Arm Dragon Tattoos

Sleeve Tattoo Designs - Dragon, Tribal, Celtic, and Japanese Tattoos on Your Arms
By George Christodoulou

Sleeve tattoos have become extremely popular in the past few years because they are an amazing way to tell a story or create a living work or art and expression. With different pictures working together, a person can evoke many feelings at once.

Dragon Tattoos

Dragons are a symbol of wild fire and excitement. A dragon interwoven into a sleeve tattoo can add red color and flare. Fire breathing from the dragon, circling the arm can really add an amazing effect to any tattoo.

Tribal Tattoos

These symbols with many meanings can be placed at the shoulder and chest area to create a design worthy of the style. You can create a picture just with this type of tattoo in plain black ink. If you use color on your arm and keep the tribal tattoo black you can create amazing contrast.

Celtic Tattoos

Adding Celtic Symbols to a sleeve tattoo adds a splash of culture to any piece of work. Their are a variety of different symbols you can use to convey the meaning you want.

Japanese Tattoos

Japanese symbols are a beautiful way to say many things at once. A single symbol can convey the meaning of peace on earth or love for all. This is a good way to keep things simple for the eye but leave the mind thinking about what it saw.

Creating this type of work of art takes time and effort. Many people build a sleeve tattoo over many years adding extra designs and symbols as they think of them.

For this reason, you need to make sure everything is exactly as you picture it in your mind. A single design done in a way you do not like can ruin the entire thing and leave you in regret.

I recommend to everyone that they get a membership to a tattoo gallery until they find the deisngn they love. These places have thousands of professionally designed tattoos. The directory allows you to zoom in and examine every tattoo in the gallery with amazing.

Eliza's WTF moment on Jimmy Fallon

While Michelle and I were talking this morning, I remembered that Eliza was on Late Night last night. I figured we'd check it out. Thus far her interview crawl hasn't been going very well, with Letterman not talking about Dollhouse at all and Good Day New York not even knowing the show had premiered. I mean it couldn't be any worse than that, could it? Well... I'll let you watch this clip and judge it for yourself:



Do you think she realized the implication of what she said? She did basically say that Buffy fans are crazy stalkers who are too into her, right? That's a pretty hurtful thing to say especially when so many of those fans are trying to help out a show whose ratings are in the gutter.

Here's the full interview including a fight sequence between Eliza and Jimmy.



UPDATE: I want to make sure people see a good interview with Eliza as done through the NY Post. She does a great job here and the interviewer is knowledgeable which is helpful. If you want to spread around a good video for people to watch, this is it. Check it out:

Kaylee Parasols for Charity!

A little while back, I volunteered to create some Firefly-esque parasols like the one Kaylee has in the first episode for the Austin Browncoats. I think they came out rather shiny, if I do say so myself...but I really can't take all the credit. After the initial planning and sketching them, I totally lamed out. Luckily my awesomely crafty mom noticed my plight and came over and saved the day. She was the one who painted them so beautifully. Now I want one for myself!

Click here if you're interested in volunteering for the Austin Browncoats.

Buffyfest in Los "Angelus" with a guest appearance by Brian Lynch

LA from the Griffith Observatory, where they filmed the Angel episode "Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been?"

As you may or may not know, I've been in LA for the past week visiting Michelle. Yesterday, Bitsy flew in to meet us and Buffyfest was together again..."Gee, it's good to be together again!"(Really couldn't help that "Muppets Take Manhattan" moment right there.) After catching up, we decided in honor of Angel's 10th anniversary to have a full on Angel themed day. We started by checking out Angel's Mansion on Crawford Street, aka the Ennis House. Then we moved on to Angelus Ave. (Angel only lives over there when he's gone evil.) Next, we went to the Hyperion Hotel for a little visit in the courtyard. I'd been there before but never inside. It's so beautiful and felt rich with Whedonverse history on this momentous day. Finally, we caught up with Angel writer extraordinaire Brian Lynch for dinner in Santa Monica. We talked about LA, favorite Angel episodes (his is Waiting in the Wings,) food allergies, and a lot more. Overall it was a fabulous day and a great way to pay homage to one of our favorite shows. Check out the photos below.

ps, we did think about stalking David Boreanaz ONLY because we felt obligated to do so, but between the police and his swine flu, we decided against it.

fanvid sunday: bjork(!) edition

Let me tell you something, friends o' the fest, I am a big fan of another woman who kicks a lot of ass and whose name starts with the letter "B". That's right. It's Bjork! So imagine my joy and rapture when I discovered this fantastic fanvid which utilizes the rich and gorgeous song, "Bachelorette". Peep it out!


Find more videos like this on BAM Vid Vault


Interesting story: when I was still in college (back in the dark ages) a few friends of mine ran into Bjork at a cafe in upstate New York very randomly. I was so surprised to see her there that my mouth lay agape long enough for her to notice. She shot me what to this day is the dirtiest look I have ever received. It was such a dirty look that, ever since then, my friends and I still refer to that as the day Bjork punched me in the face... with her mind.

Next week I will be in sunny Los Angeles to kick it with Buffyfest, west coast style! What's the week looking like for you? Happy Sunday!

