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I’ve only read through Fellowship and halfway through Two Towers, so I assume that this scene takes place later in the trilogy. But then why wasn’t it featured in the movies?
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You’ve seen the eye of Sauron back piece, but this one chest piece truly captures the epicness of the film and book series with its amazing detail and vivid colors.
Link via Geeks Are Sexy
When the proud father of 8 year old twins Eloy and Oraibi wanted a new tattoo, he didn’t get all liquored up and head to a parlor down by the docks. Instead, he let his kids take a crack at inking up their old man, and from the looks of it they had a blast!
Isaiah Toothtaker has been a professional tattoo artist for around 10 years, and he’s apparently decided to pass the tradition on to his little ones.
The results, as expected, are a bit shaky and very painful. I just hope his kids don’t take to covering themselves up with ink at such an early age.
(NSFW for one moment, when Isaiah curses due to the pain).
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What’s most impressive is the shading of the background (assuming that’s not just back hair). The husband of Boards.ie member whoopsadaisydoodles acquired this tattoo, no doubt to impress him/her.
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Christmas is great, but it certainly seems weird to get a tattoo for a holiday as it only comes around once a year. But I guess not everyone agrees because there are obviously enough weird Christmas tattoos for Oddee to have collected a top 10 list of them.
As part of a continuing series, Geeks Are Sexy posted a roundup of tattoos sent in by their readers. Kristina contributed her tattoo of Nikola Tesla. There are lots more, including many that are so geeky I don’t recognize them, but you might! Link
Bobby of Cast Iron Tattoos in Orlando, Florida inked this excellent mashup. Now he’ll be even more dangerous when he accesses power sockets.
Link -via Fashionably Geek | Cast Iron Tattoos
As Chewbacca once put it “Grrraaaaawhh wahhr!” Combining these two characters increases their cuteness exponentially. Fashionably Geek reader Jodi chose her design well.
Link | Previously: Hello Kitty Darth Vader Tattoo
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In 2007, science writer Carl Zimmer wondered how common science tattoos were. He said this on his blog, and the response was massive and ongoing. That grew into a completely new blog, and Zimmer became known as the guy who collected science tattoos. Now he has a book of science tattoos called Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed. The New York Times has a slide show featuring some awesome examples from the book. The tattoo shown belongs to a Princeton graduate student in molecular biology. Link -via The Loom
(Image credit: Science Ink by Carl Zimmer/Sterling Publishing)
Even if you think the idea of a zombie tattoo is kind of silly, you can still appreciate the awesome artwork in many of these great pieces that range from old school to incredibly realistic.
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Praying Hands is an iconic drawing by the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer. Ross Turpin, a tattoo artist who works in Hong Kong, gave our second-favorite droid a reason to pray by ripping his hands off his body.
Comments Off The only certain things in life are death and taxes, and since taxes will never be fun, you might as well try to make your death into something a little entertaining. While most people are laid to rest in a coffin, buried in an urn, or scattered somewhere memorable, there are plenty of other options for your remains. Here are a few of the most unique things you can choose to do with your ashes.
A true hunter shouldn’t let death stop them from killing more animals. Fortunately, a new company named Holy Smoke is making efforts to ensure the last remnants of your physical remains can still be used to hunt down your favorite prey by incorporating your ashes into hollow-point bullets or shotgun shells. While it’s not among the suggested uses, you could also hire a hitman to use these bullets to take out your most-hated enemy, ensuring even death can’t stop you from exacting your revenge.
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For those people who live and breathe music, there’s no better way to be remembered than to actually become part of their favorite album. And Vinyl will allow you to press your ashes into any record you want, including your own original album. They’ll even write a song for you for an additional fee. As a bonus, you can also have your ashes incorporated into a painting that will be used as the album cover. Now that’s a rocking way to go.
We’ve featured tons of geeky tattoos before, but never has one incorporated so many references in one delightful character design. Can you name them all?
N.B. is a common abbreviation for the Latin phrase nota bene — “note well”. It’s an old style of annotation that has sadly passed out of common use. David, the man with this tattoo, says of its meaning “that everything is better with footnotes.” This lovely sentiment so totally non-MLA standards compliant.
Krang is a villain in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. He is also hungry. Would you be so kind as to give him a cookie?
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I’m not sure what it means, but I like the idea of Star Wars characters on a totem pole. This tattoo by an artist named Chris 51 won best of show at the Norwich Body Art Festival in the UK.
