Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are arrives in theatres tomorrow!

This is Peder’s Where the Wild Things Are tattoo.

Photo by Niklas; republished under a Creative Commons license.

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Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are arrives in theatres in 2 days!

This Where the Wild Things Are tattoo is on a stranger!  E-mail me if this is yours.

Photo by love not fear; republished under a Creative Commons license.

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Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are arrives in theatres in 3 days!

This is Miss Grace’s tattoo of one of the Wild Rumpus scenes from Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak:

I’ve wanted this tattoo for almost a decade.  My favorite book as a child, my son’s favorite book now.  I am a children’s services librarian by training (although sadly not by trade – I’m currently in a bookstore), and I wrote extensively on the work of Maurice Sendak, and specifically Where the Wild Things Are, in conjunction with earning my master’s degree.  I’m going to have have it colored true to the original illustration.  Tattooist is George Campise.

(71 votes, average: 4.51 out of 5)

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Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are arrives in theatres in 4 days!

This is Alex’s Where the Wild Things Are tattoo.

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Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are arrives in theatres in 5 days!

Deana’s Where the Wild Things Are tattoo comes with a complicated story:

I got this when my son was 9 months old.  His name is Max, and he was born with a very rare metabolic disease which caused a severe form of epilepsy.  At 4 months old, we had surgery to remove the part of his brain that was causing 250 seizures a day.  The whole time he lay in the pediatric ICU at the Children’s Hospital, we would tell him to keep fighting…to ROAR!!!  He pulled through, and we made it out of there with our son.

I always loved the name Max, and was certain I would name my son that.  I could have never imagined how he would turn out to be such a fighter.  Or all the Wild Things he would have to face in his short life.

I chose this particular scene in the book because, this is the point where Max met the Wild Things, and tamed them with his magic trick.  And they called him the most wild thing of all.

“…And when he came to the place where the wild things are they roared their terrible roars…and gnashed their terrible teeth…and rolled their terrible eyes…and showed their terrible claws…till Max said “BE STILL!” and tamed them with the magic trick of staring into all their yellow eyes without blinking once…and they were frightened and called him the most wild thing of all…and made him the king of all wild things.” “And now,” cried Max, “let the wild rumpus start!”…”

That’s how I see my Max.  As the most wild thing of all.  The one who told all the other wild things to BE STILL!  And the rest of his life has been, and forever will be the wild rumpus.

(89 votes, average: 4.55 out of 5)

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It’s time for another fantastic upcoming-movie-release theme week!  Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are comes out on October 16th.

This is Elana Max’s Max tattoo from Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are:

This is Max shipping off to the land of the wild things. Plus a Japanese wave, just for fun.
Where the Wild Things Are was my very favorite book.  And still is, really. Max and I share a name, and a very special bond.
I hope Spike Jonze doesn’t mess that up.

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Isadora explains her tattoo:

my tattoo has multiple meanings.. ‘Until I Find You‘ is the title of a book by John Irving, a book that made me understand a lot of things about myself, and it basically is a physical manifestation/visual representation of my broken heart (how sad!), I am not one to talk about things so I think my tattoo says all that i don’t say. ‘Clair de Lune’ is there because it is to me the most beautiful piece of music in the world (Debussy), and the dove is the holy spirit, taken from the main stained glass window in St. Peters (rome) and designed by Bernini. All three of my tattoos make me remember that there is and will be beauty in life.

(32 votes, average: 3.28 out of 5)

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This tattoo is on Samm from Chicago:

Vonnegut is easily my favorite author.  I chose this tattoo for the same reason everyone else has; I’m a worrier and it reminds me that not everything is in my control.

This was posted as a part of “So it Goes” Saturdays. The phrase “so it goes” appears in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five 116 times. Can you help me collect 116 “so it goes” tattoos? 15 down, 101 to go.

(37 votes, average: 3.81 out of 5)

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This is Peregrine’s tattoo of the White Tree of Gondor from The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien.  It was done at About Time Tattoo in Nashua, NH.

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The meaning of life.

This is Penny’s tattoo from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

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