Saturday, March 26, 2022

๐Ÿ’ซโญ ๐๐‘๐ˆ๐€๐ ๐Œ๐Ž๐‹๐Š๐Ž'๐’ ๐๐„๐– ๐“๐€๐“๐“๐Ž๐Ž๐’ โญ๐Ÿ’ซ

A few days ago ๐‘ท๐’๐’‚๐’„๐’†๐’ƒ๐’ posted a video on their social networks where ๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’ ๐‘ด๐’๐’๐’Œ๐’ and ๐‘บ๐’•๐’†๐’‡๐’‚๐’ ๐‘ถ๐’๐’”๐’…๐’‚๐’ autographed a promotional poster of their new album "๐‘ต๐’†๐’—๐’†๐’“ ๐‘ณ๐’†๐’• ๐‘ด๐’† ๐‘ฎ๐’", which looks fabulous no doubt,๐Ÿคฉ but what also caught the attention of many of us is that we could see on ๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’'s arms ๐Ÿ‘ ๐๐„๐– ๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ญ๐จ๐จ๐ฌ!!

It seems that he didn't get these tattoos a long time ago because neither in the promotional photos of the new album, nor in the covers of the singles, nor in the videos he had them. So in our curiosity, we did some research ๐Ÿ•ต๏ธ and today we'll tell you what we find about them. ๐Ÿ˜‰


Photo credit down below


๐Ÿ’Ÿ ๐“๐€๐“๐“๐Ž๐Ž ๐Ÿ: ๐๐Ž๐–๐ˆ๐„ ๐‹๐จ๐ ๐จ๐ญ๐ฒ๐ฉ๐ž โœจ

Let's start with a very special tattoo. On ๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’'s right inner forearm just above his sobriety symbol tattoo, you can see the bits of stars that form the name "๐‘ฉ๐‘ถ๐‘พ๐‘ฐ๐‘ฌ" and that appeared on the cover of ๐‘ซ๐’‚๐’—๐’Š๐’… ๐‘ฉ๐’๐’˜๐’Š๐’†'s latest album "โ˜…" (๐‘ฉ๐’๐’‚๐’„๐’Œ๐’”๐’•๐’‚๐’“) released on January 8, 2016. The artwork of the album was designed by ๐‘ฑ๐’๐’๐’‚๐’•๐’‰๐’‚๐’ ๐‘ฉ๐’‚๐’“๐’๐’ƒ๐’“๐’๐’๐’Œ and below you can read a bit of the story behind this design told by himself.

๐Ÿ”น๐‚๐š๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ญ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐ž ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐›๐ž๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ซ? ๐ˆ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐๐ž๐ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐‚๐ฅ๐จ๐œ๐ค๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค ๐Ž๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ž โ€˜๐œ๐ข๐ซ๐œ๐ฅ๐žโ€™ ๐œ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ž๐ง๐ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ง. ๐‡๐ž๐ซ๐ž, ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ก๐š๐ฉ๐ž ๐š๐ฅ๐ฌ๐จ ๐ข๐ง๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž โ€˜๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐จ๐ญ๐ฒ๐ฉ๐žโ€™ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ โ€“ ๐œ๐š๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ญ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐ž ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ?
๐ŸŽ™๏ธ ๐‘ฑ๐‘ฉ: We are, wherever possible, using the โ˜… for the title. The original idea came out of discussions with Bowie about ways of representing the album, so this is very much his creativity and his direction. But the discussion was partly prompted by a conversation I had with William Burroughs when I met him, which I have told a thousand times for namedrop effect, but did actually finally give me something usable for this project 25 years later.

I asked him about the future of typography and he said that letterforms would go back to hieroglyphs, similar to the ancient Egyptians. You can actually see it happening with the emoji, they are becoming very common with people creating whole narratives out of them, as well as using them in everyday communication. Will there be a time when we use only these to express thought?

Back to this album though โ€“ it was a way of being as minimal with the title as we were with the design and in doing so making it stand out from all of the other stuff you see around you. It was also calculated to work in all different kinds of technologies as it is a recognised Unicode character.


We also have the logo of his name which is an extension of this. There were one or two people at the record company who were nervous about this but I do believe legibility is about familiarity โ€“ and once you get used to it you can only read it as โ€˜Bowieโ€™. This was a painful many hours of working to try to get his name to be legible enough, but not too legible, to read it straight away. I tried many different stars and endless combinations for this one, but I think this has the right balance. There is a hint of the glam David Bowie here. I know itโ€™s just a logo of bits of stars, but I think it is important to have a little of Bowieโ€™s past in it.

