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NYT > Arts New Goal for Films at Toronto: To Be Seen (Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:53:02 GMT) In the past the Toronto International Film Festival helped to set up Hollywood's awards season. This year it may be more about solving the industry's problems. Cape Cod Murder Case Adds Another Chapter (Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:17:17 GMT) Peter Manso is writing a book about the high-profile murder of Christa Worthington on Cape Cod. And now he's run afoul of the same justice system his book promises to expose as corrupt. Pop Singer Drops Plan to Compose for the Met (Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:41:15 GMT) The singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright has dropped plans to compose a work for the Metropolitan Opera in a dispute over the language of the libretto. Bridge: A Biochemist's Surprising 13th Trick (Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:11:08 GMT) Several well-known foreign bridge players have moved to the United States to compete in the world's toughest tournament circuit and make a living doing it. Tad Mosel, TV Dramatist, Dies at 86 (Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:38:05 GMT) Mr. Mosel's dramatic scripts for live television were regularly featured in prime-time programming in the 1950s, and his play "All the Way Home" won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1961. Arts, Briefly: ABC Plans 5 New Series (Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:02:29 GMT) Months after the usual spring week during which networks reveal their new shows, ABC announced on Wednesday that it was ordering five series. Arts, Briefly: NBC Remains at No. 1 (Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:58:34 GMT) The Olympics continued to pay dividends for NBC on Tuesday as the network remained No. 1 in the ratings for yet another night in prime time. Arts, Briefly: Jonas Brothers Stay on Top (Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:07:45 GMT) The Jonas Brothers remain on top of the Billboard Top 10 for a second week in a row, despite a 72 percent drop in sales from last week. Arts, Briefly: Footnotes (Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:02:38 GMT) The New-York Historical Society has announced the election of former Gov. George E. Pataki of New York to its board. NYT > Art - Narrowed by 'LOUVRE' Stolen Art on Display in a Search for OwnersIn a remarkable feat of cooperation between France and Israel, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem has opened an exhibition of important art looted by the Nazis from France and then returned after the war. Masterpiece Home TheaterThanks to super-high-resolution reproductions, computer screens (and even BlackBerrys) now show us art literally in a new dimension. Serenading Sculptures in Dance at LouvreThe American dancer and choreographer Bill T. Jones has created a 55-minute work called "Walking the Line," which has magically brought to life a section of the Louvre normally frozen in the past. A Symbol of Freedom and a Target for TerroristsProximity is the cost, and virtue, of a civil and democratic society. We run the risk that some lunatic or self-promoter will violate the public trust of an open space because we value that space as a democratic ideal. Arcimboldo's Feast for the EyesThe glad mobs in Paris, forming polite, cheerful scrums before these stately paintings of people with vegetable faces and fish eyes seem to recognize in Arcimboldo something of the French impulse to bring order to everything. A Painting Comes Home (or at Least a Facsimile)Can and should technology right a historical wrong? That's a question Italians have been asking since a facsimile of Veronese's 16th-century "Wedding at Cana" was installed on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore a few weeks ago. New French Museum Embraces ArchitectureAt a low-key ceremony on Monday, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France inaugurated La Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine, (the City of Architecture and Heritage) in Paris, which reopened after a $114 million, decade-long makeover. The Industry of Art Goes GlobalToday, the reigning values of the art world are money, prestige and power. As a result, museums have become part of a globalized creative industry. Gift Horses? Bring Them OnPatrons of art institutions are now redefining what they donate by offering gifts like insurance, houses and industrial glass. NPR Topics: Arts & Entertainment 'Boss' Fans Share Tips On Rockin' A Political Party (Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:01:00 -0400) Barack Obama will accept the Democratic presidential nomination in an outdoor stadium with 70,000 screaming onlookers, a light show and music. It'll look like a rock concert rather than a political rally. Bruce