![\"Amber](\"http:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Pineapple.jpg\")
<\/a>her love of the fruit and the \u2018Pineapple
Grenade.\u2019
Photo By: Garrett Gentry\/In Motion<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\n\u201cPineapple Grenade\u201d is the nickname for the Mk 2 frag grenade introduced in 1920 and manufactured with grooves in cast iron resembling the bizarre fruitlet. It replaced the sphere shaped Mk 1 of 1916-1919 for one imperative fact \u2014 when lobbed, it would reel away from its target and sometimes roll back to the bunker!<\/p>\n
Daytona State student Amber Boutot has a profound affection for the exotic fruit and it was enough to inspire her piece of artwork.<\/p>\n
\u201cI get all my art done by the infamous \u201cMiami Ink\u201d tattoo parlor, the same one from the reality show on TLC and I read the book a few years before the movie came out. I just had a vision of what these extraterrestrials looked like and they actually kind of looked like the ones they created in the movie.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Garrett Gentry InMotion Staff Writer \u201cPineapple Grenade\u201d is the nickname for the Mk 2 frag grenade introduced in 1920 and manufactured with grooves in cast iron resembling the bizarre fruitlet. It replaced the sphere shaped Mk 1 of 1916-1919 for one imperative fact \u2014 when lobbed, it would reel away Continue reading Passion in ink<\/span><\/a>
Wells\u2019 book, \u2018War of the Worlds.\u2019
Photo By: Garrett Gentry\/In Motion<\/figcaption><\/figure>Photo major Jake Torano\u2019s, muse for a \u201cWar of the Worlds\u201d tattoo was not the 2005 Steven Spielbergdirected epic film, but the original science fiction novel by H.G Wells, first published in 1898.<\/p>\n