Raptors had feathers, over their entire bodies. The smooth, leathery skin from the Jurassic Park movie depiction is incorrect (but consistent with our knowledge at that time).
Thank You! Great stuff! Thanks for finding it and showing it ! Keep up the good work! Lots of this stuff is buried in obscurity in the backwash of the current web and needs re-dicovering for folks like me with limited search abilitys Please do more!
The jellyfish tattoo is the absolute best. I've read the story behind it. It's also something I had planned to do after I received a degree in marine biology... but... you know how life goes.
Let's revist these individuals in 10 years, log photos of their faded 'body art' and ask them on a scale of 1-10 how much of a scumbag do they feel about themselves having these ridiculous paintings on their bodies. Date a woman with something like this on her body; chance = 0%.
I'm going to get a cryptic equation inked onto my body. Then I can look really smart, and people will all know that I have an alternative to being socially adept.
Yes. For one, they had huge, bat-like ears, with lots of fur on them to detect slight atmospheric changes. Contrary to popular belief, they actually had three eyes, the third being only a small black one in the middle of the head that was sensitive to infrared radiation, which provided them with heat vision. I wouldn't want to bore you with other facts the tattoo designer obviously didn't know, such as the collapsible giant penis that sprays sticky acid at their enemies that was probably impossible to get off, so I'll just tell you that if you want to know the the FACTS, look up "Scientology."
these are nice. just wish i had some idea of what a lot of these are. like the elements spelling think. i'm sure there's another layer to that but i have no idea what it is.
I agree. you don't know what raptors looked like either. you can tell that its a raptor, its good art and the person who got it is proud enough to show it off. that's all that matters. quit nitpicking.
I guess I'm not nerdy enough, because I have no idea what that fat pig-tail looking thing is. And the multi-colored orangutan + lettuce is ugly as hell.
I AM A TATTOO ARTIST AND THERE IS ALOT OF NICE WORK.. AND COLOR BLENDING.. AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE TAT OF THE MICROSCOPE, OVER ON HIS LEFT SHOULDER YOU CAN SEE A H.I.V. OR AIDS VIRUS ATTACKING A BLOOD CELL....
"theese r stuipid.... y would u wana stupid math problum on ur bodii when u can get thse cooll tribil tatoos??!?"
Because tribal tats are just as lame as mathematical formulas and WAAAAY overdone.
The archaeopteryx, raptor portrait, jellyfish, and the microscope piece get my vote for the best here. A few DNA pieces with the vibrant colors are pretty cool, also.
I'll stick with my Minotaur, Poseidon, Horus, and Anubis, though. Next up, Hammer Brothers from Super Mario!
It's not HIV pictured on the shoulder, HIV is basically a sphere, this one looks more like a bacteriophage (viruses infecting bacteria).
Also: wrong kind of blood cells, in the picture are red blood cells which don't support viral replication since they don't have genes any more and thus lack the whole machinery needed to replicate a virus.
HIV goes for helper-T-lymphocytes if anyone cares...
All of you about the dinosaur, need to get things straightened out. There's an Archeaopteryx, and what appears to be Deinonychus. Archaeopteryx is the bone one, with the colorful feathers. Obviously we don't know what the colors were, but the feathers are represented in the fossil this is based on, specifically the Berlin specimen. The Deinonychus is not a Velociraptor, the former is from North America, the latter from Mongolia. Jurassic Park's "Velociraptors" were actually based on Utahraptor in both size and shape. That particular tattoo appears to be based on the work of Douglas Henderson, a very prominent Paleoartist. Whether Deinonychus was covered in feathers or proto-feathers is pure speculation as there is no fossil evidence of it's existence. Personally, I prefer to entertain the notion that there were at least some form of proto-feathers on either it's head or tail for display purposes. Regardless, much of the work on here is fantastic, the Deinonychus piece especially. And in case you are wondering, yes, I am an Illustrator having specialized in Paleo-Illustration, and I am now a tattoo artist who appreciates a geeky tattoo when he sees one.
All of these are very nice. I particularly like all the geekiest ones (showing anatomy, math equations, and chemical formula)
I'd date any girl with any of these tattoos btw - save I'm married. It says something about the person that I think is just amazing. I'd avoid a girl with butterfly tattoos.
I love the geekiest ones the most (math formula, chemical equation, anatomy, great stuff).
for the comments of regret - If I wasn't married I'd date just about any girl with these tattoos - it shows a free personality and some actual intelligence, which is just sexy. Avoid the girls with butterflies on ankles and tramp stamps.
THANK YOU to the person for calling the dinosaur idiots douchebags.
And also for giving me a short lesson about their anatomy. It's a shame they have so much in common with myself anatomically. :( I wish I were a dinosaur...feathered or no.
I am an Electronics and Tele-Communication Engineer and these tattoos made an engineers heart feel very delighted.
On that note here is something that my friends and I used to call the engineers joke. It is a rhyme that you use on girls. The first line is in Hindi. It goes like this.
Maine tujhko dekha, tere baap ne mujhko pita. Maine tujhko dekha, tere baap ne mujhko pita. ..... Sin Theta upon Cos Theta is equal to Tan Theta
The first line means ( When I set eyes on you, your Daddy bashed me up.)
Life can be like "Getting a Dorky Tattoo."
