Suicide girls get sizzling bacon 'bro' tattoos at SXSW
Talk about bringing home the bacon. At Saturday night's Bigg Digg party at Stubb's BBQ in Austin, Texas, I ran across two young ladies from the tech world who were sporting brand-new, hot-off-the-grill bacon tattoos.
Lynn LaVallee, a.k.a. @poshy, and her friend Jessica Zollman, a.k.a. @jayzombie, in town for the South by Southwest music and media conference, consummated their roommate-ship early. The two San Francisco-based women, both Suicide Girls (that's the Web's "enlightened" erotic-photo site), are moving in together next month, and they both love bacon. Hence the decision to get their "bro tatts." Bacon is, of course, one of the Web's silliest memes (see this short explainer video).
LaVallee, 28 and a Web engineer at Outspark, got a piece of cooked, greasy bacon on her bicep (above), whereas Zollman, an intern at Spin Magazine, went more raw with a piece of uncooked bacon on her upper rib area (below).
"We found out we both loved bacon the first time we ever met," said Zollman. The tattoos, which they got together on Friday, are "kind of like a roommate bonding thing."
"It's kind of like I didn’t want cooked, crispy bacon," Zollman, 23, explained. "I wanted delicious, marble, meaty richness." This was her "ninth or 10th" tattoo, she said. I wondered why she chose such a sensitive area for this bit of meat art?
"I've always wanted to do my rib to see how it feels," she said. "And to know whether or not I could handle it, because ribs in the tattoo world is supposed to be the most painful area. It was really rough, but I'm really glad that I did it."
Besides, she said: "Raw meat, sexuality, food -- I think they all go hand in hand."
As a bonus, LaVallee showed me another techtoo she got two weeks ago.
"I'm a Web engineer," she explained, "so the tattoo represents the proper separation layers of a Web document. The first file is the structural layer -- which is the house. The second is the presentational layer -- CSS -- and the third is the behavioral layer, which is JavaScript."
So many layers!
Body art by Jack, photos and intrepid reporting by ...
-- David Sarno
I demand the next one represent separation of presentation logic in client tier, and business logic in application tier
Posted by: Josh Ribakoff | March 15, 2009 at 01:50 PM
... and in 10 years, they will look back at this and say, "damn, that was pretty stupid".
Posted by: Jay | March 15, 2009 at 02:07 PM
LOL if those are actual permanent tattoos.
Posted by: Ugh | March 15, 2009 at 02:18 PM
yeh waht a waste of a pretty girl's back
Posted by: ryan | March 15, 2009 at 02:52 PM
You wouldn't expect tech girls to be idiots.
Posted by: Sookey | March 15, 2009 at 02:55 PM
The Suicide Girls are my favorite daily distraction on the web and Posh, the girl with the back tattoo is one of the smartest and sexiest women on the web.
Posted by: Jimmy Talon | March 15, 2009 at 04:43 PM
Suicide girls? They still around?
Posted by: theloniousMac | March 15, 2009 at 05:46 PM
Actually, a tat across the back is related to the Fame & Reputation area on the body's feng shui. I'd say the web designer is showing off her talent in a very creative and original way that could bring her more publicity (such as the LA Times article) and enhance her reputation in her chosen field (web design is not a stuffy bank job, after all).
Posted by: Katy Allgeyer | March 15, 2009 at 06:18 PM
The tattoos look like an flesh eating disease.
Those would scare the hell out of me if I didn't know it was a bacon tattoo.
Posted by: um | March 15, 2009 at 06:18 PM
Bacon has officially jumped the shark
Posted by: whatever | March 16, 2009 at 05:29 AM
Wouldn't matching bacon t-shirts have been sufficient??
www.bacn.com
www.nicodemusgreen.etsy.com
-Nic
Posted by: Nicodemus Green | March 16, 2009 at 09:22 AM
There is even a Bacon Version of ApartmentHomeLiving's website that is an Easter Egg...check it: http://www.apartmenthomeliving.com/index_bacon.aspx
What is the deal with Bacon?!!?
Posted by: TFunk | March 20, 2009 at 11:19 AM
You know having tatoos lowers your chances of getting a good paying job. Statistics have shown people who have tatoos showing, lowers their chances of high paid jobs. Employers see potencial employees as a representative of the company. If you have this kind of person in your company that represents themselves so foolish and rebelious who is going to trust their opinion or for that matter handle things with respect for your company. So I guess she will get the 20.000 a year job as a waitress. Hope she likes it!
Posted by: charter club | March 23, 2009 at 11:38 PM
Ok first of the tats are B/A secondly she's a Suicide Girl...I see her serving
No tables soon my man. Although if she was I'd eat there often and tip well.
Haha! Bacon colored rib art!
Posted by: Dave Dasacaja | March 24, 2009 at 08:50 AM
as a formar suicide girl myself i can tell you flat out. she makes good money. very good money. while bacon is a little odd, it reps something to them and i for one respect that. also i want you to go and line up 10 doctors 10 nurses and hell lets throw in 10 people from the law office. i can bet you at least AT LEAST 80% have 1 or more tattoos. girls keep doin what you do your beautiful and so are your tats
Posted by: brandi | April 11, 2009 at 07:48 AM
I work at a law office and I'm going for my third tattoo this weekend, lol
Also, there is such a thing as clothing, it can be real handy in covering tattoos for work. Just my experience though.
Posted by: lila | May 08, 2009 at 10:43 AM
what is the point in all them tattoos they seem so out of place Im not trying to juge or NE thing but i would like to know what they mean to you
Posted by: caitlin | September 09, 2009 at 05:55 AM
why yall worried bout what she put on her
thats her not yall..shes the one paying for it..so
yall need to keep dumb comments to yourself. if
yall dnt like it dnt look at it...
Posted by: S.A. | September 17, 2009 at 06:08 AM