Is This Really the First-Ever Animated Tattoo?

... well ... there is 3:03 of my life I'll never get back.. thanks Neato... not

PS: fake or not, lame and who cares

Really?, no swelling, no blood, all over in 50 minutes? And then what, a tattoo you need to show people while you are lying down with a phone covering half of it? I'm with Rooboy, Lame.

Yep, it actually works... I hope you can check the video in the QR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgsNl9Hbfwk&feature=youtube_gdata_player

How is that a "animated" tattoo?

Fake!!! That video is way too slick to be just a real video of someone's tattoo.

I wouldn't be surprised that this is real. But if I engage my conspiracy gears I can find ways to knock it.

First, the video is incredibly slick as pointed out by Jill. There are a variety of artistic video/audio editing techniques that seem to require a high-level editing ability. However, to be fair, I could probably reproduce the video/audio edits inside of a holiday weekend with the limited experience I have using such software.

Second, the timer in the video does not accord with the cuts in the video. The timer does not appear until 0:23 at which point it starts with the value 00:02:01:06. The timer then continues to steadily increment until 0:37. There are many cuts during this segment but the timer continues to steadily increment without any leaps forward. The timer then switches to 00:10:31:07 and begins steadily incrementing. There are a bunch of rapid cuts that probably amount to a few hours but the timer only adds a few minutes. Then it switches from 00:10:58:12 to 01:15:36:02 and begins incrementing steadily. Clearly the timer was not a part of the recording. It must have been added during post-production.

Still, it could be real and all the post-production handiwork could be added for dramatic effect. It doesn't matter to me, I think all bodily augmentation for vanity is silly.

I don't see how this can't be not real. (yay triple negation!)

Even though the video is heavily edited, it's highly probable. Doing a tattoo? Easy. Making a tattoo design with a QR code? Easy. Triggering a Youtube video using the QR code? Also easy.

Therefore, highly probable.

its just a qr code tattooed onto someone that links to a youtube video of the drawing animated. The tattoo is not animated but it is not fake. Sorry, neat, please be a little more thorough with your posts.

Guys, this is as simple as this: download the code reader app (scanlife for EZ codes), pick a moment in the video when the code is clear and pause it on full screen. The video gets triggered. It's not a fake.

It's just a tattoo..
And advetising.. Obviously.

That's not an animated tattoo.

Not the first QR code tattoo. Clever that it links to an animation involving that tattoo. I just hope that the QR code isn't linked directly to YouTube since you never know if and when they are going to change their URLs.

I know I wouldn't want a cell phone laying on my freshly done chest tattoo. It's possibly dirty and it would probably hurt like a bitch.