Perhaps it’s simply my own cultural bias speaking, combined with my personal kink opinion that body modification is sexual in nature, I find it really hard to process photos of kids getting piercings… Even nose and ear piercings squick me — I can’t think of any objective reason why it’s wrong though, and I’m certainly not making a negative comment about the piercers involved. To each their own!
I’ll post more stuff later tonight, but before I got started on other projects this morning I wanted to post this “arm stub piercing” done by Devin in Oregon. The jewelry through the nipple-like protrusion on the end of the stub is a 14ga 3/8″ curved barbell.
I love it when people take active and proud control of their body, no matter how it’s shaped!
You know, some piercers have all the luck, starting with Michael Moore over at VooDoo Tattoo in Bay City, MI who did a girl-girl corset piercing recently, splitting a dozen rings between two girls in matching lingerie (oh yeah… what would you do if you had a million bucks?).
Anyway, I hope everyone is enjoying the 2006 return of ModBlog. There won’t be any posts tomorrow because I’m trying to take a day a week off as a general rule, but watch for more on Monday evening.
Three words for you: Ouch, ouch, and ouch! This is what happens when an infection gets trapped in between layers of cartilage and spirals out of control — and this can happen literally overnight in a worst-case scenario!
Denis uses his 1-3/8″ plugs as a resting space for his Ball Python:
…whereas lophophora prefers to use his big labret to make smoking hands-free:
…that’s literally how the photo was titled when I received it. How sweet — click the photo to zoom in (and this time that directive is no dirty trick).
Maxwell Brand from All Or Nothing* just sent me in some pictures he took at the 1st Annual Jacksonville Tattoo Convention. On the left is Cheryl, who’s gotten more work done since this photo was taken (more pictures will be posted in BME’s facial tattoo gallery when I get a chance). Next is Jacki and Johanna, and then the third photo is Elizabeth, part of the Oddity Ink crew. The last picture is Elizabeth with her friend Candice.
* check their website for updates on their two artists that were recently in a major car crash.
Raur just got herself some new heavy gauge jewelry. It’s not for everyone, but hey, when you’re bored at least this jewelry helps pass the time. Welcome to Sweden.
We’ve moved a long way past the “string someone up on hooks and swing around for a while” stage of body ritual performance. The previous entry has an obviously theatrical show, but when it comes to this sort of thing, I feel that nobody that I’ve seen outdoes the professionalism and artistry of performance teams in South America, especially Argentina — here are some pictures from a show put on by IAM:la negra and friends with the International Theatre Festival Mercosur in Cordoba.
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I guess it’s a question of whether you’re there to shock, or whether you’re there to create art and music. I’m not sure that one is better than the other, but I am very happy to see the latter path being explored so well. Oh and there are more pictures from this performance on BME.
Here’s a shot care of IAM:toddy of a Circus Carnis performance in Northbridge. It looks like a great performance, but I have to admit that it did take some flexing of my self control not to draw cartoon word bubbles and radically change the scene.
