Enter the Multiverse with This Rick and Morty Green Screen Tattoo

How do you create a tattoo that has endless possibilities? Just do what they do in the movies. Use a green screen. I mean, it’s going to look weird on you, but at least you can add in all kinds of special effects shots digitally. That’s what this guy did. This may be the world’s first green screen tattoo.

Check out the video below of the Rick and Morty green screen tattoo inked by artist Roy Lee Rowlett on somebody’s leg. This definitely isn’t the first green screen tattoo,but it sure is awesome. I’m sure that Youtube users are going to have all kinds of fun inserting funny scenes into this image.

Right now you can check out a shot of the tattoo with no special effects and a video with the intro superimposed. So we have Rick and Morty watching Rick and Morty. On a tattoo. On somebodies leg. This is just as bizarre as the show!

Meanwhile, this guy is stuck with a big green tattoo, but I guess it works, and hey, at least he provided some entertainment for the rest of us. I can’t wait for the day we can have OLED tattoos embedded into our skin so they can actually display video on their own. That’s when I’m getting some. I like the idea of having animated cartoons on my body.

If you dug that, here’s another great green screen tattoo by new school artist Josh Herman

[via CNet via Geekologie]

Swedish Supermarket Tattoos Labels on Produce with a Laser

My kids loved apples growing up. The catch was that they refused to eat the apple if there was any hint of where the sticker used to be. You couldn’t just slice off that one bit of skin either, it had to be completely peeled away. I hate peeling apples. A Swedish supermarket chain called ICA has the answer to this.

Rather than having to put stickers on each fruit or vegetable, the chain uses a frickin’ laser beam to brand the label onto them. The laser is a low-energy carbon-dioxide beam which removes a bit of pigment from the outer skin. The laser doesn’t alter the taste or consistency of the produce according to the store.

The tattoo labels started with sweet potatoes and avocados because they tend to have a hard time holding stickers, but will also cut down on the small amount of waste generated by stickers. Eventually the project will be rolled out to all 1,350 ICA stores.

[via SeattleTimes]

Twitter Tats Turn Tweets into Temporary Tattoos

Do you want a cool tattoo of the latest tweet from your favorite celebrity? No problem. Twitter Tats is a service that turns tweets from famous people into temporary tattoos.

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They offer sets that pull from the tweets of celebrities, tech giants, and sports stars. Each pack comes with five tweets printed on clear backgrounds. So go ahead and cover yourself in tweets from head to toe if you want. You can become a walking social media network.

[via Product Hunt via Laughing Squid]

Robot Tattoo Artist: Ink Master 2.0

Would you trust a robot to give you a tattoo? What you’re looking at here is the “world’s first tattoo by an industrial robot.” Notice how tightly the person getting the tattoo is strapped to the chair. You just know that if he moves, that robot is gonna cut him. Or at least it will give him a bad tattoo.

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The project was engineered by French designers Pierre Emm and Johan da Silveira. Back in 2014, along with fellow ENSCI Les Ateliers-graduate Piotr Widelka, they created Tatoué, a Makerbot 3D printer with a tattoo gun instead of a plastic extruder, so they have a bit of history in this field. This big industrial robot ups the ante.

I wouldn’t trust it. Sure, it might have steadier “hands” than a human, but something could go wrong and it might tear your limbs open.

[via The Verge]