“A tattoo is something permanent when you’ve made a self-discovery or something you’ve come to a conclusion about,” Angelina Jolie once said. When making an appointment with a tattoo artist, we may have various goals: to get more individuality, immortalize something, or conceal an imperfection. Still, most paintings on our bodies can represent a certain chapter in our lives and serve as a reflection of our inner world.

Voyager with a Carl Sagan quote done a couple months ago at Body Electric Tattoo in LA

crookedindifference: Carl Sagan’s Pulsar Map Relative position of the Sun to the center of the Galaxy and 14 pulsars with their periods denoted. The lengths of the lines show the relative distances of...

Literary Tattoos: Pale Blue Dot Carl Sagan "From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it’s different. Consider again that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives…every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."

Carl Sagan, Cosmos, Tattoo

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How rare and beautiful it is to even exist

People always ask me how I started doing tattoos and as far as I know my story is the most unique one I’ve ever heard. I’ve always loved being in a tattoo parlour but working in it also gave me a different perspective on life.

Pulsar Map - Carl Sagan