Archive Category: Tattoo, Etc.

Nerd Tattoo

Yet another nerd tattoo. This one in the form of HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

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Tay Zonday Tattoo

(YouTube link)
I wouldn’t go so far as to say this is a bad tattoo, because the artist did a good job with the subject. But maybe we can call it a bad idea tattoo. -via Metafilter

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Custom Temporary Tattoos

Design your own temporary tattoos and make them with your inkjet printer! Use your computer to make the design and print on specialty tattoo paper. They’ll last up to a week, or you can scrub them off when you want. Great for children’s parties or a short-term relationship. Link

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Father and Son Forehead Tattoo Enthusiasts

Meet Floyd and Justin Bebee, a father and son team and obviously forehead tattoo enthusiasts. The Smoking Gun has the story:

In a TSG interview, Floyd Bebee, a father of eight, said that he has a tattoo on the back of his head reading "Got-R-Did." The ink on his forehead cost $125 and took about 45 minutes to complete, Bebee said, adding that he was the family trendsetter when it it came to such head art. Bebee, who does odd jobs like home remodeling and demolition, said that his wife had a succinct response to his forehead ink: "You crazy," she said. Bebee noted that since his son’s eyes are open in his mug shot, the photo does not reveal a hidden surprise: Justin has the words "Fuck" and "You" tattooed on his eyelids.

Link (don’t miss TSG’s pictures of other forehead tattoo enthusiasts) - via Boing Boing

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Quote: Rita Rudner on Men and Marriage

"Men who have pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they’ve experienced pain and bought jewellery."

- Rita Rudner, comedian

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Tongue Piercing, Sponsored by Coke Zero

Old and Busted: paying for piercing as an outlet of expression of individuality, art, and protest against the man!

The New Hotness: getting free piercing in exchange of turning one’s tongue into a billboard for big corporations. ¡Viva La Multinacional Corporación!

Coke Zero’s throwing weight behind tongue-piercing parlors in Brazil. Seriously.

Shops in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre and Salvador are giving free piercings to people that agree to take a picture with a fresh new Coke Zero stud. Coke’s calling the concept advertasting.

Link | Gallery (Photo: Lingua Patrocinada [Picasa]) - Thanks MrManson!

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Tattoo Timeline

Source: TattooSymbol and Wikipedia 3300 BCE: Ötzi the Iceman dies in the Austrian Alps, where his frozen body is discovered by hikers in 1991 CE, making him the world’s oldest mummy. His 57 tattoos - straight lines and small crosses, mostly - are believed to be therapeutic, possibly used to treat osteoarthritis. 2800 BCE: The ancient Egyptians: Is there anything they can’t do? In addition to inventing writing, surgery, and beekeeping, they also popularize tattooing as an art form, which spreads from Greece to China. (Oh, yeah - they invented the flushable toilet, too.) 921 CE: Islamic scholar Ibn Fadlan meets Viking on a journey from Baghdad to Scandinavia and describes them as vulgar, dirty, and covered from neck to toe with tattoos. 1600: Unlawful intercourse by Indian priests is punished by tattooing. Doesn’t sound so bad? Try having a big vagina branded on your forehead for life. 1700: Obeying the letter of the law - if not the spirit - middle-class Japanese adorn themselves in full-body tattoos when a law is passed that only royals can wear ornate clothing. Omai, painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1776). Notice the tattooed arm and hand. 1790: Captain Cook returns from a voyage to the South Pacific with a unique souvenir: a tattooed Polynesian named Omai. He’s an overnight sensation in fad-crazy London and starts a tattooing trend among upper-class poseurs. Between passionate declarations that he is "not an animal" Omai also manages to introduce the word tattoo into our Western lexicon, from the Tahitian tatau, "to mark." 1802: By now, tattooing has caught on with sailors throughout the Royal Navy, and there are tattoo artists in almost every British port. Especially popular are Crucifixion scenes, tattooed on the upper back to discourage flogging by pious superiors. 1891: American Samuel O’Reilly "borrows" Edison’s electric pen design to patent a nearly identical machine that tattoos. Its basic design - moving coils, a tube, and a needle bar - is still used to today, so remember kids: That’s 19th-century technology they’re repeatedly stabbing you with. 1919: The troublemaker protagonist of Franz Kafka’s short story "In the Penal Colony" finally gets the law drilled into him - liiterally - by its fatal, 12-hour inscription into his skin. Robert Mitchum sporting "love/hate" knuckle tattoos in The Night of the Hunter. 1955: Robert Mitchum makes the tattoo cool again in the movie Night of the Hunter, playing a sociopathic traveling preacher with "love" and "hate" inked on his knuckles. Popular modern variants include "rock/roll" and "love/math." 1961: Hepatitis B makes the tattoo not cool again, an outbreak of which is linked to tattoo parlors in New York City. Parlors are outlawed in the Big Apple until 1997. 2005: Popular culture helps tattoos become more popular in the West than at any time in recorded history, with more than 39 million North Americans sporting one. It all comes back to Austrian Ötzi and his 57 tattoos. It might’ve taken almost 6,000 years but tattooing and the West are in love again.