THE PHENOMENON CALLED LIFE THROUGH MY COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES .. http://lifeshortstory.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/who-is-luckier
Why not just memorize those basic formulas instead? At least try writing them down! That is, unless you get some kind of ego boost from using them as a conversation piece; ie "Oh yeah, didn't you know the Mandelbrot set is, like, the visual orgasm of the 1980s? Really? Wanna fuck?!"
Some have opinions that should be kept quit, only a good artist or tattoo artist would even know how wonderfully these tat's are displayed. I think they all have a meaning to that person who wears them, thanks so much I to have many tattoo's that I wear proudly because only I know what they truly mean, thanks again.
I thought these were suppose to be scientific tattoos. How is number 30 from top a scientific picture? A man on wings with a wheel-like item in hand, looks like Zoroastrian symbol.
As if any of you actually knows what a raptor looks like. Congratulations on reading an article one time about a scientist who says that they had feathers. Dumbass. I'm the only one here that's actually seen a real one and they have soft smooth baby skin, just like a person, and big blue Aryan eyes, and 8-fingered hands, and a giant penis
If you HATE tats so much...why in the fuck are you here looking at tattoos? I've had mine for about 20 years...no regrets, never had a problem and everyone has been quite interested in them all, had no problems with dates before I got married. SUGGESTION: Why dont you go get one you spineless coward, after you thump your bible of course...
the H.I.V. virus does not exist! It is an invention of the Pharmaceutical Industry! No one has ever seen one! They pictured it, totally detailed, AS IF it exists. They even made 3D computer animations of it to make it look even more convincingly real.
Nice tats, I enjoyed the whole thing, with the exception that all the juvenile negative comments are neither appreciated nor necessary. I hope you (negatives) go back to high school reunion with paste on your breath.
Are not a f*** raptor, are a Sinosauropteryx are you blind or what? I'm gone a get one like that, looks ice high. hey god dude, an angel looking for you. now get out of here!
Great Tattoos. Some of the comments make me laugh though. You can tell they are from people whom have no idea about tattoos, especially the ones about how the wearer will feel in twenty years. Well the most common answer is exactly the same way. I have tattoos that are nearly twenty years old and I still love them. They are as much a part of me now as they where then. It seems to me that people without tattoos are unable to see the difference between some piece of flash pick of the shop wall and a piece of highly personalized piece of art work
why dont we take the raptor tattoo for iconic art. just like hearts and all that jazz. we all know our hearts look like stupid fists with holes and tunnells, not a bubble letter v about to explode with what we think is joy.
iconic raptors = no feathers. real raptors = feathers. raptor jesus = OMLOLZ
Truly, the only remedy that I can see for such awful taste both in the 'art' and the ensuing comments is for us ALL to get dimethyltryptamined. Worst thread ever FTW.
Hey where does it say in the bible you shouldnt get a tattoo? The detail on that raptor tatt is unbelievable..... nice job who did the work? so we can all get one.... even the god dude should get one... you could get a religious tatt.....
These tattoos are ok if u like science and what not some of the artists did a VERY poor job and if i got any of them i would regret it, i love tattoos, and an an appretentice tattoo artist but these are some of the poorest tattoos i have seen. but if the person that got thems happy i guess its their own preference
I can't believe there are no comments on the cavemen/evolution tats. The one with the lady was also nice. But people science tats are not sexy. Don't try this at home.
Where can I find out where some of these people got their tattoos?
The raptor one makes me want to go see Land of the Lost
well ok first things first, WHY IS THERE A RAPTOR ON UR ARM I THOUGHT THEY WERE EXTINCT U SCARE ME?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! WITH THAT RAPTOR????!?!?!?!?!? second things first, I wanna do the jellyfish girl...and no raptor can stop me I will overcome my fear. and last things first, WOW that pie tattoo is so original. Someone should try butterfly tattoos for a change theyre rare!
Too bad those of you making detrimental comments spent (you make it seem as if you wasted) your time coming to LOOK at the TATS. I happen to think they are all amazing, especially the ones depicting formulas and tables. I find it especially interesting that scientific and mathematic formulas are used as tats, I never thought of that when I got my own. Bravo, amazing work.
the dino tats are cool, whatever they are. keep picking on what they are and you take away the coolness of the tat. if youre picky about what bird it was (another 50 posts to flame my "bird" comment i suppose?) then shuit up and get a tat yourself. then in 10 years you'll be blammered on when new discoveries change the appearence of whatever dino u made
WTF? You idiots cannot just see the tattoo for what it is? It's someone expression of themselves in the form of a tattoo. Who gives if its a raptor, condor or a fat whore.
Someone out there should shave their head and have the various lobes of the brain tattooed to the appropriate areas of their scalp. Remind people that despite your poor decisions, you do actually have a brain up there.
These tats rock!!! Having 2 tattoos that were inspired by pictures in comic books (The Dark Tower), I can totally see where these people are coming from. Some of these are just fantastic!!! I like tattoos.
This is a site showcasing some interesting tattoos, not a forum for palaeontological debate. Who the f#@% cares what the dinosaur looked like? The tattoo artist did an amazing rendering. Try and appreciate it for it's beauty. Gah!
On 6-01-07 some Nypolean Dynamite wizzard caught my attention with his rendition of the bird like reptile. If you read this with your own interpretation of N.P. style of speach, I think you'll get a kick out of it. Other wise, although most of the art is great to look at. Just draw it on paper. No need to make bill boards out of us. It's a choice though.
