This tattoo (on a rock climber) was done by Tone Wellbrook at Flesh Factory in Bozeman, MT — which reminds me, this site — Animated Knots by Grog — is a great resource for teaching yourself a wide variety of rigging, be it for climbing or be it for suspension.
BME is the same kind of influence as SLAYER!
But it should be… extra firm tofu!
Nae in Ann Arbor, Michigan had Corey Cuc at Lucky Monkey do these great nipple tattoos for her. Click through for a zoom in.
Marc at Swastika Freakshop in Germany did this show at the Agroskate Festival in Spain; Basque Country — my favorite part is the naked guy on the skateboard, haha…
Click through for a fuller shot of this customer of Rodri’s (working on the road in Madrid, Spain) who had him do this pubic Slipknot cutting.
This photo is by Bellboy in Insaneskinarts in Sinapore. The reason I’m posting it is I’d like to raise the following subject for discussion — it’s very common in North America to see communist paraphenalia (the Hammer and Sickle, Stalin and Lenin, and so on) in the backgrounds of photos and no one really bats an eye at it. These days I’m seeing more and more Nazi paraphenalia from South America and Asia, which as far as I can tell is not strongly associated with neo-Nazism.
Each type of image of course represents an ideology that resulted in the needless genocidal deaths of millions of people, yet one tends to generate a knee jerk reaction and the other does not — I’ve gotten many taken-down requests over this photo, but effectively none over pro-Stalinist imagery for example. I assume it all boils down to cultural context?
Photo: Terran
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(from the interview; click through to read it and come back to comment)
Cao is a friend of mine that grew up and still lives in Borneo where he has a “normal” professional career. You’d never guess — but that’s almost always the case — that under his pants his genitals have gone through a series of modifications, and that he’s had a fetish for them since he was young. This interview is an excerpt from my upcoming book, but I wanted to print it now because I heard a recent Jim Ward interview in which he opined that piercing had moved from the sexual arena into the aesthetic, which made me think of many older friends like Cao who are still very much motivated purely by their sexual eccentricities.
Although the face of body piercing is certainly very visibly aesthetic, I still think his story will feel very familiar to many readers…
