…the almost right word

Jul 28th 2008 at 10:14 am Published under (the category of): Art, Bloggity, Books, a.r.w. Recommends

the a.r.w. recommends: Contrariwise

Contrariwise.org was originally a website used for the owner’s high school photography assignment. Today, she maintains a series of literary tattoo photographs — “tattoos based on books, poems, lyrics, and many other things.” It appears that many tattoo fans like Kurt Vonnegut, The Little Prince, E.E. Cummings and Walt Whitman. This site is literally tattoo inspiration for the literary.

♦ On the subject of tattoos and blogs, check out The Tattooed Mama’s All Things Cupcake blog which features a page of cupcake tattoos!

Editorial Postscript: Apparently I am not the only one noticing this blog! Paper Cuts, a NYTimes book blog, just published a post about it, as did the London Telegraph and Gawker.

6 responses so far

6 responses to “the a.r.w. recommends: Contrariwise”

# e.on Jul 29th 2008 at 8:29 pm

I love tattoos like this! Very cool.
# Clarity Sageon Jul 30th 2008 at 8:49 am

I plan on getting a tattoo based on a book, but it’s not going to be words but a symbol it describes. I dunno how I would feel about people literally reading me. :o)
# kjaon Jul 30th 2008 at 11:11 pm

i always wanted a tat but haven’t found anything i like enough picture-wise, and i always thought words were tacky/strange. this is changing my opinion though. looooove the ‘mischief managed’ one.
# wonderland girlon Jul 31st 2008 at 9:15 am

u getting one?
# the almost right wordon Jul 31st 2008 at 9:18 am

wonderland girl — i got one in chile, on the back of my ankle…i’m pretty sure you saw it.
i’d really like to get another tattoo, and this site is certainly inspiring. i’m just waiting to have the guts to commit.
# wonderland girlon Jul 31st 2008 at 6:12 pm

haha yeah i meant a literary inspired one. (i did see the other one):)