“Skin” is a story by Shelley Jackson you will only get to read for now by watching these videos or finding the 2,095 strangers who agreed to have themselves tattooed with one word in a black classic book font. This sounds more interesting as a movie concept.
Check out the videos after the jump where people let you know that “words are on skin not dead paper” and find out more about the project here you words. No seriously, according to the site:
From this time on, participants will be known as “words”. They are not understood as carriers or agents of the texts they bear, but as its embodiments. As a result, injuries to the printed texts, such as dermabrasion, laser surgery, tattoo cover work or the loss of body parts, will not be considered to alter the work. Only the death of words effaces them from the text. As words die the story will change; when the last word dies the story will also have died. The author will make every effort to attend the funerals of her words.
It’s a living novel.
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this is really cool.
How fucking stupid is that shit….got a feeeling these morons did it for free as well, just to be part of something…asshold
OMG… I LOVE THIS!