A collection of the geekiest tattoos in the world!
If you’ve never played Set, you’re missing out on a fast paced brain-exercising card game. I have several friends who are hardcore about their set playing, and they’re wicked good at it too (I tend to just sit there and stare). Michelle sent in her Set tattoo that was done on her ribcage. She got a “dissimilar set” which reminds her that things don’t need to fit in to a “whole”. She says that it’s not the best executed tattoo, but I still think it’s awesome.
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– June 4, 2010
Not content with just a simple (but still awesome) vacuum tube tattoo, Jonathan decided to get schematic symbols for vacuum tubes. You see, he’s an electronic designer and hobbyist training to be an engineer that specializes in vacuum tubes. These aren’t just any random vacuum tubes though. Each one represents a vacuum tube he’s used in a project. He writes:
The top symbol is a pentode, specifically a 6AU6, that I used to build a tube radio. The one on the left, 0A2, is a cold-cathode regulator that I used in my tube power supply. The one on the right is a 12AX7, a twin-triode most commonly used in guitar amplifiers.
– June 3, 2010
Love geeky tattoos but too scared to go under the gun yourself? Here’s your chance to design a geeky tattoo for someone else to get! The Wellcome Collection (in association with Don’t Panic) is holding a tattoo competition. They write:
We’re looking for a design to celebrate the Wellcome Collection’s ‘Skin’ exhibition, a show that invites the viewer to re-evaluate the largest and probably most overlooked human organ. One of the aspects we are interested in is looking at peeling back the layers of skin to discover what’s beneath – let your imagination run wild with the anatomical workings of your body. Organs, dissections, skeletons, guts, nerves bundles, veins – get your thinking caps on to illustrate what’s beneath our skin and display the internal on the external.
The winner of the competition will see their tattoo end up on the ribs of the lovely Caisa Ederyd above. She does have some input on what she wants: “I’d like it to have something to do with body organs such as hearts, lungs, guts and blood. This is because I think the inside of the body is interesting, beautiful and, sadly, because my dad died from a heart condition a few years ago.” In addition to knowing your art is on someone else’s body, you’ll also get a free year of membership to the Wellcome Collection Club.
But hurry, the competition closes on June 25th! For more details, and to submit entries, visit www.dontpaniconline.com/designbrief/skin
UPDATE:
This just in: As well as the pride of knowing your design is tattooed on a stranger’s body, the winner will also get £100 cash, a free tattoo by a top London tattoo artist (studio will be Good Times), their artwork on 60K posters, and win a year’s free membership of the Wellcome Collection Club.
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– June 2, 2010
We interrupt your daily stream of geek tattoos to let you know about a geeky site that’s recently come to our attention. GeeksExposed.org is an interesting, sexy, non-profit project for geeks to share who they are, what makes them tick, and to let them expose a little bit of themselves to the internet. In short, you submit two photos; the first photo is a normal everyday photo of you along with some general information about who you are, what kind of geek you are, etc. The second photo is a bit more revealing (interpret that how you will) and goes along with some deeper, more intimate thoughts.
The site is PG-13, but there are a few “underwear” shots (both the male and female kind!) in there so be warned. Go check it out, submit your photos and join the project!
Posted in Site News.
– June 1, 2010
Jessica sent these in with no explanation, and you know what? I’ll let her slide. Happy Triforce Tuesday!
Posted in Tattoos, Video Games.
– June 1, 2010
Every generation has it’s set of geeky pop culture. Us children of the 80s had the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. For those kids of the 90s, chances are it was Pokémon. Well at least it was for Danielle, aka Vouloir. Pokemon played a large part in her life and still does, so in homage to it and her childhood, she got the above tattoo of Metagross inked at Impaled in Marquette, MI.
– May 21, 2010
Dylan Lienhard wrote me a novel about his tattoo based on a novel. He explained that when he was a kid his dad used to read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings to him and his brothers before bed. His dad’s level of geekiness wasn’t realized until later, but Dylan always admired his ability to read and write Elvish. For awhile Dylan knew that he wanted a dragon tattoo, but could never find a design that he liked enough to ink on his body, that is until he remembered seeing a simple sketch of Smaug, the dragon from The Hobbit.
The challenge in getting the tattoo was to find and verify the authenticity of the drawing of Smaug that Dylan had once seen. After much searching through Tolkien drawn maps and book covers, he finally found the design, which Tolkien himself drew, under the dust jacket and on the actual hardcover of the first edition of The Hobbit.
His classic dragon was inked just around the corner from me at Braindrops here in San Francisco.
– May 20, 2010
Steve is a chemist that has geek-ified his arms with tattoos. He started innocently enough with Batman, then added Joker and Harley Quinn to the Batman theme. Then his problem got serious. He had his artist, Chris Thompson at Slave to the Needle, draw up a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy themed half-sleeve. He wanted something to combine Don’t Panic, 42, science, and space. There was a brief moment of panic when Chris the tattoo guy included the Earth in the design, but Steve calmly explained that Earth isn’t in the Hitchhiker’s Guide. Luckily Chris didn’t replace the Earth with a highway, but rather a cool explosion.
But Steve wasn’t done after getting the half-sleeve. Like many addictions, it’s hard to stop once you start. He had come to love Neil Gaiman’s Sandman comics and went back to Chris to design a sleeve based on the sigils of The Endless with Delirium as the background.
I highly doubt this will be the last we see of Steve on here. Check out the full gallery of pics:
Posted in Books, Comics, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Tattoos.
– May 19, 2010
With the final episode of Lost only a few days away (Sunday, May 23rd!), it’s only fitting to showcase Amy Wilson’s tattoo. She’s a Lost geek who got a Dharma Initiative tattoo because she loves the show and the Swan Station. She’s sure the series finale of Lost will be epic, and wanted to get the tattoo before it all concluded. I hope the series finale is good and not some lame thing like it was all a dream!
Her old high school friend, Jeff McMullen at Ageless Image, did the tattoo.
– May 18, 2010
Tattoos inspired by The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy are always welcome on Geeky Tattoos. So I’m happy to post this pair of tattoos from Emily Holodnick in Bellingham, WA. The petunias are on the back of her left arm and the whale on the back of her right arm. She says she had the idea for this tattoo while at Hitchcon ’09 in London and explains that she wanted to commemorate her favorite scene in one of her favorite books.
These tattoos are by Steve at Old School Tattoo in Bellingham, WA.
Posted in Books, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Tattoos.
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– May 17, 2010
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