Jason Rice (apprenticing under Andrew Niland at Live Once Tattoo in North Bay, Ontario) just did this really pretty fetal cutting on himself. I know it’s not an option for everyone, but I really feel like the heart of body modification — the evolve yourself meme — is in DIY procedures, be it DIY at home, or guided DIY in an apprenticeship.
…since everyone got upset when I posted a football face and called it “soccer”. Anyway, following up to the Maradona portrait, here’s one by one of my favorite South American artists, Darwin Enriquez at Mithos Tattoo in Caracas, Venezuela.
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AngelicFruitcake had this love tattoo done by Olly at English Rose in Peterborough (UK, not Canada). I think I’m too superstitious (how embarassing) to get a tattoo like this… the idea of tattooing anything negative on me freaks me out! Before you think it’s all negative though, the other side says “blessed”.
Sorry for the delays. I’m having a lot of trouble keeping a full schedule (but really, if you want to listen to me whine though, go here instead), but I will do my best from now on to do pre-written entries so my lags hopefully get hidden by the nature of the queue.
I’m going to start working on that right now but until then here’s an in context shot of Minneapolis‘s Elliott Smith Figure 8 tattoo that got such a positive response when the close-up shot was posted.
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As a follow-up to Christian Noni’s dental modification article, Jenna sends in these photos she took at the Museum of Jade in San Jose, Costa Rica last week — here’s what the attached card said,
“Inlays and dental serration”
Between men and women of several American cultures it was common the practice of the be filed and to be perforated in a partial way the teeth. With the perforation technique, stones or jadeita fillers were incrusted, pyre or turquoise, while the filing or serration were carried out reducing the dental pieces by means of the use of abrasive materials on the enamel and the dentine.
In the Great Nicoya the artisans elaborated vessels with human faces carrying mortuary masks that showed filed teeth, a common practice among the cultural groups Chorotegas and Nicaraos that denoted courage, range or corporal beauty according to their beliefs.
In the jaw and in the ceramic vessel it is observed the mutilation or dental serration, while in the tooth a jade inlay is appreciated.
No, it’s not a psychedelic flaming biological leftover — it’s a Buddhist Nyoihouju gem, said to grant all wishes, on iam:fish japan.
By Chris at Liberty Tattoo in Atlanta, GA — this is a map of Atlanta’s subway system. You know, I haven’t really ridden the subway here in Toronto a lot in the last five years, but before that I rode it constantly and I’m sure for the rest of my life the subway map will be a fairly direct symbol of the city to me.
