{"id":636,"date":"2011-07-07T08:24:42","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T13:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2011\/07\/07\/110707-qrtattoo\/"},"modified":"2023-11-16T09:38:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T15:38:40","slug":"110707-qrtattoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/07\/07\/110707-qrtattoo\/","title":{"rendered":"QR Tattoos: Get inked, get linked"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ran across this video (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2011\/07\/06\/is-this-really-the-first-ever-animated-tattoo\/\">Neatorama<\/a>) of a guy getting a tattoo of a QR code that links to a website. Note that YouTube apparently believes that a video of someone getting a tattoo is too intense for general consumption. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f3qv2dSXQXk?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, some skeptics are doubting the veracity of this process. Whatever. That&#8217;s not the point, really, because&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My reaction? *yawn* Been there; done that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/misc\/qrtattoo.jpg\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc;\" alt=\"Photo of my Fire Ant Gazette URL QR tattoo\"\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s right; I&#8217;ve got one, too. It&#8217;s the Fire Ant Gazette URL. There&#8217;s only one teensy problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s the artist&#8217;s failing, or maybe it&#8217;s just the distortion caused by the underlying rippling muscles* (eat your heart out, Ah-nold), but my phone won&#8217;t recognize and scan the code. See, that&#8217;s the danger of getting permanently marked with something like this; you don&#8217;t know whether it will actually work until it&#8217;s too late. Good idea&#8230;poor execution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, what do I do now? Well, there&#8217;s really only one good option.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rubbing alcohol. You didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d actually do something this dumb, did you? Don&#8217;t answer that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><i>*This was actually the only place I could find that was relatively devoid of hair. I&#8217;m not about to shave body parts for the sake of a blog post. And I do apologize if this is the visual equivalent of <acronym title=\"Too Much Information\">TMI<acronym>.<\/acronym><\/acronym><\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Update (2023): The source of this temp tat is apparently no longer in business; imagine that. But there appears to be a multitude of other sources of such fine art, if you&#8217;re so inclined to seek them out. In any case, t<i><i>he tattoo actually did scan properly before it was applied, so the creator wasn&#8217;t at fault.<\/i><\/i><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ran across this video (via Neatorama) of a guy getting a tattoo of a QR code that links to a website. Note that YouTube apparently believes that a video of someone getting a tattoo is too intense for general consumption. Also, some skeptics are doubting the veracity of this process. Whatever. That&#8217;s not the point,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/07\/07\/110707-qrtattoo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">QR Tattoos: Get inked, get linked<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,8,9,18],"tags":[291,290],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-just-plain-silly","category-society-culture","category-technology","tag-qr-codes","tag-tattoos","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12876,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/12876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}