Who the @#&*$%#@ are any of you to judge any of this. Whether the are accurate or not. The artist did an amazing job on most of these pieces of artwork and if the people are happy with them shit the hell up. Sounds like your all abunch of self absorbed a** holes. If you don't like tattoos or are too chickenshit to get some go look at something else. People express themselves in many ways. At least they're original enough to get something different and not typical like FAKE tribal art for the indecisive. (True tribal is beautiful) If there isn't anything nice to say SHUT UP!!!
I agree with allot of the comments here. The artwork is amazing and should be appreciated for what it is. If you don't like tattoos, then don't get one, but don't judge others for the body art. I have to admit, I like the glowing scorpion and the neuron on the foot is pretty cool too. The jelly fish is incredibly well done also. Give credit where it is due, and stop whining about crap that makes others happy.
Oddly enough, though the Bible does prohibit tattoos and markings (phylacteries from Deut. 6:8 are *not* tattoos) and I disagree with permanent body scarring/marking, I think the mathematical ones are tasteful. The biological/evolutionary ones are stupid, especially since evolution is a massively flawed theory. As a biochemistry student, I found most of the chemical tattoos disappointing. ATP or a VSEPR model atom would've been better.
Tattoos are *still* this controversial? Excellent. Can't wait to get my sleeve finished up so I can immediately get to work on my legs, back, etc, etc, etc... : )
Who the fuck cares whether it was a proper rendition of a raptor or if they were even supposed to be raptors at all!? It's an awesome tattoo and that's the point; stop being retarded!
These are awesome! Beautiful work. Also, to the haters on here: You don't have to ever get or want a tattoo, that's your choice. But don't put people down as "stupid" who do like and/or want them. Some people do later regret the tattoos they've gotten, but that isn't the case usually with people who choose their art carefully and for whom it has personal meaning. My tattoo (the female symbol with a fist inside) is very meaningful to me and I thought it about it for over a year before getting it. No regrets. Appreciate the art if you like it. If not, move on. It's just that easy.
These are far more interesting than the run of the mill tribal/angel-wings/tramp-stamp/paw-print/etc. b.s. I see at the local shopping malls. Any one of these people is going to have more interesting things to say than those mouth breathers. And it really makes me laugh to see true individualists being talked down for not conforming to the "individualist" standard. Awesome ink and kudos to the canvases.
I think people can get whatever they want on THEIR body....they are all unique in their own way. The dinosaur one is a scene from Jurassic Park so its not meant to reflect what a REAL raptor looked like. I think people should stop criticizing tattoos on others....it is an expression of YOU....no one else.....some are beautiful, some may look ridiculous.....who are we to judge?
To the anonymous going on about how a virus cant attack a RBC, you are wrong in so many ways. A lot of viruses have the ability to agglutinate RBC by surface receptors causeing clotting problems or lysing the RBCs.
and yes there are even RNA viruses that can replicate in RBCs... RBCs dont have a nucleus but they do still have ribosomes and the ability to synthesize proteins which the viral machinery can hijack and make new proteins including RNA-polymerase which can then synthesize the new RNA for replicated viruses.
Tattoos are cool no matter what the are because it is a personal thing so let it go... admire it, loathe it whatever... you are just an idiot if you judge because it is not your body...
Nor is it Gods body or Yahweh are who ever else you want to invoke the name of in any superstitious hocus-pocus you believe in.
if i was a real nerd i would tattoo a picture of a graphing calculator in the palm of my hand. My baby never failed to let me down since sophomore year in high school and on though out college and grad
Each and every one of these represents the height of moronic vandalism. Grafiti upon ones self. Something is surely lacking in the mind when the idea of mutilating yourself in this way is considered art. The outer damage reflects the damage within.
Ummmm FYI for all of you arguing about the Dinosaur tattoo. Its a moot point because you are all wrong.
The artist who did that piece is Reed Leslie, out of The Hole Look. A tattoo shop in Anchorage, AK. It is a frozen frame from the movie Jurassic Park that he did and is undeniably one of the best pieces he's ever done.
So enough arguing about the piece. Its awesomeness and thats all that needs be noted.
P.S. You can find Reed's profile on MySpace here. http://www.myspace.com/37621891 or at his personal website http://www.reedleslie.com
The tattoo in picture 48 is supposed to be the Schrödinger equation, but it is not: it's the partial derivative, and not the total as denoted by the dot.. I would really like to see the guys face when somebody will tell him
The e^(pi*i)+1 was interesting. I'm going to have to dig up my algebra ( calc? ) book to prove that one Xd. Also, pic 22 had the entropy, or change of entropy I should say, along with gravity, but does anyone know the top equation? I can't seem to remember ....( nerd, hehe)
it's cute how the "IT'S AN ARCHAEOPTERYX NOOBS" people are completely missing the point that the archaeopteryx tattoo is not the tattoo in question, but rather the one of the two dinosaurs (raptors or not) in the forest.
also, to all the "U DONT NO WAT RAPTORS LOOKED LIKE U WERNT A LIFE," lol k
The tat with the Schrödinger equation is fine. The dot notation isn't the total derivative, it is used to denote the derivative with respect to time. In this case it would act the time derivative of the wave function (in other words the partial in time) and therefore is the proper form of the equation.
