BME Newsfeed for Mar 4, 2007

Posted on March 4, 2007 by Shannon Larratt

2007-03-04: New Zealand: Student Tupac tattoo suspension goes to Ministry [by .caitlin.]
2007-03-04: MN: a new way To mouth off [by deadly pale]
2007-03-04: USA: Piercings not-so-good at the office [by deadly pale]
2007-03-04: New Zealand: Student Tupac tattoo suspension goes to Ministry [by Ribibe]
2007-03-04: PA: Piercings push limitations on office clothing [by Ribibe]
2007-03-04: OH: Deputies seek customers of tattoo parlor [by Ribibe]
2007-03-04: TX: Removing Tattoos In Search Of A Fresh Start [by Ribibe]

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Heart-shaped ear cartilage preserved in resin

Posted on March 4, 2007 by Shannon Larratt

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Howie encased the heart-shaped cartilage punch left-overs he did on Helen at the Laundry in Brisbane, Australia. I wonder if it’ll stay looking like this, or if it will decay or change underneath the resin? And could this be implanted as an implant? I don’t see why not, assuming the silicone is biocompatible. Now I’m thinking I have to get something punched out so I can wear it as jewelry… or implant it!

Tattoos on a healed cutting

Posted on March 4, 2007 by Shannon Larratt

About a year and a half ago Ubergeekgawdess had Tantan (at Infinite, Philadelphia) do the cutting that you can see healed on the left. Just now, on the right, Joy Rumore (at Venus, NYC) has added tattooing to augment the scar as it matures.

I knew a woman

Posted on March 4, 2007 by Shannon Larratt

This nice portrait of Kleptesvirgo was taken by Kelly MacDonald (her Ani DiFranco – slash – Theodore Roethke inspired chestpiece is by Seth Wood at Daredevil in NYC). Oh, and by the way — happy birthday!

Let seed be grass, and grass turn into hay:
I’m martyr to a motion not my own;
What’s freedom for? To know eternity.
I swear she cast a shadow white as stone.
But who would count eternity in days?
These old bones live to learn her wanton ways:
(I measure time by how a body sways).

Hand Web Tunnel

Posted on March 4, 2007 by Shannon Larratt

Melissa says she was just “playing around” here (as well as saying, “ouch, I did not make good decision”, haha), so I won’t worry about how a silicone plug would do in a fresh piercing, but I have to admit that seeing this, if I was going to get a handweb piercing again (it was one of my first piercings), I’d consider a punched one with a titanium plug (no ring though for me). It looks pretty neat…