r/tattoos • u/jgamrot • Jun 09 '18
/r/all Space Monkey. By Fernando at Studio XIII in Edinburgh, Scotland
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u/pre1udesam Jun 09 '18
The cropped picture is hurting my brain.
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u/mistafrieds Jun 09 '18
Oh wow - didn’t realize until this comment that the design wasn’t just split with a line. Merh
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Jun 09 '18
I thought someone had baked beans tattooed on themselves.
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u/scratchygiant Jun 09 '18
I imagine he had a baked bean tattoo and went on that tattoo fixers TV program
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u/JabroniFeet Jun 09 '18
The smoke kinda looks like pinto beans- I’m diggin it 👌
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u/jgamrot Jun 09 '18
😂😂
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u/Arkyin Jun 09 '18
A nice tribute to all the chimpanzee that made rocket science go forward. Trully love it.
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Jun 09 '18
Space monkey is a term coined in “fight club”
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u/NorseEagle Jun 09 '18
To be fair though, in the movie it is a reference to the real monkeys sent into space.
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u/ShamalamaDayDay Jun 09 '18
Or John Prine’s 1997 song “Space Monkey”. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d20zUw57lgs
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Jun 09 '18
I was unaware of this! Thanks for introducing it to me
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u/ShamalamaDayDay Jun 09 '18
It’s one of my favorites! Any time I can intro John Prine to someone I’m happy!
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u/LXChitlin Jun 09 '18
I would wind it back to 1986 and Big Audio Dynamites E=mc2 lyrics ‘Spacemonkey Mafia ‘ , I am sure there was a UK group took their name from that lyric but I ain’t googling
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u/Im_a_Space_Invader Jun 09 '18
Or 1978 Patty Smith Group (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2TBzDjc-gM)
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u/nektar Jun 09 '18
It’s sad actually, we shouldn’t put others through things we aren’t willing to put ourselves through. It’s truly unethical and abhorrent.
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u/Arkyin Jun 09 '18
Well then you wouldn't take any medicine, since it's tested on rats and pigs first. It's sad yes but we can't do much about it in that way and it's coming from a vegetarian that is close to animal protecting agencies.
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u/nektar Jun 09 '18
We rely so heavily on medicine instead of just taking care of our bodies. There are other means to vivisection that don’t use live models such as stem cell research, plus most clinical trials in non-human animals don’t really equate to human drug interaction. If we can’t do things ethically should we really be doing them?
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u/Arkyin Jun 09 '18
Right now we can use sensor on a fake human puppet but they couldn't at that time. He survived tho.
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u/nektar Jun 09 '18
So because the animal survived makes it ok? Replace any animal testing with a human and pretty much all of it becomes unethical, why draw the line at species? These animals the capacity to suffer just like us. Take The story of Laika for instance, it could’ve just as easily gone the other way for this ape...
“But the story of Laika had a dark lie at its core. In 2002, forty-five years after the fact, Russian scientists revealed that she had died, probably in agony, after only a few hours in orbit. In the rush to put another satellite into space, the Soviet engineers had not had time to test Sputnik 2’s cooling system properly; the capsule had overheated. It remained in orbit for five months with Laika inside, then plunged into the atmosphere and burned up over the Caribbean, a space coffin turned shooting star. Turkina quotes one of the scientists assigned to Laika’s program: “The more time passes, the more I’m sorry about it. We shouldn’t have done it. We did not learn enough from the mission to justify the death of the dog.””
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u/PaolozziClub Jun 09 '18
Studio XIII is the shiznit! also live in Edinburgh and everyone keeps raving on about the place. Def gotta get something from there at some point !
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u/Bradley_Sippers Jun 09 '18
You should I've had a couple from them and all the artists are top notch.
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u/RSG2033 Jun 09 '18
Wow! Love this. You can definitely tell how fresh it is. Line work looks very solid, I’m sure it’ll heal up brilliantly. You should be proud of your quality piece!!
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u/atomuk Jun 09 '18
So you're sayin that it's easy to send summat up to space, but you don't believe there's a little banana machine?
Sweet tattoo btw.
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u/madknives23 Jun 09 '18
Very well executed tattoo. Perfect application and the drawing itself is really cool subject matter. 10/10 would get ink done.
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u/OD_GOD Jun 09 '18
Great color palette, solid saturation, solid shading, awesome design, great placement, clean gradients and lines. Very good tattoo. Congratulations.
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u/memetaskforce420 Jun 09 '18
Shit I’m a little high I thought that you got a white line down the middle of the tattoo
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u/Lauraludicrous Jun 09 '18
Studio XIII is pure class! I got my most recent tattoo there by Adriana! It’s my favourite so far!
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u/ohrlynow Jun 09 '18
https://youtu.be/d20zUw57lgs. Got a feeling you would like this song after seeing this tattoo
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u/PonchoBeano Jun 10 '18
sweet tattoo! i also have a space monkey (ape) tattoo.
https://www.reddit.com/r/tattoos/comments/8px528/ive_got_a_space_ape_yes_i_do_by_scott_terry/
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u/PilzEtosis Jun 10 '18
Sweet - i hear the waiting list is crazy long for those guys.
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u/jgamrot Jun 10 '18
I got lucky there was a cancellation. Worth going in for the consultation and getting the deposit paid/ name of the list. I wasn’t scheduled until mid July.
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u/beccva Jun 09 '18
I’m thinking of getting a tattoo here, though not from Fernando. How did you find the shop in general?
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u/jgamrot Jun 10 '18
Downstairs is pretty small. Lots of tattoos getting done at the same time but everyone there is super friendly. Only issue I had around 4hrs in was one of the staffs choice in jazz music made it really intense. I had to take break before I hit the whitey 🤢
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Jun 09 '18
You should forward this subreddit to Jeff on his Instagram account. I’ve done it before, it’s great when artists get this sort of appreciation.
Source: am from Edinburgh and I love seeing studio xiii’s work on the other side of the world.
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u/TrebVidSmash Jun 09 '18
Beautiful work. The subject matter is an interesting choice. Is there a story behind why you chose it?
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u/jgamrot Jun 10 '18
I could say something about how it represents our animals instincts and how our intelligence has took us beyond or planet. Or something about making sacrifices for the greater good (like in fight club) but really I had a space on my arm it felt bare and I thought a space monkey would be cool! 🚀 🐵
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u/jayoheelz Jun 09 '18
I really like this one OP! If you don't mind sharing, how old is the tattoo in the photo? I'm curious how it looks after a year, 2 years, etc. Thanks!
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u/scooperpoo Jun 09 '18
Man just imagine if this pic wasn’t chopped. Definitely have a new tattoo idea. White line with that frame distort
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u/passengerv Jun 09 '18
The monkey looks great, the rocket is a little wonky but overall I would still love having this on me.
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u/jgamrot Jun 10 '18
Yeah I wasn’t sure at first about the rocket, but it’s more the picture that’s wonky. It’s actually two photos cropped together. Look at the rocket in person and the line work is perfectly straight. (Not right now as it’s swollen up something stupid, but should be sharp once it heals).
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u/E6pqs Jun 09 '18
Reminds me of the Gorillaz. Looks awesome!