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Vote for Matt’s Cybernetic Arm!

tl;drVote For Matt’s Tattoo here! You might win $500

Some of the best geeky tattoos are the ones that people create by meshing different aspects of their geeky pursuits together into something original and unique. The tattoo you see above isn’t instantly recognizable as being pulled from any specific part of the geek canon. It’s actually inspired by a combination of Mass Effect, Knights of the Old Republic, The Force Unleashed, Ghost in the Shell, the earlier works of William Gibson’s Sprawl Trilogy (my personal favorite too), and the video for All Is Full of Love by Björk. Matt took these different geeky things and put together his geeky armor tattoo with the help of Mat Kerfen on armor design and Douglas J at High Rollers Tattoo Studio on ink. In addition to the geek bits, Matt explains that it also represents “a strange and deeply philosophic discussion about the breaks in our armor that show our real selves.”

A pretty awesome tattoo, right? But the post doesn’t end there! Along with the tattoo pic, I got an email from Matt that says “I’m gonna pull a dirty trick here and even paraphrase Razor and Blade from Hackers saying that I need more than a media icon such as yourself, I need an army, a digital army. Geek/gamers of the world unite!” Why does he need your support? No, there’s no oil tanker with a virus that’s about to kill a bajillion whales (they’re all safe thanks to the Sea Shepherd). Well Matt’s geeky ink is entered in a tattoo contest for a local Philadelphia radio station, Radio 104.5. So kind readers of Geeky Tattoos, Hack the Planet! errr Vote For Matt’s Tattoo! It’s easy and doesn’t involve any roller blades or even using dirty payphones. Ha, like you could even find a payphone anymore. Need some incentive other than the warm feeling of helping a fellow geek out? One lucky random person that votes will win $500. That could pay for a really sweet tattoo. Oh and you can vote every 24 hours.

Disclaimer: Yes, if your geeky tattoo is a) awesome, b) in a contest, and c) you ask nicely and offer to buy me a beer when I’m in your town I’ll totally post a call for votes for you.

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World of Warcraft Horde Tattoo

It’s on Alliance! Piper comes representing the Horde. She’s from the Kalecgos server and has been playing WoW for 3 years. So she went and got the Horde crest tattooed on her arm by Neal at Unhinged Tattoo.

World of Warcraft Tattoo War:
Horde: 1 Alliance: 1

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Giant BSG Back Tattoo

Charles is a big Battlestar Galactica fan and loved the guardian angel idea of Starbuck. Impressive back tattoo by Rich Lamos at Ace of Spades Tattoo in Asheville, NC.

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Na-vi-gate

Ok, I lied. Jason said more and actually sent in his other tattoo: a compass rose with the cardinal directions of the vi editor. Ok emacs users, the ball is in your court…

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Dumb Unix Commands

Jason is a man of few words. He sent in his tattoo and just said: “dumb unix commands”. I couldn’t have said it better.

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Paper Mario and Final Fantasy Tattoos

Daniel, a gamer since he could hold a controller and not put it directly in his mouth, started off with the Final Fantasy 1 tattoo (Thief, Fighter, Black Mage, and White Mage for those keeping track). Then he added Paper Mario. He says he’s not done yet and I’d have to agree as there’s plenty of space on his arm and so many more video games.

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Powered By Google Tattoo

Like so many other PC techs and support people, Josh Charland depends a great deal on the tremendous amount of knowledge that you can tap through Google. So he figured a tattoo was only fitting to tell the world that he was “Powered by Google” too.

Ink was done at Vipers Nest II (since closed) by Bravo, who’s at Tattoo Royal now.

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She’s got some space on her arm

Rhylie’s a sci-fi geek who’s lucky enough to have an uncle who tattoos! Rob’s her uncle and he’ll be adding the Millenium Falcon to Rhylie’s arm soon. Can’t wait to see!

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Geek Arm Collage

Sometimes you just can’t decide on which nerdy tattoo you want to get… so you get them all.

Jason B from Kenosha, WI describes his geeky arm collage:

– The molecule is polycarbonate since I have worked in plastics for 13+ years (Praying Mantis Tattoo by Tsunami  Denver, CO)
– The transistor because it is the greatest invention since the wheel (Solid State Tattoo by Julio Milwaukee, WI)
– DON’T PANIC  since The Guide is my favorite book series (Liberty Tat2 by Eric Antioch, IL)
– The screwdrivers because I am a maintenance manager and tools are my living (Bound by Design by Alyssa? Denver, CO)
– Geek in CAPTCHA because… well I’m a geek! (Liberty Tat2  by John? Antioch, IL)

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My feet can’t repel firepower of that magnitude!

George is a repeat geek who just had to share his latest tattoo. And I’m glad he did. He says this piece was originally going to go above his geek back piece but it wouldn’t fit right. He joked about putting it on his feet, which resulted in 4 hours of pain and the tattoo you see above: an awesome depiction of the Death Star blowing up Alderaan. The foot torture was done by Tony Touch at Infinite Art Tattoo.

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