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Tag: Geek

  • Robots in Love… or at least one of them!

    Written by

    Shannon Larratt

    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

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    Shannon Larratt

    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.

  • Death to Apple?

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    Shannon Larratt

    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."

  • Silly Tattoo

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    Shannon Larratt

    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.

  • I admit I’m mostly swayed by the pinup

    Written by

    Shannon Larratt

    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).

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