Or is it an anti-Windows tattoo? I’m not sure… Paul got this Windows 98 bluescreen tattoo done by Sam Rulz at Two Hands Tattoo in Auckland, New Zealand.
Update: If you’re wondering about the motivation, the artist explains,
What Paul loves most is the idea of explaining this tattoo to his grandkids, when Windows 98 is so outdated as to be completely obsolete. The knowledge that this tattoo’s subject will certainly become outdated was key to inspiring Paul’s decision to make something so indefinitely fleeting so indelible. As was the idea of taking something so mundane and using it in such a way usually reserved for subjects the wearer deems important. Truth is Paul doesn’t love Windows 98, and Paul doesn’t hate Windows 98, Paul doesn’t really give a fuck about Windows 98 one way or another.
The guts of it is; Paul wanted this Tattoo because it goes against the norm, it is not an image that one would see and instantly consider appropriating as a tattoo. It encourages people to think and ask questions, not necessarily ask Paul questions, but question what they currently think or know about Tattoos. That’s what good art does; it stirs conversation within the audience. The same goes for all other art forms, painting, film, music… You may not like it, you may not understand it, the important thing is that you’re thinking about it, you’re not just a passive viewer. All art has an intended audience, its very possible that what you are looking at, watching, or listening to …wasn’t made for you.
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155 responses to “Best. Windows. Tattoo. Ever.”
Ya sólo te falta tatuarte las tres luces rojas de la XBOX360 y haces la tontería completa xD
Porke no te pones una brida plastica en la poya la dejas un rato y asi tienes tu propio TUX
Geek………
Menudo kapullo de pelotas!!!! Komprendo ke para tener tu momento de fama kieras hacer la koña, pero kuando te hagas viejo y te mires el puto y jodido tatuaje, pensaras lo SUBNORMAL ke fuistes.
Putos payasos…
Pelo amor de Deus… eu fujo de Windows e este gajo faz uma tatoo destas?
That guy is going to wake up a few weeks from now and totally regret that. I have to admit, its kinda funny, but that has to be one of the most impulsive ideas Ive seen.
alguien me ha estado suplantando, yo soy la del primer comentario y este. me parece vergonzoso que haya aqui gente que suplante en comentarios. como diria tamara: me parece patetico! y claro que te agrego mario 23. será por conocer a gente…si quiere alguien mas que no dude en decirlo.
gracias
They will sue you!! ja…
este tio es tonto y solo lo aprenta??…como se le ocure acerse eso en el brazo???….asi a voz de pronto yo opino k es…mmmm…esto….mmmmm…..como decirlo sin k parezca ofensivo….mmmm….GILIPOLLAS!!!…
Saludos desde ESPAÑA!!!!^_^ O_0
WIN!
I WOULD GET A FUCKIN CONTROL ALT DELETE TATTOO BEFORE I WOULD GET THAT SHIT
that is fucking stupid, im sorry
Idiot!!!!
VAYA PEDAZO DE SUBNORMAL!!!!!!!!!
Que fricada más tonta,… hay q ser pim-pín!! Vaya inutilada!!
A mi tb me parece patetico q la gente se dedike a suplantar a las demas!! hay q estas aburrido! mario23 te kiero!! lo nuestro si es amor!! un flechazo en toda regla y con punto de partida en una pagina friky!! q triste son nuestras vidas….
Debio haber sido mejor en el pecho o en la espalda…
madre mia que gilipoyas….
claro que es amor!!sobre todo cuando lo practicamos, tu disfrazada de tux, yo de manzanita de apple…y el del tatto metiendonos su pantallazo por el culo…si esq es precioso…
joder que ignorante de tio, jaja, bueno ali ya vamos siendo mas los que entramos y comentamos en castellano, ARRIBA SPAIN AND YONKIS!!!
Windows no se cuelga JAMAS, JAMAS se cuelga Windows, jejeje
Switch to Linux… http://www.PCLinuxOS.com the best out rest the others!
my name is ytcracker and i am an internet legend. my wikipedia is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YTCracker
most recently, i’ve been featured on mtv and spiketv because of my awesomeness.
anyway, enough bragging – onto the tattoos.
http://www.ytcracker.com/images/invincible.jpg
just snapped that with my webcam – i touch my left arm for temporary invincibility.
http://www.ytcracker.com/images/lnd.jpg
i designed this tattoo – the background is the legend of zelda shield, the rest of the stuff you probably recognize. the meaning of the tattoo is the first hand is a human hand and the second hand is a ghost hand, meaning when youre dead you can still play the game, hence “legends never die.”
http://www.ytcracker.com/images/foreverridin.jpg
you can see my nerd life tattoo across my stomach and “dg inside” – thats digital gangster for all you n00bs – http://www.digitalgangster.com keep it treal
yep.
