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Dillon Forte & Blackdot
Robots are taking more jobs traditionally performed by humans … and artists better watch their backs too … ’cause machines can ink about as well as flesh-and-blood tattoo artists.
Dillon Forte — a Texas-based tattoo artist with some serious celebrity clients — worked on a new tat alongside Blackdot … a tech startup that created the world’s first automated tattoo machine.
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You gotta watch this robot at work … the client gets their arm strapped down to a table while a giant machine goes to work on the limb, using fast-working mechanisms to tattoo.
Dillon Forte & Blackdot
Forte and Blackdot each took on their fair share of the work for the project … cutting responsibility straight down the middle, 50-50, and making a design inspired by NASA and the sci-fi book “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.”
Dillon Forte & Blackdot
Check out the pics … a series of symbols chockful of space references, with many images appearing on NASA’s Voyager Golden Record sent up in 1977 to give possible life a look at our world. It’s super hard to tell the part inked by Forte versus Blackdot’s portion.
Dillon Forte & Blackdot
We’re told Blackdot tattooed the middle portion of the ink, while Forte went around it … adding his own personal flair to the top and bottom. The difference is super slight — definitely makin’ ya think about the future for tattoo artists.
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Forte’s a pretty big name in the tattoo world BTW … he’s inked huge celebs like Usher, Kat Von D, and Chris Hemsworth — though we’d go out on a limb and say this might’ve been his strangest tattooing experience yet.
We’ve all heard of robots rising up … but who knows, maybe they’ll follow Blackdot’s lead and take up artistic endeavors instead!!!