Can we get real for a second, ModBloggers? Because here’s some truth: Beneath our rough, rugged, defiant exteriors…we here at BME are still absolute suckers for baby pictures like this. This photo is like a meteorite to the heart. Pictured is Amber, moments after her daughter, Rain, was born. I think I just started ovulating.
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Now, if the eyes are supposed to be the windows to the soul, then where do you reckon the skull porthole fits in? This fine piece on Natasha’s noggin comes to us from Maxime (also), currently apprenticing at The Leu Family Iron in Lausanne, Switzerland, which, hey, nice work if you can get it. And, hey, because you asked so nicely, there’s a close-up after the jump.
We interrupt your regularly scheduled ModBlog to bring you this urgent news bulletin: Hot off the BME Shop presses is this brand new shirt designed by the wonderful Alie! The boss asked for a shirt with a unicorn and a cupcake, and Alie rose to the challenge. Now, look, we’re not saying this shirt will get you laid or anything, but…this shirt will absolutely get you laid. Click the picture to visit the BME Shop page.
Hey, so here we have Frank, a tattoo and scarification artist in Quebec, and, as you can see, he’s in the middle of cutting a spider into his chest and showing off an excess of intestinal fortitude. After the jump, he digs in pretty deep, so we consult with Ask.BME‘s Efix to get his expert opinion.
As you can see, the body of the spider is cut pretty damn deep. So what sayeth Efix (who, it turns out, is friends with and has worked on Frank in the past)?
Some people like to work on themselves, either because they don’t really trust others to work on them, or, most of the time, because they simply enjoy the DIY experience. But people should never underestimate the complexity and risk level associated with some more advanced procedures such as this skin removal scarification. Frank is a skilled tattoo artist and has done quite a bunch of cutting work, however, a large skin peeling like this one should never be taken lightly. In my opinion, the abdomen part of the spider has been cut too deeply. A wound that deep will take a long time to heal, and the scar can be quite out of control and give unexpected results.
Frank, of course, is experienced, as Efix says, and he’s working on himself, so he likely knows what sort of reaction to expect from his body as far as scarring is concerned (and he may well be hoping the spider’s body scars more dramatically). As well, as far as consent is concerned…well, again, he’s doing it on himself. If an artist were to do a piece like this on a client, it may be a different story. At any rate, best of luck, sir! Keep us posted as this bad boy heals.
Just to clarify: Nobody here is criticizing Frank or saying he’s done a bad job! Quite the opposite. I wanted to post this, but because of how deep part of the cut is, I just wanted to have some manner of explanation to go along with it. That is all.
And here we have some more ass-kickery from Charles Finnie in the form of this English ivy cutting. Did we just post one of Finnie’s cuttings a few days ago? Hell yes we did. Are we posting another one today? Hell yes we are. Why? Because Finnie has incriminating pictures of me it’s just that good.
Happy Friday, ModBloggers. More after the jump.
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The last time we saw The Enigma‘s facial cutting, the pictures were a little on the low-resolution side, but luckily, Scenester has swooped in with some nice bright shots of our blue friend getting some X’s cut out over his mouth. And, while you’re at it, there’s also a fine vantage point of his ears, implants and the X’s over his eyes. Another procedural image after the jump.
(Cutting by John Durante.)
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Hey, nerds! (Kidding.) This great calf-piece (calf-sleeve? Reverse shorts? Leg warmer?) from Toronto’s Matt Ellis features various Marvel mutants fighting some wretched Sentinels, who are just throwing fire, trying to kill folks, and just generally shitting on everybody’s good time, because they’re dicks.
You know who isn’t a dick, though? Matt Ellis! He and George Brown, the gents behind Seven Crowns Tattoo, are hosting a gallery showing/sex party on Saturday, May 30, 2009, in scenic Toronto, Ontario, featuring work from several local tattoo artists! Information about the event is after the jump, as well as the remainder of the above leg warmer.
On Saturday, May 30th we’ll be holding the “Monsters, Martyrs and May-sterpieces” show at Rockie Raccoon’s, 2579 Yonge St. in Toronto, a study in fantastically terrifying and disturbingly cheerful art pieces from the tattoo world. We will be displaying our own art as well as that of local tattoo artists, and would love for everyone to come and check it out. The event will start around 8pm, and there will be cheap drinks and free food, along with music by Sarah B. and other features that promise to tantalize and…you get the idea. Come out and celebrate art with us.
That’s a “get there” if I’ve ever seen one. So get there! C’monnnnn.
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“Why?” asks the student. “Why ‘Needles’?”
“Because,” the swami answers, “that is his name.”
And then they danced.
(Really though, that’d be Needles, apprentice of Six at Toronto’s Exotix Studios, wearing a fine cutting of his own moniker.)
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Well, I’m conflicted. On the one hand, Pyramids‘ new baby sloth tattoo is pretty goddamn adorable and very nicely executed, but on the other, doesn’t this little guy seem a little too active for a sloth? When I think “sloth,” I think of a lethargic tree-crawler, lying on a branch, like a lump, accomplishing nothing, patiently waiting to be taken by death. Though maybe I’m just projecting.
Good afternoon, ModBloggers!
(Tattoo by Tattoo Andy at Off The Map Tattoo in Easthampton, Massachusetts.)
It’s a shame to be cooped up on a pleasant, warm evening like this one, ModBloggers, so let’s call it a night with this fine portrait courtesy of Ellen Claire Photography. “I’ve had her for seven years now,” says the model of her vertical bridge. “I love this piercing.” Agreed! I’ve always liked the look of a person wearing only a septum or bridge (vertical or otherwise) piercing as one’s only facial piercing, and she wears it well. (And healthily, evidently.)
Fare thee well, folks. Until tomorrow.
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