This is awesome. I am a tattoo artist and have done a tattoo that should be on this website. Please email me at bymissjenn@gmail.com if you want the photo! It's nice to know there are so many science nuts out there. I'm one too ;)
I love how the people who are talking shit about these tattoos don't know what grammar is. Apparently they could have served well to have been geeks too. I want a quadratic formula tattoo, but my boyfriend would never be seen with me in public if I got it.
Bleh. One nice thing about tattoos is they can help identify a body if other identifiable parts are unavailable. Beyond that...in a hundred years or so, it most likely won't matter.
Regardless of how original your tattoo art may be, unless you do it yourself, it is and always will be someone else's artwork.
181 comments to “Scientific Tattoos”
xenaclone
May 29, 2009 2:03 PMWow. That dinosaur one is amazing.
sairasta
too bad the dinosaur one isn't what raptors actually looked like.
how about you give credit to the actual website these came from...
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/science-tattoo-emporium/
What, do you have some better idea of what they look like?
They had feathers, for one thing
Raptors had feathers, over their entire bodies. The smooth, leathery skin from the Jurassic Park movie depiction is incorrect (but consistent with our knowledge at that time).
Thank You! Great stuff! Thanks for finding it and showing it ! Keep up the good work! Lots of this stuff is buried in obscurity in the backwash of the current web and needs re-dicovering for folks like me with limited search abilitys Please do more!
raptors had feathers
It's well-established now that raptors had feathers.
That's cause it's an Archeopteryx
too bad that dinosaur one isn't supposed to be a raptor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryx
I think it's a seen from Jurrasic Park. It is awesome.
How would you know what raptors actually looked like? No one else does.
The quadratic formula is rediculous, so i guess during tests a turtle neck is required
Hannah
June 1, 2009 1:53 AMThe jellyfish tattoo is the absolute best. I've read the story behind it. It's also something I had planned to do after I received a degree in marine biology... but... you know how life goes.
Most of these are ugly as sin. Bet they regret them in 20 years.
too bad the deinonychus did look like that, asshole.
oatmealsnap
June 1, 2009 2:16 AMYea, they looked like this:
http://www.agirlsworld.com/rachel/beat-street/reviews/pix/jurassicthree1.jpg
No bar codes on the neck though,I have seen 2 like them around Michigan.
Yeah raptors had feathers but still that is an amazing tatoo
The scorpion with the uv I have never seen before, very cool!
This stuff makes me shit my pants
nerds
Paraprosexia
June 1, 2009 3:25 AMprops to the dino one. Ridiculous detail
Wow...Some fantastic ink....Loved the Jellyfish
Mark
Philly
sure be some butt ugly ones.
It's not a raptor, it's Archaeopteryx. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feathered_dinosaur
This is why these tattoos are for smart people.
pacat
June 1, 2009 4:02 AMGreat tats!! Not the normal by far.
pacat
June 1, 2009 4:03 AMGreat tats.Good to see something that is above the norm.
Humans rode them with saddles. So says the damn Bible.
You know, with all the possible geekiness for tats, I'm surprised at the utter lameness of these.
they were purple, and sang alot
theese r stuipid.... y would u wana stupid math problum on ur bodii when u can get thse cooll tribil tatoos??!?
and who says they are raptors???
Let's revist these individuals in 10 years, log photos of their faded 'body art' and ask them on a scale of 1-10 how much of a scumbag do they feel about themselves having these ridiculous paintings on their bodies. Date a woman with something like this on her body; chance = 0%.
had an instructor who had the pi symbol as a half sleeve
im a raptor and i look like that
dinosaur = a bit of photoshop.
Yeah...emu's are a closer interpretation of raptors.
oh really? and how do you think raptors looked like?
i think that foot is flicking me off
Who said they were raptors?
the heart tatto would look better if it was on his left chest...
I'm going to get a cryptic equation inked onto my body. Then I can look really smart, and people will all know that I have an alternative to being socially adept.
Yes. For one, they had huge, bat-like ears, with lots of fur on them to detect slight atmospheric changes. Contrary to popular belief, they actually had three eyes, the third being only a small black one in the middle of the head that was sensitive to infrared radiation, which provided them with heat vision. I wouldn't want to bore you with other facts the tattoo designer obviously didn't know, such as the collapsible giant penis that sprays sticky acid at their enemies that was probably impossible to get off, so I'll just tell you that if you want to know the the FACTS, look up "Scientology."
Seriously who cares what they actually looked like. If the person with the tattoo(s) is happy with it then shut your mouth...
ahh yes, being a raptor breeder... I'm sure you'd know best as to their anatomy.
Too bad you are an idiot.
these are nice. just wish i had some idea of what a lot of these are. like the elements spelling think. i'm sure there's another layer to that but i have no idea what it is.
I agree. you don't know what raptors looked like either. you can tell that its a raptor, its good art and the person who got it is proud enough to show it off. that's all that matters. quit nitpicking.
I met a guy with serotonin tatooed on his chest.
Its common knowledge amongst dinoexperts that most raptor-like dinosaurs like velociraptor had FEATHERS.
these are the dumbest tattoos i've ever seen.
wsbsdrewnelson
June 1, 2009 8:59 AMThe Golden Mean, 1.618... cool
It doesn't look like a raptor because it's a Archeoptryx you moron.
Snow
June 1, 2009 9:31 AMI have a tattoo of '<3' on my left wrist.
:3 Im a nerd, be scared.
One more reason to hate tattoos.
