I know a girl who is really heavily freckled, and one night, she revealed that, due to this terrible affliction, her dad affectionately(?) calls her “flyshits.” Because, you know, her freckles look like … fly shit. Apparently. This isn’t her wearing this tattoo, but I like to think she’d be traumatized by it nonetheless.
(Tattoo by Kris Roberts at Shipwreck Tattoos in Corpus Christi, Texas.)
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(Pictured above is Impgrin, a mainstay of BME/hard’s We’ve Got Big Balls! gallery, with what he says is his largest scrotal air inflation yet — by his measurements, 20 inches around and 10 inches long.)
Every once in a while, a feat is performed that is so heroic, so incredible, so daring, in such spectacular fashion, that it must be recognized. Alas, we have no keys to the city to give away, and a cash prize is so impersonal, so it is with this in mind that we present the BME Big Balls Award! The inaugural recipient is Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger III, the hero pilot of US Airways Flight 1549, which took off from LaGuardia airport in New York this afternoon and which Sullenberger successfully ditched in the Hudson River minutes later. After one of the aircraft’s engines blew after sucking in a flock of geese, Sullenberger executed a “planned crash” into the river, saving the lives of the 155 people onboard the flight, plus countless others had the plane crashed into the mainland. You, Sir, have some big balls.
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Greg Schaefer of House of Ink in St. Louis, Missouri, checks in:
It started out with a client saying, “You should give me a black light tattoo,” and I said, “It has to be a dick.” He says, “OK, on the bottom of my foot would work, or maybe my leg. Actually, it would be cool on my ass.”
I said, “OK, if we do it, though, it has to be veiny and triumphant.” He agreed. Being a tattooist and being offered a chance to do a tattoo like this veiny S.O.B, I couldn’t resist. Well, lo and behold, I was able to convince our helper to get a black outline, but it didn’t stop there.
It went from the idea of a black light tattoo to semi-realism with a hot pink black light reactive background! Yeah right sucka, he ended up with this veiny triumphant bastard with a black light reactive silhouette of a dick around it on his ass cheek. Damn son, damn.
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Have you ever woken up in the morning, looked through bleary eyes* at your reflection in the mirror and been overwhelmed by the desire to:
a) Do something new and exciting with your nipple piercing.
b) Make lots of loud fizzing/popping/banging noises to annoy the neighbours who kept you up until 3am playing the same drum and bass track over and over again at top volume.
c) Play with flames.
I know I have!
Bern reflected on this for a while and came up with a fine way to start the day/enact revenge, he combined a), b) and c), to make, erm, c)a)b) this…
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* – Sometimes caffeine just doesn’t do the job.
Black shirt by Hanes. Piercings by Cia at Pistolero in Boras, Sweden. Metallica necklace by Satan.
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Let’s just establish this right off the bat, to avoid any arguments: It says “Party Time.” Not “Potty Time” (even though that would be great), not “Party Lime” (though that does sound tasty), and not “Larry Slime” (he prefers to be called “Lawrence”). We have that settled? Now, if so much as one person posts a link to a calligraphy site, I’m turning this blog around, so help me God.
It’s “Party Time.” Get stoked.
(This righteousness is featured on thewhaler, and was done by Derek Hutchinson at Sacred Skin in Des Moines, Iowa.)
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I do not really know anything about soccer. In fact, everything I know about it, I pretty much learned from this blog post. But a cursory reading of Wikipedia will show that this impressive portrait tattoo is of Juan Sebastián Verón, an Argentine footballer currently manning the midfield for Estudiantes de La Plata. Apparently, Verón is kind of a big deal:
In 2004, he was chosen for the FIFA 100, a list of the 125 greatest living footballers selected by Pelé as part of FIFA’s centenary observances.
Wait a second — I’m no word scientist or nothin’, but why is the FIFA 100 a list of 125 players? Man, I really don’t understand soccer at all.
(Tattoo by Andres Hurtado from La City Tattoo in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, while doing a guest-spot at Tattoo Lou’s in Long Island, New York.)
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This is Jessica, who is a Baltimore transplant living in South Carolina, and who has apparently lost a contact lens, as far as I can tell, in this senselessly placed pile of wood shavings. Needless to say, she has some awful friends who would clearly rather stand around and take sexy pictures of her than help her look for important optical supplies. How disrespectful.
This must have been a couple weeks ago or more but I was on one of my friend’s message boards checking out some photographs he had taken for an assignment in school. I can’t remember the exact back story to it but it was something about using targets. Thaddeus had posted 3 or 4 shots that he was working on and as I scrolled past this one of Brian Prish, I almost completely missed it!
Do you see what I see?
Thaddeus also has some amazing “hot naked modded girl” shots that would definitely suit the requests from the comment forums so he’ll be sending some my way for your viewing pleasure.
The answer after the break!
P.S. If you didn’t see it, check out Brian’s shin for the peak a boo shot of his Calm Logo Tattoo!
The woman on the left writes in:
My victim and I have always had an intense connection. There is an animal nature to our blood play. Even those who do not like bloodsports love to watch us. Little did I know the very blood-squeamish man I just met who found this scene intensely erotic and so took the pictures for me (very well I might add) would later become the love of my life.
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