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This morning I spent two hours in a meeting listening to my health care program talk about their great plans for getting people with disabilities vaccinated. Granted, they are now getting homebound people vaccinated, and they have prioritized twenty high-risk communities which should be getting vaccinated by, um, June.

There was no word on when any of the people with disabilities in the meeting would be able to get vaccinated. We kept hearing that they had a plan, and they were going to discuss it, but somehow they ran out of time.

None of us with disability diagnoses have any sort of priority, not even the woman who uses a respirator.

However...

I recently read that the Kindly Ones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erinyes
not only pursue naughty children who have murdered their parents, but also punish naughty high-ranking civil servants who have broken their sworn oaths.

Now I know what my next tattoo will be.

I'm just irked that I have to wait for this pandemic to be over to get it.

Are there any good temporary tattoos of the Kindly Ones?

Can you pay people to create them? Surely there are out-of-work graphic artists who would be willing to help out a poor blind woman?

Yesterday I got a new tattoo: it's a vine of ivy leaves that curl around my right wrist. I feel very lucky that the artist who did the tattoo was Victor, at Good Faith Tattoo. He took my design idea of an ivy vine wrapping around my list and literally made it blossom out into something magical. Today the swelling went down a bit, though the actual tattoo design is still raised enough that I can braille it.

You can see picks of my tattoo, along with pics of Victor's mermaid art and links to Good Faith Tattoo, at Alexx's journal
http://alexxkay.dreamwidth.org/

I'm supposed to bring a picture and, while I can get Alexx to help search, I thought it would be fun to ask for other people's suggestions.

Here is what I want:
It's going to be a bracelet tattoo of a vine of medium to slightly darker green ivy leaves curling around my wrist.

I have small wrists, so I think the width should be no more than 1/2 inch wide.

I want an art nouveau style that curls abit around the wristbones, but I would like a slightly naturalistic touch with some added shading in the darker green.

Added later: I would really like a design that looks like filigree, with curling stems and separate leaves.

I'm undecided about the variety of ivy: I'm leaning toward the heart-shaped leaves--which variety is that? though the more traditional five-lobed ivy leaf is also cool.

From the Art Beyond Sight mailing list:

1. Braille tattoos are a new innovation that allow the blind to enjoy body
modifications too.
Klara Jirkova, a student at the University of Arts in Berlin, came up
with an innovation to modify the body to allow the blind feel those
artistic statements through their sense of touch. Braille tattoos now
let the entire world experience the eclectic pieces of art you may choose to put in your skin.
The raised bumps that make up these braille tattoos consist of implants
under the skin, and could include individual beads or a small tablet of
embossed text.
The beads can be relatively small, but not as small as standard braille
text as the body's muscles would absorb them too deep to touch (

http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/braille-tattoo-blind

2. 'Touch Colour' is a revolutionary painting tool for the blind. It uses
special technology that associates different colours with different
temperatures in order to properly identify them.
The 'Touch Colour' is a tablet that a blind person uses as the canvas.
They simply scroll through the colour wheel (which is not only
temperature identifiable but also braille as well) to select their
colour of choice and then place the wheel onto the tablet and begin drawing.
The user can also keep track of their outlining, shading and any other
aspects of the drawing by simply feeling the constant warm of cooler
colours on the tablet. The 'Touch Colour' is a beautiful advancement as
far as technology for the blind is concerned. Kudos!
http://www.yun-li.com/index.php?/project/touch-color/
Touch Color is the combination of a Thermal digital tablet and a Rainbow
Color picking ring that allows a blind person to paint colorful pictures
with his fingers on the tablet. The 24 colors on the ring are
differentiated by Braille dots and varied temperature generated by the
embedded LED bulbs. Artistically inclined or not, this concept of "Blind
Color Painting" sure sounds like technology is heading in the right
direction.
http://www.yankodesign.com/2009/08/04/no-longer-color-blind/

TouchColor designer website with video, shows how it works
http://www.tuvie.com/touch-color-helps-blind-people-to-draw/

This tattoo artist airbrushes tattoos onto prosthetic limbs
http://gtopi.com/default.aspx
--that is so cool!

I heard about this a couple of weeks ago when some Midwestern state attempted to make the procedure illegal, although it's origins are as a medical procedure
The Wikipedia article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corneal_tattooing
also links to an online article from a body modification magazine.

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