Springsteen concertgoers give advice on how to keep your cool and not look like an Obama poseur. Xbox's 'Braid' A Surprise Hit, For Surprising Reasons (Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:40:00 -0400) It's no shoot-'em-up, and not quite a blockbuster. But at nearly 100,000 downloads and counting, the moody "meaning-of-life" time-tripper feels like a game that a grown-up can play — and maybe should. Don Cheadle's Spy Turn (Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:15:00 -0400) In his latest movie, Traitor, Don Cheadle plays a CIA operative who goes undercover to work with a terrorist group — but then becomes a suspected terrorist himself. Minorities Get Little Respect On The Big Screen (Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:01:00 -0400) As the summer movie season draws to a close, Morning Edition commentator John Ridley weighs in on what he thinks has been a really bad spell for minorities at the multiplex — both for actors and moviegoers. In Central Park, 'Hair' Line Brings A City Closer (Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:17:00 -0400) Free summer staging of the '60s musical has New Yorkers camping out overnight — but a sense of shared adventure (and bike messengers bearing delivery breakfasts) help pass the time. 2 Minute Film Noir: Stool Pigeon Street (Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:00:00 -0400) Security concerns have led to a lot of surveillance equipment around Stool Pigeon Street. A fictional fellow discovers that wherever he goes, he's being watched. By who, it almost doesn't matter any more. Andrew Fleming And Pam Brady: Making 'Hamlet 2' (Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:07:00 -0400) The two collaborated on the new Steve Coogan comedy, about a failed actor and overzealous drama teacher who mounts a musical sequel to Shakespeare's most famous tragedy. Is America Obsessed With Beauty? (Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:00:00 -0400) Director Darryl Roberts explores whether Americans care too much about looks in his new movie America the Beautiful. He follows models and interviews media editors to get answers. Barbershop Takes On Veep Stakes, Master P (Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:00:00 -0400) The guys in this week's Barbershop — Jimi Izrael, Ruben Navarrette, Arsalan Iftikhar and Nick Charles — comb through the week's headlines. They talk about the latest buzz surrounding the presidential veep stakes, the USA's performance in the Olympics and rapper Master P's latest business venture, family friendly TV. Jukebox The Ghost: Promise Of A 'Good Day' (Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:16:00 -0400) Often compared to the likes of Ben Folds, or even a muted incarnation of Queen, Jukebox the Ghost makes music that's buoyant without leaving a saccharine aftertaste. Exhibit A: the flamboyantly orchestrated "Good Day." An Animated Take On The 'Chicago 10' (Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:14:00 -0400) Brett Morgan's film, Chicago 10, uses a combination of archival footage, animation and music to tell the story of eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Inside HBO's 'Black List' (Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:23:00 -0400) The term, "black list," once defined Communist investigations by the U.S. government in the 1950s. But now, an HBO documentary is redefining that term. The Black List is a documentary with 22 prominent black Americans — from Gen. Colin Power to erotica writer Zane — having their say. Lifestyle & Trends: LisaRaye Fights Back (Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:19:00 -0400) Actress LisaRaye has released photos to Essence magazine of what she says is domestic abuse. Plus, there's going to be a whole lot of Hollywood in Denver next week. For more, Farai Chideya speaks with Newsweek magazine national correspondent Allison Samuels. Wired: Culture Q&A: Philippe Starck on Bioplastics, Virgin Galactic, and His Impossible Chair (Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:00:08 GMT) Philippe Starck's latest creation — a plastic chair — earned its name on the first sketch: Mr. Impossible. The French designer said it simply couldn't be made. The challenge? The weld. Polycarbonate chairs are typically formed using a single mold, but Starck's translucent design required two: one for the legs, one for the seat. Fusing the parts using existing methods would mean an unsightly seam, so the engineers at Italian furniture maker Kartell had to forge a new technique. The key was a very big laser. Trained at specially formulated polycarbonate, it left a seam smooth enough to create the illusion Starck had imagined: a chair that appears to levitate. We reached across the ether to elicit the designer's thoughts. Like Starck's design, our conversation seemed to float on air.
Wired: What was the inspiration for Mr. Impossible?
