The Godfather Of Fail
Source: Mixx
This is the tattoo you get when you walk into the parlor and say, “I want a tattoo, but I’m just not sure what to get.” It’s known as the Kitchen Sink. Fan of James Brown? Done. How about Wu-Tang? Bam. Into bats, or flying animals of any kind? You’re covered.
What about Batman, birds, Jambi, aliens, dragons, dreadlocks, Frankenstein, goblins, Native American imagery, dinosaurs, or making your torso look like a face wearing a Crusader’s helmet? I defy you to find something not represented by this tattoo.
At least he knows for sure NOBODY has that same tattoo, or not one even close to it.
Why is the Godfather of Soul green?
Wow, this simply a WTF moment.
Sweet, he’s even got the Godfather of Soul giving his own tribute to Blanka out of Street Fighter!
you’re looking at it all wrong. it’s a nipple-eyes party mask
The guy looks a lot like Australian cricketer Andrew Symonds http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Symonds
“I defy you to find something not represented by this tattoo.”
Good judgment?
Wow.. nice nipple promotion!
I like how nicely it frames his nipples.
Trying to think of a comment for a few minutes now, but I came to the realization that there is no comment worthy of even touching on the shittiness of this tattoo.
Charlene: That represents his deep-rooted love of the Wicked Witch of the West.
Something not represented in this tattoo?
Awesome. This tattoo has no awesome.
At first it was just startlingly ugly….. then I realized it is on his *chest* and not his back. Barf
I think the green face is that of Aussie cricket player Andrew Symonds.
“I defy you to find something not represented by this tattoo.”
Dignity…
Of all the tattoos I’ve seen on this site so far, I think this one comes the closest to shooting straight through twin-layers of “WTF?” and “Fail…” and tentatively approaches the golden country of “Post-Modern Irony Win.”
But it falls short of that country, landing instead in the strange no-mans-land beyond the borders.
In that land…there be hipsters.
Mekka Lekka Hi-Mekka Hiney Ho.
this make my shreck tatoo look like a joke…
It’s photoshopped.
You know, there’s always SOMEONE who thinks that the tattoos people get are fake, and usually without any reason other than just to say it. I admit there have been a time or two where I felt certain that the images were NOT tattoos (on one list there was a guy who was airbrushed — it wasn’t the image that gave it away, but that I’d seen the work before).
With that in mind, foxfell, by all means, please educate us. What tipped you off? Was it the fact that it curves perfectly to the body? Was it that the highlights from the flash shine just right off the chest? Was it the slightly different range of colors from area to area because of different levels of pigmentation? Inquiring minds want to know!
It’s James Green!
Holy Shit, the fact that a tattoo done by Jesse Smith is on a website called “Ugliest Tattoos” is mind blowing. This is not photoshopped at all. I know the guy who has it, and I know the guy who did it. Maybe a “WTF” tattoo, but not ugly.
the artist: http://www.jessesmithtattoos.com
Another site with the tattoo: http://www.offthemaptattoo.com/Tattoos/tattoos_7243.html
@Bill
Dude… What do you consider “ugly”? The guy is GREEN. No one is 100% sure who it is supposed to be. It frames his nipples. This site is not just about poor quality tattoos, since some of them are rather okay technically. This site highlights UGLY tattoos. And this, no matter who did it, or who it’s on, is ugly… Unless there’s a damned good reason why the guy is GREEN.
Oh, and BTW, for all I know this is Marion Barry, which would make it even worse.
Does anyone else notice that the man has purple hair..
I always notice the stupid things..
@Jennifer
Its James Browns’ mug shot.
and why not green? It makes it a bit more interesting than the typical black and grey portraits that everyone does.
Because the whold damned thing is UGLY. It may be something easily recognizable to you, but clearly not to everyone (even those who aren’t completely stupid). Which leads one to the assumption that it doesn’t look all that much like him. And he’s green. Which looks terrible with this dude’s skin tone, for one thing. Oh, and did I mention that it’s just plain UGLY?
@bill
Oh, and if it IS supposed to be his mugshot (http://cm1.theinsider.com/media/0/81/31/james-brown-mug-shot_400x400.0.0.0×0.400×400.jpeg) it’s double ugly because it’s a really shitty rendition of it.
Did I fail to convey just how UGLY this is?
no cupcakes.
@Jennifer
Besides the fact of the actual picture being slightly blurry and
pixilated, I dont see how you can say that is not a good rendition
of a picture. Oh, I forgot, your opinion is law.
and why are you so hung up on the fact that its green?
