Barcode Tattoo

During Thanksgiving weekend of 2005 I went on a short holiday with my friend Paul W. While hanging out in South Beach, FL, I got this wild idea to get a new tattoo. I wanted the phrase So Not Right on the tattoo but I wanted it to be really "so not right". That is when I came up with the idea of the bar code idea. I thought it would be perfect to have a scannable tattoo. My first thought was to have the tattoo put on the back of my neck. My friend Paul was very much against the idea and kept telling me to really think about this, maybe find someplace to have some temporay tattoos made. Well I apparently sobered up and agreed not to do anything to quickly.

Once I returned home I turned to the internet for a little research on bar codes and temporary tattoos. I found that a permanant tattoo of a bar code would probably not scan due to the migration of the ink once it is in the skin. I also found that there is an artist who has been making barcode tattoos and he even makes custom scannable ones. (and to think I thought I had an original idea in South Beach, only to find out it was already being done). I ordered some tempoary tattoos from Scott Blake: http://www.barcodeart.com/art/tattoo/tattoo_frames.html

The end result was two sets of fun to use tattoos that really show how I am So Not Right.