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.

Holy Moley.

Urea and his friends get more intense all the time…. This customer (who’s had his first set for I believe over two years now) has six subclavical piercings (last featured here with four of them)… Very extreme — even though I’ve now seen lots of people get and keep them, I don’t think I could ever work up the courage to do it myself… Past my peronal danger line (and remember, I’m the guy who’s tattooing his eyeballs). I really love that Urea is using his arm with those huge implants as a “signature” in photos — it reminds me of Maori chiefs who signed contracts by drawing out their mokos.

Comments

25 responses to “Holy Moley.”

  1. L1ZZARD Avatar

    Urea is intense!

  2. Itai Avatar
    Itai

    Run! the aliens are coming!

  3. Frester Avatar
    Frester

    It’s a good sig, I’d recognize those 😛

  4. UREA Avatar

    SIMPLESMENTE UREA!!!

    VOLTS PAPADA

  5. An. Avatar
    An.

    You are getting your eyes tattooed? Where on the eye? Your eyes are so naturally lovely as it is, I hope you don’t mess with the colour.

  6. FlamingFist Avatar
    FlamingFist

    urea is really intense. especially after that lobe removal. he just got bored and whacked em off!

  7. Leroy Avatar

    Urea needs a part in a horror movie, well, at least his arm does.

  8. Giles Wallwork Avatar

    Looks almost Geiger in appearance

  9. ives Avatar
    ives

    Is it bad I was RELIEVED that those are scars on his arms, and not his veins sticking out horribly? They looked like some FREAKY blood vessels at first, and I was squicked. But then it dawned, and it was like “aaaaah, “just” scars…”

  10. Amy Avatar
    Amy

    I like these a lot! Intense though…but awsome none the less.

  11. Sofie Avatar
    Sofie

    his scars are so beautiful! I just love their colour…

  12. ÈMþRê§§ Avatar
    ÈMþRê§§

    I really do not like this, it find it very gholish.

  13. waxfrog Avatar
    waxfrog

    Those arms looks incredible- the pic makes me want to stroke them…

  14. smurf Avatar

    Though I like the concept of using his arm for a “signature”, it sort of takes away from what I assume is the focal point of the photo. I mean, what are people going to look at, a scarred, implanted arm or an out of focus nipple piercing?

  15. stormy Avatar

    I totally dig the arm as a sig thing. Very recognisable.
    Subclavicles scare the bajeezas out of me..Very intense.

  16. wish_I_were_a_dragon... Avatar

    The scars are too much for me. I love the implants 😛 and I think if it were the scars alone would be good 😛 they just look too much for my liking 😛

  17. trinityva Avatar
    trinityva

    The sad thing is that every time I read “Urea” I think of what it means in English:

    “A soluble crystalline compound, forming an organic constituent of the urine in mammalia, birds, and some reptiles, and also found in the blood, milk, etc.; carbamide, CO(NH2)2.”

    I find myself wondering every time I see the gigantic UREA tattooed on his stomach exactly how he feels about broadcasting that he is one of the principal components of piss. 😉

  18. Dustin / aesthete Avatar
    Dustin / aesthete

    re: the subclavical (subclavicle?) piercings: Just because you CAN do something, doesn’t necessarily mean that you should.

    And I don’t just mean subclavical piercings in general, I mean these particular ones. They look terrible!

  19. lilish Avatar
    lilish

    I agree with smurf. As great as his work is, all I can focus on his his awesome arm. Still can’t get over that.

  20. Sunday Avatar

    yeah, those subclavicle piercings do look pretty unhappy right there.

  21. Lrig Avatar
    Lrig

    trinityva, in portuguese (his mother language) what you just described is named “Ureia” (not so different from english, hm?), so I think he had that in mind when he choosed his tattoo/nickname (I don’t think it’s his birth name, but might be)

  22. Lrig Avatar
    Lrig

    (yeah, not his birth name, just vchecked the IAM)

    by what I just read in UREA’s IAM, the guy with the subclavical piercings got beatten up by some assholes for being a “freak” and the piercings got kind of ruined… but he’s re-doing them.

  23. trinityva Avatar
    trinityva

    21, thanks for the info. I just wondered if he’d thought of it, or if Urea was his birth name.

  24. PsyTrooper Avatar
    PsyTrooper

    It’s horrible :-/ I like extreme mods, but that one looks like piece of shit!

  25. cjris Avatar
    cjris

    Trinityva, my first ever comment, to ask exact same thing. He is cool I guess, but named after piss-component in english? Someone has told him yeah? Or is he really into pee? Nothing wrong with that but I wouldn’t call myself it. Or is it like a Ghandi thing? Isn’t that only if you’re 100 miles from a vitamin shop? So many questions. I ask him. Politely.

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