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.

BMEtv – Kaleidoscope Tattoo

One of our first stops in Australia was Kaleidoscope Tattoo down in Bondi Beach. We spoke with tattooers Luciano Lima, Freddy, Stevie Edge, Cory Ohrman and their piercer Brady Hardin. If you’re ever lucky enough to be checking out the beautiful beaches of Sydney, Australia, there is no doubt you’ll be making a stop to see the world famous Bondi Beach. Don’t forget to visit Kaleidoscope Tattoo while you’re there!

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Keep reading to check out the video!


Note: Please let us know if you’re experiencing any issues with the videos. Due to the unreliable nature of the integrated video player in wordpress, we will be putting the videos behind the break. We already know that the auto play doesn’t work properly. Despite having it disabled, in some browsers it still starts playing which causes a big problem if you have more than one video on a page! This is the primary reason we are putting the videos themselves behind the break.

If you have any issues playing the videos, please let us know in the comments. Please include your OS,  browser type/version and anything that you think will help us to determine what the issue is. Please make sure to be more specific than comments like “it doesn’t work”.

Subtitles: If anyone would like to volunteer to transcribe the videos so that we can add subtitles for our hearing impaired members, please send me an email and let me know. I would love to be able to include those. Thank you!

Comments

32 responses to “BMEtv – Kaleidoscope Tattoo”

  1. begotten Avatar
    begotten

    Not working.

    Mozilla Firefox 3.6.13
    Quick Time Plug In 7.6

    Internet Explorer 8, Version 8.0.6001.18904
    Quick Time Plug In 7.6

  2. begotten Avatar
    begotten

    Not working.

    Mozilla Firefox 3.6.13
    Quick Time Plug In 7.6

    Internet Explorer 8, Version 8.0.6001.18904
    Quick Time Plug In 7.6

  3. Rattus_Tln Avatar
    Rattus_Tln

    all is great except that quicktime is an awful thing.

  4. Rattus_Tln Avatar
    Rattus_Tln

    all is great except that quicktime is an awful thing.

  5. Jen Avatar

    Begotten – It’s working just fine for me and I’m running the same version of Firefox.

  6. Jen Avatar

    Begotten – It’s working just fine for me and I’m running the same version of Firefox.

  7. Jen Avatar

    PS I can try to transcribe some of them but being hearing impaired myself sometimes I can’t make out what people are saying when they have a strong accent. 🙂

  8. Jen Avatar

    PS I can try to transcribe some of them but being hearing impaired myself sometimes I can’t make out what people are saying when they have a strong accent. 🙂

  9. chez Avatar

    I’m down for doing some transcribing as well.

  10. chez Avatar

    I’m down for doing some transcribing as well.

  11. no_excuses Avatar
    no_excuses

    google chrome takes a second to load, but it runs beautifully. very well edited…very nice piece.

  12. no_excuses Avatar
    no_excuses

    google chrome takes a second to load, but it runs beautifully. very well edited…very nice piece.

  13. Tobias Avatar

    Well, that pretty much just helped to reaffirm my strong desire to get tattooed by Stevie. Cool videos.

  14. Tobias Avatar

    Well, that pretty much just helped to reaffirm my strong desire to get tattooed by Stevie. Cool videos.

  15. Rachel Avatar

    begotten: Can you please explain specifically what you mean by “Not working”? The video won’t load? It’s buffering? It crashed your browser? We can’t help figure out what the solution is for you if we can’t figure out what the problem is.

    PS I’m working on trying to get that damn auto play to permanently be disabled. I’m hoping we won’t need to use the quicktime player much longer either!

  16. Rachel Avatar

    begotten: Can you please explain specifically what you mean by “Not working”? The video won’t load? It’s buffering? It crashed your browser? We can’t help figure out what the solution is for you if we can’t figure out what the problem is.

    PS I’m working on trying to get that damn auto play to permanently be disabled. I’m hoping we won’t need to use the quicktime player much longer either!

  17. Timothy Avatar
    Timothy

    Video works just fine for me, took awhile to load but it works.

    Too bad about the audio on the 1st half of the video; so much background noise you can hardly understand what they’re saying.

  18. Timothy Avatar
    Timothy

    Video works just fine for me, took awhile to load but it works.

    Too bad about the audio on the 1st half of the video; so much background noise you can hardly understand what they’re saying.

  19. cuntcumber Avatar
  20. cuntcumber Avatar
  21. sik Avatar
    sik

    Seeing these last few posts has blown me back to maybe… 7 years ago? When I first found bmezine.com. I have learned so much and grown to love this site and have been following it for all these years. I remember when the galleries only had maybe 150 photos each… You have grown so much! I am so proud of this website and to have witnessed it’s growth and to share it’s influence along the way.

    I will be seeing great things from this site in the future, I know it. This is getting too big to not be noticed.

  22. sik Avatar
    sik

    Seeing these last few posts has blown me back to maybe… 7 years ago? When I first found bmezine.com. I have learned so much and grown to love this site and have been following it for all these years. I remember when the galleries only had maybe 150 photos each… You have grown so much! I am so proud of this website and to have witnessed it’s growth and to share it’s influence along the way.

    I will be seeing great things from this site in the future, I know it. This is getting too big to not be noticed.

  23. kit Avatar
    kit

    woo aussie pride! i had my first tattoo done by cory :] cant wait for my next!

  24. kit Avatar
    kit

    woo aussie pride! i had my first tattoo done by cory :] cant wait for my next!

  25. Don Avatar
    Don

    KALEIDOSCOPE tattoo is def the best place to get tattooed in Sydney! No doubtz

  26. Don Avatar
    Don

    KALEIDOSCOPE tattoo is def the best place to get tattooed in Sydney! No doubtz

  27. Amanda Treguri Avatar
    Amanda Treguri

    Guys at Kaleidoscope rock..!!
    Made my trip to Australia worth …Keep on buzzing and doing beautiful art !!!

  28. Amanda Treguri Avatar
    Amanda Treguri

    Guys at Kaleidoscope rock..!!
    Made my trip to Australia worth …Keep on buzzing and doing beautiful art !!!

  29. Jake Avatar

    Great video… This sounds like an amazing shop and place to see.

  30. Jake Avatar

    Great video… This sounds like an amazing shop and place to see.

  31. Jeroen Avatar

    Works fine, I enjoyed the video!

  32. Jeroen Avatar

    Works fine, I enjoyed the video!

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