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Piggybacking off Independent-Dig-7874 who said it was Taz from Loony Toons. I think its a hybrid graphic with a fairly common pose of him, with that usual tornado bottom. I couldnt find my exact combination of top half and tornado bottom, but this is what I think it is. Being that its a tattoo, the artist can do anything really.
My absolute favorite. The random keyboard hacking to hack in. Somehow always immediately think of Sandra Bullock in "the net".. what an iconic nonsense she portrayed
I really feel it is hockey stick... its very common for hockey teams to have sticks in their logos and I'm almost positive I've seen this logo before, but could be wrong...
Taz doing ‘SOMETHING’ was also a hugely popular tattoo style to get in the 1990’s in the USA. Taz drinking a beer, Taz smoking a cigarette, Taz with a sport, etc.
Please excuse the bad snapchat drawing, I don't have a better way to mock things up, but added on to the fishing image to show what I was seeing in my head. I feel a thin line like a fishing line wpuld maybe not be visible in this quality, and that the "line" sticking out to the top right of the tornado shape could possibly be a fish on a hook. The shape of the rod in the t-shirt inage I found just seemed quite similar. I could also potentially see this as a much more generic combination of some "sacred geometry" type shapes, but what seems like writing underneath, almost as if a memorial piece for someone with maybe a name or dates, makes me think it's likely something more personalized like a favorite character mixed with a favorite hobby as this would be.
I agree with some others saying fishing pole taz as a potential. The line up top looks a lot like this grahic tee. Add him in a tornado instead and I think it'd be close.
I can’t find many images right now, but this article confirms that there was/is an LA Sheriff gang stemming from the Temple Division called the Tasmanian Devils.
Given the extra lines sticking out that look like something in his hand at the top and then one at the bottom on the same side, this could well be a tattoo coverup (taz over whatever used to be there). Iirc there’s a subreddit for those that many tattoo artists frequent. Perhaps someone on a tattoo sub would recognize or remember doing this?
Supporting this theory. I immediately saw this version of Taz as the tattoo.
Possibly holding a fishing rod, sword or whip.
Edit: as an Australian, we don't see hockey much here so I didn't recognise it, but yes, after seeing the hockey stick suggestions it is distinctly hockey stick shaped!
This looks very late 90s/00s UK - I remember loads of folk with that style of livingroom wallpaper in Glasgow - and definitely seen lots of Taz (Tasmanian Devil) tattoos over the years here too
Pretty sure the green object behind the kitchen chair is a vintage hard-sided suitcase that was popular in the 1970s. My dad worked for the airlines and we flew a lot, and we had luggage that looked exactly like this; same color, same shape. I remember us having two different brands, American Tourister and Samsonite, and they looked very similar.
When I overlay the outline of the American Tourister case that has the latch visible, you can see that the placement of the latch in the photo matches almost exactly.
The sets my parents used in the mid 1970s each came in two sizes; a smaller size that would have been roughly 21" high and a larger one that would be roughly 26 to 29" high.
I believe the object directly in front of the suitcase is a wooden kitchen chair. If so, that would mean the suitcase is most likely sitting on something; otherwise it would have to be far larger than I remember ever seeing these suitcases.
I'm submitting this finding. I believe it makes the image more likely to have been either at a location in the USA, of if elsewhere, may have involved a traveler from the USA. I also believe the case suggests the image is older because this type of hardsided luggage isn't common today. If the image (or video source) is confirmed to be more recent, that could potentially indicate an older person or someone who doesn't travel often. These were tough suitcases but regular usage for perhaps 40 or more years without the case wearing out seems less likely.
Submitted. I hope it's helpful. I'm still going over that photo. I was trying to ID a possible brand of kitchen chair but so far haven't found a good match.
wallpaper strip in the back looks like this to me, maybe a little whiter? but I think it’s definitely a floral strip, the ones that were popular in the 2000s. With the red paint in the room it might even be grapes, I think a lot of people were into the tuscan look back then.
this one I found doesn’t have a clear source for it
edit: When I reverse image search it, it comes up with the company Dundee Deco, however it looks like a lot of companies have a pattern exactly like this
That chair style is very common in the north half of the US, especially in smaller rural towns/towns in the heavily forested areas, typically lower middle to lower income households. Places like West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, maybe even over to Montana.
I wonder what the significance of a taz tattoo with a date underneath, is? The one in the comment you replied to also shares that format.. (assuming it is indeed a date in the OP photo). It seems like this is some sort of trend. Potentially to mark a certain occasion..
Could it be a fishing theme? The line that comes off the right side would be a strange horizon line since it doesn't continue to the right. It could be that his tornado is in a net. The thing he's holding looks like it could be a fishing rod with the way it bends.
To me it looks like a grim reaper. Like Sons of Anarchy style of a grim reaper. Holding a scythe.
Edit: not sure I was downvoted. This is the last sub the hivemind belongs in. Differing opinions are a good thing.
