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.

To protect the world from devastation…

…to unite all peoples within our nation.

A few weeks back I featured an excellent scarification piece of a Pokemon by the name of Ninetails.  After seeing so many people chiming in on their love of all things Pokemon, I knew it was only a matter of time that I’d see more Pokemon related images in the galleries.  What I wasn’t expecting was this image sent in by IAM: Dead Filmaker.

pokeball

As the self-professed “biggest nerd ever!”, Dead Filmaker had these implants inserted underneath his Pokeball tattoos a mere 5 days before attending the 2010 National Pokemon Championships.  I can only imagine how fun it must have been to have Brian insert the one closest to his wrist from an opening up by the elbow.  Not seeing any other sutures I’m assuming that they were all done using the same point of entry.

Now I’ll admit I was never a huge fan of Pokemon, at least nowhere near as big a fan as Mr. Filmaker there, but I did enjoy the games and show.  I only had the original gameboy game, so I never got to see Team Rocket appear in the games, but Jesse and James were easily the best thing about that show.  It’s a shame they always failed so spectacularly, the show would have been so much better if they had won much more often and Ash and co. were the ones screwing up trying to get their Pokemon back.

You can check out more photos like this, including more work by Mr. Brian Decker, in the 3D implant gallery.

Comments

24 responses to “To protect the world from devastation…”

  1. Gabs Avatar
    Gabs

    YEAH man pokemon is love.

  2. andersson Avatar
    andersson

    why don’t brian use cosmetic inner stitch for suturing?

    implants are awesome :))
    but as for me, i’d prefered to set there smaller halfbeads to get ‘em fully coverred with pokeball tattoes.
    but it is just mine opinion.

  3. Joe Walton Avatar
    Joe Walton

    Whole new level of awesome right here. lol.

  4. james Avatar
    james

    I cannot create the words to describe how awesome this is!

  5. GypsyPunk Avatar
    GypsyPunk

    Wow! I’m nowhere near as big a Pokemon fan as Dead Filmaker, but I have to say, these are some pretty impressive and original mods. I’m glad we got to see the suture before it healed in the pics as well!

  6. MadHatter Avatar
    MadHatter

    If you played the original game, you would have fought team rocket many times.

  7. nexi zydrate Avatar

    thats just so awesome i cannot describe it!!!

  8. VOMIT Avatar

    hahahahahahahaha epic

  9. Nao Avatar
    Nao

    Best post ever.

  10. Caleigh Avatar

    ALEXXXXX MY LOVE.

  11. james Avatar
    james

    + 100 internetz to you sir

  12. Alex(dead filmaker) Avatar
    Alex(dead filmaker)

    yay on modblog!!! thanks every one for the kind words i am going to snap some more photos now that they are a few months healed and looking super awesome!! i love them so much!!! also brian did do internal sutures as well as about 5 external ones just in case and it really helped reduce the scaring =)

  13. Aimee Avatar
    Aimee

    GOTTA CATCH’EM ALL ! XD

  14. Bec Avatar
    Bec

    How do you get Pikachu on a bus?

    pokehimon…..

  15. Sarah Lamb Avatar
    Sarah Lamb

    Wow, that guy has balls!

  16. MetalAndy Avatar

    haha i like the idea behind this, but has he read the pokemon coma theory? http://pokmonx.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=340

  17. UnconventionalLove Avatar

    I don’t understand, but that doesn’t make it any less amusing!

  18. Angilius Avatar
    Angilius

    Hey, I have a pokéball tattoo too. Never sent you guys it though…
    Still, I don’t have six. You are awesome sir.

  19. Sam Avatar
    Sam

    agree with 1. smaller would look 100% better so the pokeball tattoos would be snuggly around the implants 🙂

  20. Mesh Avatar
    Mesh

    hhhooooooo shit man……….

  21. Jared Avatar

    What? No photo credit?

  22. tt Avatar
    tt

    i dont understand, why the implants?

  23. liz! Avatar
    liz!

    i wonder how the tattoos and implants line up after healing. i imagine they’d be a bit swollen at this point, with fresh stitches?

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