Nervousinthealley‘s tattoo, done by Wendi Ramirez at Golden Apple in Austin Texas. She writes, “It’s all about the duality in life. People always seem to expect one thing when they first meet me, and, for the most part, they never seem to get it quite right. Punks aren’t “supposed” to hang out around opera houses… but, maybe they do.”
Hey, I’ve gone to a few operas (Cosi Fan Tutti, La Travietta, and so on).
This is the start of aquarian234‘s half sleeve, by Jason Maybruck at Darkwave in Roxbury, MA.
Well, solo in the photo but punkelvse was assisted in this experience by tobben (both in Norway). I really like the picture a lot. Some day I’d love to take all my favorite photos from ModBlog and just make a collage-type book out of them (The ModBlog Scrapbook, 2005-2007?). This would definitely be there!
Last April I posted her gorgeous sleeve, but Siobhan just got some more work done by Diau-An at Taiwan Tattoo in Kaoshiung (design by Cohen in this case)… Like with the myriad of people on my general crush list, I can’t stop myself from posting these here and I hope you enjoy them also.
Along with chemical scarification (more info), dermabrasion scarification (more info) — literally what it sounds like; the creation of a scar by using abrasive tools to grind off the skin — is one of the rarest forms of body modification. It is almost always DIY or otherwise done outside of a studio, and very little information exists on its results, controllability, and general viability. Here’s Amanda M. giving it a try on a friend in Carnegie, PA. Watch the BME galleries for healed results later I hope.
The post about Simon skewering his gut reminded me of Dutch mystic and probably the most extreme Western fakir ever, Mirin Dajo, who could take deep skewers through organs in the core of his body. I saw another video claiming he was a con artist and had a series of healed fistula creating procedures in order to created a healed “piercing” that could fake this. A healed piercing through organs? It’s ridiculous. In any case, here’s the video:
So my Ubuntu computer died because I tried to see if I could still boot to my Windows partition — which it could, but doing so somehow trashed the drives so on the next cycle neither OS would load… Anyway, some photos of Bella Vendetta by Johnny Tattoo in a BME shirt.
I lost all of my ModBlog work (like pending entries), which is sort of a pain, and a couple minor things, but all in all it was mostly time lost.
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Kadiva and her silent but deadly friend from Talon arms. Photo by The Intimate Look, piercings by Christopher at Backbone Body Mods in San Antonio, Texas.
“Can’t talk now, I’ll call you back”
– Captain Howdy
