Tattoos that read same from both sides

5 amazing tattoos that read the same from both sides

Tattoos have always been fun to get addicted to! A design, a sign, a words or just an alphabetical puzzle, whatever it be, tattoos have successfully grabbed on to a lot of attention. The most interesting ones however, are pallindromes and ambigrams. Pallindromes would spell and read exactly the same from both sides horizontally. Ambigrams on the other hand, would read the same when viewed from both sides, vertically. Here are five examples of such tattoos.

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1. MURDRUM

This is one example. It spells from both sides, like Mur – d – ruM. This is a pallindromic word. No matter how you look at it, it will spell and read the same, with the alphabet ‘D’ shared by the words ‘murd’ and ‘drum’.

 

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2. ROBBOR

This is another Pallindromic tattoo. The word does not have a meaning. It’s just ROB – BOR. So from any side you have a look, right or left, it would look the word ‘ROB’ and its mirror image. So technically, it is not a pallindrome. However, the depiction is such that it would look pallindromic to the onlookers.

 

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3. Dream

Take a look at this tattoo. You will have to look at it upside down when you read it from the right. The calligraphy is such that it would look like ‘Dream’ when seen from both the sides, if the vertical factor is also considered.

 

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4. Victoria

Yet another example of an Ambigram. Read it left to right, you will read Victoria. Read it right to left, and upside down, you will again find Victoria. Here, the cases of the alphabets have been manipulated in order to give it the feel of an ambigram.

 

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5. Father

This will be better to understand, and is a really interesting one! Look at it upside down while reading it right to left. The fashion of inking is such that it is read exactly the same from both the sides!

 

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King of all Erls

I posted Eric Stango’s bridge piercing a little while back when he was at a measly 00ga (you may also remember him from a couple neat piercing projects — a set of “whiskers” and an anthropomorphic ear piercing). Since then he’s pushed it up to accept an impressive 12mm tunnel, just a sliver away from being an epic 1/2″ Erl. Here he is showing it off with some assistance of one of his four young apprentices (find Eric at Lifestyles and Krazy Eric’s in Connecticut).

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Keloid to Phoenix

Normally a phoenix is born from ashes, but on Dan Golan’s arm, with a little help from Mika Lazar, the phoenix was born from keloids that he’d had on his arm most of his life. Dan, who lives in Haifa, Israel, has always been interested in tattoos, and like many young people, as a twelve year old had acne on his arms, which ended up leaving him with large keloid scars on his arm that made him quite uncomfortable.

When Dan turned eighteen he got his first tattoo, a small lizard that healed well and he’s still happy with today. While doing his three years of regular service in the Israeli military, four more tattoos followed that first one. Nonetheless, his old keloids from childhood still bothered him quite a bit, and when his military service was finished he started going to doctors to see if they could help get rid of them. They tried some creams and other treatments, but nothing helped, so he started poking around online to see if he could use his love of tattoos to solve the problem. His whole family approved of the idea, thinking a big tattoo — “a medical tattoo!” — would be great.

For his earlier tattoos Dan had gone to lower-end mall studios (“and you know this is not the BEST idea,” he admits), but for this project he knew he’d need someone with a bit more experience and began seeking a qualified tattoo artist in the North of Israel where he lived. Most of those that he contacted were unwilling to tattoo over keloids, but after some repeated recommendations from friends he found himself talking to Mika Lazar (mika-tattoo.appspot.com). Mika had never tattooed over heavy scars like Dan’s before, so she began by tattooing a small line across one of them to make sure the ink held and there was no adverse response. Since there wasn’t and the ink held perfectly, she began the process, which you can see here:

The choice to do a phoenix came about as they were sitting at the studio tossing ideas back and forth until a phoenix that Mika had drawn up earlier caught Dan’s eye. The tattooing and subsequent healing was no different than any of Dan’s earlier tattoos without keloids in the mix, and the tattoo was completed over three sessions (not including the test line) — the outline, the bird, and then the final touches and background.