The article above, from mental_floss’ book Scatterbrained. is published in Neatorama with permission. Be sure to visit mental_floss‘ extremely entertaining website and blog!

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Science Tattoo Blog

Since Carl Zimmer of The Loom began collecting science tattoos, we’ve featured several on Neatorama (here, here, and here). He’s collected so many that he moved them out of Flickr and launched a new site called Carl Zimmer’s Science Tattoo Emporium. If you have a science tat, you’re invited to submit a picture and the story behind it. Link -Thanks, Carl!

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Tentacle Body Mod

Whoa! Those are tentacle suction-cup implant done by Dark Freak at Luck All in São Paulo, Brasil. Found at the always mindboggling ModBlog - via Albotas, thanks robby!

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Hello Kitty Darth Vader Tattoo

Hello Kitty Darth Vader leads the way in strange combined memes. Now Darth Kitty has been enshrined forever in someone’s skin! Link -via Everlasting Blort

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Hello Kitty Jesus Tattoo

Apparently, this is what you get when pop culture and religion clashed:

I know you read the title of this post and were shaking your head in disbelief even before you looked at what I have written. You thought that I was exaggerating to draw you into the blog because there is no way in Hell (Hello Kitty or otherwise) that anyone would ever get a Hello Kitty Jesus tattoo. Hello Kitty fanatics are wacko, but there is a line even they will not cross, right? See, I have had that delusion too, but it always proves to be wrong because fanatics of the evil feline don’t know what a line looks like that shouldn’t be crossed. Thus, the Hello Kitty Jesus tattoo

Link - Thanks financial hack!

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Grossest Ear Plugs Ever: Man Cut Own Nipples, Cast ‘Em in Resin, Wears ‘Em on Ears!

Before I write this post, let me check the date. Yep, too early for April Fool’s, so it can only mean that - hands down - it’s the grossest plugs ever:

John Blake cut off his nipples, cast them in resin and wears them as plugs in his ears.

ModBlog (which is not for the faint-hearted) has more: Link - Thanks Jase!

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Bibliophile Tattoo

And who says that a book lover can’t be badass? Here’s a bibliophile dictionary definition tattoo, from Flickr user bibliogrrl: Link

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A Most Useful Tattoo

Carl Zimmer’s collection of science tattoo photos (reported previously on Neatorama) is growing. There are now 119 submitted tattoos! This eight inch forearm ruler from Mikey is so handy, he uses it every day. Link

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Centipede Arcade Game Tattoo

Photo: thee artful dodger [Flickr]

Ben McCorkle of A Bubbling Cauldron of Rank Miscellany blog sent us this photo of his tattoo, inspired by the 80s Centipede arcade game by Atari! It was inked by artist f14hellkat. Thanks Ben!

Trivia: did you know that it was the first arcade game created by a woman? Her name is Dona Bailey (she programmed the game along with Ed Logg, who co-developed Asteroids.)

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Connect-the-Dots Tattoo

Colleen Venable is obsessed with giraffes (it all started when she lost a giraffe toy as a child, which sets off a 3 year hunt for that particular stuffed animal. Long story short 1,712 giraffes later, she found it!).

As part of her art project The Stalking and Murdering of a Childhood Giraffe Project, Colleen decided to get an "extremely visible invisible tattoo": a connect-the-dot tattoo of the giraffe toy. (She traced the giraffe with a pen for us all to see)

Links: Colleen’s Flickr Photoset | LiveJournal account of the whole shebang

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Pointy Ears

New York plastic surgoen Dr. Lajos Nagy created a surgical procedure to make human ears pointed, like a mythological creature. From his website:

A newfangled extravagance is spreading amongst the music-lover youngsters of New York, which, after invading America, is sure to conquer the whole world. Ears becoming pointed as a result of plastic surgery not only enhance the attractiveness of the face, but also improve the experience of listening to music.

Dr. Nagy is planning to introduce the method in Hungary. Link -via the Presurfer

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Tattoos for the Blind

The Braille Tattoo, designed by Klara Jirkova (a student at the University of the Arts Berlin), is a series of implantable surgical steel, titanium, or medical plastic that’s placed under the skin. The tattoo can then be read via touch.

