Vincent, “a fledgling mathematician,” writes:
This tattoo is of a microscope. 90% of the time when I show it to people they say ‘Oh! a telescope!’ I generally don’t correct them, I just get a little uncomfortable and put my shirt back on. Most of the images are copies of SEMs, the background figures include, a fish parasite, anthrax, a scoop of iced cream that has fallen off the cone, flea eggs, bone marrow, and a virus attacking a sun dried tomato! yum!
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"Celebrated curiosity monger"
Carl Zimmer writes about science regularly for the New York Times and magazines such as Discover, where he is a contributing editor and columnist.
He is the author of twelve books, the most recent of which is Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed. His website is carlzimmer.com and his address is blog at carlzimmer dot com .
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July 3rd, 2008 at 5:06 am
It is the most colorful tattoo that I have ever seen. How come anybody can call it a telescope?
come out to a more educated world Vincent, where atleast 10 pecent will identify it wrong
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Extraordinarily beautiful tattoo. Awesome!
I posted the image, with link and write-up, to the Tower of Babel blog:
http://en.towerofbabel.com/blog/2008/07/03/science-tattoo-emporium/
Thanks for publishing the Science Tattoo Emporium, I enjoy it immensely.
Regards,
Karl Jones
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:07 pm
I am so happy to see that phage!
For many years I thought about getting a T4 but never came up with a design I liked. I’m glad to see the virions getting their proper due elsewhere.
July 10th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
holy crap! that is dedication.
February 18th, 2009 at 12:04 am
Great tattoo, one of the most original I’ve seen, who did it?
March 22nd, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Holy crap indeed . Reminds of the cover of an old paper back of Ray Bradbury sci fi short storys “The Illustrated Man” .
I worked for ten years in the ever teasing world of mariculture, trying to create a successful hatchery on a tidal river on Long Island Sound – the peaceful part of my work day was working with a microscope on the six or seven single cell algol cultures we grew and checking on the viability of Mercenaria mercenaria fertilized eggs & doing mortality counts of viligers.
I still have my early 1980s Bausch & Lomb – given the brass fittings, what is its age of your scope? Seeing your tattoo brought back fond memories of looking deep into inner space.
June 5th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Here is a story about that telescope/microscope confusion. I made a “Robin the Boy Wonder” costume for my daughter when she was about six. It was authentic and very cool. We went out trick-or-treating. Every grown-up who opened the door said excitedly, “Oh, Batman!” The human brain is a funny instrument.
March 14th, 2010 at 5:02 am
Why is there a phage injecting its genome into a red blood cell?
July 21st, 2010 at 2:02 am
I would definitely love to know who the artist was. Nice work.
September 13th, 2010 at 12:25 pm
this tattoo was done by Carlos Ransom at BDC tattoo in Lawrence, kansas.
his website is here: http://www.carlosransom.com/