Here’s how it turned out in the end. You can still see the keloids if you know they’re there, but most people won’t notice. Dan’s considering a little more tattooing to mask them entirely, and has not yet decided whether this tattoo is going to stay largely as is, or if it’s the beginning of a sleeve.

Rotating Suspensions

I’ve always been told that rotating or “rotisserie” are the most horribly painful suspensions you can do. I was just talking to Jason from Third Eye Perception Flesh Suspension out of Austin, Texas (or online at thirdeyeperception.com) about his — that’s him in the animated GIF on your right, which is nabbed from the video below of the 360 degree vertical rotating suspension (followed by an earlier horizontal rotation video of Tom Moore, recorded by Jared Anderson, just so you can see both), and he elaborates,

The 360 was the most horrifying yet peaceful moment of my life. I have never been an emotional person during any suspension, but as soon as the first hook pierced me, I was flooded with emotions and literally cried the entire time I was being pierced. The amount of people helping and contributing humbled me beyond expectation. Being tensioned into it — instead of the traditional method of rigging in — felt as if I was being torn into various pieces, but it also made me feel a bit more secure that I wouldn’t fly out of the device. As soon as I gave in and started spinning the pain was beyond anything else I have ever done, and I stopped after a few rotations. Once I stopped, I restarted and began spinning backwards, which is when I felt amazingly calm.

At the upcoming Suscon he’s planning a rotisserie, and after that will be exploring more suspensions along the same theme — maybe a full-on XYZ gyroscope. All of the fabrication of these impressive suspension rigs is by Tom Moore, an essential part of making these unique suspensions possible. Others contributed as well, for example, Emrys Yetz put together the tensioning rig, a ratchet set up (which Jason admits drove him insane because of the clicking noise, but getting the tensioning balanced and tight is what makes this suspension bearable).

Snaking Rings

Gabriele of Maxart Body Piercing in Rome, Italy (ModBlog superstar) just did this wild play piercing scene using a just massive collection of captive bead rings, which appear to form a tube through which is drawn the soul of a flower — I particularly like the touch of the threading being pulled through a cheek piercing!

There are about 120 rings in all in this scene, and they took about three hours total to do, including some short breaks. The rings were taken out immediately afterwards at Gabriele’s insistence, I assume to keep scarring to a minimum (although it would make a cool scar to let these all reject!). I suspect that Gabriele must have been practically as sore as the client, after taking all those balls on and off.

Notre Dame Gets Tattooed on the Head Pics:

Several stories have often been shared about fans who have got a tattoo of the mascot or logo of their favorite team in college done on several parts of their bodies. Tattoos are no longer considered to be mere pieces of body art; they are now mostly seen as symbols of self-expression. Well, it seems that one man, a Notre Dame fan, took the statement too literally and had his expression tattooed on his “self”, more specifically his head.

“Moore” Ink Please!

The man in question, Tracey Moore believes that the tattoo which required more than nine painstaking hours to complete is totally worth both the pain and the effort in order to show his undivided support for his favourite team. The head tattoo which depicts the main golden dome building of the university of Notre Dame embodies the spirit of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Moore claims that the process was quite painful and he would not say that it did not hurt since it did…quite a lot.

The dedicated fan Moore said in an interview with ABC57 in Indiana that he prefers to keep his head shaved all the time and so it happened to be just the right place when it came to getting a tattoo of his favourite team.

Process of Etching the Tattoo

Tattoo artist, Brandon Hunt, said in a statement that he had previously worked on a lot of sketches before settling upon the design which was to become the final one. Hunt said that he began the process of brainstorming by viewing the actual Notre Dame building, ensuring that all of the intricate details were present in the design so that it would turn out to be just as distinctive as the Notre Dame building.

Moore stated that the experience has been very enriching. He has had pictures taken all over the area. The tattooed man casually joked that if he got money for every single picture he took, he would be rich.

The victory of Notre Dame over Oklahoma last Saturday might just have been the second most significant triumph of the Fighting Irish over the course of the weekend.

It is a good thing that Moore got the tattoo when the team still manages to remain undefeated. Let’s hope that Moore does not turn against the Irish team when they lose, since removing that thing from the back of his head isn’t going to be an easy feat.