i think this tattoo so beautiful in a very different way it shows the death but the life behind it

I think i am going to bet butterflies going up my side

Isn’t this Banksy based?

Originated here: http://www.threadless.com/product/114/Flowers_in_the_Attic

It’s a pretty overdone thing, actually.

Yeah, it’s wayyy over-used.

Yeah, I thought that was an old Banksy that’s been used by every single fanboy graffiti artist and ”indie” tosspot since god knows when? Could be wrong mind, might have been that guy on Threadless.

But yes, it’s horribly overused.

Also, regarding the first comment, I don’t see how this represents any life behind death. Don’t get the idea that if you shoot yourself in the head butterflies will come out. Well, I guess if you do, you won’t be disappointed.

Yup, my fiancee actually has that shirt. I dont remember seeing it as a Banksy piece, but does sort of seem his style.

how could a suicide ever be considered beautiful? If you want to get all pseudo-spiritual about it, then maybe it could be interpreted that way. But the reality of it is gruesome and catastrophic.
I know I’m reading a lot into this, but I stumbled upon this picture and it’s ruin my entire evening.

I really should grow some balls though.

what bothers me is that i haven’t been able to wear this shirt since it became such a pseudo-serious benchmark of indie existentialism.
get a life, gang!

yea, this is wayyy over used its used on t-shirts, myspace layouts, cd covors, alot of things. and having a such tattoo about commiting suicide isnt a beautiful thing.. why would someone put that on they’re body???

What a retarded tattoo

i think i’m going to get butterflies on my butt cheeks.

If someone says the word ”Indie” or ”Existentialism” or complains that this tattoo is overused once more I may fucking puke; everyone please get off your high horses and realise the thing for what it is:

It’s a cool tattoo. ”Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar”, to join the semi-cogent, pseudo-sociological bandwagon (and yes I do realise Freud wasn’t a sociologist).

This tattoo looks nice, it’s well done and it blatantly has meaning behind it should you so desire to look that deeply into it. Whatever the artist’s original intention for the artwork is irrelevent, as soon as you choose to ink a design on your skin, you add to its innerant meaning, surely? The person’s choices and mindset all factor into the choice of a tattoo, thus making the art personal to the individual.

Roses, skulls, butterflies, blood, cars with flaming skulls coming out of them, snakes and naked women are ALL overused tattoo themes but people continue to get them done, so the point that it’s overused is completely moot.

The tat looks sick, get over it :)

Similarly, perhaps the point isn’t that suicide is beautiful, maybe more that suicide is the inevitable release from the darkest depths of clinical fucking depression which grinds you down every second of every day. Maybe that’s the beautiful thing; Peace. Or perhaps it’s simply the expression of frustration at having to live in a world of such immense retards.

There’s a whole world beyond the literal translation of a base image if you’re just willing to look, rather than writing it off as existentialist tosspottery or an attempt to be ”Indie”.

Actually... if one were to really look at this, one will notice that the body is not the same as the t-shirt. The t-shirt is a girl facing forward, and the tattoo is actually a man walking away with a trench-coat on.

This is from the anime series Cowboy BeBop. There was a movie based on the series called \”Knocking on Heaven\’s Door\” and the character Vincent has visions of butterflies due to a chemical from a war that causes him to hallucinate. This is a still from the movie. Just had to clarify. Really cool tat is one were to know where it actually comes from :)

Good movie, by the way... amazing series, I totally recommend it :)