In terms of my own work, there has been a playing out of the absolute forms: square โ€“ The Next Day; circle โ€“ Clockwork Orange cover; and now the star for this album. It wasnโ€™t planned but I think there is something about basic shapes and the way they resonate in the subconscious. If somebody has any projects that need a triangle on up front, I would be very happy to hear from them.
โ–ช๏ธ๐™น๐š˜๐š—๐šŠ๐š๐š‘๐šŠ๐š— ๐™ฑ๐šŠ๐š›๐š—๐š‹๐š›๐š˜๐š˜๐š”, ๐™ฒ๐š›๐šŽ๐šŠ๐š๐š’๐šŸ๐šŽ ๐š๐šŽ๐šŸ๐š’๐šŽ๐š  ๐™ฑ๐š•๐š˜๐š, ๐™ฝ๐š˜๐šŸ๐šŽ๐š–๐š‹๐šŽ๐š› ๐Ÿธ๐Ÿผ๐š๐š‘, ๐Ÿธ๐Ÿถ๐Ÿท๐Ÿป.


Perhaps it is not so surprising that ๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’ got this tattoo because we all know how important ๐‘ซ๐’‚๐’—๐’Š๐’… ๐‘ฉ๐’๐’˜๐’Š๐’† has been to ๐‘ท๐’๐’‚๐’„๐’†๐’ƒ๐’ and they have expressed their love, admiration and gratitude to him on multiple occasions, so his death affected them very much. In recent interviews, ๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’ stated that this sentiment inspired their latest single "๐‘ฏ๐’‚๐’‘๐’‘๐’š ๐‘ฉ๐’Š๐’“๐’•๐’‰๐’…๐’‚๐’š ๐‘ฐ๐’ ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’† ๐‘บ๐’Œ๐’š" and also said that "๐‘ถ๐’๐’๐’š ๐’ƒ๐’š ๐’ƒ๐’†๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’‰๐’Š๐’Ž๐’”๐’†๐’๐’‡ ๐’‰๐’† ๐’•๐’‚๐’–๐’ˆ๐’‰๐’• ๐’Ž๐’† ๐’‰๐’๐’˜ ๐’•๐’ ๐’ƒ๐’† ๐’‚ ๐’ƒ๐’†๐’•๐’•๐’†๐’“ ๐’‘๐’†๐’“๐’”๐’๐’", so this tattoo is a beautiful way to honor ๐‘ซ๐’‚๐’—๐’Š๐’… ๐‘ฉ๐’๐’˜๐’Š๐’†'s memory and the deep mark he left on ๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’. ๐Ÿ’—


๐Ÿ’Ÿ ๐“๐€๐“๐“๐Ž๐Ž ๐Ÿ: ๐Ž๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐‹๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐‹๐ž๐Ÿ๐ญ ๐€๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž โœจ

The phrase tattooed on ๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’'s left forearm is not fully visible in the video, but our dear ๐‘บ๐’Š๐’๐’Œ๐’† suggested that the last word could be "๐’‚๐’๐’Š๐’—๐’†" and say "๐‘ถ๐’๐’๐’š ๐‘ณ๐’๐’—๐’†๐’“๐’” ๐‘ณ๐’†๐’‡๐’• ๐‘จ๐’๐’Š๐’—๐’†"
- which I think makes sense - and that it could also be a reference to the movie of the same title, directed by the famous director ๐‘ฑ๐’Š๐’Ž ๐‘ฑ๐’‚๐’“๐’Ž๐’–๐’”๐’„๐’‰ released in 2013.


"๐‘ถ๐’๐’๐’š ๐‘ณ๐’๐’—๐’†๐’“๐’” ๐‘ณ๐’†๐’‡๐’• ๐‘จ๐’๐’Š๐’—๐’†" is a comedy-drama film about the love that has prevailed through the centuries between ๐‘จ๐’…๐’‚๐’Ž (๐‘ป๐’๐’Ž ๐‘ฏ๐’Š๐’…๐’…๐’๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’๐’), a vampire and underground musician and his lover - also a vampire - ๐‘ฌ๐’—๐’† (๐‘ป๐’Š๐’๐’…๐’‚ ๐‘บ๐’˜๐’Š๐’๐’•๐’๐’). ๐‘จ๐’…๐’‚๐’Ž lives in ๐‘ซ๐’†๐’•๐’“๐’๐’Š๐’• and is increasingly depressed by the direction humanity's actions have taken. To prevent ๐‘จ๐’…๐’‚๐’Ž's world from crumbling around him, ๐‘ฌ๐’—๐’†, who lives in ๐‘ป๐’‚๐’๐’ˆ๐’Š๐’†๐’“, decides to go to ๐‘ซ๐’†๐’•๐’“๐’๐’Š๐’• to be with her beloved.


