Hey, everybody it is Qcknd and welcome back to tattoo talk Tuesday
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Interactive talk show where I take viewers submitted questions and try to lend my experience to you guys as a tattoo collector
So this question has been coming to me from all angles
Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, and I am
Excited to dive into this like big
I don't know social media phenomenon, and that is soundwave tattoos
So the first I heard about these
Were just from like questions I was getting my inbox like "Hey, have you heard of these Soundwave tattoos?" and
Originally I just thought like a tattoo of a sound wave and I was like yeah, that's cool
whatever you want to get tattooed and then I
I saw this video on
wake up and make up about
these actual soundwave tattoos
Where you get
an
actual tattoo of a sound wave
You get that tattooed on you
and
then this app
Can like read the Soundwave.
So I'm going to talk to you guys today about this soundwave tattoo technology.
I'm going to tell you what I know what research is available
And I also talk to Tattoo artist about how they feel so I'm just going to bring it all together talk about how I feel
doesn't matter at all
So definitely sit tight and let me know how you feel about soundwave tattoos.
So what you can see and what I could gather from this video
There is not a ton of information out there about this specific tattoo technology.
So it seems like someone got this tattoo only a few weeks ago.
Two weeks ago, I think these videos went viral.
And there are only three videos available about this and then like 20 articles all based on these three videos.
From what I could gather...
There's a guy and he, you know, he wanted to come up with this idea
Where like, what if you could attach a song to a tattoo and like actually hear it?
So he got a tattoo of a sound wave and he is developing this app
where you would get a tattoo of a sound wave
and then
You could use the app to play
That specific sound wave. Like, the app would recognize the tattoo and play the sound wave and then you could hear
Whatever the audio was out of your phone
Sounds like a pretty interesting idea
You know I saw a lot of people saying like this is a trend tattoo, and this is just the latest trend
So diving deeper into this the, um,
the technology the company that is marketing these tattoos is called skin motion, so
Skin motion is currently developing the app
for the sound wave tattoo and
from my understanding
Just from the information that is available
You go onto their website with like a sound recording, like if I wanted to record
Ethan meowing or like Joanna Newsom
yodeling *vocalizes* I would take that sound that soundbite
Go onto their website
Upload that Soundbite and then they will give you in exchange, the visual soundwave.
Then the little, little music or whatever you archived
that you sent them becomes archived onto their website, so your little music stays in their database
And then they, in exchange, will give you the actual soundwave
That is related to the music in the database
So you receive that. You take that tap to a tattoo artist the tattoo artist gives you that tattoo.
Then through the app you can then, um, access that sound file, show on your skin, and then it'll play.
So all of this is not free. This is not um
You know googling a sound wave and then getting that exact tattoo and it will work on the app
This is very specific and unique to the app, the developer of the app
Their website has like an FAQ, so it sounds like you pay for the app
You pay to have the sound bite
stored on their website archive
And then you pay to receive the design, and then you have to be tattooed by someone who is certified in
Skin motion. So skin motion has a tattoo
certification, tattoo artist certification process. On their website it says over a hundred tattoo artists has signed up to be on the skin wave
certification processing thing. It kind of sounds like 'register to be an
An authorized retailer of the skin motion tattooing!'
For me it kind of sounds like someone is really trying to market 'get on the tattoo thing' and like really market themselves
But hey you invented this thing, you created the website
And you are storing all of these sound files like all of that work isn't free
so to me it kind of sounds like um
If you already have a sound wave tattoo that you just got
before this, before you know anything about this. It sounds like your sound wave will not work on their app
It kind of has to be given to you. In their FAQ somebody did ask 'like will this work?' and they said they are developing
Technology for it to work, but they said that they're unsure, so I think you know a question
I had and I asked Derek Bremzy. I was like. What's up with these? He said that he has done
Sound wave tattoos before but in order to translate them into a tattoo
they are not exactly right, and he said, they're probably not exactly the sound wave
So you know, if you had the idea to get a little snippet of your song
turned into a sound wave and you got that tattoo
You know in your heart, what it represents?
But he says he's uncertain that those tattoos would actually translate and work on these apps
but then when I did more research, I told him, well it might not even work anyway because
It's not archived and official through their website
So I think, you know you ask yourself.
What about growing? What about, you know, gaining weight? Getting older? Does this affect the tattoo?
On their website, it does kind of say like
You have to protect your tattoo, and you have to, you know um
Use healing and safety precautions with your tattoo
And it does stress getting the tattoo from someone who is certified in the skin motion app
or skin motion certified tattooer
So I do think this is something that is a more,
That targets more people who will get tattoos that are very sentimental to them
Like, I can think of a friend off the top of my head that if I called her and told her about this she would
Say yes, I want a sound bite of my grandmom right now
I want it absolutely right now because my friend like only has memorial tattoos, that's her thing
So I do think that there is a market for these tattoos
I think when I was in my research, it said that Facebook was where
this tattoo craze or like this video really went Viral and to me,
I imagine people on Facebook to be like a little older, um
you know caring about their kids, caring about family and
Birthdays and anniversaries and stuff, like people who really care about that kind of fundamental stuff
I feel like are more likely to lean towards these tattoos.
