A brief history of body art - October 14, 2008
Last week we noted that Stephen Hawking is getting a 3 metre high bronze statue of himself. Now Jack Newton, a resident of Brighton, England, has bestowed a rather more singular honour on the professor.
Newton, an apprentice tattoo artist, has had an image of a smiling Hawking needled into his leg. Below the picture is a line from Monty Python’s Life of Brian: “He’s not the messiah, he’s a very naughty boy”.
The Brighton Argus says the ink has already won two trophies at tattoo conventions (picture here).
“I read A Brief History of Time, but to be honest I didn't understand a word, but I respect the man and that's why I got his face tattooed on my leg,” says Newton (Daily Telegraph).
Someone tell Carl Zimmer!
Comments
I'm 76 year-old Italian scientist, founder of Quantum Biophysical Semeiotics, who spend his day hours in sending mail underscoring that we are living the Era dei Lumi Spenti (Age of Darkness). However, after reading the news, I am going to get an artistic tattoo, representing a stethoscope...in a waste-basket.
Posted by: Sergio Stagnaro MD | October 14, 2008 01:05 PM
Wow, definitely among the most unusual tattoo designs I've ever seen, especially since he incorporated some Monty Python-ery into it. Still, I find it to be both an endearing geture (I wonder what Professor Hawking thinks?) and a really good way of expressing himself and his beliefs. In my mind it's no different than someone who gets a cross tattoo on them to demonstrate their love of Jesus.
Posted by: Vern M. | January 7, 2009 05:56 PM