A Walking Operation (The Game): Man Got Tattoos of Medical Equipments That Saved His Life

Posted by Queuebot in Tattoo, Etc. on August 29, 2009 at 9:35 pm

As a child, Matt spent a lot of time in hospitals – so as an adult, he decided to do an homage of sorts: he got tattoos of the various medical equipments that saved his life!

Helen J. Grose of Viceland blog has the interview:

Vice: What’s with the medical equipment obsession?
Matt: I’ve always liked medical instruments, probably from spending a lot of time as a child in hospitals. I’m not scared of hospitals or their instruments.

Vice: What did you get first?
Matt: I got my diabetic tattoo before I went on holidays to Mexico to traipse around on donkeys. It says “I am an insulin dependent diabetic. If I seem drunk give me sugar.”

Vice: How many instruments have you got?
Matt: I’ve got a tethoscope, reflex hammer, otoscope, sphygmomanometer, forceps, a bone saw, oxygen mask, latex gloves, surgical string, skin grafting razor, trephine skull drill, a medical warning label, and a syringe.

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Tattooed Librarians

Posted by Miss Cellania in Tattoo, Etc. on August 3, 2009 at 9:30 am

The Texas Library Association is selling a 2010 calendar called “The Tattooed Ladies of TLA.” Twenty-one librarians show off their tats over 18 months. The calendar is a fundraiser to assist libraries that are still recovering from damage caused by hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

“It was just a fun thing to do,” said Gretchen Hoffmann, 42, who turned up the heat as Miss August 2010 by posing on a row boat, a purple boa strategically draped to highlight the starfish tattoo on her upper back. “I like the idea that the calendars are stereotype-busters. You don’t usually see [librarians] as tattooed and sexy. We’re not the little old ladies who walk around with buns.”

Link to story. Link to website. -via Metafilter

 
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Cardiovascular Paper: Printed Anatomy by Laurent Champoussin

Posted by Alex in Arts & Crafts, Medicine, Pictures on July 1, 2009 at 4:38 am

No, not a tattoo though undoubtedly it would make an excellent anatomically-minded example that would rival this famous skull face tattoo we had before on Neatorama. The gruesome painting is actually printed paper by Paris-based photographer Laurent Champoussin.

Vanessa Ruiz of Street Anatomy asked Laurent what inspired his art series titled Cardiovascular Paper:

I’ve always been interested by the écorché model. I was inspired by the classical representations of Andréas Vesalius, Charles Estienne or Adrian Van Den Spieghel. My idea was to play with the partial, the uncovered (open/discover) of an essential part of ourselves. I also wanted to work on the propagation, the invasion. My will was to design the model, to file down it like a texture and I hope, somewhere like a poetry.

More at Street Anatomy Blog: Link | Laurent’s website and blog – via Cakehead Loves Evil

 
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Yann Travaille's Crayon Scribble Tattoos

Posted by Queuebot in Everything Else, Pictures, Tattoo, Etc. on June 27, 2009 at 3:36 am

Tattoo artist Yann Travaille has made a name for himself in the over populated
field of tattoo design with his astonishingly refreshing designs normally done with crayons, not tattoo ink.

Check out more of his crayon-like tattoos on his website YOUR MEAT IS MINE (Some images NSFW):

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Seeing Stars Over Tattoo

Posted by Miss Cellania in Tattoo, Etc. on June 16, 2009 at 10:51 am

An 18-year-old Belgian girl is suing a Romanian tattoo artist over the 56 stars on her face. Kimberley Vlaminck says she requested three small stars, but the tattoo artist didn’t understand her French and English.

Rouslan Toumaniantz, who runs the tattoo parlour called The Tattoo Box in Courtrai, denies her claim.

He said she knew ‘exactly what she wanted’.

He added: ‘She was awake and looked into the mirror several times as the procedure was taking place.

‘The trouble all started when she went home and her father and boyfriend threw a fit.

‘They are saying things now like I doped her or hypnotised her. What rubbish!

‘She asked for 56 stars and that’s what she got.’

