Good afternoon, ModBloggers! Let’s start the week off with this calming, peaceful piece done in five-and-a-half straight hours by Joseph at Visual Orgasm in Rochor, Singapore. Anyone else feel like going back to sleep? No? Just me? Alright, alright.
Well folks, that’ll do it for this fine weekend, and what better way to wrap up The Lord’s Day than with this hilarious (and thoroughly bizarre) old school-ish piece from Max Brain in Varese, Italy, of, hmm, Satan molesting a futuristic Boy Scout? Elroy Jetson, maybe? Either way, there’s a valuable lesson to gleaned here, and that is…huh. No matter the kind of virtuous life you try to lead, the devil will find a way to lick your forehead? Works for me. Until tomorrow, ModBloggers.
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Ahoy-hoy, ModBloggers! Hope the weekend finds you well. Sorry for the late post today—Internet at the manor has been a real kick in the dick all day. Anyway! Here’s some fine portraiture work by Josh Reynolds from Cannibal Graphics in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. What can I say? I’m a sucker from Day of the Dead/pinup/Virgin Mary iconography. (Which we see all the time, believe me.)
Oh, and one more thing…
If you’re in Toronto, the Seven Crowns gents, George and Matt (above) are hosting a gallery showing of tattoo art at Rocky Raccoon’s! I’ll be there along with resident BME photo magician Phil Barbosa, so come on out and say hello, etc. Here’s the info:
On Saturday, May 30th we’ll be holding the “Monsters, Martyrs and May-sterpieces” show at Rocky 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.
Hey, I enjoy a frosty beverage as much as the next gent, but if I were going to give an “over my dead body” ultimatum regarding delicious libations, I don’t know if PBR is what I’d be willing to die for. A nice micro-brew, maybe? Or a crate of Dr. McGillicuddy’s peach schnapps? (What? He’s a real doctor.) But hey, we’re not here to judge. It’s Friday, after all—hoist the drink of your choice, ModBloggers, boozy or otherwise.
So, yeah. Friday! Hooray! What were we brought over the last five days?
– Actual hardware in your ears can be contentious around these parts.
– But puppy portraits are universally loved.
– Hey, the “Hearty Beards” tag made its triumphant return.
– And finally, here is a gentleman with a pen in his urethra.
Hey, that was fun, wasn’t it? Stick around over the weekend—there’ll be more, as per usual. Then come Monday, we gas this crazy machine back up and hit the skies, or something. Until then, enjoy your weekend, stay safe and, as always, thank you for your continued support of BME.
[Comics.com] Oh hey look, up there, it’s our old friend Burnaby Q. Horatio Marcus Longfellow “Crump-Daddy” Orbax, immortalized in comic-form, courtesy of the good folks at Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! The comic is all about how Orbax, when not munching glass or whatever he does in his spare time, is actually some kind of sell-out nerd professor of “physics,” whatever the hell that is. Hey freak, make with the laughs! (Click the Comics.com link to see it in all its full-sized glory.)
[Atlanta Journal-Constitution] Well, no laughs here. A few days ago, some idiot drunken goblin named Eugene Ashley decided it’d be a grand idea to tattoo his three-year-old son’s shoulder with the initials “DB,” allegedly standing for “Daddy’s Boy.” Hey, that’s fun bonding experience, right? No? Yeah, not so much.
The tattoo was discovered after an unidentified person complained to the Department of Family and Children Services about the conditions at the Ashley home. The Ashleys have three or four children, Davis said.
“You keep thinking you’ve seen it all, and then voila,” Davis said.
The children remain with their mother; Eugene Ashley was arrested May 21 and faces charges of child cruelty and tattooing a person younger than 18 years old, the latter being a misdemeanor, Davis said.
Interestingly, Theresa Walsh Giarrusso, a columnist for the Journal-Constitution, when discussing this shit-bird in a subsequent column, raised a point not uncommon to the likes of BME and its community, but one particularly foreign to the average AJC reader: Is this really much worse than piercing a baby’s ears or circumcising a newborn?