Via WIRED

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DNA Tattoo

Since Carl Zimmer at The Loom asked about people with science tattoos (reported previously on Neatorama), he has received over 70 submissions for his Flickr set. Especially worth noting is this tattoo of an intricately-detailed strand of DNA on Matthew MacDougall, a 4th year med student. Link

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The Tattooed Doctor

JTPednaud’s recent post on Neatorama about "Zombie," a young Montreal gentleman with radical full-face skull tattoo, and the comments in that post reminds me of INKED Inc., a project by (tattooed) photographer and corporate lawyer Dave Kimelberg.

Dave wanted to show how "the once-derided tattoo is quickly gaining popularity within corporate and professional America, a stronghold of conventionality."

The photo above is of Dr. Dave, a medical doctor with private general medicine practice in New York City:

Many of Dr. Dave’s tattoos have a medical theme. A caduceus, the symbol of medicine, sits on his right arm - although a woman replaces the traditional staff. The letters "MD" are tattoed on his back, while a skull with a red medical cross (the symbol of Dr. Dave’s motorcycle club of health professionals) decorates his left shoulder.

This doctor does have full sleeves.

Porfolio [Flash] | Link to INKED Inc.’s website

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Skull Facial Tattoo Update

Above is an updated picture of ‘Zombie’, the young Montreal gentleman previously featured here on Neatorama for his radical facial skull tattoo. The tattoo has developed to encompass his entire cranium and has crept down his neck. The effect is as remarkable as it is creepy.

Via ModBlog

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TV Tattoos

We had a lot of posts on the subject of tattoos, like the Anatomy Tattoos, the Science Tattoos, the Nerd Tattoos, and even the Star Wars Tattoos.

Now, Yuppie Punk Blog has an article featuring the inked fans of TV sitcoms, cartoons, and sci-fi series showing off their TV-inspired tats!: Link - via Miss Cellania

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Artist Implants Ear on Arm

A major theme of Australian performance artist Stelarc is the concept that the human body is obsolete. As such, his past artwork included hanging himself on a flesh hook suspension, attaching electrodes that control his body and then connecting the control to the Internet so those who logged on can move his muscles at will, and saving his liposuctioned fat for an exhibition.

Now, he’s on to modifying the human body, starting with getting a lab-grown ear implanted on his forearm!

Link : Gallery Non-Linkjacked Flickr Photoset | Stelarc’s website [may have NSFW images] | Wikipedia Entry - Thanks Nikola!

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Woman With Moustache…

..tattooed on the inside of her index finger.

Link - via swissmiss

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Top 10 physically modified people.

Deputydog has a list of extreme cases of body modification, including tatoos, piercings, implants, and other methods. The people on this list have not been modified to correct a birth defect or injury, but as elective decoration. Warning: This post is may be disturbing, and not for the squeamish. Link

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Anatomy Tattoos.

There is no end to the ideas people have for decorating their bodies. Neatorama featured science tattoos recently; now here is a gallery of anatomical tattoos! Link -via Respectful Insolence

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Tattoo Typo Led to Lawsuit

Here’s a funny story about tattoos and typos:

How in the world could a man end up with a typographical error tattooed on his chest?

That was the question raised last week by a news story about a lawsuit filed in Cook County Circuit Court by Michael Duplessis, a Northwest Side auto mechanic who said that in April 2005, tattoo artist Sam Hacker inked “Chi-tonw” on his chest where he had asked for “Chi-town.”

The suit accuses Hacker and Jade Dragon Tattoo & Body Piercing, where Hacker worked at the time, of negligence.

But four of Hacker’s professional colleagues rose to his defense Wednesday afternoon in a most fitting and unusual way: They got “Chi-tonw” tattoos of their own.

Their purpose was to show that the error-control safeguards at tattoo parlors render Duplessis’ accusation of negligence a “farce,” according to 31-year-old “Dras” (pictured; one name only), who went first.

Link - via reddit

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Science Tattoos.

Carl Zimmer at The Loom saw a scientist friend with a DNA tattoo (with a great hiddening meaning) and wondered how common scientific tattoos are. The response was surprising -readers sent him quite a few photographs, which he posted. This one is the DNA Monster. Link -via Metafilter

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Eyeball Tattoo.

Here’s something that even most tattoo enthusiast consider a little extreme: eyeball tattooing.

Apparently, you can tattoo an eyeball (it has been done on blind eyes to "hide" corneal defects). In this case, Pauly Unstoppable, Josh, and Shannon Larratt tattooed their pefectly healthy eyes, just to see if it could be done.

Link: Three Blind Mice at BME, Update on Josh’s eye, Update 2, Shannon’s Blog entry - Thanks esa!

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Nerd Tattoos.

Yellowforks has a gallery of nerd tattoos. After all, who wouldn’t want to show their lifetime loyalty to a computer system, gadget, or game character? Link -via John’s Blog

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