Bukowski tattoos

mjp

mjp

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Looks like the original owners of the domain name let it lapse a long time ago and someone else picked it up in 2003.

Domain Name: POETS-ANONYMOUS.COM
Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC.
Creation Date: 16-apr-2003

The original site was up in 1999, 2000, around that time. Nothing at archive.org though, I'm afraid.

I do have small images from the old site of the other Bukowski billboards somewhere, but it may be a while before I can find them. I took the picture on the Miscellany page here. That billboard was up on Ventura blvd. in the valley for a year (!).
 
james

james

here's a photo of one of the billboards in santa monica around 1997...

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hank solo

hank solo

Just practicin' steps and keepin' outta the fights
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HenryChinaski said:
"some people never go crazy, what truly horrible lives they must lead."

is there an image [...] of this in his handwriting?
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hank solo said:
Try photoshop:
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In case you were wondering, most of the words are created with letters from 'Dear Mr. Bukowski', with a few extras from a couple of handwritten notes. None of it was drawn freehand, so it really is 'in his handwriting'... sorta :cool:
 
mjp

mjp

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I thought as much, clever bastard. Might be cool to isolate the alphabet that way and get a computer font made of his handwriting...
 
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thebadges

Speaking of a Buk handwriting font, my second obsession is Morrissey/The Smiths. I have a downloaded font that someone's made from Moz's handwriting.

And my next tattoo is the Black Sparrow.
 
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joanJOBEsmith

Anyone Have Bukowski Painted on His/Her BdrmWall?

the Buk tattoos were beautifulwonderful... does anyone have Bukowski painted on his/her bedroom wall?... joanJOBEsmith
 
hank solo

hank solo

Just practicin' steps and keepin' outta the fights
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joanJOBEsmith said:
the Buk tattoos were beautifulwonderful... does anyone have Bukowski painted on his/her bedroom wall?... joanJOBEsmith
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Hi Joan,

Do you mean as in a mural :eek: or perhaps just a framed portrait?
 
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joanJOBEsmith

a mural on the wall... i know a young artist who painted a mural on his bdrm wall + one on the living rm wall.. his name is Daniel Goude and i published a photo of the bdrm one in my Bukowski Review #3 ... the living rm mural Daniel painted of Buk, bicep'd and wild one-ing a Harley wd've been on Buk Rev #4 but i had to fold.. Daniel painted Buk bad-a$$ with long, windblown hair...
 
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Rimbaud's birthday

I wanted to get "The History of one tough motherfucker" from the top of my back going across diagonally and curving round to my side.

Not the words, the whole poem minus the title.
That poem is the first thing that has made me weep, good tears, for myself, pretty much ever.
I relate to that cat, I had it bad, not that bad, but bad enough :)

Anyway i took it in in about 20-24pt text and the said they could do it but that over the years with seeping it would become a black smudge.

This is where you good people come in.
Im handing it round to friends (and you) to edit.
It needs to be about one third the words.
it needs to keep the essence of the poem.
If someone can do it i'll get it:)
the other ones I was thinking of were the bluebird and the genius of the crowd, but I really feel closer to "The History"

I like the idea of just getting a whole poem done.

Thanks people.

P.S anyone wanna meet up in LA over next few weeks and visit the gravesite?


-Dylan.
 
CRBSMILE

CRBSMILE

Dude, if you're going to get words tattoo-ed into your body, shouldn't they be your own words? And if you do not yet have any of your own words, shouldn't you wait until you do? And if you MUST do this now, then for the love of god! find something shorter!! CRB:)
 
Father Luke

Father Luke

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Rimbaud's birthday said:
I wanted to get "The History of one tough motherfucker" from the top of my back going across diagonally and curving round to my side.
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hmmm.

Rimbaud's birthday said:
Not the words, the whole poem minus the title.
That poem is the first thing that has made me weep, good tears, for myself, pretty much ever.
I relate to that cat, I had it bad, not that bad, but bad enough :)

Anyway i took it in in about 20-24pt text and the said they could do it but that over the years with seeping it would become a black smudge.
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Good advice. Better to hang it in your living room.

Rimbaud's birthday said:
This is where you good people come in.
Im handing it round to friends (and you) to edit.
It needs to be about one third the words.
it needs to keep the essence of the poem.
If someone can do it i'll get it:)
the other ones I was thinking of were the bluebird and the genius of the crowd, but I really feel closer to "The History"

I like the idea of just getting a whole poem done.

Thanks people.
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Or has that been simplified too much?

Rimbaud's birthday said:
P.S anyone wanna meet up in LA over next few weeks and visit the gravesite?


-Dylan.
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There are some excellent directions
poasted in here somewhere. . .

All the best,
Father Luke
 
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Rimbaud's birthday

If i get my own words i will get f#cking sick of them. Plus im pretty sure Bukowski is a better poet than I.

Why not just get a whole poem instead of some symbol/ part of a whole?

you never have to explain the tat. "just read this poem"

Its only flesh which will rot/ be incinerated.

I dont have a living or any room.

I remember those directions, i will find em.

thanks.
 
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