The Loss of Meaning: Tattoos Today

                         Culture and religion used to be recorded through markings on the skin. Markings known as tattoos. Tattoos could represent anything from a connection to a deity, or something such as a right of passage in some cultures. That was up until tattoos become a common part of body art in society today.
                         Tattoos used to have such meaning, and now they are something that people go out and get on a drunk Friday night as a next morning regret. People do not have to have a meaning to get inked anymore. Meaning has nearly stampeded out the door when it comes to tattoos. Though people still get tattoos with deep meaning, or the loss of loved ones; many just do it because they can. This is a mistake people make because they do not thing, and just do. This results in a permanent mistake.
                          The art of tattoos used to have so much more meaning than they currently do. People now get tattoos to be like their favorite rock and roll band members or to have a fashionable connection to others around them. The deep meanings that were once chiseled in to a persons skin are now just simple ways of self expression. Culture and religious influence hardly still have meaning tattoos anymore. 

Ringers: The Age of Tolkien

     
                         For every book series, movie series, comic book series, and many other forms of entertainment, there are fans that follow them. You have your Star Wars fans, your Marvel Universe fans, and more; But in this cluster of fan based groups, you have what are called "Ringers." This would become the true name, for all of the fans who love and admire the great and historical works of J.R.R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien had created an entire world to his liking. He created languages, races, social classes, conflict, love, and so much more and tasked himself with this as his life's greatest works. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings novels were tremendously popular when first released, not as three books as they are today, but as six separate parts to a whole. The popularity for these great works of siege grew at a rapid pace. The novels became very influential to readers as Tolkien transformed his ideas into great works of mastery.


                                                               To Be Continued...............

 

 

The Birth of the Avengers Initiative On the Big Screen

                      Over the past few  years the industry of motion picture and the world of comic books has come into a clash with one another with the making of the Avenger Initiative. The beloved comic series has been largely expanded by the making of the cinematic versions of each book. Thor, Iron Man, the Hulk, and Captain America, are comic book icons that readers fell in love with the moment they were written into the heroes they are today.

                      Each of these characters was given a movie to help the viewers who have had no past knowledge of the comic book heroes better understand just who the characters really are. Taking each of these characters and putting them all in one comic as a super alliance was one thing, but with director Joss Whedon's higher aspirations for the world of Marvel's  comics, this team would be transported out of the comics into the world of motion picture. The marvel of the Marvel comics coming to the big screen acted as a re-awakening of the world of comics. The Avengers series has already produced eight movies so far and the directors and producers claim they haven't even began to make a dent in the works yet to be produced from the Avengers series.

                       With Avengers two in the making, fans can hardly wait for their new love for these modernized comic book heroes to return to the big screen in the near future. Joss Whedon's work on the Avenges movies has re-kindled the fire that once was, the comic book.