattoo's in one sentence, moron

[kensmessenger]

I cant waste anymore of my time with a sad dickhead like you. Youre living proof that it is in fact possible to be an idiot, even without a tattoo.

[denizaksulu]

I cant waste anymore of my time with a sad dickhead like you. Youre living proof that it is in fact possible to be an idiot, even without a tattoo.

Good.

You can leave now.

Adios.