Called and Sang and Promised

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Jordan Ginsberg

We’re admittedly curious about the reaction you folks may have here. After we posted photos of Tye’s new knuckle tattoos, the old conversation about whether there’s a certain hierarchy of visible/”extreme” modification work that should be adhered to crept back up. (Tye, of course, has his ears pointed and a not insignificant amount of tattoo work, though we will admit these modifications were not perfectly visible in the attached photos.) Our Russian correspondent up top may be a good example of this conflict as well. Not only are medusa piercings stretched so large rare themselves, but it’s especially uncommon to see something like this ostensibly independent of any other major modifications. (There are, of course, marks and scars that indicate previous work.) We’re fans of it, aesthetically speaking, but, even more so than knuckle tattoos, this is a pretty dramatic standalone piece of work. A nice close-up, after the jump.

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I Need Tungsten To Live

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Jordan Ginsberg

Good day, ModBloggers! Hope you’re all refreshed and bright-eyed and sobered up or whatever from the weekend. Let’s kick things off this week with these UV tattoos by Stephanie Campbell at Dragon FX Kingsway in Edmonton, Alberta. We know the jury is still out on UV tattoos to an extent, what with the potential unpredictability of the ink used, but we’ll save the moralizing for now (for once?) and just enjoy some fun, well-executed work. More after the jump.

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This Week in BME

Posted on October 2, 2009 by Jordan Ginsberg

And finally, folks, let’s wrap up our week with this photo of the lovely (and intense!) Kali, which comes to us by way of Jimmy, he of the ever-wonderful Diablo Organics body jewelry company, which has graciously provided the ear jewelry being worn above. Lovely! Oh, and one more thing before we go…

(Tattoo by the folks at S&D Tattoo in Banbury, Oxfordshire, UK.)

What? You heard the tattoo.

/drinks bottle of turpentine

/sets forest fire

/makes sweet, tender love to forest fire

/gets tossed down a flight of stairs by forest fire

Hey, don’t look at us like that. We’re just following orders over here. And just like that, that’s the week, ladies and gentlemen. This time around:

– Amelia Dolore: Good taste in oral procedures and medical equipment.

– Aww, young love. Young, upside-down love.

– I’VE GOT BLISTERS ON MY FINGERS!

– Bittra would be more than happy to hold all those needles for you.

– Oregon is for lovers (and lovely suspensions).

– Zombies don’t roll on Saturdays, either.

– We were glad to have Marcus up on the ol’ ModBlogs.

– Raptor fucking Jesus.

And with that, gentle ModBloggers, we wish you all a fine weekend. Have fun, stay safe and, as always, thank you for your continued support of BME.

Just In Time For Christmas: Glow in the Dark Nipples

Posted on October 2, 2009 by Jordan Ginsberg

We will admit that, sometimes, we are very simple and easy to please. This is one of those times, and it’s all thanks to one of our long-time and most reliably creative contributors. Take it away!

About 10 years ago, I sent some pictures of self-done nipple-pocketing. In 1999, a picture of my nipple with a cigarette butt stuffed in its stretched hole at the center was selected as a cover image of BME. I also sent pictures of my flame-throwing penis, which was achieved by sending butane gas through a silicone tube inserted into my penis through a urethral reroute. Some of those pictures appeared in the ModCon book. I also had my own bonus gallery that was entitled “Beaded Nipple.” More recently, I’ve done some cool (and funny!) nipple play.

To start with, I created new holes at the center of my nipples—I hadn’t worn any jewelry in them for a long time. Then I stretched them by pressing tools like the stem of a painting brush against the nipples and cutting the tissue in them with a knife until the holes could accommodate beads measuring 6 mm. in diameter. I pushed 6 mm. balls of barbell studs in the nipples and left them in there for three weeks. New skin grew and covered the holes completely, making the size and shape of my nipples just like a woman’s nipples. (I, of course, am a man.) Then, the center holes were pierced again and some nipple play was done, then the holes were stretched again up to 8 mm. and glass beads measuring 8 mm. in diameter were pushed into the nipples. The nipples were pierced horizontally so that the beads in the nipples were skewered together with the nipples. Then, hand-made CBRs that were made out of stainless steel tubes with LED (light emitting diode) chips fitted in them were inserted in the horizontal holes to illuminate the beads from inside.

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West and East

Posted on October 2, 2009 by Jordan Ginsberg

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Alright, this shit just isn’t even fair anymore. Earlier this year, we posted an earlier iteration of this beautiful scar by handsome hair-farmer John Joyce on Sam, and we hoped that we’d be kept abreast of how well it healed. Considering the way Sam’s body treats scars, we were optimistic that it would end up just lovely, but my God—this is the eight-month status report. Part of me wants to know the details of the deal they’ve both obviously made with the devil, but then I feel like that may take away some of the mystique of their incredible offerings. More after the jump.

Light Another Candle

Posted on October 2, 2009 by Jordan Ginsberg

The last few times we’ve had Braes on here, it was in the context of his excellent Dave Pozo tattoos. This time, though? That’s all about to change…because he had this one done by Jordi Del Ray at Kie 13 in Barcelona, Spain. Hey, the bell’s ringing, and you know what time it is? Time for sweet-ass old school tattoos.

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Escape These Motives

Posted on October 2, 2009 by Jordan Ginsberg

See, now, this is just rude, right? Emily is just hanging out, in the buff, all corseted up and relaxing on a hand-crafted Norwegian boat stool, but can she enjoy herself? No. No she cannot. Because there are disembodied hands just floating around and trying to screw with her good time. There oughta be a law, you know?

(Corset by Kala at Sin City in Hilo, Hawaii. Photo by Rose of The Muse Studio.)

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Get In Or Get Out

Posted on October 1, 2009 by Jordan Ginsberg

So, here is another fine example of your editor being woefully unaware about all the fun Internet memes: we were overcome with great joy upon seeing this tattoo, given our inexplicable love for unnatural animal hybrids and things that should not be in general. What we did not realize, however, is that Raptor Jesus has been around for some time, and we are quite lame and out of touch. On the upside? It is still so, so awesome. Kudos to Sean for honoring His merciful talons, and to Jak at Body Piercing Unlimited And Tattoo for such a faithful rendering.

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Keys to the Future

Posted on September 30, 2009 by Jordan Ginsberg

And here we have René van Assema, hailing from Almere, The Netherlands, and checking in bravely from the dark side of the moon, apparently. And without a space suit or oxygen supply or anything! The difficulty of this sort of photo shoot cannot be overstated. This is literally impossible to accomplish, and yet? Here we are. Ever the modest model, though, René says only, “All you see is tattoo, no make-up or fake colors.” This seemed fairly obvious, until…well, you know where to look.

See? The eyebrows are a bit more obvious, but had the specific mention of the fact not been made, I would have just assumed the rest was eye make-up. Well played, my friend. Well played, indeed.

(Tattoos by Ben Saunders at Lucky 6 in Hoorn, The Netherlands. Photos by Walther Vlaanderen.)

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Three Thousand Years of Beautiful Tradition

Posted on September 30, 2009 by Jordan Ginsberg

We’ll confess that we have a very hard time saying no to John Goodman tattoos—especially when some enterprising individual (in this case, Vincent Leblanc at Traditional Tattoo in San Luis Obispo, California) decides to combine his legendary performance as Walter Sobchak in The Big Lebowski with a goddamned zombie. Was Walter just not enough of a sociopath in the film that you had to give him an insatiable hunger for delicious brains, too? We approve, of course—Zombie Sobchak can get you a toe by three o’clock with the best of them. You may just have to extract it from his lower intestine.