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.

Now it’s time for tattoos

If it’s not Brasil, it’s Russia flooding my inbox. It makes me happy though because it seems like every other country is still super stoked and excited about the body  mod world in which we live in.. Today’s Russian tattooer is mysteriously known as “El Tattoo”. That’s literally all I’ve got as far as background on him. This is a bio mech body suit that’s in the works. Click through for more photos.

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Comments

27 responses to “Now it’s time for tattoos”

  1. lonnie Avatar
    lonnie

    those tattoos are amazing. those ears, not so much.

  2. xXx Avatar
    xXx

    hey asshole put your belt on the right way or dont wear one at all you look stupid

  3. mkultra Avatar
    mkultra

    xXx– hahahahaha. this.

  4. CoryVictorious Avatar

    Agree about the ears, they definitely need some love, disagree with xXx..no need to be the asshole anonymously tearing at someone you don’t know.

    goddamn i love the color in the tattoos…and is that plankton at the top of his backpiece? that would be really awesome if it is.

  5. DayTripper Avatar
    DayTripper

    it’s like an acid trip on his back and arms, love it. not normally my style but i can’t help but dig this. the sacreligious zombie is fucking great, hope to see it when it’s filled in. but yeah, learn to put your belt through the loops.

  6. varevinc Avatar

    i’m normally not a fan of the biomech stuff but i thinks this is kinda cool

  7. mikalobe Avatar
    mikalobe

    NOT BEING AN ASS! Just giving my professional, constructive criticism. But the biomech is a bit flat. Looks incomplete. I see that this is stated as a biomech suite, but i must point out that it is in fact not. I like the zombie on the front, but not bio. Same with the back. Over all, looks clean, but, not bein an ass, but not someone I personally would have work done by. For all i know he’s been at it for 6 mnths, then its great. But, if he’s been at it for much longer, then i stick with my above opinion. That’s it. OK, now i’ll wait for people to bash me for this.

  8. kidcaella Avatar
    kidcaella

    my inner dork went “Jesus, thats a sick Giratina tattoo!! oh wait, no. Yes, no.”

  9. Chopstixx Avatar
    Chopstixx

    haha looks like plankton from spongebob squarepants! XD

  10. aric Avatar
    aric

    Tattoos look horrible. Aaron Cain ripoffs circa 1995. BME can be better than this…

  11. Snap Dragon Avatar

    Omg the pussies in here that have no balls to actually sign in before commenting their ignorant shit talk.

    There is nothing wrong with this man’s work??? It looks great and I can’t wait to see the chest piece when it’s finished.

    Rachel when are we requiring the log in to comment? It’s really sad that people are so fucking lame.

    It makes me sad to come on here to look at beautiful people doing cool stuff with their bodies, and in turn get upset and feel like I need to defend them against morons with no backbones…

    I should be posting a wonderful comment about how nice it is to see such an attractive young man with so much coverage of beautiful work.

  12. I am iron man Avatar
  13. bri Avatar
    bri

    i’m not normally a fan of biomech but i think this is pretty sweet. although, i agree that this is not a biomech suit. im excited to see what the final zombie piece looks like. good stuff.

    but people should be aloud to hate all they want. this is AMERICA (in my best red neck accent, of course). =]

    keep up the good work BME.

  14. Jay Prince Avatar

    *most* BME comments are bad enough to rival You Tube comments in negativity and downright meanness. I don’t even know why I bother reading them anymore.

  15. Nelson Avatar
    Nelson

    Anyone else think of Distict 9 lookin at his left arm? Prawn?

  16. Jeepers Avatar
    Jeepers

    Its not a bio-mechanical suit, as mentioned, its just two sleeves. Nothing wrong with that, just a bit of false advertising. To me, the style looks cartoon-y and sketchlike, rather than the very detailed, incredibly well executed biomechanical that the best artists in this field can put out. Question is whether thats deliberate or not…

  17. Jimmy Slice Avatar
    Jimmy Slice

    Dude’s the biomech is awesome, the rest if crap. That’s an objective stance too.

  18. zacklove Avatar
    zacklove

    LOVING the front torso piece
    those ears look stressed out, but it happens

  19. trip Avatar
    trip

    if the artist had never used black in the beginning we would have pulled off a realistic bio-mechanical sleeve.
    with just using colour an artist can form light and shadow depth and hight in there work.
    complimenting colours such as red and green can make red-greenish grey, and green-redish grey shadow tones that show depth rather then just using red next to green with a black line in btw. also it looks rather graffiti like as to flat, think of yellows perseved light and violets perseved as shadow over nice work eltattoist

  20. trip Avatar
    trip

    there is also a remarkable decision in contrast with each sleeve work one is completely coloured in cool field of colours and the opposite arm is rather warm and bright field of colour.

  21. trip Avatar
    trip

    and those dreads are awesome

  22. Moriah Avatar
    Moriah

    The dreads are awesome, the tats are amazing, and the guy is hot.

  23. Colie Olie DeStroy Avatar

    I just did an image search on google for sex and this picture came up…

    Weird…

    (no I’m not serious.)

  24. Spyke Avatar

    the one on his front reminds me so much of Cannibal Corpse’ Eaten Back To Life cover

    http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_H9F1DlCd0bY/SLXM7yYPPUI/AAAAAAAAD1I/ta5hPxZGrGU/s400/Cannibal+Corpse+-+Eaten+Back+To+Life+-+Front.jpg

    Love all of it XD

  25. DS3M Avatar
    DS3M

    Once again, gonna hold my tongue cuz mom taught me better. But I have to agree with #7, #16 and #10. And #2, you’re being a dick. But you’re right, this kids doing it wrong.

    And Snap Dragon – I got enough balls for both of us.
    I have never been able to GET a BME Account for some reason. And I gave up trying. Meh.

  26. DaCaptain Avatar
    DaCaptain

    I think the sleeves are awesome, I have wanted to get some BIO-MECH work done and those make me want to call up my artist to start some planning.

  27. mikalobe Avatar
    mikalobe

    i have to say to #19, trip. if the artist used some shading with the black, it would have stood out way better. before i go and do a realistic piece that has color, i ALWAYS use black and gray tones. the different shades of black and gray will make the colors stand out much better. the problem here is….no one knows fer sure if this “is” the way he/she meant to do it. that’s it. doesn’t make anyone of us an ass. constructive criticism. if we all just kissed ass and said it was the greatest, will the artist learn something from this? answer is no. if an artist is told that every piece they do is “perfect” even when shitty looking, how will he or she know to do different? over the last 13 years, i’ve taken the worst criticism and improved from it. if you cant take the heat as they say, get out of the kitchen!! last thing, if im not logged in when i write this, then use my name and go to my page. there you’ll see some work that ive done. then, people can go thru and ripped them all apart. do so, and ill know what im doing wrong and learn from it!

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