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Soundwave Tattoo

In April 2017 my friend Lisa died. She was an incredible singer and musician. It was an especially hard loss for me.

A few days later some friends came over and asked for a tattoo of Elton John's "Tiny Dancer" as a soundwave. I did the tattoos and my partner Juliana flippantly suggested "wouldn't it be cool if you could play those back?".

Like a lightbulb going on in a cartoon bubble over my hear, I realized I knew how to do that.

I created a demo app to show them and decided to tattoo one on myself. I had Juliana film me while I tattooed myself and I made a video and a simple landing page for the video. The next morning I posted it on Facebook and it reached a million people in one day. Within a week it was picked up by every major video-meme page and did 30-50million views per page totaling more than 550 million views.

Soon I was doing interviews for the mainstream media news outlets and syndicated to every station around the country. It was wild. I founded Skin Motion and sold my ownership in 2023.

Here's a complete list of everything I was in during that time:

This is not an extensive list, there's likely links I don't have. I have another 100 to clean up and add in the coming days.

Date Type Publication: Title
05/09/17 News Article(en) Oddity Centeral: Tattoo Artist Creates “Soundwave Tattoos” That You Can Actually Listen to
05/09/17 News Article(es) youBEAT: In arrivo "Soundwave Tattoos", gli audio-tatuaggi da ascoltare con la realtà aumentata.
05/11/17 News Article(en) WTOP Radio: A tattoo that talks and sings? Yup, there’s an app for that
05/18/17 News Article(en) GlobalNews: Pokemon Go, Snapchat and now tattoos: Soon you’ll be able to get a tattoo that plays audio
05/23/17 News Article(en) RTL: Soundwave Tattoos': Diese Tattoos kann man hören
05/24/17 News Article(de) Telemundo: Los tatuajes con sonido son una realidad y aquí está la prueba
05/25/17 News Article(en) The American Genius: Hearable tattoos?! Welcome to the 21st century
05/26/17 News Article(en) Fashion Fix Daily: Tattoos That Play sound
06/01/17 News Article(en) Teufel: Make that special sound a part of you with Soundwave Tattoos
10/29/17 News Article(it) Superva: Soundwave tattoo: ecco i tatuaggi che si ascoltano
01/01/18 News Article(be) HNL: Torhoutse artieste zet tatoeages die geluid maken
01/03/18 News Article(en) BET: Young Woman Shares Video Of Her Tattoo Playing A Birthday Message From Her Late Grandmother And People Are In Tears
01/05/18 News Article(en) People: Chicago Teen's Tattoo Lets Her Listen to Late Grandma's Voicemail Recording: 'I Miss Her'
01/05/18 News Article(en) Geekwire: Listen to this tattoo: Woman’s viral video shows waveform ink featuring voicemail from her grandma
01/05/18 News Article(en) Sacremento Bee: She kept a voicemail from her late grandma for years. Now her tattoo can play it back
01/05/18 News Article(en) Cosopolitan: Woman Can Now Listen to Her Late Grandma's Voicemail Using New Tattoo Over Her Heart

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