Starck: The speed of evolution of our civilization and the dematerialization that rules all our production. Take the computer: It was the size of a room, then a briefcase. Now it's a credit card. You cannot dematerialize a chair completely, because you must continue to sit on it. But you can make it invisible. That's why I made the Mr. Impossible with a double shell — it's basically made of air.
Wired: Recently, you have begun to look at the environmental impact of your designs. How does a plastic chair fit in?
Starck: The stupidity of the ecological movement is that people kill trees for wood. It's ridiculous. The best ecological strategy is to make products of a very high creative quality, so you can keep them for three generations. I prefer to make a very good chair in the best polycarbonate than make any shit in wood that will be in the trash one year later.
Wired: Why not use recycled plastic?
Starck: It's a little joke of a material. You can do almost nothing with it. And I also refuse bioplastic, which comes from something that people can eat. Scientists agree that we have a real food problem, a famine approaching. It's a crime against humanity to take something you can eat and make a chair — or use it as gas for your SUV.
Wired: How do you reconcile those principles with your position as creative director for Virgin Galactic?
Starck: Every project should fit the big image of evolution. You can consider Virgin Galactic as something only for rich people, but you can also analyze the incredible help that it will give us. The exploration of space is a vital part of our evolution. We don't have any future if we don't go into space. This world will explode in 4 billion years. We have time, but not so much. In Hot, Flat, and Crowded, Thomas Friedman Calls for a Green Energy Revolution (Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT) Hot, Flat, and Crowded, Thomas Friedman Calls for a Green Energy Revolution
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Thomas Friedman is about to dive into the green-tech fray. In his latest book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded, the multi-Pulitzer-winning journalist says everyone needs to accept that oil will never be cheap again and that wasteful, polluting technologies cannot be tolerated. The last big innovation in energy production, he observes, was nuclear power half a century ago; since then the field has stagnated. "Do you know any industry in this country whose last major breakthrough was in 1955?" Friedman asks. According to the book, US pet food companies spent more on R&D last year than US utilities did. "The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stone," he says. Likewise, the climate-destroying fossil-fuel age will end only if we invent our way out of it.
But he's not suggesting a new Manhattan Project. "Twelve guys and gals going off to Los Alamos won't solve this problem," Friedman says. "We need 100,000 people in 100,000 garages trying 100,000 things — in the hope that five of them break through."
Our current efforts are not only inadequate, they're hopelessly haphazard and piecemeal. Friedman argues it'll take a coordinated, top-to-bottom approach, from the White House to corporations to consumers. "Without a systems approach, what do you end up with?" he asks. "Corn ethanol in Iowa."
The New York Times columnist, who keeps up a punishing travel schedule, is just back from the Middle East and London. "If you don't go, you don't know," he says. Such wanderings provided the material for his 2005 best seller, The World Is Flat. Now he has added two new terms to his diagnosis of global ills: the intertwined problems of climate change and population growth — "too many carbon copies," as he puts it.
In this new world, governments and companies that take the lead will find themselves with the single most valuable competitive advantage of our time.
To illustrate, Friedman tells the story of a Marine Corps general in Iraq who requested solar panels to power his bases. Asked why, he explained that he wanted to win his region by "out-greening al Qaeda." Instead of trucking in gas from Kuwait at $20 a gallon — money that fuels oppressive petro-dictatorships — in convoys that are vulnerable to roadside bombs, why not beat the insurgents by taking away their targets and their funding?
Coming out months before the presidential election, Crowded is sure to bigfoot its way into the campaign. "McCain and Obama come from the right side of this debate," Friedman says. "They have the right instincts, but neither is quite there yet. They haven't yet thought it through fully." The battle over "green," he believes, will define the early 21st century just as the battle over "red" (Communism) defined the last half of the 20th. Seven Ways to Teach Your Kids to Ride (Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:00:00 GMT) Wired.com's Geekdad blog rates seven ways of teaching children how to ride bicycles, from taking off a single training wheel to starting them on the top of a hill and pushing them down. Build a Green Roof (Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:00:00 GMT) You can't get much greener than photosynthesis, and if you own a house you can take advantage of it. Plant some greens on your roof and you'll have a rich harvest, an insulated (and better looking) roof -- not to mention a cleaner environment. Stop wasting sunlight and green your roof. Alt Text: A Wistful Geek Heads for Sweet iPhone Hell (Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:00:00 GMT) I do not, as of yet, own an iPhone. However, soon my cellphone provider will be unlocking the door, shooing away the rats, taking off my shackles and releasing me from my contract.