Vlaminck says she fell asleep during the procedure. She is seeking £8,500 to pay for tattoo removal. Link -via J-Walk Blog

 
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Magazine Released as Tattoo

Posted by Miss Cellania in Tattoo, Etc. on March 25, 2009 at 9:44 am


The Swedish tattoo magazine Tare Lugnt “published” its third issue as a tattoo! I can’t find who the person tattooed is, but I suspect it might be Marc Strömberg. That’s what you call a “limited edition”! Link to story (with video). Link to magazine site. -via Buzzfeed

 
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Mysterious Celebrity Tattoos

Posted by Miss Cellania in Tattoo, Etc. on March 23, 2009 at 10:50 pm


It’s bad enough when someone gets a celebrity tattoo, but it’s even worse when no one can figure out who it’s supposed to be! Take your best guess at a dozen mysterious tattoos at City Rag. Link -via Gorilla Mask

 
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Tattooed Cat

Posted by Alex in Animal, Tattoo, Etc. on March 5, 2009 at 3:12 am

There’s a silly (or sick, depending on your point of view) fad in Moscow – pet owners are tattoing their cats! Balcanpix has the story:

Still dazed after being anaesthetised for three hours, a pedigree pet is hauled upright to show off its new tattoo.

The controversial “body enhancement” was carried out on Mickey – a rare Canadian Hairless breed also known as a Sphynx cat.

His female owner was said to be delighted with the Tutankhamun design inked on to his chest at a tattoo parlour.

She said: “I wanted something new and different for the times we live in.”

Horrific or fashionable? What’s your take?

Link – via Arbroath

Previously on Neatorama: Wim Delvoye’s Tattooed pigs

 
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Darth Vader Pwns George Lucas

Posted by Stacy in Movies & SciFi, Pictures, Tattoo, Etc. on February 16, 2009 at 8:31 pm

Awesome? Or overkill? Either way, the tattoo artist did a really nice job.

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Update 2/16/09 by Alex – Here’s the original link at Gizmodo: Link

 
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Diabetes-monitoring Nanoparticle Tattoos

Posted by Queuebot in Medicine, Science & Tech, Tattoo, Etc. on February 13, 2009 at 6:13 am

Diabetics monitoring their glucose levels may soon put the days of painful finger-sticks behind them. Instead, they can go through the one-time ordeal of getting inked with a nanoparticle tattoo. Heather Clark, a scientist at Draper Laboratories, has developed a nano ink particle that constantly samples glucose levels in the skin. Injected subcutaneously, the ink changes color in response to glucose content.

The nano ink particles are tiny, squishy spheres about 120 nanometers across. Inside the sphere are three parts: the glucose detecting molecule, a color-changing dye, and another molecule that mimics glucose.

If the molecules mostly latch onto glucose, the ink appears yellow. If glucose levels are low, the molecule latches onto the glucose mimic, turning the ink purple. A healthy level of glucose has a “funny orangey,” color, according to Clark. The sampling process repeats itself every few milliseconds.

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Tough Guys Have Soft Spot for Cats

Posted by Miss Cellania in Animal, Tattoo, Etc. on January 11, 2009 at 10:10 am

A group of tough-looking tattooed tattoo enthusiasts rescued 180 abandoned cats and kittens from a foreclosed home last week. They say it will take about a week to rescue and rehabilitate the cats found in Moriches, New York. The group Rescue Ink is dedicated to the welfare of animals. Link -via Fark

 
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Owl Tattoos

Posted by Miss Cellania in Blog & Internet, Tattoo, Etc. on December 5, 2008 at 12:30 pm


You want to talk about a niche blog? Here’s one for tattoos of owls. And nothing else. Owl Tattoos has an extensive collection. Pictured is a tattoo by Valerie Vargas. Whoooo knew there were so many owl tattoos? Link -Thanks, Patrick!

 
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Dark Knight Tattoo Is Topical...But Is It a Good Idea?

Posted by David in Movies & SciFi on July 16, 2008 at 3:35 pm

Although modern technology has evolved to the point where tattoos can be removed, getting one is still quite a major commitment. Despite this, some still choose not only to get tattoos, but tattoos related with pop culture, references whose relevance threaten to fade over time. At GreatWhiteSnark’s blog, there’s a write-up of a gentleman who obtained a spectacular tattoo inspired by the upcoming film, The Dark Knight:

I’m putting out a call for genuinely novel and creative ways for fanboys (and -gals) to express their enthusiasm for the newest Batman film from director Chris Nolan. You could do worse–well, depending on how you look at it–than to take a cue from the dude who emblazoned a tattoo of the Batman symbol from Batman Begins and The Dark Knight across his back, courtesy of Tony Siemer of New Breed Tattoo in Dayton, Ohio.

I’m very much looking forward to the film, and desperately hope that it will be remembered as a modern classic, but what do you think about the idea of getting pop culture tattoos? In particular, in this case, does the tattoo’s associations with the overall character of Batman render it timeless? Let us know what you think in the comments.

Hit the Link for the larger image and GreatWhiteSnark’s always-snarky write-up.

 
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Nerd Tattoo

Posted by Algonkin in Tattoo, Etc. on April 9, 2008 at 9:40 am

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

 
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