๐ŸŽฅ ๐‘ถ๐’๐’๐’š ๐‘ณ๐’๐’—๐’†๐’“๐’” ๐‘ณ๐’†๐’‡๐’• ๐‘จ๐’๐’Š๐’—๐’† - ๐‘ถ๐’‡๐’‡๐’Š๐’„๐’Š๐’‚๐’ ๐‘ป๐’“๐’‚๐’Š๐’๐’†๐’“
https://bit.ly/3Ju70zE

โœจ๐Ÿ”ธ๐‚๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐…๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ฌ๐Ÿ”ธโœจ
๐Ÿ”น๐‘ป๐’Š๐’๐’…๐’‚ ๐‘บ๐’˜๐’Š๐’๐’•๐’๐’, the protagonist of the film, was friends with ๐‘ซ๐’‚๐’—๐’Š๐’… ๐‘ฉ๐’๐’˜๐’Š๐’† and she even starred in the music video of the song "๐‘ป๐’‰๐’† ๐‘บ๐’•๐’‚๐’“๐’” (๐‘จ๐’“๐’† ๐‘ถ๐’–๐’• ๐‘ป๐’๐’๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’‰๐’•)" from the album "๐‘ป๐’‰๐’† ๐‘ต๐’†๐’™๐’• ๐‘ซ๐’‚๐’š" (2013).

๐ŸŽฌ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’† ๐‘บ๐’•๐’‚๐’“๐’” (๐‘จ๐’“๐’† ๐‘ถ๐’–๐’• ๐‘ป๐’๐’๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’‰๐’•) - ๐‘ซ๐’‚๐’—๐’Š๐’… ๐‘ฉ๐’๐’˜๐’Š๐’† ๐‘ถ๐’‡๐’‡๐’Š๐’„๐’Š๐’‚๐’ ๐‘ฝ๐’Š๐’…๐’†๐’
https://bit.ly/3tqqGPx


๐Ÿ”นThe title "๐‘ถ๐’๐’๐’š ๐‘ณ๐’๐’—๐’†๐’“๐’” ๐‘ณ๐’†๐’‡๐’• ๐‘จ๐’๐’Š๐’—๐’†" pays tribute to the ๐‘ซ๐’‚๐’—๐’† ๐‘พ๐’‚๐’๐’๐’Š๐’” science fiction novel of the same name from 1964, although the plots are totally different.



๐Ÿ’Ÿ ๐“๐€๐“๐“๐Ž๐Ž ๐Ÿ‘: ๐„๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐Š๐ง๐จ๐ญ, ๐ˆ๐ง๐Ÿ๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ž ๐Š๐ง๐จ๐ญ, ๐จ๐ซ ๐Š๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ˆ๐ง๐Ÿ๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ž ๐–๐ข๐ฌ๐๐จ๐ฆ โœจ

On ๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’ ๐‘ด๐’๐’๐’Œ๐’'s right arm we see that he has tattooed an ๐’†๐’๐’…๐’๐’†๐’”๐’” ๐’Œ๐’๐’๐’•, also known as the ๐’Š๐’๐’‡๐’Š๐’๐’Š๐’•๐’† ๐’Œ๐’๐’๐’• or ๐’Œ๐’๐’๐’• ๐’๐’‡ ๐’Š๐’๐’‡๐’Š๐’๐’Š๐’•๐’† ๐’˜๐’Š๐’”๐’…๐’๐’Ž which in ๐‘ป๐’Š๐’ƒ๐’†๐’•๐’‚๐’ ๐‘ฉ๐’–๐’…๐’…๐’‰๐’Š๐’”๐’Ž is one of the most complex symbols to understand as it has several meanings. It mainly symbolizes the interrelation between the spiritual, time and the eternal, the infinite wisdom, the heart and compassion of ๐‘ฉ๐’–๐’…๐’…๐’‰๐’‚ for all living beings as well as his omnipresence.