At that point I will be buying an iPhone. Not because it's a shiny new Jobs-job, not because several of my friends have it and keep waving it at me, but because I clearly need it. I require its functionality for such important business purposes as having an iPhone.
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In the past, technology has often taken me by surprise. I go over to a friend's house to see this new "TiVo" device they've got ("It's what? Like a VCR? I already have a VCR.") and before I know it, I'm refusing to watch television shows during their scheduled time slots just on principle. I find out about geocaching, pick up a GPS to give it a go, and in no time a stoic, computerized voice is telling me to drive through a 6-foot-wide alleyway on the way to San Diego's only In-N-Out Burger.
This time, though, I'm not going to be taken by surprise. These are my last few weeks before I have an iPhone, and I'm going to make sure I cherish my ignorance.
Right now, I can have a thought like, "I wonder who had a hit first, Chuck Berry or Little Richard?" and allow that question to wander around in my head. Maybe I'll remember it and look it up when I get the chance; maybe I'll just let it go. I suspect that this time next month I'll be pulling over to the side of the road -- I hope I'll pull over to the side of the road -- to get the answer immediately.
Right now, my friends are not subjected to photos of every "witty" stop sign annotation I encounter. In fact, they can actually hang out with me with no fear of showing up in my Flickr stream with basil in their teeth.
Right now, I do not post to Twitter every time I see a dachshund.
While I long ago surrendered my right to stride the world undistracted by phone calls, right now I at least do not compulsively grab for my cellphone whenever someone friends me on Facebook.
Right now, sometimes I have ideas for columns, and they slip my mind before I can write them down. I like to think they go to Idea Heaven, where they become a much better essay than they would have been if they had been brought to life by my mortal fingers. Once I have my iPhone, none will escape.
Right now, I am capable of referring to my cellphone without actually telling people what brand it is.
Right now, although I sometimes regale my long-suffering non-gamer friends with tales of the latest gear to drop from Kara, I do not actually pull up The World of Warcraft Armory and force them to look at my Cyclone Helm.
Right now, I do not appear to bystanders to be speaking into an ice cream sandwich.
Right now, I rarely, if ever, use the phrase "awesome new app."
Right now, I would be surprised if using the phrase "awesome new app" in public did not result in mob justice.
Right now, I understand that there is absolutely no reason for me to watch an episode of Dog the Bounty Hunter in the bathroom. In fact, I realize that the very fact that this is an option is, in some indefinable way, a sign that our civilization is doomed to collapse in flame and sorrow.
So goodbye, non-iPhone Lore. It's nice having been you in a simpler world. These were the days.
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Born helpless, nude and unable to provide for himself, Lore Sjöberg eventually overcame these handicaps to become a telecommunicator, a telecommuter and a teleconverter. Little Yellow Lego Guys Turn 30 (Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:00:00 GMT) This week marks the 30th anniversary of Lego's introduction of the "minifig," the friendly yellow characters that add a human element to those iconic, plastic bricks. Extreme X-Rays: Photographer Nick Veasey Takes You Inside ... Everything (Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT) img {display:block;}
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Veasey is one of the few people who know how hard it is to get a crisp x-ray of a vacuum tube.1 For starters, the object has very little mass to absorb the radiation. And because the edges of the tube curve away from the film, the x-rays get scattered about, causing distortion. So Veasey shot this tube in a series of 10-second bursts. The succession of blasts builds up the energy necessary to capture the fine details, while their short duration keeps background radiation from clouding the picture.
Not many photographers need a linear accelerator. But Nick Veasey isn't your average shutterbug. Instead of tweaking f-stops and light boxes, he fine-tunes the speed and frequency of energy pulses emitted by a Russian-made tabletop particle turbocharger. That's because Veasey doesn't work with traditional cameras and film — he works with x-rays.