– bryce
Fark just caught on:
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=2972629
menos mal que al castron este no le dio por ponerse una carta de ajuste… o el arranque de la bios…
es mas facil haberse tatuado… SOY TONTO
la gente sigue suplantando. pues que os den panda de gilipoyas!! de que vais??suplantaros a vosotros y dejarme en paz!! sois mas tontos que el del tatuaje!
“All art has an intended audience, its very possible that what you are looking at, watching, or listening to …wasn’t made for you.” This is exactly the way i’ve always looked at and considered art. Wether you’re looking at a painting or watching a fight between two skilled fighters, you’re seeing forms of art. Everyone has a different opinion about what art is and i think that’s why art is such a great concept. Everyone can individually love or hate the same thing for their own personal reasons.
Greetings,
Tim
well you deff. got ppl talking.. 151,now make it 152 with the addition of mine… awesome tattoo.. effing brilliant…
Best tattoo i’ve seen in years!
Seguro que el “artista” es un MACOSO, con esa mierda se eternizó su odio a windows.
Frikis macosos..
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love macs. it’s funny though! (got cut off..)
rebecca on July 26th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
…Your Mac cut you off?
as a statement: very well done, you got people’s attention as you wished and got them to debate about the art of tattooing.
as a tattoo: sucks mucho big time ! you would’ve been better off photoshopping it unto your arm instead of actually getting the tattoo…
i luv bmezine, keep it up!
Well, it’s obviously brilliant: look at the response it’s provoked.
Perhaps this tattoo will take on another level of meaning right after Paul crashes, er, dies. At that point a Fatal Exception will definitely have occurred and it will be apparent that someone pressed a key and the current Paul application has been terminated. Will someone be able to press Ctrl-Alt-Delete and bring him back to life or is that just a hint about future reincarnation?
And wait a minute: Windows 98 apps didn’t run in their own protected mode memory space, so one app crashing often brought down the whole system. Stay healthy Paul, the whole she bang is counting on ya 😉
Será que essa pessoa é normal?
SI FOR TATUAR TODOS OS ERROS DO WINDOWS VAI FALTA CORPO…HAUhuaUHAUHahU…. xD
k triste por dios!!! jajajaja vaya gilipollas
He doen’t have enough body for all windows error… Hahaha
Anda personaje k eres un liante friki amerikano tendrias k se anda k kuando te vea tu madre la kara de verguenza se deveria de kaerte
fijate la puta casualidad,que estoy ordenando las webs,y digo,que web es esta,entro y me fijo,el notas del tatuaje,va, borrar,y para mas sorpresa al cargar me encuentro a alicia23 contestando algo,leo mas arriba y veo que me an usado el nick mismo que yo puse, dandole coba y como no,ella contestando,cariño,esa ironia que usas es bastante patetica,no ves,contestando una y otra vez mensajes en un blog de un colgao,vamos,que al final,to lo tomastes en serio,y tan en serio..
en fin….
paso de lo que me digais, soy libre de opinar lo que me de la gana para eso estamos en un país libre. y si te molesta te jodes!!
I think it’s awesome and definately worth the comments. I love all the people who hate it with that “my ideas are the only ideas ever. i’m normal and weird shit that i don’t get is lame. people who do stuff i don’t get are idiots.” ah. self check fellas. ctrl – alt – deleted. Time to learn that we don’t all have your level of genius/ignorance. ps. sam rulz rules!
I have always hated the blue death screen of windows, but this man has made death screen look more beautiful.
wtf? are you freaking retarded? why the hell would you do this? get a brain, then a life dumbshit.
im getting PRETTY sick of hearing this “when you get older and wrinkly blah blah blahf GIGHJ:grg;” bullshit.
people with tattoos get them becasue they like them, if you’re on this site talking trash like that odds are you are here from an outsourced link, so i really would rather not give you the time of day to bitch you out. but honestly- get them now while you can, if you die tomorrow you wont get a tattoo you could enjoy. this guy could die next month, and then he wouldnt have to worry about what it looked like when he was 75.
live for now. not for later. later may never come.
Humans will be “freakers” than this guy. Cool, man; “very” cool…
alert(‘ownen’)
Worst. Tattoo. Ever
Where’s the ‘any’ key?
I support ya man, and your reasoning behind it. It IS all too true how “TBSOD” will become something of the past soon, and will be forgotten almost entirely.
That sucks. Not the tattoo, but the text on it.