Watcher's Council - Dollhouse 2x02 "Instinct"

Before we even get to talking about what we thought about this most recent episode of Dollhouse, I think we need to address the ratings situation. 2.1 million viewers, 0.8 preliminary adults 18-49 rating? They even lost a significant amount of viewers in the second half. Ouch! Derivative basic cable shows get better ratings than that, let alone a major network like Fox who knows how to dominate with shows like "House" and "American Idol". Is there any way that this show isn't toast? Even Terminator never did this badly and look what happened there.

As was pointed out elsewhere, Dollhouse is not being promoted much at all and, when it is, um... well, I think this speaks for itself. Fox, man, at least try to let your show succeed, dude. What was the point in even renewing it if you were going to treat it like it's dead on the vine?

Anyway, as Tara is on the coast that is west, I'm going to post this without our reviews for now but, here, have a nifty poll and tell us what you thought while you wait for us to weigh in.

UPDATE: Tara is respecting Michelle's Dollhouse fasting by not watching the episode while she's out there. Here's what I thought though!

Bitsy's take: You can really tell Eliza isn't a mom. It's not that she doesn't look like a woman who just had a baby (and, obviously, she doesn't since she hasn't) it's that she doesn't ooze that warm attachment to her baby that moms do in the earlier scenes before all the crazy happens.

The dialogue between Dichen and Eliza is really wooden. I wasn't sure who to blame for that but, as the episode went on and even Alexis Denisof's acting wasn't quite up to par in his first scene, I started to get the sneaking suspicion that it might be the writers or the director's fault.

The more I watch the more apparent it is that it's the writing that's the biggest issue here. It feels really uneven. The really emotional stuff is handled extraordinarily well but the quieter, more exposition driven scenes feel stiff and unnatural. It's almost schizophrenic but I think the real problem is that the writers couldn't handled making things feel authentically normal without making me bored in the process.

When the acting is on, though, it's really on. Eliza does a really magnificent job of expressing genuine terror. I can't believe I'm going to say this but, honestly, I think she is the best thing about this episode. Once Echo is wiped and all she has left is that maternal need, suddenly Eliza is giving the most subtle and nuanced performance of her life, capturing perfectly a character who is so foreign to our world and making her visceral and real. Color me impressed.

It's funny, when I saw the previews I thought that the concept was ridiculous and that the plot would be laughably bad. It's actually the opposite and, as the episode has time to breath and we enter the second half, it's almost like watching a completely different episode from the first half. I think the cast and crew are finally learning how to take what Fox wants them to do and make it work for them instead of trying to fight the current like they seemed to be doing last season.

All in all, I'd give it an even B. I'm starting to like you, show, which means you'll probably get canceled. Sigh...

Dark Horse 's Scott Allie on His Upcoming Graphic Novel Exurbia

Super Scott Allie is mostly known around these parts for his Buffy Season 8 editorial skills, so we at Buffyfest thought we'd introduce you to Scott Allie, the writer. With the upcoming release of his graphic novel Exurbia, Mr. Allie spoke with us about the story that's been close to his heart for years. You can listen to the full interview in the podcast link.



Exurbia is a post-apocalyptic story about Gage, a boy who struggles with his own post-activism apathy. After years of fighting the good fight, Gage is left broken and cynical by the dilapidated streets of his home town, his past run-in with his hero and the messianic messages from the town's new savior, The Rat.

While speaking to Super Scott Allie, the first thing we wanted to do was get a little more background on how Exurbia came into being. Scott explained that originally, after saving up enough money so he could leave his job working as a soft publisher, he decided to self publish a series of short stories.

"I did an anthology of short horror stories but the one oddball in the group, the one thing that wasn't a horror comic was this thing that evolved into Exurbia. It was these characters living in this really screwed up city, very strange city drawn in a very cartoony style, but very weirdly cartoony it wasn't like, it didn't look like any conventional cartoon style. And Kevin McGovern, and I just kept developing more characters and we just liked the setting, like the vibe we were going for with it and it slowly evolved from a bunch of random short stories into a graphic novel where we saw who the main character was and who his supporting cast was and how they were going to come into conflict with one another."

One of our absolute favorite parts of Exurbia was the story of a character referred to as "The Rat". Scott sums up the character this way:

"We evolved this character called the Rat who was this talking rat who smokes cigars, drinks way too much, and has somehow become the default messiah of this screwed up town."

We talked about how society always seems to need someone like the Rat, someone who they can make into more than what they are, someone to put all your hopes and beliefs into. One of the most interesting things we touched upon in that regard was how Joss fits into that paradigm. Here's what Scott had to say:

"People do that alot. I do that a lot. It's pretty unhealthy. People do it with tv shows. There's lots of people who do it with Joss. You know 'Joss Whedon is my Master Now' (referring to the t-shirts people wear). Or I do the book with Gerard Way and I go to events with him and there's all these teenage girls running around with t-shirts saying "Gerard Way saved my life" like that's the catch phrase among Gerard fans and it's like, woh, that's a lot to carry around for poor Gerard. People I never met, I saved your lives? How dd I do that?"

The image above originally ended up on the cutting room floor. Scott Allie spoke about how the political relevance of the dancing condom had fading once the Bush Administration left office. Since the interview, Scott has informed us that it actually found its way back into the book.

Exurbia asks a lot of important questions that are extremely relevant today. This is a graphic novel that will have you thinking of your own role in society (or should) and the nature of savior/hero in a crumbling world.

Exurbia is set to be released on October 7th. Check out some preview pages here.