A black-and-white photo of a person mid-air in a Superman-style body suspension pose, supported by multiple hooks in their back and legs, smiling joyfully toward the camera. They are suspended horizontally in a large indoor space with high ceilings and visible rigging. A group of onlookers—some seated, some standing—watch with expressions of admiration, amusement, and support. The atmosphere is lively and communal, capturing a moment of shared experience and transformation.

I Need Tungsten To Live


Good day, ModBloggers! Hope you’re all refreshed and bright-eyed and sobered up or whatever from the weekend. Let’s kick things off this week with these UV tattoos by Stephanie Campbell at Dragon FX Kingsway in Edmonton, Alberta. We know the jury is still out on UV tattoos to an extent, what with the potential unpredictability of the ink used, but we’ll save the moralizing for now (for once?) and just enjoy some fun, well-executed work. More after the jump.

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Comments

32 responses to “I Need Tungsten To Live”

  1. Brittney Avatar
    Brittney

    That is fucking cool! 😀

  2. smile006 Avatar

    Woah. The first and second pictures are absolutly amazing.

  3. OwlEyes Avatar

    agreed, this is just plain cool

  4. unchain Avatar

    I hate to be a bother, but first modblog post in 3 days? I know posting frequency has declined lately, but come on.

    This is pretty cool though.

  5. Mortimer Shrew Avatar

    love the idea. nice obscure simpsons quote.

  6. amy Avatar
    amy

    dope!

  7. Jordan Ginsberg Avatar
    Jordan Ginsberg

    Unchain: We don’t always have time to work on the weekends…

  8. Markvogt Avatar
    Markvogt

    i love these so much! i wanna pic without the light thoughh.

  9. mellissa Avatar
    mellissa

    Do they have any photos of their tattoos under every day fluorescent or natural light? I am curious how these look normally.

  10. Cris Black Avatar
    Cris Black

    Mellissa – i’ve got two UV tattoos done in the titanium white ink (like these tattoos) and under normal light conditions you can’t see anything but the appearance of natural skin. doesn’t look like there’s anything there at all…

    i’ve had my UV ink for about 5 years now and not had any problems…

    those tattoos up there are pretty freakin awesome… though, for me, i don’t much care for the flame work on the wrists…

  11. hate_is_man Avatar
    hate_is_man

    how visible would the scarring be when you get these done?
    cause that is insanely awesome

  12. Gorgoroth Avatar
    Gorgoroth

    WOW thats so cool, I want one!!! 🙂

  13. Cris Black Avatar
    Cris Black

    hate_is_man – no scarring, if you use a good tattoo artist… like i said before, it is almost completely impossible to tell if someone has a UV tattoo (if it’s done in the white ink like mine and what’s above)… colored UV inks show under normal light conditions like a mildly washed out hue of an opaque ink of the same color…

    usually, i carry a blacklight flash light on my keychain to prove to people that i actually have a tattoo on my arm where it appears there isn’t anything at all…

  14. Dangerbitch Avatar
    Dangerbitch

    These look rad! The bones are AMAZING.

  15. Stephanie Campbell Avatar

    YAY! So excited to see these on here! I’ll have my IAM up and running again soon, too. And I have wayy more stuff!
    Scarring is minimal with UV work as long as you have a good tattooist. I’ve had my face done for at least a year now, if not longer, and no visible scarring. You can’t see it at all without the light!

  16. Ru Avatar

    I dream of the day for safe and effective glow in the dark tattoos. your bones being visible during the night and not during the day would be amazing. far cooler than having to be around black lights, but still gorgeous.

    I love how everyone that gets UV tattoos gets bones… is that all it’s gooooood for???

  17. jezebel Avatar

    <3 them bones!!!

    unchain: do you pay for your modblog? No? quityerbitchin.

  18. Kalinkina Avatar

    This really reminds me of in cartoons when you see characters stand behind x-ray machines and get an immediate moving image, if that makes sense. haha Pretty cool.

  19. Justin Routte Avatar
    Justin Routte

    sweeeeeeet…..

  20. unchain Avatar

    I wasn’t bitching, I was just curious as to what was up.

  21. Lexci Million Avatar

    Atta girl, Steph!!!

  22. Ben Avatar

    I really like the first one.
    As first I was thinking ‘…ugh, what’s so good about an X-rayed hand?’
    … and then I realised it was a tattoo.

  23. snoogans Avatar

    Have they only got their arm and hand done? It would be amazing to have the whole body done!

  24. Cyndi Avatar

    Great Pic that is awesome. Cool ink!!!!

  25. Krystine Avatar
    Krystine

    The first one is GORGEOUS, but the second one isn’t really my style.

    Kalinkina, I totally agree about the cartoon X-ray machine!

  26. heretic138 Avatar
    heretic138

    resist

    urge

    to

    copycat
    …..

    fucking awesome!
    i hope the ink is still safe in 10,20years, etc…

  27. Xenobiologista Avatar

    Did anybody else read Asimov’s “Lucky Starr, Space Ranger” series when they were kids? (Some of his lesser-known novels, obviously written for a junior audience.) I would like to someday get a fluorescent tattoo of the Big Dipper on my wrist like the hero had, since that was my introduction to science fiction…

  28. Stormchaser Avatar

    wow the first 2 pics are amazing.

  29. CoryVictorious Avatar

    HELL YES FOR MORE SKELETON HANDS!

  30. andrea Avatar
    andrea

    the bones, omfg!

  31. Bait Avatar
    Bait

    All about 2 percent thoriated tungsten!

  32. piercingmap Avatar

    very impressive tattoos!

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