This facial flesh removal done By Lestyn at Divine Canvas in London, looks bold and striking when fresh and quite subtle when healed. I really dig the healed look on the right side personally.
To see both sides in their freshly cut glory, keep on keeping on.
While perusing the tattoo portrait galleries looking for potential modblog features I saw a TON of amazing portraits done by Javier (Jade) Campos at Arte Sagrado Tattoo in Lima, Peru. Seriously check out the gallery, then check out the shops web site. In the gallery there were portraits of Jim Morrison, Scott Weiland and about a dozen others. I of course, picked my personal favorite artist of the bunch, Mike Ness to feature here.
Summer is here, and you know what that means……beautiful tranquil outdoor suspensions!
Like, for example, this resurrection suspension set up by my friends in ihung. Check out that rigging plate, besides being a good way to plug the group name, it is also providing a nice support for this young lady to hold onto after coming down from her suspension.
To see her suspending, and to fully see the tranquil setting, keep on keeping on.
That handsome bearded man is Jason, a man who deserves a lot of credit for his contributions to the suspension community over the last several years.
PS: If you would like to partake in a beautiful outdoor piercings yourself, the upcoming ROP Campout in Pittsfield, Mass. would be a good time to do so.
Pauly is no stranger to modblog, In fact he has reached damn near celebrity status for his mods and particularly for his stretching. That is why so many people were shocked when he had Brian reconstruct his lobes from 3 3/8″ to nothing! Before you ask why, take a minute to read Pauly’s blog where he explains his motives.
I don’t know many practitioner’s, bod mod or medical, who have done more ear lobe reconstructions that Brian, and it is evident in the quality of this reconstruction. That’s a genuine compliment, I am not just being nice because it is that delightful sunuvabitch’s 35th birthday today either!
I was looking at the posts on a Facebook group called Tattoo Acceptance in the Workplace. It got me wondering and so I thought I’d pose some questions to you, dear ModBlog readers. Are you tattooed? If so, are any of them visible? Are tattoos accepted in your workplace? What industry do you work in? Where in the world do you live?
I thought it might be interesting to see where visible tattoos are more accepted and where they are completely frowned upon.
I’m throwing in this sick (I hear that’s what kids these days call cool) and totally unrelated tattoo of Davy Jones, submitted by Gotter and inked by Jade Campos out of Arte Sagrado in Peru.
A lot of people tend to label me a redneck, seeing as how I have portraits of a lot of country music singers and the like tattooed all over my leg. Truth be told though, I love me some Dr. Dre and would definitely consider a portrait of him at some point. So I was stoked to see this well done portrait of him and Snoop.
The artist who did this, Andy Gubert who owns Exclusive Tattoos in Gotha Germany will be doing a guest spot at True Grit Tattoos in Burlington Ontario from August 28th until September 11th. If you want an appointment book it soon, as his spots are starting to go. You can book with him at True Grit Tattoos by either calling to set up a consultation with Tye or e-mailing [email protected]
At the Dallas Suspension Practitioners Convention, where the best of the best in the suspension community work together, you get to see the best of modern suspension rigging.
Take this photo Jared submitted for instance. The most noticeable variation of the rigging is the catch cups. How many times have we seen tandem suspensions done that took no precautions to reduce the risk of the lower suspendee being contaminated by the upper suspendee? These catch cups may not 100% isolate the lower suspendee from risk of contamination but they certainly lower the risk factor to a far more acceptable level.
The cord I am assuming is tech-12, (feel free to correct me if you were there and I am wrong on this) which has a ridiculously higher breaking strength than the 550 cord most suspension teams still use. Then there are the hooks, these particular hooks are made by Black Sheep Hooks and are an 8 gauge locking design with a higher breaking strength and the added safety factor of it being a locked design when compared to the mustads, which are far more commonly used. Then, of course, there is also an assortment of locking carabiners and high rated shackles.
If you want to keep up with the latest and greatest in suspension techniques and equipment, be sure to check out the SusCon picture recently uploaded to this gallery , and also read up on the forums at suspension.org.
With tattooing’s recent boom in popularity, tattoo conventions are a dime a dozen now. So normally, I wouldn’t bother posting promotional material for one. However, this tattoo convention is so different, I felt it is 100% worthy of a plug on here.
ManWoman actually sent us the information on this convention, and the fact he was involved was enough to get me interested. The convention will take place in Cobh, Cork Co. Ireland on the 10th and 11th of July. The tattooing will all be hand-poked traditional, even Eskimo tattooing. ManWoman will be guest speaker and will also be interviewed for a swastika documentary.
PS: If any modblog readers make it out to this, be sure to send up some pictures!
Håvve Fjell, of Pain Solution fame and a HUGE part of the international suspension and sideshow community, turns 40 today. Allen, who knows him far better than I, wrote up an excellent entry in his personal blog and I advise anyone even remotely interested in suspensions or sideshow performance go read that now.
Of course there were a TON of suspension photos from the recent Dallas Suspension Practitioners Convention. Yet, while digging through the hundreds of photos in the ritual gallery, this totally sans-suspension photo jumped out at me. Maybe because it involves old friends of mine, or perhaps just because it is so totally random and awkward. That random awkwardness is what makes it captures the true spirit of most of the mod events I have been to better than the more typical posed, or serious shots.
The picture belongs to Brian.
The beard belongs to Micah.
The look of shock and awe belongs to Scot.
That hand, I am pretty damn certain that belongs to no other than Shawn Porter.