CULTURE BUZZ – Weird body location for a tattoo. This sits somewhere in my taste levels between tramp stamps and ear stretching.

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1. Ear Tattoos - a Rare Combination of Exposure and Discretion

CULTURE BUZZ – A video of a guy getting a Tay Zonday tattoo. Pointless tattoos like this make me wonder if there have been any breakthroughs in tattoo removal technology lately.

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The Best Links:

1. Amazon.com: No Regrets: The Best, Worst, & Most #$%*ing Ridiculous Tattoos Ever
2. Tay Zonday - Featured on BuzzFeed
3. Tay Zonday Covers Weezer, With Weezer - Featured Video on BuzzFeed

CULTURE BUZZ – Part of a Picture Caption Contest. My favorite caption: “The sad thing is, this picture is actually of me.” It’s true! Sorry if my actual profile pic is a bit misleading.

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1. YesButNoButYes: Picture Caption Competition

CULTURE BUZZ – The tooth artists at Heward Dental Lab can create custom handpainted artwork on your teeth. We don’t really see the point, except they’re kind of cute, and definitely less embarrassing than that dancing bears tattoo you got in high school. (Thanks for the tip!)

The Best Links:

1. Close-Up Shots of Tooth Tattoo Examples
2. Showcase Your Individuality with a Tooth Tattoo
3. A Bunch of Examples of Tooth Tattoos from the Heward Dental Lab
4. Dental Technician Also Specializes in Miniature Hyper-Detailed Portraits
5. Part of the Growing Trend of Odd Body Part Tattoos (Eyeball Tattoos??)
6. A Bright Smile is a Perfect Gallery
7. I Think You Have A Little Elvis Stuck In Yo’ Grill

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SCIENCE BUZZ – Tattooing is a more effective method for delivering DNA vaccines than intramuscular injection, a new German study finds. Oh cool! Now you can get that HPV vaccine at the same time as your tramp stamp. Two birds, one stone!

The Best Links:

1. The Difference Between First Generation Vaccines, Second Generation Vaccines and DNA (Third Generation) Vaccines
2. Pfizer Hunkers Down Research Cash on DNA Vaccines
3. The Must-Have Biotech Body Mod of the Twenty-First Century
4. Tattoos: Artistic Expression That’s Good For Your Physical Well-Being
5. Tattooing Has Potential Medical Value
6. Tattoo Vaccine - More Effective Than a Traditional Shot

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STYLE BUZZ – A temporary tattoo for the lists you write on your hands. For all you Getting Things Done adherents, this may be your most immediate possible action list - always at hand.

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1. Now You Won’t Forget That Doctor’s Appointment to Get That Rash Checked Out
2. This Would Be Useful if You Had Memory Loss Like the Guy in “Memento”
3. “May I suggest your first item on your list. BUY A PDA!”
4. This Won’t Make You Look Like a Freak at All

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CULTURE BUZZ – Examples of realistically-detailed tattoos, like this one of Maddox Jolie-Pitt. We’re really admiring the impressive chiaroscuro on these 3D tattoos. It’s like the white trash version of the Renaissance.

The Best Links:

1. A Bunch of Examples, Including the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Tattoo
2. More INSANE 3D Tattoos!
3. More Examples of 3D Tattoos
4. Download Some Black and White 3D Tattoo Designs
5. Genetic 3D Tattoos Will Be Available Within the Next Couple of Decades Says Futurist
6. 3D Tribal Tattoos
7. Raised Breast Implant Tattoo

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CULTURE BUZZ – A roundup of awesome food tattoos. Umm yeah. There was no real reason for doing this trend except that some of these tattoos are pretty cute and weird, and also, we were hungry.

The Best Links:

1. Some Amazingly Bizarre Food Tattoos
2. How cute are these food tattoos??! (Awesome Photo Gallery)
3. Best Food Tattoos: Bacon, Whisk, ‘USDA Prime’ Ass Tat
4. Some Interesting Food Tattoos Include: I Heart Bacon, Chopsticks Instructions
5. Dallas McKenzie’s Tattoo Cornucopia of Fruits and Vegetables
6. Matt Finarelli’s Chroncile of His Pig Tattoo
7. A Pig On One Arm, a Carrot On the Other
8. What Would Possess a Person to Get a Tattoo of a Hamburger??
9. Obscene Hot-Dog-Girl Tattoo
10. Ice Cream Tattoo

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STYLE BUZZ – Surgically implanted tattoos: Cool looking, informative, and yet kinda creepy. The designer behind the idea says they are an “opportunity for blind people to have a meaningful body alteration.” We imagined we’d just keep running our fingers over it obsessively if we got one.

The Best Links:

1. Project Statement From The Designer
2. “Looks like a skin disease.”
3. Commenters Debate The Meaning Of “Tattoo”
4. Now The Blind Can Enjoy The Hotness That Is Tattoos

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STYLE BUZZ – In David Cronenberg’s award-winning new Russian mafia movie, “Eastern Promises,” Viggo Mortensen sports 43 tattoos his character has acquired in prison. The film has rekindled interest in the elaborate codes of meaning carried by prison tattoos.

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1. Viggo Mortensen’s Onscreen Tattoos
2. A Visual History of Russian Prison Tattoos
3. Film Tattoos a Lasting Effect on Actor Mortensen
4. The Significance of American Prison Tattoos
5. Break the Tattoo Code: The Teardrop Tattoo
6. Gangs and Prison Tattoos: Crips and Bloods, Nortenos & Surenos
7. Prison Tattoos Gallery
8. Gallery of Russian Prison Tattoo Videos
9. The Mark of Cain: Review of Alix Lambert’s Russian prison tattoo art documentary
10. Hate on Display: A Visual Database of Extremist Symbols, Logos and Tattoos
11. History of Prison Tattoos
12. Nintendo Peripherals Used in Prison Tattoo Guns
13. Russian Prison Tattoos: Codes of Authority, Domination, and Struggle: Books: Alix Lambert
14. Video from Alix Lambert’s “The Mark of Cain”
15. The Full Body Tattoo in This Season’s “Prison Break”
16. Top Tattoos of Missouri Prison Inmates

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