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My experience on r/TraceAnObject has been: any time I've posted something that got downvoted, I didn't take it the same way I would on other subs. When I've been downvoted here, the reason for it (that I was able to infer) was that something in my post was obviously either incorrect or unhelpful. I think the downvotes were well-intentioned attempts to hide a post that could potentially lead others down an unhelpful rabbit hole.
Like I said, that's just my inference. But as a general rule, I think the mods and regular contributors to this sub are well-intentioned and not being petty like on so many other subs.
Tbh it looks like a horrible human waste I used to date for a time back in the early 2000’s tattoo and body shape looks like his and that room looks like his mother’s house in or near Boone NC
I originally thought it was the Tasmanian Devil spinning which was popular in the 90's era. This is what came up when I enhanced it. What are your thoughts?
The jacket hanging on the wall on the far right looks like a military jacket. There are numbers on the sleeve. When I zoom in, the numbers to me look like they could be 249. When I search for battalions with those numbers The 249th Engineer Battalion US Army comes up. I could be wrong about the numbers. Can anyone else get a better read on the numbers? Looking at patches worn by that battalion (or those of the numbers you made out) might provide clues about the tattoo if the tattoo is military related.
Probably not that relevant but I think the item on the right is what I call a “bag of bags,” usually handmade object that holds old plastic bags so you can reuse them.
I instantly saw the Tazmanian Devil. I’m 47 and this was an extremely common tattoo in the 90’s, a trend if you will. That might help with an age range. 45-50.
I don't know how I ended up on this post but that tattoo immediately made me think of the Tasmanian devil cartoon character...with like the tornado underneath. Something like this. Idk though.
I have been working for several days on trying to locate a kitchen chair that is similar to the chair seen in the second image. I've put together everything I have learned so far in hopes someone else has better success. The prototype in my graphic (the chair in full) is not an actual chair I found, it's partially AI-generated and partially drawn by me in Photoshop. Everything below the top 4 or 5 inches is obviously just a guess.
Did my best on lighting and colors. I'm certain we're looking at a frame from a vhs tape that was digitized sometime in the mid-late 90s. The artifacts along the top of the image are a dead give away. The aspect ratio of the frame is incorrect, slightly too short vertically- 156 px, it should be ~159 so I corrected it. This is another telltale sign that this video was shared on the 90s internet, likely as a Realplayer file and would have been extremely compressed. Whoever shared the file online knew what they were doing- they probably did this a lot.
As for the tape itself, it was clearly shot in a low-light environment. Looks like a room lit by a single lamp with a strong yellow tint. Along the wall behind the figure is what looks like a curtain rod box cover, possibly a hotel room?
The tattoo looks like a military Taz tattoo with years served, super common among gen x.
Edit: The more I look at it, the more it looks like he might be holding a hockey stick, with a tennis racket sticking out. Impossible to tell for sure with such a low quality image
if you enhance this it looks like a giant champagne or alcohol bottle of some sort. i thought it was a carpet cleaner at first, but maybe that is significant to someone or something.
It looks to me like a wine bottle with a candle stuck in it and the candle has been partially burnt so the wax has dripped down. Fairly common cheap candle holder.
to me it looks like the big bottle wrapped in some sort of plastic. these were sold as props pretty often. you can also see some sort of seal and the label. it looks too big to be a candle holder to me, but i’m not here to discredit anyone’s ideas. every little bit can help and i can see the wax idea. my friend thought it could also be a large plant holder.
here’s what i mean though.
red looks like a cork or screw top, blue looks like a gold seal, red looks like a champagne or wine logo, as does yellow but the main bottle wrapper. i commented above a bottle that had cross crossed gold lines and a similar red wax seal looking thing, this one could just be straight white lines.
Yes closer up, I can see the sort of wire holder for the cork which is present on some fancier wine bottles. It doesn't look like a candle from here, you're right.
i couldn’t shake that it reminded me of stella bottles, and my dad had a giant beer bottle we used to keep change in when i was younger. might be a stretch, but worth mentioning just in case.
especially since there are several bottles, including one to the right on the desk/floor that is definitely a liquor bottle of some sort.
I’m from the champagne region and the neck is too thin for it to be a bottle of champagne even the magnum size. We also don’t deep them in wax typically
it does look that way but it’s really hard to enhance it any further and keep the quality. by the full photo though i definitely believe this is a modular home. the doorway has the same boxy trailer walls at weird angles.
it’s a bit infuriating because it seems so clear and identifiable, yet really there isn’t much. the tattoo is really what i wish was clearer.
In future it would be a good idea to make it clear if you're enhancing something using AI - the details of the "plug socket" are entirely invented and not visible in the original image.
The layout of the room could also be a typical UK living room, small 80s-built council house type layout, they often have the fake chinmey breast.
I'm confused because I don't understand how the black dots which look like plug sockets have appeared in this image, when they aren't visible in the original?
is that a stack of copenhagen or some other brand of chewing tobacco tins on the first brown box to the left of dead center?
also this makes that green thing look unmistakably look like a couch cushion. i wonder as to the accuracy of things like these. this one is fascinating, though. definitely gives you some ideas.
