The most impressive part of this picture? The man wearing the bodysuit is 15 feet tall. How do they do it? Ah, the mysteries of our world.
(Tattoos by Hannes at Blut & Eisen in Berlin, Germany.)
Honor be Your Clothing
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I Have the Heart of a Small Boy … and I Keep it in a Jar on my Desk
Hey, guess where these came from! I think you’ll be … whatever. First one to guess correctly gets a strip of Dramamine and a blast from one of those Men in Black memory erasers. Guh.
Keloid removal by Brooklyn’s resident shaman, IAM: xPUREx at Pure Body Arts. Those suckers developed on ear piercings the client got when she was 12 and in which she wore jewelry for only a few months. The scar tissue kept growing and, after years of being turned down by doctors for treatment unable to manage getting it taken care of by cosmetic surgeons, she went this route.
Squick yourselves to sleep, ModBlog, and we’ll see you in the morning.
See more in “Earlobe reconstruction“ (Ear Piercing)
New Article Posted!
If you haven’t heard of Shawn Barber yet, well … it won’t be long, now. For years, Barber has been a highly talented and not unsuccessful commercial artist, fine artist and art teacher, and has recently taken on a tattooing apprenticeship in San Francisco with Mike Davis at Everlasting Tattoo. Not long ago, we sat down to discuss his apprenticeship, where he sees the tattoo industry going, and why he hated teaching. Click the image from his “Tattooed Portraits” series to read the article:
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It’ll Make You Pucker
Hey, everybody! Guess what’s in the jar! I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised. (Think it through — this is a hard one.)
Says the gentleman in the photos: “It was a four-hour session and I took breaks every half hour. In the end, I had a hard time getting it out of the sun tea jar. Then it was a very hot finish when I (came) one of the largest loads ever in my lifetime.”
While we’re here, intrepid reader Rebecca writes in, requesting the help of some heavy mods folks in the U.K. for a post-graduate film project:
Masters film student with contacts in the industry and a lot of experience is making an abstract film on the body and body modification requires a heavily modified person to feature in the film! No experience neccessary, there is no budget so this position is unpaid. However, it is all being filmed on High Definition and burned on blu-ray, you will receive credits and copy of the film, which will be submitted into various film festivals.
Using a television studio for parts of the film, will portray the body and body mod in a very arty and stylised way! Already has a few contributors, as well as footage from Bizarre magazines 2008 ball, burlesque shows and live body mod surgery!
If you are interested please email [email protected] for full details. Travel expenses are negotiable, it is not a long commitment, just one days filming.
I’ll Be Waiting For You in Heaven With a Gun
Your Monday morning wake-up comes from Brazil’s favorite son, IAM: elee, who, on the third day, rose. Apparently.
See more in ““Suicide” Suspension“ (Ritual)
Full Coverage: Links From All Over (Ill-Advised Video Edition)
[Adam Riff] The captains of industry over at Adam Riff have been running weekly clips from a Jackass-style video made by Respect Authority, many of which are positively cringe-worthy. This week’s installment features the young gentleman on the receiving end of the most unsanitary and most improperly placed nipple piercing in the history of both nipples and piercing. If you’re the sort of person who’s offended by piercings being performed without gloves, some manner of sanitizer, or any adherence to anatomy whatsoever, you should probably shoot yourself in the eyeballs before watching this.
I think I just puked my pants.
[Big League Stew] ‘Duk over at Yahoo! Sports’s Big League Stew passes along a video from Mouthpiece Sports featuring the world’s last remaining Barry Bonds fan. Bonds, of course, was found guilty by an international tribunal of mass-producing all the world’s steroids in a sweatshop inside his skull and running around cold stickin’ baseball players with syringes full of dinosaur semen and such. After his conviction, he was sentenced to fight Jose Canseco to the death inside the Thunderdome, but was granted clemency, and now lives on a remote steroid farm in the Canadian north with Mark McGwire and their seven children. Anyway, this is one of the kids, showing off his Barry Bonds jersey tattoo:
[Right Celebrity] Sweet holy dogshit this is the most awkward thing I’ve seen all day. World-famous playboy and the only man who can pull off the three-day mustache, Brad Pitt, was on Oprah the other day fielding questions from every maniac with a microphone, apparently. At one point, some fan-girl from the Oprah head office hijacked a video feed and began pestering Pitt about his tattoos, which, he, as someone resembling a normal person, didn’t want to discuss on account of them being private. The conversation went something like this:
Insane Woman: HEY BRAD BIG FAN HUGE FAN HEY POP OFF THAT SHIRT AND LET’S SEE SOME TATSSSS
Brad Pitt: Ha ha, good one, but I’d rather not. It’s a fun connection to have with your partner, but it’s private.
Insane Woman: NO REALLY I HEARD YOU GOT A SICK ICEMAN TAT ON YOUR ARM! HAHAHA WHAT DOES ICEMAN MEAN, DOES IT MEAN YOU WANNA DO SOME CRAZY SEXING WITH ME, HAHA GODDAMN BOOYAH
Brad Pitt: Please stop asking me about my tattoos, they’re personal.
Insane Woman: C’MONNN RIP OPEN THAT SWEATER AND LET’S FREAK RIGHT ON THE TOM CRUISE COUCH, I SEEN PIXXX OF SOME INK ON YOUR TUM-TUM, YOU GONNA SWEAT IT OFFFFFF OH SHIT
Brad Pitt: I am leaving the planet of earth.
I Like Water
Gotta be honest, and I mean no offense: This is not the edgiest message to tattoo on oneself. I suspect you’ll find very few people who dispute the sentiment. (As opposed to, say, such incendiary messages as “Go Fuck Ya Self” and “Bag O Donuts” and such.) I, of course, am inclined to agree with this. Cancer is indeed, among many other things, quite lame.
(Tattoo by Mykie Rice at Golden Horseshoe Tattoo in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.)
See more in “Mykie Rice Tattoo Mini Portfolio“ (Tattoo Artist Portfolios)
Become the Touches of Sweet Harmony
Sorry son, you’ll have to speak into Anna‘s good ear. Which, you know, is both of them.
(Hand tattoos by international bon vivant Marc at the Swastika Freakshop.)
For Mom
… wow. This here is a snark-free zone, folks. Carry on.
(Tattoo by Jesse Shearman at Red9ine Tattoos in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.)
See more in “Lettering Tattoos“ (Tattoos)
Canvas Los Angeles
Last week I was out in Los Angeles, working on remodeling the Gallery with my partner Todd. We’ve done a lot in the very short year that Canvas has been open, but we’ve definitely stayed true to what we’ve tried to do. With that said, I’m starting to wonder if maybe Vimby is just following me around. They seem to e-mail me at all the right times and happened to show up on opening night for our one year anniversary show. If you look closely, you can see me hiding from the camera!
Special thanks to Todd Burnes, Russel Victorioso and Shawn Barber for helping put together an amazing Visionaries II. Hopefully we have another great year of helping tattooers showcase their art, as well as growing as fine artists. Check out more work from the Visionaries II show after the jump or click here.
Michele Wortman
Kim Saigh
Jeff Gogue
Jason D’Aquino