One direction tattoo competition

In what may be one of the outrageous publicity stints gone astray without success, and also one of the most ironical of all times, One Direction has cancelled their former announcement that fans who can show off their One Direction tattoos on their Twitter profiles will get free tickets to their soon to be released 3D film. However, fans who have begun already to race to the tattoo parlors, please refrain from doing so, for everything that you last heard was a hoax, and the competition has been pulled off due to certain miscellaneous reasons, that have forced the boy band to cancel, what would have been a highly popular publicity strategy.

For those who have no idea, what One Direction is, it is an English-Irish boy band that specializes in the genre of pop music. The band members include Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, and Louis Tomlinson. The band first rose to the limelight, when they became the second runner ups in te popular British singing competition, The X Factor in 2010. After delivering several chartbusters and other Top10 Hits, they are today one of the fast growing in popularity boy bands all around the world.

The band, in a recent attempt at popularizing their upcoming film, which is to be shot in 3D, posted a tweet on the social networking site, to all fans to post photos of their One Direction tattoos, the best getting a chance to win free tickets to their film, when it does release. However, in a publicity stunt gone awry, they had to pull off the post and cancel the competition all at once, for the simple reason that the general age pattern of the majority of the band’s fans and followers, do not even qualify for the minimum age that is necessitated in order to get a tattoo. Thus, much to the band’s disappointment, due to sheer pressure of the law extending their hand, they had to cancel the competition.

Had it been pulled off with a fair amount of success, it would have been one of the most ingenious stunts that have ever been pulled for the simple goal of attaining popularity. A spokesperson of the band stated that the post had been posted in error, and thus has been now removed and that everything stated in the post was false and a complete hoax. However, in recent times as has been found, many of the fans still retain their already done tattoos, which is a beacon of light as to what people can do in an attempt to show off their loyalty.

Tattoo Festivals – A Macro Culture

Macro Culture:

When a large number of people who may be a part of different backgrounds, fields or vocations come together for a common cause or idea, it is called a macro culture.  This can be better understood by knowing what are micro culture and macro culture and their differences.

A micro culture is when there is a sub culture of people belonging to a specific group, organization, profession or a community. When many people from different micro cultures or sub cultures come together in support of a different culture that brings these micro cultures together, this is called a macro culture.

Tattoo Festivals

Tattoo festivals or tattoo conventions are exhibitions or conventions for people who are interested in the art of tattooing to come together. These tattoo festivals started way back in the seventies.  Today there are Tattoo Festivals that take place all over the world. These festivals vary from being a day long festival to a few days depending on how big the festivals are. There is generally a sponsorship by local or international businesses for these events.

Tattoo festivals get people together from all walks of life. There are stalls of individual or groups of tattoo artists showcasing their talents. Generally there are different types of tattoo contests for the artists to participate in it. Nowadays these festivals include music, entertainment, tattoo artists, tattoo enthusiasts etc. In the field of tattooing there are different types of tattoos, out of these different examples of body art are showcased in these festivals.

Tattoo Festivals- a Macro Culture

Many people visit these festivals from different diverse backgrounds. Tattooing is not just some rebel culture or small subculture anymore but many people from different fields visit tattoo festivals or participate in it. These include tattoo artists, painters, performers, pinup models and just enthusiasts who like tattooing from all walks of life participate in tattoo festivals. It is not just one small section of society anymore. These tattoo festivals are gaining more and more popularity as people from various backgrounds and from micro cultures participate in it.

As we see that there are people participating in tattoo festivals from different micro cultures in society, the tattoo festivals are not just small micro cultures existing among a stereotypical set of individuals. It is a macro culture with people from various micro cultures coming together for a single culture of tattoo festivals which are now a macro culture phenomenon.