The 46-year-old Englishman estimates that over the past decade or so he's x-rayed more than 4,000 objects: flowers, football players, alarm clocks, tractors, even a 777. "I'm interested in how things work, and x-rays show what's happening under the surface," he says. "Plus, they look cool." To get his pictures, Veasey uses industrial x-ray machines typically employed in art restoration (to examine oil paintings), electronics manufacturing (to inspect circuit boards), and the military (to check tanks for stress fractures).
Working with high doses of radiation isn't always easy. To minimize a patient's radiation exposure, medical x-ray techs grab their blurry stills in a fraction of a second; Veasey needs to bombard his subjects with ionizing radiation for as long as 12 minutes to get crisp shots. So to capture human forms, Veasey works with either skeletons in rubber suits (normally used to train radiologists) or cadavers that have been donated to science. When a corpse becomes available, he has at most eight hours to pose and shoot before rigor mortis sets in.
Veasey's images have brought him fine-art commissions, big-name commercial clients, and a long list of professional honors. Now he also has a book-length collection called X-ray coming out in October. But Veasey says he's just getting started. He is currently building his own $200,000 studio with 35-inch-thick, lead-lined concrete walls. In there, he'll be able to see through anything.
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To assemble this office building scene, which includes everything from a potted plant to steel elevator cogs, Veasey employed all three of his x-ray machines. Each item was captured individually (he used only one skeleton "model," which he set in different poses) and then composited onto a master image. It took 200 x-rays to create the entire scene, including 26 shots just to depict the skeletons shaking hands.
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The largest x-ray film is only 14 inches wide, so to capture items bigger than that — like this pair of DJ decks measuring 4 feet across — Veasey stitches together several shots in Photoshop. That's also where he adds color to the black-and-white images for "technical grace." The challenge with electronics, Veasey says, is the way the chaotic interiors complicate the image.
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Veasey borrowed a cargo x-ray scanner normally used to search trucks crossing into the US from Mexico to create this image. Once he scanned the vehicle, Veasey used Photoshop to populate it with skeletons and objects he shot separately (yes, he x-rayed a fedora). A hospital in White Plains, New York, commissioned the piece to celebrate the opening of its new orthopedic facility. The medical center's PR team had a promotional bus wrapped in the image drive around White Plains for nearly two months. How to Survive a Power Blackout (Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:00:00 GMT) A massive power failure can turn that record hot summer into a major bummer. When the lights do go out, you'll want to be prepared to live without electricity for anywhere from a few hours to a few days. Here are some suggestions to stay fueled, informed and entertained during the next blackout. Show Us Your Geek Tattoos (Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:49:00 GMT) Are you sporting skin art inspired by comics, sci-fi, horror or even really freaky stuff like math and physics? Send us a photo. Geek Ink: Comics Fans Show Off Tattoos (Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT) : Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired.com
All comic book fans dig ink. Some of them just take their superhero obsessions a little further than others.
Michael Boyce (left) wears his love of comics on his sleeves. A thirtysomething artist who runs On Comic Ground, a comics shop in San Diego, his arms are covered with tattoos of all the superheroines he grew up with: fightin' females like Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Supergirl and Wonder Girl.
"Once I started getting one girl, I had to get 'em all," Boyce said.
With flesh forever marked with the comics and sci-fi characters they know and love, geeks like Boyce would give a pack of hard-core bikers a run for their money in the tattoo department.
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Are you sporting skin art inspired by comics, sci-fi, horror or even really freaky stuff like math and physics? Send us a photo.
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Wonder Woman struts her stuff on Boyce's right bicep, but his tattoos cover both of his arms.
"I want to have arms that look like comic book pages with the girls bursting out," said Boyce, who got the work done over a three-year period by Willie King Clover in Lemon Grove, California. Boyce also wears a wicked Wonder Woman belt buckle.
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When getting Venom's spider logo added to his left calf, Aaron Hamilton went with stark black ink.