Although its origin is not very clear, there are several theories that say that its first representations are found in the ๐‘บ๐’‰๐’“๐’Š๐’—๐’‚๐’•๐’”๐’‚ that adorned the chest of the ๐‘ฏ๐’Š๐’๐’…๐’– god ๐‘ฝ๐’Š๐’”๐’‰๐’๐’–, the deity of protection and goodness, so this symbol is known with the name ๐’”๐’‰๐’“๐’Š๐’—๐’‚๐’•๐’”๐’‚ in ๐‘บ๐’‚๐’๐’”๐’Œ๐’“๐’Š๐’• and as ๐’…๐’‘๐’‚๐’ ๐’ƒ๐’†'๐’– in ๐‘ป๐’Š๐’ƒ๐’†๐’•๐’‚๐’ culture. The ๐’†๐’๐’…๐’๐’†๐’”๐’” ๐’Œ๐’๐’๐’• is one of the eight symbols of the ๐‘จ๐’”๐’‰๐’•๐’‚ ๐‘ด๐’‚๐’๐’ˆ๐’‚๐’๐’‚ that symbolize the eight offerings that were made to the ๐‘ฉ๐’–๐’…๐’…๐’‰๐’‚ ๐‘บ๐’‰๐’‚๐’Œ๐’š๐’‚๐’Ž๐’–๐’๐’Š when he reached enlightenment, is the union of ๐’‘๐’“๐’‚๐’‹๐’ฬƒ๐’‚ฬ„ (๐’˜๐’Š๐’”๐’…๐’๐’Ž) and ๐’–๐’‘๐’‚ฬ„๐’”๐’‚๐’๐’‚ (๐’Ž๐’†๐’•๐’‰๐’๐’…) symbolizing the fusion of absolute truth.


On the other hand, it is also believed that the origin of this ancient symbol may have been the icon of two serpents or dragons, a symbol of duality in many ancient cultures. Thus, the symmetry of its design, the crisscrossing lines that close at right angles and, as its name indicates, give the appearance of having no beginning and no end, ๐’๐’๐’• ๐’๐’๐’๐’š ๐’”๐’š๐’Ž๐’ƒ๐’๐’๐’Š๐’›๐’† ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’…๐’–๐’‚๐’๐’Š๐’•๐’š ๐’ƒ๐’†๐’•๐’˜๐’†๐’†๐’ ๐’๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’‰๐’• ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’…๐’‚๐’“๐’Œ๐’๐’†๐’”๐’”, ๐’ˆ๐’๐’๐’… ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’†๐’—๐’Š๐’, ๐’Ž๐’‚๐’”๐’„๐’–๐’๐’Š๐’๐’† ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’‡๐’†๐’Ž๐’Š๐’๐’Š๐’๐’†, ๐’ƒ๐’–๐’• ๐’Š๐’• ๐’Š๐’” ๐’‚๐’๐’”๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’‘๐’†๐’“๐’‡๐’†๐’„๐’• ๐’“๐’†๐’‘๐’“๐’†๐’”๐’†๐’๐’•๐’‚๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ ๐’๐’‡ ๐’–๐’๐’Š๐’•๐’š ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’ƒ๐’‚๐’๐’‚๐’๐’„๐’† ๐’Š๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’–๐’๐’Š๐’—๐’†๐’“๐’”๐’†, being one of the most characteristic examples of ๐‘บ๐’‚๐’„๐’“๐’†๐’… ๐‘ฎ๐’†๐’๐’Ž๐’†๐’•๐’“๐’š.



Finally, the ๐’†๐’๐’…๐’๐’†๐’”๐’” ๐’Œ๐’๐’๐’• also represents ๐‘บ๐’‚๐’Ž๐’”๐’‚๐’“๐’‚, which is the endless cycle of birth, death and rebirth, the ๐’Œ๐’‚๐’“๐’Ž๐’Š๐’„ cycle, constant change as well as clearly illustrating the interconnectedness of all beings in space and time.

๐‘ฌ๐’๐’…๐’๐’†๐’”๐’” ๐’Œ๐’๐’๐’•๐’” can be found in many other ancient cultures such as ๐‘ช๐’†๐’๐’•๐’Š๐’„ and ๐‘ช๐’‰๐’Š๐’๐’†๐’”๐’†, although the forms of these knots vary somewhat from the ๐‘ฉ๐’–๐’…๐’…๐’‰๐’Š๐’”๐’• ๐’Š๐’๐’‡๐’Š๐’๐’Š๐’•๐’š ๐’Œ๐’๐’๐’•.

Really fascinating, isn't it? ๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’ has chosen very beautiful tattoos. Personally, it strikes me that one of the meanings of the ๐’†๐’๐’…๐’๐’†๐’”๐’” ๐’Œ๐’๐’๐’• tattoo coincides with the meaning of the two tattoos he already had because they also represent ๐’ƒ๐’‚๐’๐’‚๐’๐’„๐’†, so the search for ๐’ƒ๐’‚๐’๐’‚๐’๐’„๐’† and ๐’–๐’๐’Š๐’•๐’š are very important to ๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’.


๐Ÿ“๐ˆ๐Ÿ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐š๐ง๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง'๐ฌ ๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ญ๐จ๐จ๐ฌ, ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐œ๐š๐ง ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฆ ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž: https://bit.ly/3txAcQO


๐Ÿ“ธPhoto credit pic 1: Brian - Mads Perch / Screenshot from Placeboworld IG story / Blackstar album cover / Endless Knot image founded on Google. // Edit by Rita

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