BoingBoing Goes BodyArt

The Inked and the Geeky

dermagraphical grafitti

Nerd tattoo gallery

When brains and art collide in the dermis.

Geek tatts

Geek tattoos.

Full-back HTML tattoo

HTML for your backpiece... bet you wish you'd thought of something that geeky.

Random excellent nerd tattoo

Nice back of neck tattoo.

Mac tattoo roundup

You've got the computer, you've got the laptop, you've got the iPod, you've got the stock. But do you have the tattoo?

Fan-art tattoo gallery

It's no more or less weird than anything else that fans do in the name of their fandom. These just can't be resold on eBay later...

Star Wars-inspired tattoos

Tattoos and Toys sports an impressive (but hard-to-navigate) collection of tattoos inspired by toys, movies and cartoons: Star Wars, GI Joe, Transformers, and others.

Tattoos inspired by Threadless t-shirt designs

Fans of the social t-shirt-design site Threadless are using the shirt designs as tattoos.

HOWTO make a tattoo gun

We've posted before about prisoners' inventions, including a tattoo gun made from an old walkman motor.

Snakes on a Plane - The Tattoo

Fans will ink ANYTHING on themselves... really...

Teacher sports full face tattoo

None of my college professors were as colorful (or as friendly looking) as Bruce Potts, who teaches public speaking at the University of New Mexico.

MC Router, "queen of nerdcore," just got this new tattoo.

This tattoo is 900 petabytes of awesome.

Boing Boing: Interview with artist Mitch O'Connell

Craig Yoe interviews the excellent illustrator Mitch O'Connell on the Arf Lovers blog. Mitch has a new book out called Mitch O'Connell: Tattoos.

Tattoo of text under peeling skin

This gentleman's tattoo makes it look as if he's got a bunch of handwriting under his skin.

Tattoo typography

Here's an interesting photo-book about tattoo typography -- "Body Type: Intimate Messages Etched in Flesh," by Ina Saltz (09-2006).

What do you do with an old Transformer tattoo?

Two options:
(1) Saw off your leg and sell it to a Dreamworks publicist before July 4.
(2) Transform it (heh) into an even bigger tattoo.

Human Evolution

When body art and science collide, merge or just get it on...

Implanting a magnet in your fingertip adds a sixth sense

What if, seconds before your laptop began stalling, you could feel the hard drive spin up under the load? Or you could tell if an electrical cord was live before you touched it? For the few people who have rare earth magnets implanted in their fingers, these are among the reported effects -- a finger that feels electromagnetic fields along with the normal sense of touch...

Subdermal implants: body-mods that give you cool lumps

Subdermal implants: bringing horns to the forehead of the kid at coffee shop in a town near you.

Pierce-nez eyeglasses

frameless eyeglasses held in place by a piercing

Insight into ocular mod

My one question is wouldn't you just see it at the corner of your vision all day?.....

Piercing wannabees and near-fatal magnets

A case of possible devolution via wanting to just imitate piercings.

Brazilian magazine devoted to plastic surgery chic

Leave it to Brazil to break publishing ground as of yet untouched in the US.

X-ray piercing pictures

See the fusion of metal and flesh.

Tattoos for diabetes maintenance

Would you rather check your tattoo instead of pricking your finger?

Printable organs

And what color would you like your new liver to be?

Identical twins

This one might just be a little bit too much like Dead Ringers to me.

Biomedical Image Awards

The selections in the Wellcome Trust's Biomedical Image Awards 2006 are truly incredible. From bugs to brain cells, colon cancers to collagen fibrils, this look at the natural world just boggles my mind.

Wired News on future body hackers

Chris Oakes wrote an interesting feature for Wired News about state-of-the-art bionics and individuals who are itching to upgrade their own bodies whether they "need" it or not. The article, titled "What if Bionics Were Better" is the final part in Wired News's excellent series on artificial limbs and neuroprosthetics.

Artist Andrew Krasnow's "Skin Works: Of The Flesh"

Artist Andrew Krasnow crafts art objects from human skin. An exhibit of his work will run at Los Angeles art gallery A.D.M. Project from Oct 27 through Dec. 14.

Body Hacking? & ?Functional Body Modification

Quinn Norton's slides from her remarkable Body Hacking talk at the O'Reilly Emerging Tech conference.

Stelarc, posthumanist and artist, implants "third ear" inside his arm

Earlier this year, Stelarc finally found a medical doctor willing to implant a cell-cultivated ear beneath the skin on the artist's forearm.

Ten amazing body-modded people

Several are familiar freaks previously seen on BMEzine.com or various TV shows, but seeing them all together is quite a treat.

On the Legal Front

"Do Not Resuscitate" tattoo

This is a tattoo that Mary Wohlford, 80, has emblazoned on her chest. Wohlford, of Decorah, Iowa, got the ink in February to hopefully eliminate the possibility of any Terri Schiavo-esque controversy about her medical wishes should she become unable to communicate them directly.

German gov blocks access to body mod sites

German gov blocks domestic access to body modification web sites

Finnish anti-appropriationist painter plagiarizes from BMEZine

Painter claims his art is entirely original, despite using an online image in it.

Humanist transhumanism: Citizen Cyborg

Surely the ability to determine your own genome, the ability to choose to modify your physical self and to make the choices for your children are as fundamental civil liberties as the right to speak and assemble and otherwise author your own destiny.

Tattoo artist sues for copyright of NBA star's arm

So, just how can you "use" that tattoo on your arm, you know, the one you paid for?

Ink is speech

Fighting the battle to bring legal tattooing to the State of South Carolina.

Body art group slammed over language

Flame wars are more like culture clashes online.

Human Enhancement Technologies and Human Rights con, May 26-28

James Hughes, author of the remarkable book _Citizen_Cyborg_ is chairing a conference called "Human Enhancement Technologies and Human Rights" at Stanford on May 26-28.

Chinese professor strips in art class

Mo Xiaoxin, a professor at Jiangsu Teachers University of Technology in Changzhou, China, stripped naked during a class on "body art" to "challenge taboos," according to the Beijing News.

Copyright and tattoos: who owns your skin?

Jordan Hatcher did a fascinating presentation on copyright and tattoos at Gikii, last week's UK conference on copyright law. Hatcher explores the legal ramifications of tattoo artists who assert copyright over their works after they've been inked, objecting to the tatts being displayed in advertising -- and even seeking to prevent old tattoos from being erased!

Dem Bones Dem Bones

when the body becomes art

Trephanation kit

This magnificent trephination set, circa 1750, was up for auction on eBay recently. Trephination is an ancient surgical procedure where a hole is drilled in the skull.

Please don't carve an emoticon in my skull until I'm dead.

So I go on a Google tangent looking for milling machines used in bone harvesting and shaping, because I'm really curious about what they look like and stuff, and I come across this research project for a haptic/vr temporal bone surgery simulator.

Jessica Joslin's bone sculptures

Artist Jessica Joslin makes sculptures out of bones and other found objects.

Photos of bone-chapel in Czech Republic

Chandeliers made of bones, walls lined with skulls and femurs, wow wow wow.

Healing bones by printing out new ones

It seems like there's nothing inkjet printers can't do

Trepanation

BoingBoing Digital boldly goes where only a few men have gone before

Realistic skull tattoo on face

This gentleman sports a tattoo that looks like a skull.

Tooth "tattoos"

The Heward Dental Lab in Salt Lake City specializes in "dental tattoos," which are actually custom hand-painted crowns.