Presentation.

I had a lot of trouble with this assignment because there are sooo many things that I think are art.
Music, poetry, graffiti, standing up for what you think is true, hidden meanings, obvious meanings, drawings, paintings, photography, the human mind, how differently we each perceive things...it goes on and on and on.
But I finally narrowed it down to tattoos.
I think tattoos are really amazing. I love the whole culture behind them. I love that every tattoo has a story. I love that they have meaning to the wearer.
But, sometimes people mistake getting tattooed as a fad. And that ticks me off.
Or what happens a lot is that someone will see a tattoo on someone else and they will get the same thing tattooed on them...which makes the original lose it's aesthetic meaning. The more copies there are of something, the lesser value it has.
I'm currently becoming an apprentice and I design a lot of tattoos for people.







These tattoos were done for close friends. But I'm slowly starting to design for others as well. As of right now I am designing album art and a tattoo for Christopher Sweeney.

For my literary piece, I chose the song Gloomy Sunday by Artie Shaw.
There are many versions of this song but I heard this one on the movie Wristcutters: A Love Story and it's just so powerful that I can't get it out of my head.
There are a lot of urban myths about the song.
Originally dubbed the "hungarian suicide song" whether it's true or not, it's said that many people have committed suicide to the song and it was banned from nearly every radio station because it was just too deppressing.
I think that the whole Wristcutters soundtrack is amazing. All of the songs are by artists that have committed suicide or the songs are about suicide.
Here are the lyrics to Gloomy Sunday.

Sunday is gloomy,
My hours are slumberless
Dearest the shadows
I live with are numberless
Little white flowers
Will never awaken you
Not where the black coaches
Sorrow has taken you
Angels have no thoughts
Of ever returning you
Wouldnt they be angry
If I thought of joining you?

Gloomy sunday

Gloomy is sunday,
With shadows I spend it all
My heart and i
Have decided to end it all
Soon therell be candles
And prayers that are said I know
But let them not weep
Let them know that Im glad to go
Death is no dream
For in death Im caressin you
With the last breath of my soul
Ill be blessin you

Gloomy sunday

Dreaming, I was only dreaming
I wake and I find you asleep
In the deep of my heart here
Darling I hope
That my dream never haunted you
My heart is tellin you
How much I wanted you
Gloomy sunday

There is no music video for it. But I found a video of the Wristcutters trailer with the song dubbed over it.