Michael Colombo spotted a man on a New York City train wearing this tattoo. He said that it’s a schematic for a guitar amplifier circuit. Colombo notes that such tattoos, no matter how they might look now, could be very useful to a post-apocalyptic society that needs to preserve knowledge. If you were to get a tattoo for this purpose, what information would you preserve?
Glen Robinson of Brisbane, Australia, initially didn’t want to make a formal proposal, but when he saw that this distressed his girlfriend, he decided to make a grand, romantic, and rather permanent gesture. He had the words “will you marry me” (no question mark) tattooed on his wrists:
That evening, with the new tattoo still raw, Glen bent on one knee in the couple’s living room with a ring in his open palms.
“Michelle wasn’t feeling well that night … she was lying on the couch,” he said.
“I came home and sat down beside her on the knee and said, ‘Hopefully, this will make you feel better’.”
Michelle said, “Are you going to ask me something?”
Glen tactfully replied, “Surely you can read.”
Michelle said ‘yes’.
“I said, ‘Yes! But I don’t know what I think about that [tattoo]‘.”
Video at the link.
Link | Photo: Marissa Calligeros/Brisbane Times
Geeky Tattoos has a roundup of some of the cleverest knuckle tattoos that geeks have acquired. Chris M. got this one in response to the common “Game Over” knuckle tattoo, writing “when it comes to video games, quitting is never an option, unless you’ve got work, a kid, or some other crap to do.” Link | Photo: Knuckle Tattoos
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It’s a simple design, but there’s something mesmerizing about this tattoo by Xed Lehead. The shading is really nice work. Link -via F-Yeah Tattoos | Photo: Needles and Sins
Brilliant! I don’t want to see Bruce Wayne cut off his ear, but if that is the necessary price of this tattoo coming into existence, it is worth it. This inking is the work of the Dominika Gardocka i Skorpion Sosnowiec tattoo studio in Poland. Link | Previously: Gotham Starry Night
To be fair, this tattoo will only make sense to those of you who have seen King of Kong and are familiar with Billy Mitchell’s obsessive Donkey Kong antics. If you haven’t seen the movie, go watch it and then revisit this post so you can laugh and laugh.
You will be emancipated. Resistance is futile. Chris Krahn of Boise Tattoo made this tattoo for Michael Vellotti. Krahn’s website is worth a look. He has some really interesting pieces of work there, including one of Benjamin Franklin as an Old West robber. Link | Artist’s Website
Ten high school friends, upon graduation, decided to get tattoos of puzzle pieces that fit into each other:
After graduating high school, myself and 9 of my best friends got puzzle pieces on the side of our ribcages to represent our commitment throughout middle school and high school. Most of us had been friends since 6th grade, some before. We all got something inside our puzzle piece to make ours unique. All the pieces fit together, and we had a blast getting them.
We’ve posted clever Hello Kitty tattoos before, such as Hello Kitty Jesus, Hello Kitty Hannibal Lecter, and Hello Kitty Darth Vader. Here’s a unique take on the motif: the outline of famous cat as the canvas for a nautical scene. Link
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This clever tattoo by Valio Ska makes good use of amputation scarring, don’t you think? Kudos to the owner for his sense of humor.
Flavorwire has assembled a cool slideshow of people with artist-inspired tattoos, from the pop art of Andy Warhol to Banksy’s graffiti work. Other artists represented include Joan Miro, Salvador Dali, Gustav Klimt, Georgia O’Keeffe and Frida Kahlo. I think the colors in the Starry Night-inspired sleeve above are just gorgeous.
Certainly a good premise for a tattoo is an inspirational, heroic figure. Super Grover from Sesame Street will do the trick. This particular tattoo was made by Cecil Porter of Murrieta, California.
Link (main site is NSFW at times) | Cecil Porter’s Website
As a testament for his love of Chicago, this man had a map of the city’s train system tattooed on his arm:
I absolutely LOVE Chicago. It makes me so extremely happy and proud to call myself a citizen of this amazing city.
I got this because, not only is it such a staple of Chicago, but also because fellow Chicagoans can recognize it immediately.
Jully Nascimento from Brazil got this QR code inked on her arm. When scanned, it reads “hold on”. That’s the name of a song by Good Charlotte that was meaningful to her in her youth.
via Geeky Tattoos
