Here’s a new name for Modblog: Alex Blakan. Alex is a Spanish modification artist that works out of Clandestine Body Art in Bilbao, Spain. He’s also responsible for some pretty impressive implants, like this skull that you see below.
Yes. You’re getting the bees. And the flowers. And even a dragonfly.
Tattoo by Sean Ambrose from Arrows and Embers in Concord, NH.
Now this was a tattoo that I could have never predicted. Back in October I was a little surprised to see a Lifehouse tattoo in the music tattoo galleries. Like I mentioned then, I don’t have anything against Lighthouse, but they’re just not a band you think of when someone says “I’ve got a band tattoo”. Well, the original was a great piece of lettering by Marcin Liana from Alien, located in Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland.
It turns out Marcin wasn’t finished with just this, and has since expanded it to become an amazing abstract typography sleeve.
For those curious, that’s IAM: Kornik in the photos.
It looks like Joeltron has gotten his hands on some kind of jewelry erector set, as he continues to upload these incredible ear projects. Who knows what he’ll come up with next.
The beauty of scarification is that the end result can never be fully predicted. Sure you can get an idea of what a scar is going to look like if you have scars already, but even then there are so many variables that can affect healing. Sometimes you’ll get a scar that is perfectly defined and with the colouration you were hoping for. Other times your body just says, “hey, this is how I’m going to heal this scar, deal with it”. The reason I’m bringing this up is based off of IAM:Polareyez‘ comment on the latest photo of her snail scar. To give you a bit of backstory, the scar (which is actually a combination cutting/branding by Brian Decker), started out as all scars do, as an open wound.
A few months later, it was well into the healing process and was turning a pale pink colour.
And now here we are today, 10 months since the initial cutting and as you can see, it’s lightened up even more.
You may need to move your monitor around to see it, but it’s there. What’s worth noting is that even though this isn’t the exact colouration that Polareyez was going for, the details Brian put into the scar are still well defined. I’d even go so far to say that it’s looking a lot better than it did several months ago, if only for the consistent colour. Fans of pale scars will certainly appreciate this scar. As I mentioned earlier, scarification isn’t something that can be predicted with 100% accuracy, but that shouldn’t discourage you from committing to a scar if that’s the modification you’re looking to get. You never know, you may end up with something that surpasses your expectations.
That’s a whole lot of missing skin in this scarification piece by Misty Forsberg. Eventually the chevrons will extend downward, ending at his ankle. I’m also going to harass Misty non-stop to keep sending in photos of this project as it progresses.
To wrap up today’s look at the artists of Tattoo Temple, we have something by the shop’s founder, Joey Pang. As I’ve mentioned in the past Joey has years of training in Chinese calligraphy under her belt, which she combines with her natural artistic flair to created works of art that you won’t be able to find anywhere else. Every brush stroke is carefully considered both in terms of the character being depicted, as well as how it will fit on a person’s body. While anyone can walk into a shop and get some form of Kanji flash off of a wall, when you go to Joey you know that what you’re getting will mean exactly what you want it to.
This pair of guardian lions was actually done by two Tattoo Temple artists. Wang did the artwork and tattoo for the lions, while Joey did the calligraphy and tattooing for the script.
