Automated Tattoo Machine Picks Your Religion
Torn over which faith is the true path to follow? Strap yourself in and receive a “randomly” (i.e. divinely) selected tattoo of a religious symbol on your forearm. Via Make Magazine:
Chris Eckert created a CNC tattoo machine with a twist. Auto Ink is a three axis numerically controlled sculpture. Once the main switch is triggered, the operator is assigned a religion and it’s corresponding symbol is tattooed onto the person’s arm. The operator does not have control over the assigned symbol. It is assigned either randomly or through divine intervention, depending on your personal beliefs.
Man Tattoos His Eyes
WTF doesn’t begin to describe how I feel about this! Ben Muessig reports on a tattoo too far, for CNN:
Where does a tattoo enthusiast look when he runs out of skin? For Matt Gone, the answer was obvious. Gone — who estimates he has covered more than 98 percent of his body with ink — recently tattooed his own eyeballs.
“I never really knew how far I would ever go, and [tattooing my eyes] is about as far as you can go,” he told Fox 12…
Meet Billy the Human Billboard: Boxer Pays the Bills With Tattoo Sponsorships
This is a hell of a way to pay the bills. Joe Peacock writes on AOL News:
I’m an avid collector and appreciator of tattoos, so I tend to run into news that revolves around that culture quite often. That’s how I came to know about Billy Gibby — also known as Billy the Human Billboard — an amateur boxer out of Alaska who is living his dream of being a fighter and paying the bills by selling spots on his body for permanent tattoos featuring the logos of corporate sponsors.
As with everyone else who encounters Billy the Human Billboard for the first time, the thoughts that went through my head were “[vulgar expletive], what is he thinking?” followed by a quick feeling that there’s no way this could be for real, followed by the realization that it had to be real. It’s just too weird not to be.
Imagine my surprise, only a few days ago, when I found an e-mail in my in-box from him. He was reaching out to me to see if, as a fan of tattoos, I’d be interested in buying space on his body myself. And while I wasn’t really in the market to buy an ad on Billy the Billboard, I did take that opportunity to speak with him about his unique method of paying the bills.
The Tattoo Used in Auschwitz Was Originally An IBM Code Number
Here is another (controversial) chapter from my book 50 Things You’re Not Supposed to Know, published in 2003.
For more on me, look at The Memory Hole.
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The tattooed numbers on the forearms of people held and killed in Nazi concentration camps have become a chilling symbol of hatred. Victims were stamped with the indelible number in a dehumanizing effort to keep track of them like widgets in the supply chain.
These numbers obviously weren’t chosen at random. They were part of a coded system, with each number tracked as the unlucky person who bore it was moved through the system.
Edwin Black made headlines in 2001 when his painstakingly researched book, IBM and the Holocaust, showed that IBM machines were used to automate the “Final Solution” and the jackbooted takeover of Europe. Worse, he showed that the top levels of the company either knew or willfully turned a blind eye.
A year and a half after that book gave Big Blue…
Ever Considered An Eyeball Tattoo?…Me Neither
Source sittingnow.co.uk
"Urgh, last night was messy, I drank loads of wine, did a mountain of coke, and tattooed my eyeball."
Ok, so I can get my head around people inking their body, it’s a control thing, you are showing the world that you truly own your body. Although I am tattless, I can appreciate this concept.
What I can’t quite wrap my head around, however, is the need to tattoo your freaking EYEBALL!…yeah…I said EYEBALL!!
Why would you want to spend the rest of your time on earth looking like you had a really heavy night? Also, I don’t think these perps realise that if they rob a bank, mug someone, or basically commit any crime; identifying them will be reeeeallly easy. Dumbasses
Ken Eakins
Skin-Based “Electronic Tattoos” Offer Medical Read-Outs
Researchers at three universities are combining efforts on super-thin silicon transistors that can be embedded in your skin. Their LEDs can act as in-body electronic tattoos that display blood-sugar readings, but this article also suggests non-medical applications, including “Animated and programmable LED tattoos connected to your brain… You could show off your latest Flash animations, watch TV on your arm, or have a built-in PDA screen.”
Other possible medical applications include deep-brain stimulation for Parkinson’s patients and possibly even interfacing with the nervous system….
And there’s also “a rather sensuous video from Philips” showing a sexy “design probe” about using the human body as a platform for interactive skin technology — that is, the first skin-based electronic tattoo that’s also interactive.
20 Tattoos You Don’t Want To Get (If You’re A Guy)
You really have to visit Comedy.com to appreciate just how bad some of these tats are. As they say:
We’re not sure why guys get elaborate, over-the-top tattoos (like these 5 Crazy Ronald Regan Tattoos). We just know the people who get them have serious issues we don’t even want to know about (especially, if you got this Patrick Swayze tattoo). That reminds us, we should call our parents. Check out the 20 Tattoos You Don’t Want To Get (If You’re A Guy).