I guess I'm not nerdy enough, because I have no idea what that fat pig-tail looking thing is.
And the multi-colored orangutan + lettuce is ugly as hell.
Thats what they looked like on Jurassic park. Maybe thats what they were going for!
The glowing scorpion is freaking insane!
Some of these are nice, but most are the type of tattoos where the owner is gonna wake up 20 years from now and say, "WTF was I thinking?!"
amy
June 1, 2009 10:14 AMYeah... actual raptors were about the size of a turkey and had feathers.
Julene
June 1, 2009 10:27 AMLOL @ getting busted for stealing another blog's content without offering credit where it was due. FAIL.
the quadratic equation? lol. seriously? if you're gonna put a meaningless math equation on yourself at least choose a taylor series like the next guy.
props to the modern physics equations. :)
number 25 is a symbol that refers to nibiru
I kind of assumed that wasn't a 'raptor' there Michael Crichton. Looks like an Archaeopteryx
I AM A TATTOO ARTIST AND THERE IS ALOT OF NICE WORK.. AND COLOR BLENDING.. AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE TAT OF THE MICROSCOPE, OVER ON HIS LEFT SHOULDER YOU CAN SEE A H.I.V. OR AIDS VIRUS ATTACKING A BLOOD CELL....
would this be consider cheating?
I think theyre..ok... considering..most of the people who saw them probably caught the link from FARK.com.
FlashGordoN
June 1, 2009 12:31 PMfirst
bitches
"theese r stuipid.... y would u wana stupid math problum on ur bodii when u can get thse cooll tribil tatoos??!?"
Because tribal tats are just as lame as mathematical formulas and WAAAAY overdone.
The archaeopteryx, raptor portrait, jellyfish, and the microscope piece get my vote for the best here. A few DNA pieces with the vibrant colors are pretty cool, also.
I'll stick with my Minotaur, Poseidon, Horus, and Anubis, though. Next up, Hammer Brothers from Super Mario!
everyone shut up about the damn raptors
It's not HIV pictured on the shoulder, HIV is basically a sphere, this one looks more like a bacteriophage (viruses infecting bacteria).
Also: wrong kind of blood cells, in the picture are red blood cells which don't support viral replication since they don't have genes any more and thus lack the whole machinery needed to replicate a virus.
HIV goes for helper-T-lymphocytes if anyone cares...
Best
Actually Raptors were fish
the microscope back piece is amazing
All of you about the dinosaur, need to get things straightened out. There's an Archeaopteryx, and what appears to be Deinonychus. Archaeopteryx is the bone one, with the colorful feathers. Obviously we don't know what the colors were, but the feathers are represented in the fossil this is based on, specifically the Berlin specimen. The Deinonychus is not a Velociraptor, the former is from North America, the latter from Mongolia. Jurassic Park's "Velociraptors" were actually based on Utahraptor in both size and shape. That particular tattoo appears to be based on the work of Douglas Henderson, a very prominent Paleoartist. Whether Deinonychus was covered in feathers or proto-feathers is pure speculation as there is no fossil evidence of it's existence. Personally, I prefer to entertain the notion that there were at least some form of proto-feathers on either it's head or tail for display purposes. Regardless, much of the work on here is fantastic, the Deinonychus piece especially. And in case you are wondering, yes, I am an Illustrator having specialized in Paleo-Illustration, and I am now a tattoo artist who appreciates a geeky tattoo when he sees one.
A reference to Abbott's "Flatland" . How cool!
Lemme get this straight... A bunch of you are saying they can't be a raptors because raptors have feathers and so you say thay are Archeoptryx?
Ummm... Archeoptryx had feathers too.
I don't know what those are for certain, but the people splitting hairs about it can accurately be identified as douchebags.
Douchebags do not have feathers.
Susan
June 1, 2009 6:58 PMI like the heart on your sleeve guy...
very good collection, one with the torn hand showing planets is very good imagination.
The scorpion above that also looks nice
- Ketan
nate
June 1, 2009 7:31 PMAll of these are very nice. I particularly like all the geekiest ones (showing anatomy, math equations, and chemical formula)
I'd date any girl with any of these tattoos btw - save I'm married. It says something about the person that I think is just amazing. I'd avoid a girl with butterfly tattoos.
nate
June 1, 2009 7:35 PMI love the geekiest ones the most (math formula, chemical equation, anatomy, great stuff).
for the comments of regret - If I wasn't married I'd date just about any girl with these tattoos - it shows a free personality and some actual intelligence, which is just sexy. Avoid the girls with butterflies on ankles and tramp stamps.
It'd be cool if they had a periodic table tattooed!!!
Wow, the tattoo artist has no idea what a bacteriophage looks like. No surprise there.
lol@dinotrollz
LOL@FlashGordon
ROFL@scientology
aisdbfiou
June 1, 2009 8:40 PMHow does one mistake a bacteriophage for the HIV virus?
the arguement regarding the raptors, your both stupid...The monkey developing into human is pretty cool though
GIVE IT UP WITH THE RAPTORS....ALL THAT NEEDS TO BE SAID IS THAT THE TATTOO ARTIST IS AMAZING AT WHAT HE DOES. VERY GOOD ATTENTION TO DETAIL.
>_< at the dinosaur comments
THANK YOU to the person for calling the dinosaur idiots douchebags.
And also for giving me a short lesson about their anatomy. It's a shame they have so much in common with myself anatomically. :( I wish I were a dinosaur...feathered or no.
where is love guys? jesus christ.
