Brad Pitt's Cryptic New Tattoo Explained!
Posted by Seth at 9:00 AM on May 13, 2008
Photos of Brad Pitt boarding a helicopter in Monaco with sons Maddox and Pax yesterday instantly set the intertubes abuzz, as the aircraft's rotors blew up the actor's shirt, revealing a mysterious new tattoo covering his lower back. The seemingly random series of horizontal dashes and shapes were initially thought to be a highly encoded abstract design, each line representing one member of the ever-growing Pitt-Jolie clan. But now, Defamer can exclusively report (Must! Credit! Defamer! Pitt! Tattoo! Exclusive!) that the tattoo is not yet finished, with the final result paying homage to one of the great design triumphs of the 20th Century. An artist's rendering of what it will look like is after the jump:

[Photo Credit: Splash News Online]
- Brad Pitt Flys With His Boys [Just Jared]
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saltwater
Posted 9:47 AM 13/5/08
I was thinking Fallingwater.
saltwater
kookla
Posted 9:43 AM 13/5/08
@TootieFields: Tootie, you just stepped on my zinger.
kookla
queensissy
Posted 9:38 AM 13/5/08
It's a blueprint for a radical new building; you know, so he can impress Frank Gehry...
queensissy
jasonelias
Posted 9:32 AM 13/5/08
I thought those marks were Angelina Jolie's psychotic doodlings.
jasonelias
Cultmember
Posted 9:30 AM 13/5/08
It's an Area 51 barcode. The rectangular formations are where the Angelina microchips are installed.
Cultmember
babyhugo
Posted 9:30 AM 13/5/08
@ Decebal
Nope, it's not just you. He went from Brad Pitt to Puck from the Real World SF in a matter of a year. He'll be picking scabs off of his body during interviews before the year is out.
babyhugo
PaisleyPajamas
Posted 9:29 AM 13/5/08
@Decebal: To me, he just seems to be turning into Jon Voight. So in answer to your question, why, yes. Yes, he is.
PaisleyPajamas
TootieFields
Posted 9:27 AM 13/5/08
Forget the tattoo, I'm more disturbed by the sympathy pregnancy gut he's sporting.
TootieFields
el smrtmnky
Posted 9:25 AM 13/5/08
i think it looked better when he first conceptualized it in that mound of mashed potatoes.
el smrtmnky
NoGrumpys
Posted 9:24 AM 13/5/08
hee hee
NoGrumpys
Decebal
Posted 9:23 AM 13/5/08
Street plans for a neighborhood he is saving in New Orleans, perhaps?
Is it me, or he is he getting grosser and grosser by the day?
Decebal
CatherineTrammell
Posted 9:14 AM 13/5/08
Are we sure he's not inking a map to escape from Angelina's clutches? Cause that's either a mole or a tiny sign that reads "Save Me Jennifer"
CatherineTrammell
hummingpenguin
Posted 9:06 AM 13/5/08
y'all are silly.
hummingpenguin
queensissy
Posted 10:13 AM 13/5/08
@saltwater: Ah yes; thanks for the correction. Not a radical new building, a radical old building. He and Angelina are taking this Fountainhead crap a little too far, no?
queensissy
mattymcd
Posted 10:05 AM 13/5/08
@saltwater: I have no idea why but that's exactly what I thought.
mattymcd
HandsomeBwonderful
Posted 10:00 AM 13/5/08
Stupid tattoos, the vanity plates of the new millennium. Only permanent.
You know how much it cost to get my Krokus RĂ¼les! lasered from my shoulder?
HandsomeBwonderful
Cultmember
Posted 9:54 AM 13/5/08
I think Joust would be a better fit there than Donkey Kong.
Cultmember
belltolls
Posted 10:35 AM 13/5/08
@el smrtmnky: I know. It's the best.
belltolls
Saxon 212
Posted 10:35 AM 13/5/08
@saltwater: YES!
Saxon 212
el smrtmnky
Posted 10:29 AM 13/5/08
@belltolls: i love house porn
el smrtmnky
belltolls
Posted 10:20 AM 13/5/08
When Brad's tattoo can do this, then it will be news.
