Let’s kick this week off on a fun note with this tattoo of Link from the gamecube Zelda game, The Wind Waker.
This game has the distinction of being one of the few Zelda games I never finished as the thought of spending hours digging up maps from the bottom of the ocean to give to a really annoying character in a green suit drove me batty.
Christina sent in her latest tattoo by Diego from Graceland Tattoo and Body Piercing in Wappingers Falls, NY; a very valentines inspired rocket. World of Warcraft fans will instantly recognize it as the “Big Love Rocket”, one of the many ways to fly around the world. Nothing says love like riding a big pink rocket.
Now, I’m fairly certain that at some point every single ModBlog reader has either played Tetris, or at least is familiar enough with the game to know how it works. A long time ago, back when Nintendo wasn’t even available in North America, and the cold war was still raging on, a Russian game designer named Alexey Pajitnov invented a game that would revolutionize gaming as we knew it.
You see, this simple block dropping game ended up becoming one of the most popular games of all time. So it was only natural that something so popular would end up as a tattoo.
This image from the New Skool gallery was sent in by Chriz, also known as Ta2head from Buxe Voll? Tattooz in Germany. I couldn’t find out a lot about Chriz, but from what I understand he works out of Rostock and Neubrandenburg, as well as doing guest spots. According to his description, this piece was done also freehand.
This is going to be the first of a series of posts on Chriz as he recently uploaded a number of exceptional pieces to the galleries.
A few weeks back I featured an excellent scarification piece of a Pokemon by the name of Ninetails. After seeing so many people chiming in on their love of all things Pokemon, I knew it was only a matter of time that I’d see more Pokemon related images in the galleries. What I wasn’t expecting was this image sent in by IAM: Dead Filmaker.
As the self-professed “biggest nerd ever!”, Dead Filmaker had these implants inserted underneath his Pokeball tattoos a mere 5 days before attending the 2010 National Pokemon Championships. I can only imagine how fun it must have been to have Brian insert the one closest to his wrist from an opening up by the elbow. Not seeing any other sutures I’m assuming that they were all done using the same point of entry.
Now I’ll admit I was never a huge fan of Pokemon, at least nowhere near as big a fan as Mr. Filmaker there, but I did enjoy the games and show. I only had the original gameboy game, so I never got to see Team Rocket appear in the games, but Jesse and James were easily the best thing about that show. It’s a shame they always failed so spectacularly, the show would have been so much better if they had won much more often and Ash and co. were the ones screwing up trying to get their Pokemon back.
You can check out more photos like this, including more work by Mr. Brian Decker, in the 3D implant gallery.
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