Sorry for the delays. I’m having a lot of trouble keeping a full schedule (but really, if you want to listen to me whine though, go here instead), but I will do my best from now on to do pre-written entries so my lags hopefully get hidden by the nature of the queue.
I’m going to start working on that right now but until then here’s an in context shot of Minneapolis‘s Elliott Smith Figure 8 tattoo that got such a positive response when the close-up shot was posted.
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As a follow-up to Christian Noni’s dental modification article, Jenna sends in these photos she took at the Museum of Jade in San Jose, Costa Rica last week — here’s what the attached card said,
“Inlays and dental serration”
Between men and women of several American cultures it was common the practice of the be filed and to be perforated in a partial way the teeth. With the perforation technique, stones or jadeita fillers were incrusted, pyre or turquoise, while the filing or serration were carried out reducing the dental pieces by means of the use of abrasive materials on the enamel and the dentine.
In the Great Nicoya the artisans elaborated vessels with human faces carrying mortuary masks that showed filed teeth, a common practice among the cultural groups Chorotegas and Nicaraos that denoted courage, range or corporal beauty according to their beliefs.
In the jaw and in the ceramic vessel it is observed the mutilation or dental serration, while in the tooth a jade inlay is appreciated.
No, it’s not a psychedelic flaming biological leftover — it’s a Buddhist Nyoihouju gem, said to grant all wishes, on iam:fish japan.
By Chris at Liberty Tattoo in Atlanta, GA — this is a map of Atlanta’s subway system. You know, I haven’t really ridden the subway here in Toronto a lot in the last five years, but before that I rode it constantly and I’m sure for the rest of my life the subway map will be a fairly direct symbol of the city to me.
And this is the first color portrait he’s ever done! This is by Paul Oliver at Lucky Soul’s Tattoo in Cambridge, Ontario. Definitely a very good vert attempt!
(Photo: Kiki)
This seems like an unusual placement both in terms of depth and where it lies on the lip… “Name it,” writes Marilyn from Venus Modern Body Arts in NYC, who did the piercing.
