International Tattoo Festival returns to Pattaya Aug. 24-25

PATTAYA:--Tattoo enthusiasts and artists will fill the Hard Rock Hotel with ink when the Pattaya International Tattoo Festival kicks off this weekend.

AIM Global Service Co. and the Pattaya Technician Association will host the Aug. 24-25 convention, the third to be held in Pattaya since 2009. The event offers tourists and tattoo lovers alike to view body art and even get their own.

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-- Pattaya Mail 2013-08-23

Nasty, see what they look like when they are elderly!

I thought the title referred to a military tattoo!

Yes, in the not so distant future hundreds of thousands of people who had themselves tattood because it was fashionable will be paying big painful bucks to have them lasered off.

Nasty, see what they look like when they are elderly!

55, "RascalMan" I don't think the Hard Rock has a ramp for you anyway.

I think the festival is already running: January 1st thru December 31st. Maybe if I had a skin disease I would consider. But then again, most tats look like skin diseases.

Just hold on while I go and VOMIT!

im looking forward to this event...cant wait to see artist/friends there.....those who dont care for tattooing should keep the negative comments to themselves

Tattoos were a tool in my old profession. It enabled us to identify individuals and to see if they were in the system for served time, and what affiliation's they have, and where their mindset is. We took out white supremacists to hard core black gangs with the free ads these individuals tout. I used to shake my head in disgust for some of the distasteful tats i was privileged of viewing. And identifying corpses was much more accurate with the tattoos. Over the years i started to see the beauty and intrinsic nature in some of them. And i understand the personal and spiritual trademark they individualize. I found the tattooed people were no worse than the un-marked. I never judged anyone for these choices either.

Nasty, see what they look like when they are elderly!

What does anybody look like when they are older ?

Wrinkled, I guess !

Only this guy will have very colorful wrinkles.

What's the problem ?

One choses himself what one wants.

I myself do not want to look like a brownish scrotum when I get old but some people chose to sit in the sun all day.

Up to them, I say !

Live and let live !

I went & had a look yesterday afternoon... curiosity. I'm not a BIG tat fan but like to keep an open mind on most things. Event was much smaller than I had imagined. Half hour is more than enough to see all unless you are a fan or have friends there to chat with. Some "very interesting sights" Not a bad way to spend 1/2 hour or so.

To each his own.

Yuck!

Isn't every day a "tattoo festival" there?