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Decoder Ring: Tattoo Flash
FromSlate Culture
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Length:
51 minutes
Released:
Jul 27, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Time does funny thing to everything, but especially to tattoos. Today, four stories about tattoos whose meanings have shifted with the passage of years, decades, or centuries: first, a look into an archive of 300 preserved tattooed skins, then a personal investigation into into the Tasmanian Devil tattoo, the story of the Zune tattoo guy, and finally mistranslated Chinese character tattoos.
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Released:
Jul 27, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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