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Street Tattoos

The street tattoo artist lays a stencil of a tiger on his arm and applies the ink. A crowd forms, in truth more for me then for the cut-&-paste-creative spectacle - we're in a suburb where white -skinned cultural tourists are rare if not unique. The temporary tattoo lasts “from a few days to a couple of years, washes off with good dose of sugar water and vinegar”, apparently. He follows up outlining the edges also with an, apparently, sterilised toothpick.

For any form of personalization: the perceived and actual costs of making the ‘wrong’ choice vs. the perceived and actual benefits; the perceived permanence of those choices; the extent to which the apparent mobility or 'fixedness' of the service provider has on the decision making process.

Writing from chongqing somewhere near | June 5, 2007 | Permalink