Samoan Pineapple and his BME Aotearoa shirt — his great moko is by Justin Vickers at Golden Apple Studios & Shaman Body Piercing and Modifications in Austin, Texas.
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indeed a perfect match!
Although I don’t really like facial tattoos, I think his nose is verrrry nice done.
^_^ awesome
I love that shirt! I wear mine all the time, although the likeness in the photo is uncanny!
Great tattoo and that nose jewelery rocks hard.
and i just noticed that the studio has a really long name ;)
he looks awsome!
His tattoos look GREAT with his facial scars.
You should use this picture in the BMEshop
He is so beautiful. So so beautiful.
I better just leave it at that before I embarrass myself.
Gotta love Pine!!
does he have a split tongue? its hard to tell in the picture.
yeah, his tongue is split. senor pina is the best.
Pina!!!!!
he did have it split but there’s been some regrowth
dude, that’s a huge tongue!
#11 – yes he does, or at least I can see it
hahaha sweet!
Wow! That guy is a work of art himself!
Perfect!
I do have a big tongue, but when it is split (i did have regrowth) it was like 2 normal size tongues! haha. And the ladies don’t seem to mind ;) … okay i lie, they do mind :( haha.
Coming from someone who is Maori & is also friends with multiple Ta Moko practitioners, that is not a ‘Moko’. It doesn’t really even look like it, Maori inspired maybe but it’s still just kirituhi. This isn’t an attack, but I don’t think that this should be referred to as ‘Moko’, it’s simply a polynesian inspired facial tattoo, to call it Ta Moko is offensive.
That looks a lot like Queequeg from Moby Dick. (:
Hey, it’s been years, but I Googled ‘BMEAotearoa’ just to see what was still floating around. I wanted to reply to the comment, two comments above, by someone named T who says that Pine’s tā moko isn’t actually tā moko. Tēnā rūkahu tēnā, e hoa! Pine has whakapapa Māori, at least the last time we shared a kōrero together (many years ago), so that makes his moko kanohi ‘tā moko’ in the sense of the term in which you’re using it. I also designed the shirt he’s wearing and I’m Ngāti Porou, so it’s tūturu Māori all over, e hoa!