As a quick follow-up to Shannon’s interview with “The Indestructible Man“, here’s a video cocktail of Dan skewering the entire length of his forearm and Captain Howdy (minus his flying circus this time) undergoing some acupuncture treatment for a dodgy tummy.
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OK, there’s a few Pi scars as well as lots of Pi tattoos (mostly from BME’s geek tattoo section) since today is 3/14… (What, if pirate day tattoos get a post, so can today!)
If you can see this post, you’re seeing ModBlog on the new server… and you’re also seeing DeliaPsyche, pierced 134 times by Russ Foxx and her friends in Vancouver. Full blog returns tomorrow!
Theodore and AshesOfAnIris (see also)
You know, I see movies like City of God make Rio de Janeiro look pretty frightening, but then I get these pictures from Freakboy in Sao Paulo, and my desire to go to Brasil again overwelms any fear of being murdered. Click through for a second photo.
So the fifteen year old DIY-piercer in this photo came in to Color Works in West Des Moines, Iowa with their mother after their doctor refused to help with the problem he’d caused. He’d decided to do the piercings himself — a pair of lip rings and a septum — using, and I kid you not, pieces of chain link that he’d clipped off with wire cutters. They weren’t pierced in place — they were just “crushed” in place with a pair of pliers and brutally crimped into his flesh!
Evan removed them (and one was even rusted), cleaned him up, and told him to go back to the doctor. While Evan was dealing with the problem, the kid refused to stop touching the problem areas no matter how much he was told, and his mother let his four little brothers and sisters come running into the piercing room from the lobby, upon which the one kid immediately starts going through the garbage. Jarret (who took the photos) got them under control as the mother told him about how she’d tried to cut the piercings out with scissors. Darwin Award anyone?
Seriously, this is why in my opinion laws need to allow young people to get body piercings. “18+” and “16+” laws do nothing but hurt young people. Doctors don’t give a fuck and don’t know what they’re talking about most of the time and are so constrained by liability insurance that they often can’t help even if they want to, parents are clueless, and there are plenty of fly-by-night shops and nomadic piercers willing to abuse pierce kids anyway… High quality shops need to be accessible to people of all ages, because the fact is, people of all ages want piercings, and they’ll get them one way or another.
One of the most common and least expensive kind of jewelry is acrylic plugs (ie. “Lucite”, “Plexiglas”, etc.). In general it’s quite biocompatible (some contact lenses are made of it, dentures can be made of it, as can some types of bone cement)… That said, some people do react — James Raimar (Holey Body, Saginaw MI) sends in this shot of someone who came into his shop seeking help due to their body not liking the plastic jewelry one bit! He’s seen enough of these reactions that he recommends avoiding it.
By Sarah at Slick Styled Steel in Montreal.
You know, as problematic and non-longerm-viable as they are, magnetic implants are really one of the coolest modifications that have come along in the last decade. Here’s Jymmi‘s magnets by Steve Haworth (who has decided to call his new blog “ModBlog”, so I should mention that they’re not related sites other than in subject) at about five months old, showing off their strength…
See also: my magnetic implants and their removal.
Rob Hudson from Heritage Tattoo Company in Stephens City, VA, writes, “This is Allen Danger Michael — he’s dressed for every occasion!” What’s next? Tattooed tuxedo shirts? Hahaha, I am so happy that people have a sense of humor about their lives. The world would suck if everyone was snobby about their tattoos.
