Decadent Devil Rubber Ducky

So, tonight I did something for myself at the tattoo studio. I spent two hours doing this to myself:

Say hello to my little ducky... (click to see it on flickr)

Yes. I said to myself. I'm only a little crazy.

I still have to do the color work on myself as a duck, but I'll have to wait until the kink in my back and my knee straitens out. I'm just not as bendy as I used to be.

I've not always had a thing for rubber duckys, but for the last few years I've started to collect them for some odd reason, and clients have brought them to me thinking I collect them. So the ducky seemed appropriate. He's on the same leg as my DNA helix, so I'm sure eventually I'll have a sock incorporating the two and other "relics" of my childhood that I will feel the need to tattoo upon myself.

Until next time...

17 comments

posted 783 days ago at 11:07 pm in Ponderings

tags: Getting Tattooed, Rubber Ducky

17 comments on “Decadent Devil Rubber Ducky”

Urspo commented on March 31, 2010 at 11:54 pm:

I am impressed. I would think it would be very hard to work on yourself.

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- Erik Rubright replied to Urspo on April 1, 2010 at 10:15 am:
  
  Thank you. I won’t say it’s easy, but getting a tattoo was never “difficult” for me either. For me, the pain is more in trying to reach the location rather than the actual pain associated with the tattoo itself.
  
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Jim commented on April 1, 2010 at 6:49 am:

If your husbear doesn't help you become more bendy... I will!

I like the tat!

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- Erik Rubright replied to Jim on April 1, 2010 at 10:15 am:
  
  I'm fairly certain my knee was never meant to bend that way. I felt like Cirque du Soleil gone horribly wrong.
  
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Cb commented on April 1, 2010 at 8:30 am:

I like that it has your glasses!

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- Erik Rubright replied to Cb on April 1, 2010 at 10:17 am:
  
  Now I'll always have to buy glasses that look like this....
  
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Mark Alexander commented on April 1, 2010 at 9:12 am:

Beautiful! You are definitely doing my next one, even if it means driving to Arkansas!

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- Erik Rubright replied to Mark Alexander on April 1, 2010 at 1:23 pm:
  
  Thank you, and I'm holding you to that!
  
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DeadRobot commented on April 1, 2010 at 9:45 am:

Excellent. I wish I had you around Toronto so I could do stuff like this to my body.

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- Erik Rubright replied to DeadRobot on April 1, 2010 at 1:26 pm:
  
  I'm sure there's some great tattooists up there in Toronto, but I greatly appreciate it!
  
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Java commented on April 1, 2010 at 10:39 pm:

I like the duck! An ex from my college days used to call me Elizabeth McDuck. My name is not Elizabeth, either.

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- Erik Rubright replied to Java on April 2, 2010 at 4:52 pm:
  
  Was that one of Scrooge McDuck's relatives?
  
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BearToast Joe commented on April 2, 2010 at 3:37 pm:

Did you have to do it upside down? Amazing.

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- Erik Rubright replied to BearToast Joe on April 2, 2010 at 4:54 pm:
  
  Upside down, and sideways. When I tattoo, I really don't look at the orientation of the piece I'm working on as a whole, just the piece overall, if that makes sense?
  
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rg commented on April 6, 2010 at 9:20 am:

Reminds me of the time I gave myself an appendectomy.

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- Erik Rubright replied to rg on April 6, 2010 at 4:14 pm:
  
  I don't think falling on a butt plug counts as an appendectomy.
  
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BentonQuest commented on April 11, 2010 at 3:46 pm:

That is just way too cool! Love it!

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