Personally I think that Whitespace currently wears the single best scarification bodysuit in the world. I don’t think there’s a nicer piece that’s at the scale of his work. What you see in this photo is all by the monstrously talented Dave Gillstrap (visit the Dave Gillstrap scarification photo gallery on BME).
Check out these great old-school horror themed tattoos by Piero from The Big Voodoo in Toulouse, France. (See also: Lucio Fulci tattoo)
It’s funny, I try not to feature one artist more than others on ModBlog, and when I’m choosing which pictures to add, they’re from a folder of stuff Phil has put aside for me and I don’t even see who did it until I write the entry. But still, for some reason, certain people keep getting featured… Thanks again to Joy Rumore for another (remember the dog portrait tattoo posted recently) very nice tattoo, this time of a stylized heart that I think many will enjoy.
I regularly see 30+ hook suspensions using small gauge hooks in the SM community, but in terms of upper limit world-record type stuff (as in numebr of hooks used in a suspension), I think Cali (assisted by Ascension and Birde-Mann) is the current winner with this 178 hook superman suspension.
Related: The Berkeley 5k
I think IAM:48×16 (good numbers: username improved from the original) has a great chestpiece (or at least a hilarious one, and I figure that’s a good thing). It’s designed and executed by Nate Hough of House of Poncho’s in Edgewood, Maine, and he implores you, “Do not take my design!”
Need some Mediterranean lovin’ spankin’?
Thanks to my friends over at Circle 23 for sending me this wonderful suspension photo.
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Thanks to Jay at Primeau Tattoo for sending in this picture of his time-consuming tattoos by Bill Baker (one of Canada’s long-established greats).
I mostly just thought that this pre-suspension photo of IAM:bodmod*starlet was really nice.
This entry was actually supposed to be in yesterday’s update, but I’m not sure why it didn’t make it. First I wanted to apologize for not having posted enough tattoo pinup guys here yet… I haven’t been putting them aside so my queue is limited, and to be honest, guys tend to send in more closeup pictures than portraits.
I also wanted to mention that Needled has mention up of Margaret Cho’s new tattoo (which may end up being Ed Hardy’s final large tattoo). Speaking of celebrity tattoos, another tattoo blog, literally TattooBlog.org, has mention up of Lindsay Lohan‘s latest tattoo, “Breathe” (she’s asthmatic). It kind of reminds me of my own “Stay Calm” tattoo.
While I’m talking about other blogs, I noticed two new tattoo and body modification blogs just fired up recently; first there’s TatTalk, and then there’s also My Body Story, both of which are currently styled as enthusiast blogs. There’s really getting to be a remarkable daily sites out there for people to read if they’re into all this! (So I don’t leave anyone else out of this entry, there’s also A&E’s InkedBlog and the news-oriented Modified News).
And, continuing in Needled synchronicity, thanks to IAM:blackrat, AKA Lucky Diamond Rich, performance artist and the world’s most tattooed person — slightly more tattooed (or a lot more tattooed if you count all the layers) than the folks listed as most tattooed by the out-dated text in the Guinness Book of World Records. Booo to them.
Anyway, I’m moving to a new house tomorrow, so depending on time and commitments and whether my cable Internet gets hooked up, it may be an extra day before I can post again.