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Tiny, behind-the-ear R2D2 tattoo

Cory Doctorow at 6:00 pm Mon, Mar 19, 2012

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Found on Fuck Yeah, Tattoos, an adorable behind-the-ear droid

R2D2 (via The Mary Sue)

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sean

Tattoos are so passe. Everyone and their mother has tattoos. My kid wants one, and she’s seven. My grandmother wants one and she’s 94. I saw a nun with a tattoo last week at church. Enough with the tattoos already. It was better when just sailors, bikers, and Polynesians had them.
- Chris Hampson
  
  That would make a great quote for a tattoo
- Rick Liddle
  
  Sure, everyone has a tattoo, but clearly this is not the tattoo you’re looking for.
- http://www.jjsaul.com Jim Saul
  
  Yeah, and hairstyles. Those really drown me in ennui.
  
  It seems like almost everyone has a hairstyle now. I’m sooo over it.
  
  Fuckin’ hair.
  - Donald Petersen
    
    Fuckin’ hair.
    
    I mutter that every morning into my mirror.
- http://whimsicalacious.tumblr.com/ Patrick McGorrill
  
  I know right? freakin’ Otzi the Iceman had tatoos 5,300 years ago http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi_the_Iceman#Tattoos. I mean, it was cool for the first 5,250 years, but, it’s like, GET OVER IT PEOPLE!
- Cefeida
  
  I was a sailor for a while, and still want a tattoo to mark that, but when I think about having to deal with snarky looks from people like you who would never suspect that I ever climbed a rig in my life…
  
  Ugh.Seriously. Times change, niches go global. People who want tattoos get tattoos, and even if they’re fugly Twilight themed horrors, it’s their right.
  
  Now excuse me while I go pick out a sparrow.
- RedShirt77
  
  Hey, lets just be happy its not some lame “inspirational” quote with a misspelling.
- http://aqfl.net Ant
  
  I don’t want one. :)
Donald Petersen

Scrumptious. Wonder why it shows R2′s back?
- http://www.youtube.com/user/ziccup akbar56
  
  It’s actually not even his back. Really it is a terrible repro of an actual R2 unit. I can accept that his head turns around, but the legs are not even mounted in the right spot compared to the rest of his body.
Troy Hitch

Airbrush shadow technique FTW!
- Pedantic Douchebag
  
  That’s a weird thing to have Fuck The World. Eh. To each their own.
http://www.jjsaul.com Jim Saul

Interesting site… a few pages in I clicked through a super-realistic looking eye to see if it was really a tattoo or photoshopped, and found this guy’s stunning work:

http://illusion.scene360.com/art/25837/amazing-illustrations-on-skin/
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=715288058 Sean Peter

AH! So there’s the droid I was looking for…
ToddBradley

I find that extremely sexy.
chupsahey

I got a tattoo of a tattoo. Is that cool or stupid?
http://twitter.com/digitalArtform Joseph Francis

Lydia has a tattoo of her social security number there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4zRe_wvJw8#t=02m41s
- brerrabbit23
  
  That was pretty common for a few years, there… I’ve seen lots of loggers of a certain age tattooed with same, though it’s usually on a forearm.
sarahnocal

And yet another tattoo that ” I did for myself” that they can’t even see.
RedShirt77

That tatto fills the entire space behind her ear. It isn’t tiny
Editz

It would be better with R5D4 and “Bad Motivator” in Old English font on somebody’s bicep.
Repurposed

Ear2D2
http://beritaterbarukita.blogspot.com/ beritaterbarukita

R2D2 in the ear tattoos, good too and I can try to make the android tatoo