"I wanted something big and bold that just said, 'This is who I am. This is what I like,'" said Hamilton, 30, of Birmingham, Alabama. He says he got the tattoo done 10 years ago by Justin Kontzen of Aerochild Tattoos in Birmingham.
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Tim Burton's animated movie The Nightmare Before Christmas got Coley Suicide into tattoos. Now it's Halloween every day of the year on her arm, where "Pumpkin King" Jack Skellington, his girlfriend Sally and ghost dog Zero have taken up permanent residence.
"I've always kinda been obsessed with Tim Burton," said Suicide, 20, of Long Beach, California. "I figured I'd start out with my favorite."
The tattoos took 28 hours, she said, and were done by Nathan Menske in Yakima, Washington.
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Chaos Comics characters Lady Death and Purgatori face-off eternally on the back of Chris "Cybian" Kneeland, 39, of San Diego.
"Everything I have (tattoo-wise) is kind of like good and evil," said Kneeland, who works as a website coder and analyst.
The back piece, which was done by Bob Vessells at Funny Farm Tattoos in Los Angeles, was started five years ago, with 20 to 25 hours of needling so far, said Kneeland. He's gained some weight in the interim, and swears he'll get the piece finished when he drops the pounds.
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Images of The Thing (pictured), Image Comics' Maxx and other superheroes decorate Sean Brunle's body. The 31-year-old bartender, who lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, says he chose those characters because he "was physically attracted to them."
The tattoos, done by Rodney Raines at Ace Custom Tattoo in Charlotte, took 15 or 20 hours to finish, Brunle said.
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X-Men badass Wolverine is another of Brunle's favorites.
"They're basically hard on the outside and soft on the inside," Brunle said of the characters indelibly inked on his arms. "Strong men with good hearts, I guess."
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"Does it ever make sense to us?" asks Jeff Walker, 27, of San Diego. The custodian wears a stark image of a dead bird with a philosophical quote from Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes comic strip on his arm.
"I've just always loved the artwork," Walker said by way of explanation. The tattoo was inked by Chris Walkin at Avalon Tattoo II in San Diego.
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Leona the lizard girl from Katherine Dunn's sideshow stunner Geek Love earned a permanent spot on one of Odette Suicide's legs, right next to a living shrine to the Virgin de Guacamole.
Suicide, 27, lives in Ventura, California, and calls herself a "baker with brains." She has a bachelor's degree in psychology (and neurons tattooed on her right arm).
Leona was inked in nine hours by Tim Kern at Tribulation Tattoo in New York City, she said. Nathan Kostechko did the avocado-faced Virgin.
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Steve Thompson works as a toy designer for Disney, but Sci Fi Channel's rebooted space opera Battlestar Galactica motivated him to get this skin art. He has Starbuck's tattoo on his arm, courtesy of two hours under the needle at Body Electric Tattoo in Hollywood.
"I'm just a huge fan of the show," said Thompson, 34, of Los Angeles.
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Shaz Nolan wears the Dark Mark of the Death Eaters from the Harry Potter books on her left forearm. That fits nicely with the 32-year-old seamstress' cosplay role -- she dresses as Bellatrix Lestrange.
When she saw the image, she couldn't live without it. "And it's fun," said Nolan, who lives in Fullerton, California. She says the tattoo took one hour at Deep Blue Tattoo in Grover Beach, California.
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"I've been a comic book fan my entire life," said Chad Bacon, 34, of Huntington Beach, California.
It shows. On his right forearm, the strip-club manager sports Captain America, done by Vance O'Rourke of 723 Tattoo in Fullerton, California. Bacon's into the "whole patriotic thing," he said.
Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Wasp, Spider-Man and Spawn cover other parts of his body, and for extra geek effect, he's got an image of Albert Einstein on his upper left arm.
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Steven Miller has a bold panel from a comic on his right forearm. "I just thought it was cool looking," said Miller, 27, of Los Angeles.
The director of Automaton Transfusion said he is working on a movie called Ink about -- what else? -- tattoos. |
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