Well, it’s Valentine’s Day again, but this is the first year in maybe ten years that I’ve been alone… Every time I hear a floorboard creak my first instinct is that it’s Rachel coming in to the room, but of course it’s not. In any case, not to dwell on the sad things in life, so here’s a gallery of some of my favorite heart tattoos that have been submitted over the years to BME.
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Now that’s a geeky tattoo!
Thanks to The Eternal for sharing his new tattoo by Bear at Exotica in Florida. He also has “NERD” and “DORK” tattooed on his knuckles…
How about a couple of tattoos inspired by websites (not counting BME logo tattoos, which I think are a little different maybe because they’re more inspired by a subculture than a website)… IAM:bebe dog (who is also called Shannon and is also from Toronto) had this tattoo of their own site (now expired I think) done by Gen at Planet Ink in Toronto, and Atomika had Andy Enos at Old Anchor Tattoo in Portage MI do this toothpaste for dinner comic.
Following up on BME’s extensive coverage of geek tattoos, here’s a little geek loving for you by Aric at Viva Tattoo in Rochester:
“Bite me” tattoos aren’t that uncommon, but maybe this is the first “byte me” one I’ve seen… Hello? This is 1983 calling — I want my computer club t-shirt back! Thanks to Tim for sending this tattoo by Glenn Scott in Dayton, Ohio.
Or how about a computeriffic sacred heart?
This tattoo below (done at Last Rites) is on a whole group of people — the 1337 KR3W I suppose? I’m not sure if it’s tongue in cheek right now because part of me thinks that if you claim to be elite, you’re probably not. That said, I’m a dude with a ’74 Corvette with a license plate that reads L33T so don’t think I’m not in a glass house!
I like this haxor tattoo the best though because it doesn’t take itself too seriously:
That was done by Universoul Mutations in Cadillac, MI.
Since I just posted about an Electronic Arts / EA gaming tattoo, I thought I ought to also mention this Konami tattoo. Shawn writes,
"Ever since I was a young boy, I thought the Konami logo was one of the coolest symbols I had ever seen. The simplistic swipes and its meaning, 'little wave', were to me very stylistic and interesting to see. I'm in a band called Temp Sound Solutions, and as of now to this point, I've written five full albums of video game covers, a lot of them being from Konami games."
"A few years back, I lost a good friend of mine who I was mainly in touch with over the Internet. We were friends for years and years. Another friend wrote a record called 'Konami' that we both adored and my friend's initials were 'S.S.', which I thought was very similar to the Konami logo. I got these tattoos to commemorate my friend's life and our bond of the love for music."
Check out BME employee Phil Barbosa‘s new tattoo designed by IAM:killmylovekill and done here in La Paz, Mexico at Sadofilia. Click the dancing toes below to see a day old photo of it (sorry, it’s hard to get a good photo of a day old tattoo), and if you’d like to see the painting it’s based on, click here.
Phil says to mention that his feet (well, the right one anyway) are still a bit messed up since the accident (which explains why blue robot is not as good a dancer as red robot). He did however clean his toenails!
Just got this amusing email from Chris:
This is a picture of me when I got Electronics Art tattoo back in March. The company paid for it and took some footage of it and me for possible use in a game at some later point but I haven't heard back from them since. No regrets though. I love gaming and I love EA games. They make some of my favorite racing games ever (NFSU and Burnout), so why not have a special place for them on my back?
PS. More geek tattoos here.
When I first saw this, I thought it was one of those ultra-rare anti-Apple tattoos, or maybe something inspired by the constant death tolls for them in the media. I was very wrong:
"This is the Apple logo melting away to the inner skull core. It symbolizes the Apple Pirate in me — while the outer core is a nice candy blue, the inner core is a black skull! I've been using Apple computers since the eighties with the Iie, and have always preferred it to other systems. Currently I do tech support for a College of Education."
What kind of person gets a tattoo of one stick figure kicking another stick figure in the nuts? I guess you’d have to ask Jamie at Voodoo Tattoo in Huntsville, TX.
Edit: This entry originally contained the wrong artist credit and was thus updated.
This may be one of my favorite “geek tattoos” yet, an Internet-themed sleeve by Jason Ostricher at Talisman Tattoo in Modesto, California. It’s got everything! A monitor with dB schema, RJ-45 cables, 1011011 binary, the Web, and of course every nerd’s fantasy, a sexy Catholic schoolgirl on a laptop with a dress a little too short…
You can find more pictures of Jesse’s tattoos at KingJes.com (click on Pictures then on Tattoos).
