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.

More bad ideas

In keeping with the “bad ideas” theme, it amazes me the crap people put into their bodies in the name of body art.

The old school implants that were made to resemble body jewelry started their life’s as regular titanium body jewelry, but then several steps went into making them suitable for long term implantation. First off the seam from where the ball threads in was plasma welded shut. Then the bottom side was made into a smooth, but flat surface so it wouldn’t create as much downwards pressure. I have a circular barbell implant of this style in my right hand, and nearly ten years later it is still happy and has caused me no (known) issues.

Nowadays, those type of implants have been made obsolete by the molded or carved silicone implants. Yet for some reason, people still think it’s ok to put standard body jewelry (with no attempts at making it suitable from implantation) under the skin and call it an implant?

This submission to BME came with no story, only artist credits. I am intentionally leaving off the artist credit, because I don’t know if the artist was the photographer, the implanter, the implant remover or what and I don’t want anyone jumping to conclusions without more information.

Without any explanation, I do think the pictures here do a fine job of telling the horror story of poorly planned implants.

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Comments

68 responses to “More bad ideas”

  1. Joanna Avatar
    Joanna

    oh shit

  2. Joanna Avatar
    Joanna

    oh shit

  3. Valoren Avatar

    yea, but what about the one you had in your other hand? this pic is pretty scary lol. not so much because they put that in there but because of the way it looks like they took them out.

  4. Valoren Avatar

    yea, but what about the one you had in your other hand? this pic is pretty scary lol. not so much because they put that in there but because of the way it looks like they took them out.

  5. Ralex Avatar

    My response will be short and clear :FUCK

  6. Ralex Avatar

    My response will be short and clear :FUCK

  7. shamos mcbundy Avatar
    shamos mcbundy

    Wow! That looks absolutely brutal.

  8. shamos mcbundy Avatar
    shamos mcbundy

    Wow! That looks absolutely brutal.

  9. zombie Avatar
    zombie

    is it from russia? looks familiar…

  10. zombie Avatar
    zombie

    is it from russia? looks familiar…

  11. Lars Avatar
    Lars

    Yikes!

  12. Lars Avatar
    Lars

    Yikes!

  13. SS Avatar
    SS

    The image of the arm with the implants still in it looks familiar. Like it was posted on modblog already (before the disaster removal of course)

  14. SS Avatar
    SS

    The image of the arm with the implants still in it looks familiar. Like it was posted on modblog already (before the disaster removal of course)

  15. Sergey "Tyler" Popov Avatar

    These implants are selfdone by Arseniy Andersson, he just decided to remove them, so there’s no shame or stuff like this (except stupid idea to put industrial barbells to the arm, of course).

  16. Sergey "Tyler" Popov Avatar

    These implants are selfdone by Arseniy Andersson, he just decided to remove them, so there’s no shame or stuff like this (except stupid idea to put industrial barbells to the arm, of course).

  17. Lizface Avatar
    Lizface

    I love this theme, keep the bad ideas coming please!

  18. Lizface Avatar
    Lizface

    I love this theme, keep the bad ideas coming please!

  19. Spooky Avatar
    Spooky

    My jaw is agape and I hope they learnt a hard, yet crucial lesson: Research thoroughly before you do anything.

  20. Spooky Avatar
    Spooky

    My jaw is agape and I hope they learnt a hard, yet crucial lesson: Research thoroughly before you do anything.

  21. nikk Avatar

    @zombie i dont think its the same person, it looks like its the other arm, and it looks like the previous modblog has only two barbells.
    better pictures?

  22. nikk Avatar

    @zombie i dont think its the same person, it looks like its the other arm, and it looks like the previous modblog has only two barbells.
    better pictures?

  23. scott Avatar
    scott

    I hate to be a pedant, but… Modblog really needs to learn how to differentiate between possessives and plurals. Does no one edit these entries? They’re always riddled with super simple-to-correct grammar/spelling errors which detract from what might otherwise be great content.

    Plural forms of nouns NEVER have apostrophes (see, that’s “apostrophes” not “apostrophe’s”). So the plural of
    “life” is “lives,” not “life’s”. Also, I cannot stress enough that “who’s” = “who is”. The possessive form is “whose”. Oh, and “they’re” = “they are”; “their” = “belonging to them.”

