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.

Modification Sources

Ghobian sends in this “smeared nipple” on a customer of Steve Perry’s at Mink Ink in Kingman, AZ. The intense heart shaped scarification that’s pulling his nipple? Blame that on his quad… Cool that the piercing survived all that (or was still possible if it was done afterwards)!

Comments

36 responses to “Modification Sources”

  1. SmallPotatoGato Avatar
    SmallPotatoGato

    once again, i feel left out… where’s my smeared nipple???

  2. lilish Avatar
    lilish

    Having a scar so tight that it pulls down your nipple has got to hurt.

  3. wlcm2t3hmachine Avatar

    OMGZ! that is SO AWESOME! I NEED to paint this! I LOVE it!

  4. Eva (Germany) Avatar
    Eva (Germany)

    irks- i think there must be something terribly wrong with this scarification- i guess the “artist” just didn’t knew what he was doing- disgusting in my eyes!

  5. FleshMechanic Avatar

    no.4 – It says that its cos of his bike..

  6. Shannon Larratt Avatar

    Yeah, sorry, for those that don’t know the term, “quad” is a 4-wheeler/ATV.

  7. H Avatar
    H

    i’m might be being dumb but I can’t work out how the quad could cause this?
    Or how anything could cause this really.

  8. H Avatar
    H

    Ah, I totally misread this.
    It’s an unintentional scarification caused by Quad bike thing, right?

    intense

  9. simone Avatar
    simone

    haha! i really really like that.

  10. Winch Avatar
    Winch

    …and I thought that you meant he was one of 4 babies in the womb…..

  11. carterlite Avatar

    haha. As an athlete I read ‘quad’ and thought, “How could his quadricep do that?!” Now I get it.

  12. Eva (Germany) Avatar
    Eva (Germany)

    oh- ok- i did’t read the stuff with the quad… because of the heart-shape of the scar I thought it had been made as a scarification…

  13. AshPlant Avatar
    AshPlant

    Goddamn. Objectively, that’s pretty ugly. But I can’t help liking it for some reason.

  14. Ghobian Avatar

    It was pierced afterward. I had a feeling that this would end up on modblog… : D

  15. shining_down Avatar
    shining_down

    Its pretty amazing that his scar formed into that shape. Has it been added to at all?

  16. gretta Avatar

    yeah I read quad and thought it was talking about his leg and I was very confused. that must have been a hellatious wreck to cause a scar that big.

  17. trailerparkray Avatar

    at first i thought it was some kind of flower

  18. Wiggledance Avatar

    I love the colours in that scar, it looks genuinely pretty

  19. panties Avatar

    11 & 16 – i thought the same thing! i was starting to question whether maybe i’d been using the wrong word for my leg muscles ha ha shows how sporty i am!

  20. xunseenx Avatar

    okay, so all i can think is – i’d like to be a client of steve perry. i’d get one hot journey tattoo on my mound.

  21. MaidenDisaster Avatar

    I read quad, and the first thing I thought of wasn’t an atv, it was a laser.

    The bullet is enormous, there is no escaping!”

  22. Lydia Avatar

    Crazy. It looks like a badly done photoshop job.

  23. ÈMþRê§§ Avatar
    ÈMþRê§§

    wow, thats some scar (:

  24. Chris Avatar
    Chris

    Even with the picture, I still can’t believe this is possible. His nipple is nearly down to his stomach!!!

  25. JenO33 Avatar

    Damn, that must have been a pretty bad accident :((

    Glad he turned it into beauty !

  26. Luzbel Avatar
    Luzbel

    mmmm thats a Santa Muerte unless Im much mistaken…

  27. Damka Avatar
    Damka

    Natural scars always come out much more intense and with alot more personality and the piercing brings it out even more… If that was me I would have added a tattoo in the mixture. I love asymmetry and my third nipple piercing is proof but this guy’s hardcore.
    respect.

  28. Ghobian Avatar

    Steve asked me to put: Steve Perry (not of Journey) on here lol. And no, the scar was not added to, it’s all natural.

  29. Pixie Avatar
    Pixie

    Ouch.

  30. kayla Avatar
    kayla

    were his nipples that uneven before the procedure?

  31. Miss C Avatar

    haha I was thinking the same thing as number 11 & 16.

    Way to make something of an unfortunate accident!

  32. Spacy Avatar

    Thats so lucky the scar turned out like that, it loks amazing 🙂

  33. SARS Avatar

    haha Kingman, thats the red neck town of the county i live in.

  34. Kat Avatar
    Kat

    Dude, that’s my brother. I was there!!!!

  35. MOD Avatar
    MOD

    hey that’s me! yeah that’s all nautral no hosital help. but i’m going to add tatoos soon and because of what it do to my muscles i need some surgeries to fix them and i might get the scar removed.

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