“Franky’s Dream”

Posted on March 3, 2006 by Shannon Larratt

I really, really, really loved these photos from my friends at Andromak P4 in Paris, France.

Franky, currently thirty seven years old, suffers from a form of myopathy (a muscular disorder; there’s nothing wrong with his mind) and lives at an institution in France. One of his dreams was to get tattooed. Almost everyone at the hospital was opposed to it, but Andromak P4 felt she understood his feelings, and that he had as much right as anyone else to fulfill this dream. The tattoo is now done and the dream is close to fulfilled — in a few weeks she will return and fill in the color.

Anyway, I just thought this was super cool, and hats off to the hospital staff and administration for allowing it to go forward.

More pretty outdoor suspensions

Posted on March 3, 2006 by Shannon Larratt

I post outdoor suspension pictures all the time (here’s one for example from back in November), but I liked these ones a lot (I’m a sucker for romance I guess, even though I try and play the sleaze here). They’re from Exiting Body in France (I like the back tattoo as well).

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Oww! Owww! OWWWW! Stop!

Posted on March 3, 2006 by Shannon Larratt

When screams of pleasure become screams of pain… These pictures from a friend in the Czech Republic are the result of their genital piercings snagging each other during some hard pounding, and the resulting massacre as they tried to tear out through their skin.

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Intense Facial Work

Posted on March 3, 2006 by Shannon Larratt

While I’d say that the facial modifications in the previous entry are bold, I’d argue that for plainskins that aren’t fundamentally bigots that it’s still fundamentally attractive on a conventional level. Magneto, a customer of mod artist Oscar Navarro‘s at VOID in Barcelona, Spain, is definitely pushing that border a lot harder and a lot more unconventionally — those implanted eyebrow ridges are intense, to say nothing of the tattoo work he’s having done!

Pretty Facial Tattoos

Posted on March 3, 2006 by Shannon Larratt

Thanks to Spud for sending me these pictures of his extended facial work by Spear Studio in Birmingham, UK. His partner Leah did the most recent work, and personally I think it looks really great — and surprisingly “simple” given how much detail and linework there is…

Lil’ Bro

Posted on March 3, 2006 by Shannon Larratt

People always seem to like when I post pictures of modified folk and kids, so here’s Wild Skin from Buenos Aires, Argentina with his little brother. Part of me thinks the reason people like these pictures so much is that a lot of us have experienced serious damage and trauma to our family lives due to our body modification decisions, so we feel really happy to see families that prosper nonetheless?

No more hammerhead!

Posted on March 3, 2006 by Shannon Larratt

Simon didn’t really like the “hammerhead” nipple he’d gotten after having his nipple pierced (this is not uncommon!)… So he put a 2mm o-ring over the nipple and left it on for about four hours, applying ice periodically to ease the pain. He didn’t have a scalpel (hello, BMEshop), so with the aid of a blade, off it came! Looks like it turned out for the best.

Oh, and for BME/extreme members, the nipple removal section is here.

Just a nice photo involving nudity and nipples

Posted on March 3, 2006 by Shannon Larratt

Johan Wilkie (Cape Town, South Africa) photo care of IAM:anodyne.

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More from The Pain Parlor

Posted on March 3, 2006 by Shannon Larratt

I should probably cut back on my daily dose of Shawn O’Hare, but I thought that this cautery brand was interesting not so much because of the design (I assume it’s intended to look like a wound), but because they’ve actually had the balls to extend it across his eyelids…

Travel Photos: La Paz, Bolivia

Posted on March 3, 2006 by Shannon Larratt

OK, it’s not really “travel” because my friends Keruganja and xcecixpuentex from CSC Tattoo Shop are from Bolivia… but I like pretending that I’m on vacation when I get their photos. That said, don’t ask me what’s up with their white alpaca, I have no explanation for you.