{"id":133,"date":"2007-09-09T11:46:44","date_gmt":"2007-09-09T18:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2007\/09\/09\/science-tattoos\/"},"modified":"2007-09-09T13:19:04","modified_gmt":"2007-09-09T20:19:04","slug":"science-tattoos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2007\/09\/09\/science-tattoos\/","title":{"rendered":"science tattoos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/carlzimmer\/1074255076\/in\/set-72157601351535771\/\">photo set of science tattoos<\/a> today (via <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/loom\/2007\/08\/06\/branded_with_science.php\">The Loom science blog<\/a>). The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/carlzimmer\/1072758937\/in\/set-72157601351535771\/\">fibonacci sequence implemented in scheme<\/a> was bizarre, and there was a poignant one about being a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/carlzimmer\/1073128333\/in\/set-72157601351535771\/\">celiac<\/a>. They reminded me of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cypherspace.org\/adam\/rsa\/\">these rsa key tattoos<\/a> (search for &#8216;tattoo&#8217;). And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingadspace.com\/\">some guy<\/a> that puts web ads on his body.  He ended up on Conan, CNN, NBC and got interviewed by USA Today in 2005. He added three more tattoos this year.<\/p>\n<p>I have this design idea rattling around in my head &#8211; that there&#8217;s partially an advertising design root-cause in of a generation of people compulsively tattooing themselves with weird shit. Like we&#8217;re seeing the results of extreme brand-consciousness, and the feeling that we all just need to be a little bit more unique than the next person, or that our ideas and interests need to be quickly externalized and etched into our skin.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s beauty in the photos of the web-banner tattoos &#8211; the saturated colors, the raised\/bruised skin, the skin itself. Its hard not to feel a bit of the being-tattooed adrenaline rush when looking at the finished products, just moments after the needle stops. But, they&#8217;re still ugly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this photo set of science tattoos today (via The Loom science blog). The fibonacci sequence implemented in scheme was bizarre, and there was a poignant one about being a celiac. They reminded me of these rsa key &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2007\/09\/09\/science-tattoos\/\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}