    I’m sure I’m not the only one sent into a nerd rage by Modblog’s lack of proofreading.

  24. scott Avatar
    scott

    I hate to be a pedant, but… Modblog really needs to learn how to differentiate between possessives and plurals. Does no one edit these entries? They’re always riddled with super simple-to-correct grammar/spelling errors which detract from what might otherwise be great content.

    Plural forms of nouns NEVER have apostrophes (see, that’s “apostrophes” not “apostrophe’s”). So the plural of
    “life” is “lives,” not “life’s”. Also, I cannot stress enough that “who’s” = “who is”. The possessive form is “whose”. Oh, and “they’re” = “they are”; “their” = “belonging to them.”

    I’m sure I’m not the only one sent into a nerd rage by Modblog’s lack of proofreading.

  25. Sean Philips Avatar

    Scott, I apologize for my grammatical errors. I’ll try and do better, but if I fail miserably, you may find yourself more happy reading http://www.grammarblog.co.uk/.

  26. Sean Philips Avatar

    Scott, I apologize for my grammatical errors. I’ll try and do better, but if I fail miserably, you may find yourself more happy reading http://www.grammarblog.co.uk/.

  27. ModxMovement Avatar
    ModxMovement

    This is why we can’t have nice things.

  28. ModxMovement Avatar
    ModxMovement

    This is why we can’t have nice things.

  29. Michael Avatar
    Michael

    It is the very same guy as was featured before:
    http://news.bmezine.com/2009/08/06/i-rained-down-sulphur-man/

    Zombie linked to another post about him, which featured a link to this post in the comments.

  30. Michael Avatar
    Michael

    It is the very same guy as was featured before:
    http://news.bmezine.com/2009/08/06/i-rained-down-sulphur-man/

    Zombie linked to another post about him, which featured a link to this post in the comments.

  31. MissCherry Avatar
    MissCherry

    ouch!!! i wonder how long those were in there for

  32. MissCherry Avatar
    MissCherry

    ouch!!! i wonder how long those were in there for

  33. TheZLS Avatar
    TheZLS

    Yep zombie has the right guy. Shame he had to cut up his arm so much to get them out.

  34. TheZLS Avatar
    TheZLS

    Yep zombie has the right guy. Shame he had to cut up his arm so much to get them out.

  35. zombie Avatar
    zombie

    nikk:
    it`s the same arm! look at the old scars!!!

    btw on both pictures 3 barbells 😉

  36. zombie Avatar
    zombie

    nikk:
    it`s the same arm! look at the old scars!!!

    btw on both pictures 3 barbells 😉

  37. Dion Avatar
    Dion

    Yikes.. thats looked painful.. Tho. I have heard people placing coral under there flesh.. hmmmm
    Bad ideas everywhere in my mind

  38. Dion Avatar
    Dion

    Yikes.. thats looked painful.. Tho. I have heard people placing coral under there flesh.. hmmmm
    Bad ideas everywhere in my mind

  39. nikk Avatar

    dang, same dude. I guess you are right.
    so is his name really Arseniy Andersson then?

  40. nikk Avatar

    dang, same dude. I guess you are right.
    so is his name really Arseniy Andersson then?

  41. nikk Avatar

    *I had to zoom in to actually count the lumps*

  42. nikk Avatar

    *I had to zoom in to actually count the lumps*

  43. AndraeaLynne Avatar

    oh god.
    *horf*

  44. AndraeaLynne Avatar

    oh god.
    *horf*

  45. AnnaKanna Avatar
    AnnaKanna

    It’s the same guy, here another post, where you can see his “implants” clearly:

    http://news.bmezine.com/2009/08/06/i-rained-down-sulphur-man/

    His name is Loki (http://iam.bmezine.com/?loki+andersson).

  46. AnnaKanna Avatar
    AnnaKanna

    It’s the same guy, here another post, where you can see his “implants” clearly:

    http://news.bmezine.com/2009/08/06/i-rained-down-sulphur-man/

    His name is Loki (http://iam.bmezine.com/?loki+andersson).

  47. goldust Avatar

    Wow!))) What a nice picture)))))))

  48. goldust Avatar

    Wow!))) What a nice picture)))))))

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