I get that there’s a law about not tattooing someone under 18, but why is that more worthy of a law than the other two? Is it simply because the other two are done more frequently so they have become socially acceptable?
[…]
Piercings (at least in ears) can close back up, but circumcision can hardly be reversed. I have heard of a method of stretching the foreskin back over the head of the penis using weights but that doesn’t sound easy. Laser surgery to remove tattoos seems preferable to trying to “re-grow” your foreskin.
Are tattoos more painful than piercing or circumcision? Not sure that’s true.
I’m not promoting tattoos for toddler and babies, I’m just wondering if there is a double standard of what is acceptable to do to a child?
Somebody get this lady a wheelbarrow in which to carry her massive balls! Whether you agree with her or not (and I don’t think she even really indicated whether or not she necessarily believes the argument she’s put forth), this isn’t a conversation that occurs among the general public very often, and it’s one that should probably be had. So, Theresa Walsh Giarrusso, we salute you for opening up the dialogue about a tricky subject at a difficult time. What say your commenters?
“Wow, trying to stoke some fires and save your job at the AJC with crap like this? Why not talk about Mike Vick too?
TATOO= PERMANENT AND ARTISTIC EXPRESSION (for adults)
PIERCED EARS= GHETTO TRASH
CIRCUMCISION= HEALTH BENEFITS, and doesn’t give your son a odd looking member.”[…]
“My granddaughter got her ears pierced at 9 months old and she didn’t cry. How can you compare THAT to a tattoo. You people are nuts! lol”
[…]
“Are you seriously comparing tattoos to circumcision? Need I say more? Thought not, I rest my case.”
(In all fairness, there are a surprising amount of reasonable and rational discussions going on in the comments there.)
[YouTube] Astute reader “Cassie” sends in this charming YouTube clip on everybody’s favorite egg-laying water mammal, the platypus! Why are we posting it here? Because, in addition to being suckers for weird and/or cute animals, it also features several segments with Stephen Kolomyjec from James Cook University, who is all pierced and tattooed and whatnot, and is working on genetic research for platypuses. And hey, we like to show off modified professionals whenever we can. (See: Orbaxy up top.) Stephen pops up around the 1:14 mark.
So, let me get this straight. You send in a well-shot photo of a lovely tattooed model, sporting a number of piercings and wearing some fancy gold jewelry, and you expect us to publish it on ModBlog?
… Yeah, you’ve pretty much got our number.
(Piercings by Mike French and Spider at Omega Red Body Piercing in Cedar Falls, Iowa.)
Well, this seems like as good a time as any for a good old-fashioned caption contest! I’ll try to kick things off:
“Coming soon to BME Shop: Chasstity Bars.”
You can do better than that, ModBloggers. And just to sweeten the deal, the best caption wins YOUR VERY OWN CAR MANUFACTURING PLANT! Get crackin’!
(“Just for fun” piercings by Joshua Becraft at Blue Horseshoe Tattoo in Virginia Beach.)
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Happy Friday, everyone! Just in case you haven’t all skipped out early on work to go see Drag Me To Hell or Up or another of the fine horror films being released today, here’s an actual hell-demon on John‘s leg, fighting to make its way into the earthly realm to eat your souls, etc. Yeesh. Look at those dead eyes, anguished face, hellish screaming…reminds me of my prom night! Ha ha, just kidding. I didn’t go to prom.
(Tattoo by Joshua Carlton at Great American Tattoo Company in Shelbyville, Indiana.)
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Let’s wrap things up for the day, ModBloggers, with a fine slice of piercing history. Ron writes in:
Here are two self portraits of my piercings. One nipple (left) was done by East Coast Al in the early ’90s, the other nipple (right) was done by the late Mick Noland. My P.A. was done by Mad Jack at a tattoo show in K.C. in the mid ’90s.
Hope you guys like the pics. They are of me, taken by me, and I am well over 18.
I have precious little to add here: This picture, courtesy of Hannah, is one of the coolest tattoo concepts I’ve seen in a very long time. Kind of wish we had some unobstructed shots of the entire project, but we’ll take what we can get. Just great work all-around here.