Comments for BME: Tattoo, Piercing and Body Modification News

Comment on SPC: Jack Yount by shawnporter

shawnporter — Tue, 21 May 2013 07:33:42 +0000

I do. I have all of them. A significant portion of the early bme/extreme content was stuff from Jack, or stuff that I shot at Jack’s house.

Comment on SPC: ModCon One (1999) by shawnporter

shawnporter — Tue, 21 May 2013 07:28:43 +0000

Initially it was existing mods.
Shannon eventually allowed people to attend the events to get the qualifying mods. I was against this.

Comment on Two Year Old Implants by Det. Blackwell

Det. Blackwell — Mon, 20 May 2013 20:50:31 +0000

I am the Detective Quoted in the article at the top, though the case was actually my partner’s case. The results are public record. Mike Plead guilty to two counts Contributing to the Delinquency of a minor and two counts of Promotion of Obscenity to a Minor and got 5 years of probation, all other counts were dropped as part of the deal. He should successfully complete that probation in a few more months. The second case of public indecency in 2010 was dropped as well, and as far as I know, with that exception, Mike has stayed out of trouble.

As far as it being a two year investigation, it wasn’t really. The case was reported by in 2005, then was assigned to a Detective. By the time the Det. got the case, the main victim could not be located for follow up again until January of 2007 and Mike had moved away as well. So no investigation was actually occurring during that time, the case just sat for 20+ months.

I spoke with Mike about 10 months ago in another shop in town while I was getting some ink. He was trying to move back home, SC I believe, to be closer to family. He was very sick and didn’t believe he was going to live much longer. He had removed the star form his forehead and his spikes were only about 3/4″. That shop has since closed as well, so I am not sure where Mike is or what he is doing at this point.

Comment on SPC: Jack Yount by Slayer9019

Slayer9019 — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:09:28 +0000

I really enjoyed this, and hope there is more coming!

Comment on SPC: ModCon One (1999) by Everdix

Everdix — Mon, 20 May 2013 03:25:58 +0000

Modcon got me into piercings and then into genitail mods. Great to read this bit of history.

Comment on Ever dance with the Devil? by Vumbar

Vumbar — Mon, 20 May 2013 02:29:58 +0000

Amazing

Comment on SPC: Jack Yount by Dan

Dan — Sun, 19 May 2013 23:30:18 +0000

First and formost, I’m enjoying reading your articles so much! Seriously, so good! Secondly, do you have access to any of the “extreme” photos that Jack shared with you in the early days? I would absolutely love to see some early examples of this type of work.

Comment on SPC: ModCon One (1999) by Lucas

Lucas — Sun, 19 May 2013 22:18:16 +0000

Great read, Thank you so much for posting this!

Comment on SPC: ModCon One (1999) by saram

saram — Sun, 19 May 2013 21:03:15 +0000

@Shawn
Personally, I think any highly specialized event loses its meaning when the standards for entry are relaxed. As much as I’d love to be at APP, for example, it’s not for me – and I think it’s valuable for that community to have an exclusive event just for them. It also amuses me that I know a few women with pretty extraordinarily modified bodies, and I’m not sure they would’ve been comfortable attending a sausage party of an event… and yet other non-qualifying women were desperate for a chance to attend.

14 years ago, an event like ModCon seemed like a really valuable and needed means of linking heavy mod-seekers with practitioners… and with each other. The internet seems to be doing a pretty good job of that these days, though it doesn’t replace the enjoyment that can come out of face-to-face interactions with like-minded people. I assume that would also change the need/purpose/demand for an event now. I really like the single-topic events like Scar Wars, and would love to see others geared around other specific modifications (or groups of related modifications).

Comment on SPC: ModCon One (1999) by ed

ed — Sun, 19 May 2013 18:57:07 +0000

so the entry thing were the mods you were getting in the ModCon? or modifications you already had?