Murtaza
June 2, 2009 3:19 AMI am an Electronics and Tele-Communication Engineer and these tattoos made an engineers heart feel very delighted.
On that note here is something that my friends and I used to call the engineers joke. It is a rhyme that you use on girls. The first line is in Hindi. It goes like this.
Maine tujhko dekha, tere baap ne mujhko pita.
Maine tujhko dekha, tere baap ne mujhko pita.
.....
Sin Theta upon Cos Theta is equal to Tan Theta
The first line means ( When I set eyes on you, your Daddy bashed me up.)
Life can be like "Getting a Dorky Tattoo."
THE PHENOMENON CALLED LIFE THROUGH MY COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES .. http://lifeshortstory.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/who-is-luckier
Hi I want to eat you
nice dimethyltryptamine tat, way better than mine
Most will regret these ugly tats in less than 1 year.
Love it
shopped
Why not just memorize those basic formulas instead? At least try writing them down! That is, unless you get some kind of ego boost from using them as a conversation piece; ie "Oh yeah, didn't you know the Mandelbrot set is, like, the visual orgasm of the 1980s? Really? Wanna fuck?!"
RanmaSolo
June 2, 2009 1:03 PM"faded" tattoos are pretty much extinct for the record. Newer inks don't fade the way old inks did.
more interesting than the usual tats, but only for about 3 seconds each.
Anyone who says, "Oh, they'll regret it later" would love to get a tattoo but doesn't have the balls. Deluded, self-justifying girls blouses.
milk
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Big Sexy
June 2, 2009 4:17 PMSome have opinions that should be kept quit, only a good artist or tattoo artist would even know how wonderfully these tat's are displayed. I think they all have a meaning to that person who wears them, thanks so much I to have many tattoo's that I wear proudly because only I know what they truly mean, thanks again.
I thought these were suppose to be scientific tattoos. How is number 30 from top a scientific picture? A man on wings with a wheel-like item in hand, looks like Zoroastrian symbol.
mm expresense! It's OK
welldone awesome inspiring alot of beauties...
qwerty
June 2, 2009 6:49 PMAs if any of you actually knows what a raptor looks like. Congratulations on reading an article one time about a scientist who says that they had feathers. Dumbass.
I'm the only one here that's actually seen a real one and they have soft smooth baby skin, just like a person, and big blue Aryan eyes, and 8-fingered hands, and a giant penis
Just wanted to add one comment which will open your eyes. embedding any sort of wording or pictures to human body is prohibited by God Almighty.
Please think about it. human body will speak on the day of judgment (res-erection) that what we been doing with it.
If you HATE tats so much...why in the fuck are you here looking at tattoos? I've had mine for about 20 years...no regrets, never had a problem and everyone has been quite interested in them all, had no problems with dates before I got married. SUGGESTION: Why dont you go get one you spineless coward, after you thump your bible of course...
Maybe you're a moron. Did you ever think of that? Of course not. You're a moron.
Paul Bruno
June 3, 2009 3:01 AMthe H.I.V. virus does not exist!
It is an invention of the Pharmaceutical Industry!
No one has ever seen one!
They pictured it, totally detailed, AS IF it exists.
They even made 3D computer animations of it to make it look even more convincingly real.
Nice tats, I enjoyed the whole thing, with the exception that all the juvenile negative comments are neither appreciated nor necessary. I hope you (negatives) go back to high school reunion with paste on your breath.
This is the best blog argument ever. Who is the one who thinks he is a raptor? and singing?
Well, good until the religious dude showed up.
To the 1.618 guy: why not just get the Fibonacci spiral? duh.
judge not, lest ye be judged. its art dude, and its beautiful.
damn these people are doubly screwed in the eyes of the super magnificent mega spectacular God,
tattoos and science!
raptor tatoo is epic
Are not a f*** raptor, are a Sinosauropteryx are you blind or what? I'm gone a get one like that, looks ice high.
hey god dude, an angel looking for you. now get out of here!
Frank Williams
June 3, 2009 5:21 PMGreat Tattoos. Some of the comments make me laugh though. You can tell they are from people whom have no idea about tattoos, especially the ones about how the wearer will feel in twenty years. Well the most common answer is exactly the same way. I have tattoos that are nearly twenty years old and I still love them. They are as much a part of me now as they where then. It seems to me that people without tattoos are unable to see the difference between some piece of flash pick of the shop wall and a piece of highly personalized piece of art work
ΔΕΣΠΟΙΝΑ
June 3, 2009 8:12 PMrespect..!!
How do raptors perceive ownership? Do I own my arm hairs? Actually my arm hairs belong to everyone. I will mail them to anyone who wants them.
I like tattoos, sometimes.
why dont we take the raptor tattoo for iconic art. just like hearts and all that jazz. we all know our hearts look like stupid fists with holes and tunnells, not a bubble letter v about to explode with what we think is joy.
iconic raptors = no feathers.
real raptors = feathers.
raptor jesus = OMLOLZ
nerdz.
Truly, the only remedy that I can see for such awful taste both in the 'art' and the ensuing comments is for us ALL to get dimethyltryptamined. Worst thread ever FTW.
Hey where does it say in the bible you shouldnt get a tattoo? The detail on that raptor tatt is unbelievable..... nice job who did the work? so we can all get one.... even the god dude should get one... you could get a religious tatt.....
