At the NY Renaissance fair The Lizard King strode forth into the crowd where he raised his hands and revealed his powers. Within seconds reptiles and amphibians of all types emerged from the woods, and covered his body. This photo was taken as the first of his servants scaled his body, eventually resting upon his head like a crown. The king’s name? EMU666.
Quick, someone save Meizy, she’s being attacked by an octopus! Oh wait, that octopus isn’t attacking her. It’s actually a photo from Julian Murray’s new book Tattoos and Tentacles. I heard about the book a few months back, however the bookstore up here didn’t have a copy. The holidays are coming up if anyone is feeling generous.*
*don’t actually buy me anything, Rachel will kill me if she thinks I’m using ModBlog to get presents
It’s been too long since IAM:Jay-Z has made an appearance on ModBlog, so to remedy that here’s a shot of her and her pooch from a calendar photoshoot to raise money for the human society.
You can see more of Jay-Z in the BMEGirls gallery.
Don’t you hate it when you’re sitting around at home and a snake suddenly decides to use your earlobe as a stepping stone before sliding across your face?
I guess the big question is, did joer152 know about the snake, or is he just a convincing actor?
A lot of the time when you hear about the missing link in the evolutionary chain we think of monkeys, or in terms of taste/skin texture, pigs.
I present to you, the audience, the argument that we are, in fact, closer to cows. And here is proof. In the first image we see a cow with a hole punched into its side.
And, after the break, photo evidence of people living with similar holes in their bodies.
Deep chest piercings on Aghori Baba of Sweeden.
These are some fresh sub clavicle piercings worn by Esmeray. Check her page for updated photos.
Lastly we have BME favorite Pauly Unstoppable with his impressive 1 1/2″ trans scrotal.
So if you are thinking about how you could live with a large gauge piercing, think to yourself WWCD?
We’ve featured the incredible SwingShift SideShow before (here), and really, we’ll continue to as long as they keep submitting material. It’s by no means a stretch to say that this is a group pushing the boundaries of what the human body is capable of as much as any other performers out there. And hey, here are Andrew S. and Kelvikta, captured as candidly as is probably possible. After the jump, a photo of Kelvikta all on her own.
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See, you see a photo like this one of Largo and his new friend, and you wonder, was it staged? Did he fall asleep on the beach and wake up with this pinchy little bastard holding on for dear life? Did he lose a bet? Is it just part of the jewelry he’s wearing? Is there a fire burning? Did he bring any lemon slices? Is there rice in the truck? Is th— oh, sorry. I’ll be at Red Lobster if anyone needs me.
See more in “Larger gauge nipple piercings“ (Nipple Piercing)
Good day, ModBloggers! Now, let me ask you this: Is there a better way to start your day than with a cat winking at you? What’s that? You can think of literally thousands of better ways? Man. You drive a hard bargain, folks. Would it make you feel better if it were a one-eyed cat instead? Oh? It would? Well, take a peek after the jump, then! I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
Unfortunately, there was no artist information included with these photos, but hey, who doesn’t enjoy a loving portrait of a pet?
Welcome back, everyone. The cat’s in the bag and the bag’s in the river.
[Comics.com] Oh hey look, up there, it’s our old friend Burnaby Q. Horatio Marcus Longfellow “Crump-Daddy” Orbax, immortalized in comic-form, courtesy of the good folks at Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! The comic is all about how Orbax, when not munching glass or whatever he does in his spare time, is actually some kind of sell-out nerd professor of “physics,” whatever the hell that is. Hey freak, make with the laughs! (Click the Comics.com link to see it in all its full-sized glory.)
[Atlanta Journal-Constitution] Well, no laughs here. A few days ago, some idiot drunken goblin named Eugene Ashley decided it’d be a grand idea to tattoo his three-year-old son’s shoulder with the initials “DB,” allegedly standing for “Daddy’s Boy.” Hey, that’s fun bonding experience, right? No? Yeah, not so much.
The tattoo was discovered after an unidentified person complained to the Department of Family and Children Services about the conditions at the Ashley home. The Ashleys have three or four children, Davis said.
“You keep thinking you’ve seen it all, and then voila,” Davis said.
The children remain with their mother; Eugene Ashley was arrested May 21 and faces charges of child cruelty and tattooing a person younger than 18 years old, the latter being a misdemeanor, Davis said.
Interestingly, Theresa Walsh Giarrusso, a columnist for the Journal-Constitution, when discussing this shit-bird in a subsequent column, raised a point not uncommon to the likes of BME and its community, but one particularly foreign to the average AJC reader: Is this really much worse than piercing a baby’s ears or circumcising a newborn?
I get that there’s a law about not tattooing someone under 18, but why is that more worthy of a law than the other two? Is it simply because the other two are done more frequently so they have become socially acceptable?
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Piercings (at least in ears) can close back up, but circumcision can hardly be reversed. I have heard of a method of stretching the foreskin back over the head of the penis using weights but that doesn’t sound easy. Laser surgery to remove tattoos seems preferable to trying to “re-grow” your foreskin.
Are tattoos more painful than piercing or circumcision? Not sure that’s true.
I’m not promoting tattoos for toddler and babies, I’m just wondering if there is a double standard of what is acceptable to do to a child?
Somebody get this lady a wheelbarrow in which to carry her massive balls! Whether you agree with her or not (and I don’t think she even really indicated whether or not she necessarily believes the argument she’s put forth), this isn’t a conversation that occurs among the general public very often, and it’s one that should probably be had. So, Theresa Walsh Giarrusso, we salute you for opening up the dialogue about a tricky subject at a difficult time. What say your commenters?
“Wow, trying to stoke some fires and save your job at the AJC with crap like this? Why not talk about Mike Vick too?
TATOO= PERMANENT AND ARTISTIC EXPRESSION (for adults)
PIERCED EARS= GHETTO TRASH
CIRCUMCISION= HEALTH BENEFITS, and doesn’t give your son a odd looking member.”[…]
“My granddaughter got her ears pierced at 9 months old and she didn’t cry. How can you compare THAT to a tattoo. You people are nuts! lol”
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“Are you seriously comparing tattoos to circumcision? Need I say more? Thought not, I rest my case.”
(In all fairness, there are a surprising amount of reasonable and rational discussions going on in the comments there.)
[YouTube] Astute reader “Cassie” sends in this charming YouTube clip on everybody’s favorite egg-laying water mammal, the platypus! Why are we posting it here? Because, in addition to being suckers for weird and/or cute animals, it also features several segments with Stephen Kolomyjec from James Cook University, who is all pierced and tattooed and whatnot, and is working on genetic research for platypuses. And hey, we like to show off modified professionals whenever we can. (See: Orbaxy up top.) Stephen pops up around the 1:14 mark.
Good day, ModBloggers! I don’t know about you, but it’s kind of grey and wet and generally miserable over in these parts, and I could use a pick-me-up. What I could really go for is a picture of a pretty pierced girl making funny faces while holding an adorable dog…well holy shit, look at that! That’d be Sweet Dee, with a septum pierced by Phish while at HTC in Phoenix, Arizona, and holding onto one her apparently many heart-stabbingly cute dogs. Yeah, that’ll do nicely.