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Stretched Nose Piercings
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“Trust your Mechanic” -The Dead Kennedeys
Lefrog wrote me with some pictures from a great suspension they assisted for their friend Alan last Saturday. Alice filled me in on the back story, telling me Alan is from the Mutoid Waste Company, and cut the engine out of a van while hanging suicide-style from a crane. Shortly after he finished, the van caught fire and they let it burn out rather than extinguishing it. Alice also suspended (knees) that day, and their friend Mark hung as well. Photos by Dispel of Tattoo Nation UK — more continue after the break.
Maybe the camera lense was dirty
I’ve posted Andro and his top-notch work before, so I hope he’s not too mortified that I included this piece (sent in by CrustPictures), which I like a lot on a design level but appears to include a rather unfortunate blow-out on the shoulder! [Edit/Update: this blow-out was intentional and part of the piece; see the comments for more.] I like how it crosses through the front of the ear — it also goes right down her arm (check her page for more photos).
Cormorant Shoulders
Erin‘s cormorants on her shoulders were done by Stephen at Lefty’s in Pittsfield, MA. She explains them and the tree tattoo that sits central on her chest;
“I was shocked when I learned that having a large tree tattooed on my chest would change my life forever. Now people are drawn to my art instead of in awe of my nasty scars. People of all ages and walks of life are attracted to my tree, and the birds have helped to bring peoples eyes up from my chest.”
See more in “Wildlife and Nature Tattoos“ (Tattoos)
War Wounds
The three point spiral cartilage piercing that Jay Dee Werland at Tiger Rose Tattoo and Body Piercing in Pismo Beach, California has just installed here is nice and all, but I also like the “studded for her pleasure” marks from all the old piercings… My ear still has those from piercings in the 80s!
Backpiece in Progress
This pretty back piece — the shaded boxes being what really sets it apart from one of a zillion generic pieces — is being done by Chris Dingwell at Sanctuary Tattoo in Portland, Maine.
See more in “Tribal and Blackwork Tattoos“ (Tattoos)
Knife Fight
Eye-slash scarification by Lewis Dodd at Trimur in Barcelona, Spain… I don’t know what this person’s story is, but don’t assume that he’s a poseur — the last couple scars like this I posted were all on people who lived high physical risk lives, but found themselves completely unharmed and unscarred by it, so they wanted to self-induce marks of their lifestyle (really not that different from getting a tattoo of something you love, I suppose).
Bodmod Nihilism
James recently got the bullet hole on his forehead covered up with a crown of skulls by Scooter at Carter’s Tattoos in Bowling Green, KY. You can see his page for clearer shots of the rest of his tattoos, but he explains,
“The crown covers the bullet hole in the center and I’m going back for a second session to add greys, background, and texture. It’s a welcome addition to my face — my left cheek was done by Travis King and my right cheek by Sarin. I always had a love for facial tattooing among other mods. It is my favorite body modification and each piece has deep meanings — the left side is demonic, and the right side is organic biomech, much like a ying-yang concept. The bullet hole and eyebrows, which are now being covered up, were just random additions, but my new piece is much like a crown — to balance things in my life if that makes sense.”
See more in “Facial and Neck Tattoos“ (Tattoos)
22″ Corset
Ummm… I am not exactly sure what’s going on here in this photo of EffulgentVampyress, but I thought it was a funny picture.
Scars don’t have to hold you back
Recently Godzilla Riots appeared on the cover of the Eastern Michigan University website in a photo clearly showing her scarification by Wendi Wentzell at Lucky Monkey in Ann Arbor (you can click through to check out the full scar piece). She explains the context,
“The Eastern Michigan University Undergraduate Symposium is a one day program organized to recognize and celebrate the academic work of EMU undergraduate students. To participate a student not only has to be nominated by faculty sponsor but must also be recommended by the respective department as well. My own presentation was nominated by the history department, entitled ‘The Book of Jubilees as Jewish Apocalyptic Literature’. Surprisingly enough there was a representative of the Society of Biblical Literature in the audience and I am honored enough to have been invited to present at the Society’s annual conference.
I though it was pretty sick how EMU featured a picture of me presenting on their homepage, most especially when my scarification chest piece is in plain view. A university boasting me as a representative of the EMU academic community — this only proves, once again, the inaccuracy of society’s conception and generalization of people with body modifications.
Gotta love it when people with mods challenge notions of mainstream society by demonstrating their intelligence, especially when the integrity of their scholastic performance is recognized by the academic community.”
If this interested you, please also check out the interview with Alvar.
