Man tattoos eyeballs

[Keith Ranville]

An Oregon tattoo enthusiast with more than 98 percent of his body covered in ink, has taken his obsession one step farther by tattooing his eyeballs.

Matt Gone before eye tattooing. Photo: Mattgone.net
Matt Gone, known as the man with checkerboard tattoos, said he’s now done something few have tried – injecting ink into both eyes … by himself.

 During the past 20 years the Portland man has covered 98 percent of his skin with ink and said tattooing the whites of your eyes “is about as far as you can go,” Fox 11 Oregon reports.

Gone first became interested in tattooing his body because he had underdeveloped muscles from a birth defect that he wanted to disguise.

While Gone said he knew the risks of the procedure, which could have led

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTgNcR5I_Nk&feature=player_embedded

Not Matt's eye, but you get the idea. Gone said his lastest project was for his eyes only.

to infection, blindness or possibly the loss of the eyeball, he said, “I did this for me, this is my project, my body.”

So … the ayes have it?

http://blogs.app.com/saywhat/2010/10/21/man-tattoos-eyeballs/

[Keith Ranville]

  eye popping news alright' for the extreme lovers..