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 |
|---|---|---|
| 05/24/17 | News Video(en) | NBC NY: New ‘Soundwave' Tattoos Can Talk, Play Music |
| 05/25/17 | News Video(en) | NBC LA: New ‘Soundwave' Tattoos Can Talk, Play Music |
| 12/01/17 | News Video(be) | RTL: Zonhovenaar krijgt als eerste Belg "een tatoeage waar je naar kan luisteren” |
| 01/03/18 | News Video(en) | Daily Mail: Singer reveals her incredible sound wave tattoo that plays back a message from her late grandmother when she holds her phone over it |
| 02/18/18 | News Video(en) | Fox 10: New technology means tattoos can now 'speak' |
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