These tattoos are ok if u like science and what not
some of the artists did a VERY poor job and if i got any of them i would regret it,
i love tattoos, and an an appretentice tattoo artist
but these are some of the poorest tattoos i have seen.
but if the person that got thems happy i guess its their own preference
I can't believe there are no comments on the cavemen/evolution tats. The one with the lady was also nice. But people science tats are not sexy. Don't try this at home.
Where can I find out where some of these people got their tattoos?
The raptor one makes me want to go see Land of the Lost
Are you guys serious? ...
Fabulous tattoos and very entertaining comments.
Shane
June 4, 2009 7:14 PMHeh. I wonder what that Bible guy does with Deuteronomy 6:8. Why not tattoo them?
"Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads."
Blondie was the first raptor but I like good old rock and roll. At 50 most tats should be covered. At least at the dinner table.
well ok first things first, WHY IS THERE A RAPTOR ON UR ARM I THOUGHT THEY WERE EXTINCT U SCARE ME?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! WITH THAT RAPTOR????!?!?!?!?!?
second things first, I wanna do the jellyfish girl...and no raptor can stop me I will overcome my fear.
and last things first, WOW that pie tattoo is so original.
Someone should try butterfly tattoos for a change theyre rare!
do as you like
Rene'
June 4, 2009 9:54 PMToo bad those of you making detrimental comments spent (you make it seem as if you wasted) your time coming to LOOK at the TATS. I happen to think they are all amazing, especially the ones depicting formulas and tables. I find it especially interesting that scientific and mathematic formulas are used as tats, I never thought of that when I got my own. Bravo, amazing work.
These are just gay as all balls
Ricardo Martins
June 4, 2009 11:30 PMthe dino tats are cool, whatever they are.
keep picking on what they are and you take away the coolness of the tat.
if youre picky about what bird it was (another 50 posts to flame my "bird" comment i suppose?) then shuit up and get a tat yourself. then in 10 years you'll be blammered on when new discoveries change the appearence of whatever dino u made
Very cool!
WTF? You idiots cannot just see the tattoo for what it is? It's someone expression of themselves in the form of a tattoo. Who gives if its a raptor, condor or a fat whore.
The particle trail one is fucking excellent. I have some of those myself.
dont do it - put it on a canvas instead
I wanna get a tattoo of my butt... on my butt. Yeah Yeah that'd be cool.
inky winky parlay Vou
the girl with the squid on her foot should be punched in the face.
that was stupid.
I AM a raptor, and I look just like the one in that tattoo.
Great tats, new ideas for my next one.
I had sex with a Raptor, (while flying on dmt), and they are most definitely covered in peach fuzz.
My new band will be called 'Squid Foot'.
Isn't freedom of expression a wonderful thing. The tats and this blog. I love the tats and the people that they belong too.
Someone out there should shave their head and have the various lobes of the brain tattooed to the appropriate areas of their scalp. Remind people that despite your poor decisions, you do actually have a brain up there.
Hey, at least they're not CHINESE CHARACTER tattoos!
Tattoos are for self indulgent dimwits.
These tats rock!!! Having 2 tattoos that were inspired by pictures in comic books (The Dark Tower), I can totally see where these people are coming from. Some of these are just fantastic!!! I like tattoos.
DdK
June 6, 2009 8:17 AMThis is a site showcasing some interesting tattoos, not a forum for palaeontological debate.
Who the f#@% cares what the dinosaur looked like? The tattoo artist did an amazing rendering. Try and appreciate it for it's beauty. Gah!
some of those were pretty brutally photoshoped.
On 6-01-07 some Nypolean Dynamite wizzard caught my attention with his rendition of the bird like reptile. If you read this with your own interpretation of N.P. style of speach, I think you'll get a kick out of it. Other wise, although most of the art is great to look at. Just draw it on paper. No need to make bill boards out of us. It's a choice though.
Who the @#&*$%#@ are any of you to judge any of this. Whether the are accurate or not. The artist did an amazing job on most of these pieces of artwork and if the people are happy with them shit the hell up. Sounds like your all abunch of self absorbed a** holes. If you don't like tattoos or are too chickenshit to get some go look at something else. People express themselves in many ways. At least they're original enough to get something different and not typical like FAKE tribal art for the indecisive. (True tribal is beautiful) If there isn't anything nice to say SHUT UP!!!
the 17 is not scientific
I agree with allot of the comments here. The artwork is amazing and should be appreciated for what it is. If you don't like tattoos, then don't get one, but don't judge others for the body art. I have to admit, I like the glowing scorpion and the neuron on the foot is pretty cool too. The jelly fish is incredibly well done also. Give credit where it is due, and stop whining about crap that makes others happy.
Oddly enough, though the Bible does prohibit tattoos and markings (phylacteries from Deut. 6:8 are *not* tattoos) and I disagree with permanent body scarring/marking, I think the mathematical ones are tasteful. The biological/evolutionary ones are stupid, especially since evolution is a massively flawed theory. As a biochemistry student, I found most of the chemical tattoos disappointing. ATP or a VSEPR model atom would've been better.
obviously they were ALL photoshopped !!
there is no such things as dinosaurs, and no such thing as tatoos.
Jesus says so in the Bible.