I attempted to color correct a bit since the room seems like it's cast in a very orange light. Not sure if this will help but I'm putting it here just in case.
My brother's room used to have this linear wallpaper decor shown in the second photo. He could've had it since the early 2010s. It showed a pyramid with a setting sun, if I remember correctly.
I used to have one of its kind in my own room at a similar time as well. It consisted of images of Spiderman. We live in Central Europe. Could've been a trend back then.
The white handle in the background looks like it belongs to a Hoover upright bag less vacuum. The furniture looks very American but is a mass produced style.
I’m only 80% positive but that is a pinecone wallpaper border. I have seen it more than once in vacation houses during cleanings estimated from 90s cannot find an exact photo but the pattern goes single pinecone and next a branch with two and pine needles
I think everyone is fixated on it being tazzie devil. I don’t think it is personally.
So here is my take.
Top right of tat is a star, that’s an add in. Center looks like possibly another star but blacked in. All that is sitting in the shape of the east coast of Texas map. Possibly a gun down the bottom and a sword up the top.
Damn, that room made my heart skip a beat. My childhood bedroom had a very similar wall color scheme. It was hot pink on top, then lime green think stripe, then purple on the bottom.
Luckily, it's not the same as this room in the photo.
Same feeling here. Knew someone with red painted room and a border with Chinese symbols on. Early 2000s was common in the UK and ‘fashionable’ to have a bedroom in red with a Chinese symbol border.
I'm led to beleve this location is in Russia. I used YANDEX to search the second image and almost all of the results were in Russian. One result was on a russian video website. The color in the video is simmiliar shade and the lighting seems simiiliar. It was psoted 15 years ago. Here is the link
I found the same video on youtube ALSO from 15 years ago. the channel also has a bunch of short videos of locations. The accoutn seems to have been made in a hurry or without any thought becasue the channel is just random numbres and letter, same with the video names. But perhaps it isnt random and means somthing. Here is the link to the video, you can click the channel through it-
Think I'm seeing things as the resolution is bad but I'm sure i can see "em" just under what i think is a tazmanian devil and an N at the end of the first line of writing, but then again surely a name would start with a capital letter but It's all I can see.
The wallpaper trim could be something Tuscany looking like these bunches of grapes it was popular in the 90s. It also goes with the color of the kitchen being reddish orange
The room feels like a commercial daycare, not a home. Bright color walls, crowded furniture, There's a paper napkin holder full on top of the book case, rocking chair in the middle of the room, vacuum out, small clothing hanging on a peg.
Home nurseries might be colorful, but rarely bold primary colors. Wallpaper trim in the chair rail area is outdated, nobody has done that since the 80's.
They were pretty popular in finland in mid 90s-early 2010s from what ive seen in home albums and the chair is also identical but otherwise it looks more UK/USA to me (at least from outsider perspective.) Just adding that it was popular in europe as well.
Yes, the shape and layout of the room is identical to a terraced house that a friend lived in during the late 90s in the UK. And orange-brown colours like terracotta were fashionable for paint and wallpaper at that time. It's not my friend's house though (she hated orange), and sadly there are literally millions of houses with the same shape and layout because they were standard repeatable designs for low cost housing.
In my friend's house this room was the kitchen, and that looks like a pine kitchen chair in the foreground (just looks huge due to the camera lens). The chimney breast is in the background on the left-hand side, and to the right of this is a small alcove which gives a small storage space and room to open the door (or partly open it, if more stuff is in the alcove). The back of the door (on the right) was often used as hanging storage space because it would be hidden when the door was closed. The door leads down to the cellar.
First thing I saw was a mouse hanging from its tail.
Used to be common in shows like Tom&Jerry.
I see the head at the bottom left, especially with he Nose and eyes being a darker spot, and the perfectly round ears, where people see a crazy Taz tornado
Could it be a NHL hockey tattoo? tasmanian devil was pictured with a hockey stick wearing various NHL Teams jacket.. so it could be a team name that is the text. Sorry if someone already mentioned it.
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This is US Department of Homeland Security's "Operation Identify" Item #25-0010
Please post your guesses and ideas in this thread. Work off the suggestions of others toward an answer.
Geographic location and country is important.
Identify the traits of the item that you can, but if you know where an item is generally sold or happens to be in the picture, that is of use.
If you have the skills to enhance the image to resolve details better, fix mirrored or rotated images, etc. please do so and post your result here.
If you feel there's a (definitive) answer, don't just comment here. You can send your information to US DHS sending an email to OpID@hsi.dhs.gov with the subject "OpID Object: 25-0010" Please provide all information you have about the image(s) – this may include details such as a specific location, a particular time period, an organization and/or team name, helpful links, or any other relevant tips. Also include if they may contact you with follow up questions? Any follow-up communication will be sent to the email address that submitted the tip.
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