Does it keep you up at night?
James Brown looks like a Doom enemy. Fail.
NONE of the elements in this tattoo come together to form any kind of cohesive whole. It defies all kinds of good taste… none of the colors mesh, and the hair seems to exist in a dimension that does not include the face. And let’s not even touch the symbolism with a ten foot pole, since the colors, shapes, and wings don’t scream anything other than “random.”
This tat fails so hard on so many different levels.
BECAUSE IT’S UGLY. And yes, to me, my word is law. To my kids, too. Sometimes, snotty comments are the truth.
Neither picture appears “pixilated” nor particularly blurry. The angle of the face is somewhat off. The green interferes with the shading, and it *doesn’t look like James Brown*. Ergo? Ugly. Clearly I am not the only one who feels that way, since it’s on an UGLY TATTOO SITE, *and* the fact that several people (always a dubious judgment point) were unsure of who this was — and could just as easily have been Marion Barry. All indicators of a bad, horrible, stupid tattoo.
Lots and lots of things keep me up at night. I’m a chronic insomniac. It’s entirely possible that this is, in fact, something else that does keep me up at night, even if I am unsure of it myself. Could be… Could be.
@Jennifer
Well of course it doesnt look like james brown.
Even the real picture of james brown doesnt look like james brown.
So are you getting that insomnia looked at? Or just dealing with it?
Which would be a good reason to get a better picture to immortalize on your body. Im still not sure that it’s JB. I’m still leaning toward Marion Barry.
I deal with it, because there’s so far been nothing that works to help with it. I get about 4 hours of sleep a night. Sucks. Royally. You’d think with all the narcotics I take that I’d easily be able to sleep, but instead I’m a walking zombie. Not cool, that.
Well I’m not a mind reader, but I’m sure the point of the tattoo was just supposed to be “wtf?” And it does a good job at that. It started off as just the portrait, and after awhile it was a case of “hey, I already have this crazy tattoo on my chest, might as well turn into into
a whole chest piece. How weird can we make it?”
I only know all this because I used to work with the guy who has it,
and I have a tattoo by the guy who did it. Its come up a few times in
conversation.
So if the narcotics dont work, do you still try them anyway?
@Jennifer
Sorry to hear about the insomnia…had a bout with it lately myself, and it really sucks to be that zombified. Believe it or not, I found that a couple of handfuls of walnuts a day helped me. If you haven’t tried it yet, hope it helps.
@Jennifer
Oops, sorry, see my comment above re: insomnia.
TheSheep,
I’m willing to try anything for the most part. Walnuts are not high on the list of things I can eat (I have a digestive disease), but it wouldn’t hurt to do it for a week or so. Or, rather, it can’t do any more harm.
@bill
Maybe that is the purpose of it. But if it is, it fails. It doesn’t make me think WTF, it just makes me think “ew that’s ugly”. ‘Cause, you know, I think it is. And he’s GREEN. GREEN I SAY! Where is he from? Orion??
The narcotics are for another reason. But when you take soooo many anyway, you’d kind of assume that eventually they’d work, or at least just knock you out — versus being a zombie walking around on oxy and morphine (among many other things), but still functioning. Not WELL, but functioning.
@Jennifer
psh, everyone knows aliens from Orion (assuming there is a planet somewhere in that constellation) are grey, not green.
maybe it has something to do with the mix of narcotics, and they somehow
cancel out each other and any chance of knocking you out?
Are they? I don’t watch Star Trek, but my husband did force “Free Enterprise” on me, and I thought she was green. But I make no claim to knowing enough about ST other than to get a decent score on a really bad facebook quiz.
As for the narcs… possibly. Then again, the sleeping pills don’t work, nor do the off-labels, the OTCs or the “alternative” or “natural” things. Eventually, after many days, I pass out at like 10 and sleep for about 8-10 hours, but that’s not even consistant. It explains why I’m so bitchy sometimes.
That one is just plain old funny.
Heh, hit meh……
This is an even bigger fail due to the fact that this image of James Brown bears a striking resemblance to his MUGSHOT!
HA HA, I know this dude. He works at Fuzion Ink in Norfolk VA, he also has a portrait of Bob Saget on his leg
Looks like someone took a regular shitty tattoo and photoshopped James Brown into it for some reason.
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lots of interesting debates ’round here. Only thing I had to say when I saw this was “ARGH!”
then I fell out of my chair. My coworkers are laughing at me.
Boobies?