Konami Tattoo

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."

Robots in Love… or at least one of them!

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!

EA / Electronic Arts tattoo

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.

Bad Girls in Tattoos

Four bad girls from the most recent set of BME submissions. Oh, and since it took me forever to figure out what the text at the bottom of the fourth image is, I’ll tell you that I’m 99% sure that it says “Innocence Lost, Never Recaptured.”

From left to right: Gangster Virgin Mary by Bob Lackner at Lark Tattoo, Megan’s Ruin by Sonju at Bloodlines Tattoo in San Rafael CA, Concealed Weapon by Matt Lapping at Inkwerx Tattoo in Hull, and Innocence Lost by Jerry Jaco in Cape Girardeau MO.

Death to Apple?

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."

Hardcore Porno Tattoo

Also photographed by Lane at the Berlin Tattoo Convention 2005 is this extremely explicit tattoo. Now, I love it, and have a similar (well, Tom of Finland-style) piece planned for my leg, but I’ll ask him the same question that I ask myself when considering this motif: how the hell do you explain this tattoo to your kids (if you have any) — let alone someone else’s kids… I’d hate to be added to the sex offender registries just for walking down the street!


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