That doesn't say, you know, that it's not going to be a really cool party trick
You know if you do have the tattoo on your arm, and you know you're like. Oh, yeah
the Macarena remember? *chuckles*
I was talking to my friend when I went to your coffee this morning, and I was like oh
I'm uh, have you ever heard of these tattoos? and
He said you know it could be a really cool [thing]
You know you have like you're sitting at a bar and a guy is talking to you and with app
He can be like 'what's that girl about? Is that a sound wave tattoo?'
And he plays it and it's like 'get away from me' *chuckles* But at the same time
having tattoos that now are, um
audible tattoos, they do open up kind of a sensation for people who may
have never had access to tattoos before because they could not see well
or, you know, they are blind. Now they can have tattoos that they can actually hear. So I was kind of like
Hey, I'm a little pessimistic,
classically, about these tattoos, but then I was like
But maybe they just don't appeal to me because I haven't ever needed a tattoo that I could hear before
In the, like Viral video, I'll leave that link down below
it shows a woman who has a
sound wave of her dog barking and
You can see the sound wave is like a negative space
And then the outside is the image of the dog and she can play it from her phone and hear like Bark Bark Bark Bark Bark
I don't know if the tattoo has to be a certain size for the sound waves to work
I don't know if it has to be, you know, this big
for the whole thing, or really tiny,
or if you can get a really big, like your full ribs of like a song and the whole song plays because the tattoo
Is that big and you're like in the mirror like did I get it?
I don't know. From what I understand
The app, and the technology, and all those certifications will be ready by June, so this is like really happening fast
but
from
my understanding
You know, I think that this is going to be a specialized kind of tattooing thing. Earlier my friend was like
Oh, are you going to get one of those tattoos for your episode?
And I was like 'I don't really know' you know? I do think that this is a very big
Conversation piece tattoo, you know, it's huge on Facebook
so people know about it, and if you end up having like a little sound wave tattoo
I feel like people are going to approach you and ask about it, though
I do feel like the people who are more inclined to get this tattoo are excited to talk about it, so
That's something that I feel like might be a part of it. However,
It kind of seems like if you have the app, you can play anybody soundwave tattoo.
So if you get something really private, you know, there is the ability for someone else a stranger to play it
Like I said, the girl at the bar that says like get away from me.
so
What I do understand though is if you have this soundwave tattoo you kind of are bound to the app and
I feel like as somebody who, you know, is trying to be more conscious of how much they are on their phone
This is just something else that will bind you to your phone
So you do have to think about that if you're already on your phone
You could just have a little audio file on your phone that maybe you do need to listen to sometimes to perk you up
When I was telling myself that I was like oh
But what if you don't have your phone like you will always have the sound wave
But your phone is
Required in order to hear the sound wave, so you cannot eliminate your phone from the process
I don't know if, maybe down the line they'll come up with like a little handheld reader that you can maybe like scan your tattoo and read,
but then you're bound to the device in order to hear the tattoo
So I don't know.
You guys have to let me know how you feel. I feel really on the fence about this.
I feel like this isn't a tattoo that I like, that necessarily
appeals to me, but that is also because, um
um..
I am a visual person so I do have the ability to see,
so I don't really need a tattoo that I have to hear.
Um, I don't want to be bound to my phone, um, I like that my tattoos are separate from
Like, I guess technology because tattooing is such a timeless art form that
Mixing technology with my tattoos isn't really something I'm ready to adjust to. I do know that there are tattoos out there
You know there's tattoos that help with your blood alcohol level
There's tattoos that people get to indicate like different medical things. I think that all of that stuff is
Great and new, new technology, but I'm not sure if I'm ready for
soundwave tattoo. Let me know in the comments if
you are ready for soundwave tattoos. If it's something you've heard of, if it's just something that you thought was sensationalized online
And you're not really sure about it in real life.
Apparently
From my online research it said over
9,000 people are on the waiting list to download the app so think about that kind of number
9,000 people who are waiting to get the Soundwave tattoo on the app, pay the money, have that sound wave
you know, archived forever.
My final question is though, how
long does this app
intend to, to exist, to withstand time? You know, every day
I'm like 'I hope Instagram lasts another couple years, not the next Myspace.'
Who knows? How long does the creator or skin motion intend to keep this app alive?
As long as any of us? As long as our tattoos exist?
What if the app failed after five years?
9,000 people now have a tattoo they can no longer listen to
Let me know what you think. Thank you guys so much
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I'll link my research down below so you can check it out for yourself as well, and keep the conversation going in the comments.
Thank you guys so much and until next week, Bye!