New Tattoo

Well, it took my 14 years, but I finally got around to getting another tattoo. Many, many moons ago (December 24th of 1993 in fact) I got me a tat on my right calf. April 26th of 2008, I finally got around to getting another.

What inspired me? Hard to explain. Partly it was having a design which, as soon as I spotted it, really begged to be tattooed. Partly it was... Well, I can't really explain, a need to make a permanent change somehow. And it's taken me a while to come to something that I actually wanted on my skin. It had to be something unique, something I could show off or conceal as need be, something people would ask about.

This is the design:


(All these pictures can be made bigger by clicking on them!)
For the curious, this is an Alien Technology's European model Gen 1 Squiggle RFID tag. It's actually copper in color and about six centimetres long. I scanned it and blew it up to a bit over twice it's original size, and changed its color to black.

When I first saw this, I thought, what a cool shape that would make a unique tattoo...
( Pictures and more inside! )