We decided against the idea of subliminal messaging, as when we did a survey for our year group to find out about their opinions on subliminal messaging, many people did not understand what it was, or couldn't relate it to things in every day life. We then did some more brainstorming, and decided on a completely different idea - tattooing. We really liked the concept of doing a documentary on tattooing and tattoo artists, as we realised that it would be a topic that would be easy to get footage on as asking for filming permission would not be difficult, and we could show different extremes of tattooing (for example, people who are obsessed with tattoos and body modification, and those who simply want a memorial tattoo that means something special to that person.)
I have been looking into one extreme version of tattooism in particular. The 'Cat Man'. Dennis Avner claims that he follows the 'Huron' Traditions, one of which is turning yourself into a cat aesthetically. Therefore, Avner has had facial modifications and tattoos, along with having silicone implants in his forehead and cheeks, tattoos covering his face and body, and whiskers all on his face. This is a prime example of people who take tattooism too far, and do not use it for memorial or personal reasons.
The predominant reason behind many tattoos due to memorial reasons, where people get their body inked in memory of a person, pet or other. Other reasons behind tattoos can be simply because of an addiction to the pain, where people get tattooed simply because they find the pain enjoyable, or purely for aesthetic reasons.
Here is a link to a documentary, LA Ink, which focuses around tattooing and the lives of the tattooists in a parlour in LA:
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