Piercednpainted‘s tattoos by Guy Aitchison really draw you in! I love how this project is coming along (and note how well it can be hidden under even a low collar!). If you’d like to read an older interview with her (before some of these tattoos were done), you can click here to check it out.
Thanks to Gracebudd for sending in this wonderful photo if her and her husband doing a suspension together. Photo by Lauren Gray, suspension facilitated by A Rite of Passage in Massachussets.
Great work by Cagatay Ates at Negatif Bodyart Workshop in Istanbul, Turkey. In terms of international submissions, I’m starting to see more and more work coming in from Turkey. I think I may have mentioned that before?
Photo: Ascenhookfreak
One of my favorite people in the entire world, a former teacher and man who’s a happy modern Great Omi (he writes, “A Smile is Worth So Much More Than a Frown”), is Tribalface in Durango, Colorado. Seriously, I just get so happy every time I see his picture. It’s amazing that something as simple as seeing a happy, well-adjusted, heavily tattooed guy can bring me such smiles.
Love the implants too!
I love the way this scarification — branding over a solid black tattoo — turned out. Another wonderful piece by Quentin at Kalima Modifications in Worthing, Sussex, UK.
I love this coverup done by Diau-An (and designed by the wearer, Cohen) at Diau-An Tattoo in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. He writes, “after many years and many layers of ink I designed something to make it all a more cohesive whole.”
Ron Garza sends in this powerful photo of Jon Durante‘s facial cuttings. Along with several other friends, they climbed to the top of an Aztec pyramid (a site no stranger to blood rituals) and performed a series of rituals and modifications (read and see more on their IAM pages)… They were escorted off the pyramids by the Federales, but the police were respectful and let them go after getting them away from the tourists.
Ron says that they were told this was the most blood spilled on that pyramid in the last five hundred years.
This photo just gives me the chills; and that was before I’d read the story… I think I’m going to leave it up as the top entry for a while (that’s why I posted lots today). It’s really one of my favorite photo sets I’ve received at BME of all time.
Muy impresionante! Esto es un suspension del estmago de dos ganchos en el lago, realizado por mi amigo Trash a partir de Arte Antiguo en Guadalajara. Me disculpo por mi gramtica pobre.
Thanks to Steve Truitt for sending in these photos of a joint ROP, Ascension, and TSD suspension event using a zipline over a waterfall. More photos: one two three.
