Last month, I asked for input on where I should put my WordPress tattoo. After over a hundred votes sent in via, blog comments, Twitter, and email, I announced on the first of this month that I would be getting my new tattoo on my inside wrist/forearm. Well, as promised, I got the tattoo on my birthday… well the day before my birthday, but I’m hoping that you won’t hold that against me.
One of the most important things about a tattoo is originality. You can’t go into a tattoo shop and pick a design off of the wall. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want a tattoo that 100 maybe 200 other people around the world may have. I came up with the idea of getting a “skin tear”, a popular kind of tattoo which simulates a tear in the skin to reveal something else underneath. In this case, I thought that a motherboard would be cool. So, to give the tattoo artist, Kevin, an idea of what I wanted, I photoshopped a motherboard with a WordPress logo incorporated into it. Of course there is way too much detail in this image to possibly put into a tattoo, but I wanted something that the Kevin could reference while designing my tattoo. (colors, shapes, etc.)
Based on the description of what I wanted and the image I provided, Kevin came up with this design. There was however, one correction that I asked Kevin to fix. Thank goodness for my Fairy Blog Mother who told me the difference between the real WordPress logo and the many fakes that can be found on the net. After that simple correction, we were set to start inking! Of course, Geek that I am, I couldn’t resist Tweeting the experience from my handy dandy never leave home without it iPhone, which you can see in the image on the right of this post.
If you ever want a tattoo be sure to call Kevin at TNT Tattoo!
TNT Tattoo: 99-016 Kamehameha Hwy., Aiea, Hawaii 96701 (808) 486-4TNT
High Res image of my WordPress tattoo.
Song stuck in my head at the time of this post: Bad Medicine by Bon Jovi
28 Comments
Looks cool, makes you look like you are from the future.
Looks sore though, my body is fragile and I would crumble.
ha waai’t daar ook zo
haha, so rad.
Very nice tattoo. I like the creativity and originality.
Nice tat man! You get major props for getting a WP tattoo, surprised it took this long before someone did it. WordPress rocks!
Hate to tell you but your tattoo is is using a wrong WordPress logo
http://i40.tinypic.com/2czsygh.jpg
That has your tattoo and then that bad/good W that Matt created which was also used in a Lorelle on WP article.
I showed the design to Lorelle before I got it put on and she said that the logo was correct. So no offence, but I’m gonna go with what she said.
Hello nocturnal beast
The tattoo is tres cool! That’s what brought me here, but now that I’m here, and am another of the baking squad, I may linger!
Have you read the ‘Stuff White People Like’ blog this week? I think they’d like to see this…
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2009/02/10/121-funny-or-ironic-tattoos/
nice!
It’s the right logo, and so says Matt Mullenweg. Now I get it. I love it. You’ve got geek under your skin! You got me thinking about doing the same thing, as I got plenty of geek under my skin.
Love it, and love you for being so brave to be the first and for being everything that you are. Congrats!
dude, u inspired me to make one! =P
Awesome, be sure to send me some pics!
yowsers! better hope they don’t change the logo – and better hope that you don’t decide to stop blogging! fully paid up member of the blogging fraternity now.
Now that’s loyalty to Wordpress.
Wow, congrats on your body art… I just found out about this from The Blog Herald.
So, do you get some sort of regular kickbacks in commissions from WordPress for permanent advertising? lol. This kind of reminds me about those people who got paid a fortune after selling advertising spots on their foreheads.
Way to be a die-hard WP supporter!!!
Wow cousin! You take geekiness to a whole new level! I love it!
Yes, but I still aspire to reach you’re level of geekdom. =) Be sure to check out my BBC interview.
hahaha nice one but i think a temporarily one will do for me
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Whoah! Now that’s one geeky tattoo. I’d love to have one like that..
nice, really nice!
Thank you. This worked perfectly. =]
Awesome tattoo, looks too painful, but pain subsides…….wordpress showcase available to any who wants some other ideas……….tattoo or not
That’s extreme mate lol but full marks to you for including Wordpress not many people can boast that.
Amazing blog Nice work!
Who would of thought that the wordpres logo would actually make a cool looking tat. Now all you have to do is slap a esqueak ,Twitter, facebook, and myspace icon in the empty space below the WP logo
Beautiful tattoos!
Too I want the such.
Nice!
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