+ Watch video
belltolls
miss_msry
Posted 11:00 AM 13/5/08
People, they are just plotting the human genome on the most beautiful body in the world. Because, he and his family will be saved when the rest of us are compost.
miss_msry
Victor Ward
Posted 10:58 AM 13/5/08
I'm hoping it's going to be the Lost map from the hatch.
Victor Ward
TurdBlossom
Posted 10:52 AM 13/5/08
Remember this moment in time, years from now when we try to remember when exactly Brad started to lose "it".
TurdBlossom
Sweet Panda Love
Posted 11:09 AM 13/5/08
Maybe it's where Angelina scratched him while they were making sweet love and he's secretly a squid and bleeds black ink.
Okay, that makes absolutely no sense. But I'm a little sleep deprived, and Brad Pitt being a secret squid kinda makes sense.
Sweet Panda Love
shag_carpet_bomb
Posted 11:06 AM 13/5/08
Jeez, what a pussy. He can't sit for a 3 hour tattoo?
shag_carpet_bomb
CakeAndDeath
Posted 11:57 AM 13/5/08
You people know nothing. That is the mark of Xenu! Brad is the chosen one!
CakeAndDeath
HeyThatsMyBike
Posted 12:50 PM 13/5/08
You know when you used to fall asleep in class while you were still taking notes?
Either Brad chose to immortalize that on his back, or the tattoo artist had a LATE night the night before.
HeyThatsMyBike
DuckyDoom
Posted 4:17 PM 13/5/08
I just about creamed myself at the thought of a Donkey Kong tattoo. (My husband has a Zelda tattoo...) Defamer just made Brad sexier.
DuckyDoom
Mr. Ice
Posted 4:48 PM 13/5/08
@belltolls: That was simply divine.
Regarding Brad Pitt's exploding gut; I have no comment.
Mr. Ice
pixie-stix
Posted 5:06 PM 13/5/08
One of the kids took a magic marker to dad when he was asleep on the couch. Angelina believed it was a divine message so Brad had a tattoo to permanently remind them of the message. To Brad's consternation, it reads "silly prat" when the lines are connected properly.
pixie-stix
WGARefugee
Posted 5:01 PM 13/5/08
I can't believe that no one has remarked on the fact that Brad is wearing the newest and hottest Defamer designer accessory, the belt that spells pwned, baby!
That is, unless it's some kind of photoshop thing.
WGARefugee
ginnypotter
Posted 5:38 PM 13/5/08
The wind blew his shirt up, but it didn't knock that stupid hat off? Lame.
Team Aniston.
ginnypotter
Whiteboyfunfark
Posted 5:53 PM 13/5/08
Maybe it's a new male version of Norplant installed in a desperate attempt to stop the missus from overpopulating the planet.
Whiteboyfunfark
regisgoat
Posted 9:41 PM 13/5/08
Jeez, it looks like some kind of bizarre chemotherapy tattoo but if you had the big C in that many places, you wouldn't be all chubby and jumping into helicopters. I'm going to say it's Brad's own interpretation of the sacred mesas of New Mexico, retreating into the distance. And I'm also going to say it's muggly. At least it could be covered up quickly.
regisgoat
hitchenaride
Posted 1:28 AM 14/5/08
ever since I saw him on "Idol Gives Back" with the new hat I've been thinking young Archie Bunker
hitchenaride
persephone
Posted 4:25 AM 14/5/08
I'll take Brad with a sympathy baby bump over every one of those stripsters any hour of the day. And that's sayin' something because he never really did it for me anyway.
Moving on... lolz @ Donkey Kong!
persephone
rtisovec
Posted 9:02 AM 14/5/08
If you run Brad through the checkout scanner at the Safeway, it comes up seedless grapes $2.99/bunch.
rtisovec
NotReadyForPrimeTime
Posted 2:23 AM 15/5/08
@rtisovec:
Grapes are sold by the pound, silly, not the bunch.
But you're right, it probably is a bar code of some sort.
NotReadyForPrimeTime
NotReadyForPrimeTime
Posted 2:21 AM 15/5/08
I think this is his idea of a tribute to Frank Lloyd Wright.
NotReadyForPrimeTime