MetaFilter posts tagged with tattoos

Exactly What it Says on the Tin

Navelgazer — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:33:58 -0800

Rotten ink

mudpuppie — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:23:04 -0800

Tattoos that really just aren't very good at all.

Biker puppy rescue

Forktine — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 07:10:51 -0800

Awww-Filter: Tattooed bikers, puppies, and tiny kittens. What's not to love? The New York Times goes for a ride-along with Rescue Ink, complete with awww-inducing slideshow. You can see them on YouTube, too: TV news clip; MFA thesis clip; another thesis clip; visit to the shelter. More media clips available on their website. As the article mentions, and the website suggests, they have been focusing on branding along with the animal rescue — is a reality TV show next?

Who owns your ink?

iamkimiam — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:26:03 -0800

Can you copyright a tattoo? Yes, you can. But there's more to it. The idea raises a lot of questions and concerns—for the artists, the inked-skin owners, and certain parties seeking to represent or showcase the work. Shortly after Marisa Kakoulas wrote The Tattoo Copyright Controversy guest article, featured at BMEZINE.com, she encountered a small legal battle of her own. She wrote about it here, and sums up with, "But his story is a good example of how the modified community can fight back against those that violate our rights. I can almost guarantee he won’t mess with us again." Christopher A. Harkins also weighs in, with his paper, "Tattoos and Copyright Infringement: Celebrities, Marketers, and Businesses Beware of the Ink" (PDF). In it, he describes how Matthew Reed (tattoo artist) sued Rasheed Wallace (of the Detroit Pistons), Nike, and Weiden & Kennedy (Nike's ad agency), for violating copyright law, when Rasheed's tattooed arm was repeatedly highlighted in a Nike campaign. "The Reed case—and its nascent theory of a tattoo artist asserting copyrights in tattoos—has a potentially far-reaching impact on any would-be celebrity with a reasonable expectation of fame and on any present-day athlete, actor or actress, as well as advertising agencies and product purveyors and service providers. But the Reed case may also cause alarm for other media industries such as magazines, newspapers, Internet websites, motion pictures, television broadcasting, and the entertainment industry."

I'M AWSOME

beaucoupkevin — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:54:11 -0800

The 10 Greatest Misspelled Tattoos, according to The L Magazine.

Military tattoos in the age of Iraq

thatwhichfalls — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:52:03 -0800

The Skins They Carried. Military tattoos in the age of Iraq.

The second type of military tattoo is for soldiers who want to make their uniform permanent. Some do this for practical reasons, tattooing dog tags complete with military ID and Social Security numbers onto their torsos in case they become separated from their heads during combat. These tattoos, called “meat tags,” can be elaborate: One Killeen variation shows the dog tags in an open wound, wrapped around an exposed rib.

Chocolate Retard

jonson — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:32:52 -0800

World's worst tattoo? World's worst tattoo.

Silicon implants for your Tattoo

jonson — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 09:43:35 -0800

Any idiot can tattoo a busty woman on his flesh. It takes committment to give your tattoo silicon implants.

stretchable electronics

nickyskye — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:36:13 -0800

Electronic, animated tattoos [scroll down to video, which is nsfw]. The latest body jewelry, Skintile Electronic Sensing Jewelry. Electronic Sensing Jewelry has been conceived alongside a European project, STELLA, developing stretchable, flexible electronic substrates that integrate energy supply, sensors, actuators, and display. Development of stretchable electronics for large area applications for use in healthcare, wellness and functional clothes, integrated electronics in stretchable parts and products. Skintile the Electronic Sensing Jewelry further explores emotional and physiological sensing. It is a new genre of product; a generation of wireless, stick-on body sensors that re-define traditional body adornment.

Just Say No to Forked Tongues

fallenposters — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:39:16 -0800

Top 10 Physically Modified People -- A list of those who have gone to extreme lengths to modify their body for decorative purposes. Let the squeamish beware (especially the videos embedded in the page).

What do you get when you cross a nerd with a bad boy?

desjardins — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:39:57 -0800

Geek tattoos. Gamer tattoos. Science tattoos. Medical tattoos. Assorted nerdiness. More. Not ready to commit? Get bar coded, sans ouch. (Previously)

Awesome science tattoos

GuyZero — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:49:45 -0800

Awesome science tattoos.

Eye Yai Yai...

bardic — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:48:04 -0800

Eyeball Tattoos (nsfw, via)

Get lost

madamjujujive — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 04:39:51 -0800

Lost Art is the fascinating site of Brazilian Mefite Ignacio Aronovich and Louise Chin. It's a deep vein of adventurous, quirky, and kinky photo essays from around the globe. Scroll down on the main page to see a text menu or browse the visual index. Much content is NSFW but - stick with "adventure" and "travel" if that's a concern - or view the SFW slide show Our Year in Pictures 2006 (with sound) or without sound.

Inked Pork

jack_mo — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 07:15:27 -0800

Wim Delvoye makes art out of skin, filming it in extreme close-up, or, at his Art Farm in China, by tattooing pigs which are later stuffed or skinned. More images: 1, 2, 3, 4.

Blacklight tattoos

koenie — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 19:01:09 -0800

Look, a dancing skeleton!

Ink That Stinks

milquetoast — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 10:35:33 -0800

Bad tattoos. More bad tattoos. Bad tattoos - don't let this happen to you! And, uh, this. And previously: Hanzi Smatter. Some pics, though no direct links, are NSFW.

Hardbody Art

mono blanco — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 22:30:45 -0800

Athletes and their tattoos. If you've got it, flaunt it.

Tattoos and the world's

mediareport — Thu, 30 Jan 2003 17:01:52 -0800

How many of the world's top 100 sexiest women have tattoos?

japanese tattoos

hama7 — Sat, 30 Nov 2002 05:44:31 -0800

When I was nine, I saw a woman in a traditional Japanese bath house, covered with a full-body tattoo.[more]

dirtylittlemonkey — Thu, 10 Oct 2002 07:45:09 -0800

When pigs fly - This journal by the artist Andy Feehan details his work with tattooed hairless animals. Regardless of your immediate reaction to the art, Feehan's compassion and love for the animals is sure to win you over. Normally, I disprove of weblog cross-posts, but I couldn't resist sharing after finding this via memepool.

ColdChef — Mon, 05 Aug 2002 07:04:13 -0800

Get paid for living. Get paid up to £800 or $1270 for having a unique, non-permanent advertisement tattooed on your body using Timed Tattoo Technology ™. Join here. (or not...)

animoller — Sat, 22 Dec 2001 17:23:06 -0800

Lord of the Rings stars get tattooed. "The nine stars who made up the fellowship in the blockbuster movie trilogy were tattooed with the same symbol by Wellington tattooist Roger Ingerton at his Roger's Tatooart studio. Sunday News can reveal the symbol is a number nine in Elvish - a language spoken in the films."

And no, that isn't a spelling mistake. They got inked by at a tattoo parlour that seems to be missing a 't' in the name.

rev- — Wed, 29 Aug 2001 11:55:39 -0800

was: Computer Programmer, now: Tigerman. In San Diego, some jerk spent $150,000 to tattoo his face, file his teeth into points, etc. Why, you are clearly asking? Because he wants to be a cat. Dude. Spend your dot-com cash on something constructive, like jackelope ranches or x10 cameras.