Bob
June 7, 2009 12:21 PMTattoos are *still* this controversial? Excellent. Can't wait to get my sleeve finished up so I can immediately get to work on my legs, back, etc, etc, etc... : )
Who the fuck cares whether it was a proper rendition of a raptor or if they were even supposed to be raptors at all!? It's an awesome tattoo and that's the point; stop being retarded!
scififreak
June 8, 2009 7:18 AMThese are awesome! Beautiful work. Also, to the haters on here: You don't have to ever get or want a tattoo, that's your choice. But don't put people down as "stupid" who do like and/or want them. Some people do later regret the tattoos they've gotten, but that isn't the case usually with people who choose their art carefully and for whom it has personal meaning. My tattoo (the female symbol with a fist inside) is very meaningful to me and I thought it about it for over a year before getting it. No regrets. Appreciate the art if you like it. If not, move on. It's just that easy.
These are far more interesting than the run of the mill tribal/angel-wings/tramp-stamp/paw-print/etc. b.s. I see at the local shopping malls. Any one of these people is going to have more interesting things to say than those mouth breathers. And it really makes me laugh to see true individualists being talked down for not conforming to the "individualist" standard. Awesome ink and kudos to the canvases.
I think people can get whatever they want on THEIR body....they are all unique in their own way. The dinosaur one is a scene from Jurassic Park so its not meant to reflect what a REAL raptor looked like. I think people should stop criticizing tattoos on others....it is an expression of YOU....no one else.....some are beautiful, some may look ridiculous.....who are we to judge?
I like turtles...that and you spelled a lot, 'alot'
Anonymous, you are an idiot...
Oh and anonymous you sir are a douchebag!
To the anonymous going on about how a virus cant attack a RBC, you are wrong in so many ways. A lot of viruses have the ability to agglutinate RBC by surface receptors causeing clotting problems or lysing the RBCs.
and yes there are even RNA viruses that can replicate in RBCs... RBCs dont have a nucleus but they do still have ribosomes and the ability to synthesize proteins which the viral machinery can hijack and make new proteins including RNA-polymerase which can then synthesize the new RNA for replicated viruses.
Tattoos are cool no matter what the are because it is a personal thing so let it go... admire it, loathe it whatever... you are just an idiot if you judge because it is not your body...
Nor is it Gods body or Yahweh are who ever else you want to invoke the name of in any superstitious hocus-pocus you believe in.
HAHA the quadratic formula wtf. pic number 32 from the top with the chick opening the box is awesome. really individual tattoos i like them.
godboy wake up it says science not pseudo-science your in the wrong place.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/02/21/cousin-to-pigeons/ what the dude who got the dino tat had to say
Wow.....some stupid people do such thins....I hate the tatoo's
if i was a real nerd i would tattoo a picture of a graphing calculator in the palm of my hand. My baby never failed to let me down since sophomore year in high school and on though out college and grad
smoke some more crack people
Each and every one of these represents the height of moronic vandalism. Grafiti upon ones self.
Something is surely lacking in the mind when the idea of mutilating yourself in this way is considered art.
The outer damage reflects the damage within.
Ummmm FYI for all of you arguing about the Dinosaur tattoo. Its a moot point because you are all wrong.
The artist who did that piece is Reed Leslie, out of The Hole Look. A tattoo shop in Anchorage, AK. It is a frozen frame from the movie Jurassic Park that he did and is undeniably one of the best pieces he's ever done.
So enough arguing about the piece. Its awesomeness and thats all that needs be noted.
P.S. You can find Reed's profile on MySpace here. http://www.myspace.com/37621891 or at his personal website http://www.reedleslie.com
The tattoo in picture 48 is supposed to be the Schrödinger equation, but it is not: it's the partial derivative, and not the total as denoted by the dot.. I would really like to see the guys face when somebody will tell him
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The e^(pi*i)+1 was interesting. I'm going to have to dig up my algebra ( calc? ) book to prove that one Xd. Also, pic 22 had the entropy, or change of entropy I should say, along with gravity, but does anyone know the top equation? I can't seem to remember ....( nerd, hehe)
noel
August 3, 2009 12:11 AMit's cute how the "IT'S AN ARCHAEOPTERYX NOOBS" people are completely missing the point that the archaeopteryx tattoo is not the tattoo in question, but rather the one of the two dinosaurs (raptors or not) in the forest.
also, to all the "U DONT NO WAT RAPTORS LOOKED LIKE U WERNT A LIFE," lol k
The tat with the Schrödinger equation is fine. The dot notation isn't the total derivative, it is used to denote the derivative with respect to time. In this case it would act the time derivative of the wave function (in other words the partial in time) and therefore is the proper form of the equation.
miss jenn
August 12, 2009 10:32 AMThis is awesome. I am a tattoo artist and have done a tattoo that should be on this website. Please email me at bymissjenn@gmail.com if you want the photo! It's nice to know there are so many science nuts out there. I'm one too ;)
67 stumble bubbles 177 comments, I make 178 with what and outstanding love for science. I want some sick ink.
I love how the people who are talking shit about these tattoos don't know what grammar is. Apparently they could have served well to have been geeks too. I want a quadratic formula tattoo, but my boyfriend would never be seen with me in public if I got it.
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Bleh. One nice thing about tattoos is they can help identify a body if other identifiable parts are unavailable. Beyond that...in a hundred years or so, it most likely won't matter.
Regardless of how original your tattoo art may be, unless you do it yourself, it is and always will be someone else's artwork.