First, I hope that everyone on the east coast is safe and secure after that shake-up that just hit Richmond. I know a lot of IAM members live in the area close to the epicenter, including Rachel at BMEHQ.
Now then, as his name implies, Joeltron is a big fan of Tron. How big you ask? Well take a look at this Tron Recognizer tattoo on the side of his skull.
Naith from Absolution in New Zealand did this while at a guest spot in Sydney at First Blood.
I think it was sometime last year when I was talking to someone about getting an entire backpiece of a game of Tetris. It turns out someone had a similar idea, although instead of Tetris, they used Galaga. Pieszeckipower got this tattoo for her father. Her dad used to play Galaga as a teenager, and later on the two bonded over it. Just note, the black isn’t quite finished yet, there is still one more session to clean it up and finish it off.
Tattoo by Brandy Burgans from Standard Ink Tattoo Company in Chattanooga, TN
Here’s something nice and nerdy to round out today. Ross Turpin from Star Crossed Tattoo in Hong Kong created this image of C-3PO’s hands paying. Now my Star Wars-fu isn’t always up to par, but I don’t recall anyone actually praying to the force. Maybe Droids have their own religion, with Asimov’s laws serving as their commandments.
You know someone is a fan of video games when they get a tattoo of a video game character from a game that isn’t even released yet. Diablo 3 is sure to be a big hit, and this tattoo of the witch doctor by Roger from Star City Tattoo in Roanoke, VA shows us just how excited Diablo fans are for the new game.
He is here to protect you.
He is here to protect you from the terrible secret of space.
Tattoo by Sagie from Walk the Line Tattoo in Karlstad, Sweden
Looks like a little blood was shed during the assimilation process.
Hassee of the Inkrowd Tattoos cube, located in the Amsterdam sector assimilated this human. His biological and technological distinctiveness was added to the collective.
I think this tattoo alone fulfills this week’s quota of geekiness. Sagie from Walk the Line in Sweden put needle to flesh to make this cute little guy.
_xiphiaz loves technology. So much so that his very first tattoo ended up being one of the most impressive nerdy tattoos I’ve ever seen.
Corey Weir from Monk3ys in Auckland, NZ is the artist behind this technological construct. Please note, I purposefully avoided a Superman 3 reference, as it would have taken away from the sheer awesomeness of this sleeve.
“Autobots wage their battle to destroy the evil forces of the Deceptions”
I really want to get excited about a new Transformers movie, yet I know that it’ll just be a series of “BAYSPLOSIONS” with Shia shouting “nonononono” for 2 hours. Thankfully artists like Keegan Lam are out there to remind us of the vastly superior animated series that kicked off a generation of children who at some point believed that cars could transform into giant robots.
Just keep going until you’ve finally got it.
Tattoo by Ron Melichson Maldonado, from Laza Tattoo in Haifa, Israel
p.s. I know this isn’t a Galaxy Quest tattoo, but until I see one, I’ll have to use the reference for other things.