Lucy's Radiolarian

I met Lucy yesterday in Penn Station after I spotted this cool tattoo on her right arm:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3SzceReQWEEPi0dHspfjaElcum930ZC9ChqW0jcS_ql6cf95CgbnFNEFoWWdV3i0HVW18H6N6YwFzrxpiw_uQtn011E2AgKcnCksuRACGGCmimcD8F7JdeogQ3kLTiESL0HNQvIpwONg/s0-d/IMG_0475.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3SzceReQWEEPi0dHspfjaElcum930ZC9ChqW0jcS_ql6cf95CgbnFNEFoWWdV3i0HVW18H6N6YwFzrxpiw_uQtn011E2AgKcnCksuRACGGCmimcD8F7JdeogQ3kLTiESL0HNQvIpwONg/s0-d/IMG_0475.JPG" width="478" /></a></div><br />Lucy credits the artist JK5 with this tattoo. She said he did this out of <a href="http://www.savedtattoo.com/">Saved Tattoo</a>, but he freelances and has also worked out of <a href="http://www.daredeviltattoo.com/component/option,com_gallery2/Itemid,26/?g2_itemId=2900">Dare Devil Tattoo</a>.<br /><br />And what is this on her arm?<br /><br />Lucy explained that this is based on an illustration by German biologist/naturalist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Haeckel">Ernst Haeckel</a> and depicts a creature known as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiolarian">radiolarian</a>, an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoeboid">amoeboid protozoa</a>. This is something you would see on the great science tattoo site, <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/science-tattoo-emporium/">Carl Zimmer's Science Tattoo Emporium</a><br /><br />Thanks to Lucy for sharing this wonderful tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br /><b id="internal-source-marker_0.029090943513438106" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This entry is ©2012 Tattoosday.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit</span><a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span></span></b>

Lucy's Radiolarian

I met Lucy yesterday in Penn Station after I spotted this cool tattoo on her right arm: Lucy credits the artist JK5 with this tattoo. She sa...

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