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Anyone know what this tattoo is from?

portlandjoshportlandjosh Posts: 16
edited June 2009 in The Porch
http://www.tattooedeverything.com/images/rob3.JPG

Can't seem to find the source from any of the regular album jackets or artwork. Anyone know what this is from?

Sorry if tat posts are verboten. I'm new around here...

Cheers,
Josh
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    StoveStove Posts: 317
    The one at the very bottom is on the cover of "Single Video Theory".
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    portlandjoshportlandjosh Posts: 16
    Okay, so that's the tape reel. The 45 insert is from Spin the Black Circle. The five element symbols I think go together, as I have seen one other tat with those same symbols, on that PJ tattoo site.
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    Child Of The 90sChild Of The 90s Posts: 526
    I've always wondered, are the 5 element symbols (as they relate to Pearl Jam) referring to the "5 horizons" in the song Black, or is there some other significance?

    I feel like I'm missing something obvious. Am I?
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    portlandjoshportlandjosh Posts: 16
    In the PJ tattoo thread, another dude has a tat of the elements. A connection to the five horizons seems logical. Still not sure where the art comes from though.
    http://img372.imageshack.us/i/img3500kw2.jpg/
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    bazzerbazzer Posts: 3,090
    They come from an old 10C shirt design. I'm not sure if they have significance beyond that. There was a little quote on the shirt too, but I don't have the info on me.
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    RedMosquito02RedMosquito02 Posts: 2,560
    As previously mentioned, a few are from a 10C shirt...I've got it somewhere...

    White t with, I believe, only 3 red symbols...but I may be mistaken
    33...
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    dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam NINUNINOPRO Posts: 139,354
    portlandjosh wrote:
    http://www.tattooedeverything.com/images/rob3.JPG

    Can't seem to find the source from any of the regular album jackets or artwork. Anyone know what this is from?

    Sorry if tat posts are verboten. I'm new around here...

    Cheers,
    Josh
    its great tattoo..
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
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    Child Of The 90sChild Of The 90s Posts: 526
    Yeah, I've seen it on shirts before. Just wondering if there is a significance beyond that. A lot of the time the art is connected to the music some how.
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    WobbieWobbie Posts: 29,560
    portlandjosh wrote:
    http://www.tattooedeverything.com/images/rob3.JPG

    Can't seem to find the source from any of the regular album jackets or artwork. Anyone know what this is from?

    Sorry if tat posts are verboten. I'm new around here...

    Cheers,
    Josh

    Hey! That's MY tattoo!! :mrgreen:

    I tell people there are three things going on there:

    Pearl Jam (five elements)

    My wife's name (C-O-D-I-E) within the symbols

    and orange and black for my (sucky) SF Giants. :D

    The words on the t-shirt are "the fifth element is the basis both of sound and of hearing. particles of the finest elements, mainly ether, make up the mind." The "fifth element" is also called quinta essentia" by ancient Greeks...they thought it was (a)ether....from those words, we got quintessential and ethereal :ugeek: . Here's another pic, with Japanese kanji of the same thing...

    IMG_1934-1-1.jpg
    If I had known then what I know now...

    Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
    VIC 07
    EV LA1 08
    Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
    Columbus 10
    EV LA 11
    Vancouver 11
    Missoula 12
    Portland 13, Spokane 13
    St. Paul 14, Denver 14
    Philly I & II, 16
    Denver 22
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