Oh Lucass. Always playing around with his transscrotal piercing. It’s always nice to start the day with a smile on your face.
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The Cyborg Unleashed
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Samppa Von Cyborg isn’t just a pretty face. He’s also a pioneer in the modification industry and is currently on tour in the US holding seminars, performing shows, and of course taking clients. Over the course of the week we’ll be taking a look at some of the newest things Samppa has been working on, as well as seeing photos from his tour. You can also take a look at some of his past works in his BME scarification portfolio gallery.
If you’d like to get work done by Samppa while he is stateside, you can contact him at [email protected]. He’s only going to be here until June. After that you can make a booking through his website, voncyb.org
In addition BME is happy to announce that we’ve expanded the portfolio sections of the galleries. Previously only tattoo artists and a handful of other people were able to have their own portfolio galleries, but now these galleries are available to everyone. So if you’re a piercer, a tattoo artist (or studio), a scarification artist, or a suspension crew, and you don’t have a gallery yet, send an e-mail to [email protected] and we’ll set one up for you.
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A Colourful Lion
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You can always count on Toronto’s Fabrizio Divari to create an image that almost jumps off the skin. This piece entitled “Foodog and Peonies” really shows off Fabrizio’s love of colour.
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A fitting tribute to a fallen friend
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As many of you know, the BME community lost one of it’s own last week, Adam Aries. It was several years ago at a party at Shawn’s old place that I first met Adam. We immediately hit it off. However, the next few times I ran into him, I do not believe I ever once recognized him right off the bat. Adam’s personal style was ever changing, ever evolving. His hair, facial hair, dress and in some instances makeup changed so often he was hard to keep up with. So when this random dude came running up to me with a bleach blonde mohawk and makeup that looked like it was done by Divine herself, I had no clue who it was………that is until I saw his telltale tattoo, a dragon fly on his throat. As soon as I saw that tattoo I instantly knew it was Adam, and I instantly knew I was in for a good time.
Apparently, I am not alone in connecting this trademark tattoo! I saw this piece posted on Adam’s facebook page, so I contacted the proud wearer of this tattoo, and asked his permission to post it here. The tattoo is on Andy Mac Kenzie aka Applejack. Andy was a close friend of Adam’s and is a tattoo apprentice at Pino Bro’s the shop where Adam pierced. The tattoo was done by another close friend and coworker of Adam’s Deirdre Doyle.
My old friend Robin was visiting last night and she said she knew of at least one other person who had gotten a similar dragonfly tribute tattoo. So if you or anyone you know has gotten a tattoo to memorialize Adam, just shoot me an email with the picture, your info and artist credit and I will add it to this post.
May Adam’s legacy, memories, the piercings he did and the music created far outlive his life that was cut way too short.
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What’s a zed-pee-em?
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About a month ago we caught a glance of Zobro’s Stargate tattoo. Well she’s back today to show off the entire thing.
Credit for this geeky tattoo goes to Pat Hulit from Crawling Panther Tattoo in Ocala, FL.
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Hey man, nice shot
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It’s Monday morning, and that either means you’re crawling out of bed blindly reaching for the coffee, or you’re someplace other than North America, which means you’re probably going about your Monday still wishing it was the weekend. Ryan Ouellette is one scarification artist who makes Mondays worth getting up for.
Working out of Precision Body Arts in Nashua, NH, Ryan did up this scar on the leg of apathykiss. I’m Canadian so I can’t really tell exactly what kind of gun this is. I’m sure someone will be able to figure it out. In the meantime you can check out more scars in the scarification gallery.
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ModBlog News of the Week: March 25th, 2011
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Well, it’s Friday Friday Friday and I’ve got my bowl of cereal all ready for today’s news post. It’s a pretty light week for news but there are a few stories to get you through the afternoon/evening.
To start things off is a story out of England that may possibly make you sick, and at the least make you want to strangle this mother of the year candidate.
LIKE other eight-year-old girls, Britney Campbell loves dancing to Lady GaGa, is fond of fashion and enjoys putting on make-up. Once every three months, Britney climbs on a beautician’s table and watches as mum Kerry prepares needles of Botox and fillers to be injected into her face. Beautician Kerry, 34, from Birmingham, buys the substances online and injects them into her daughter’s forehead, lips and around her eyes.
The beauty-pageant obsessed single mum also takes her to have her body waxed, in a bizarre bid to stop her growing hair when she eventually hits puberty.
Britney says: “My friends think it’s cool I have all the treatments and they want to be like me. I check every night for wrinkles, when I see some I want more injections. “They used to hurt, but now I don’t cry that much. “I also want a boob and nose job soon, so that I can be a star.”
Kerry first injected Britney with Botox in May last year, as a present to celebrate her eighth birthday. She says: “One day I had to keep her home from school as she had a slight headache, but apart from that she has had no reaction at all. “She also has her virgin wax monthly, which gets rid of her fluffy leg hair and makes sure she wont develop pubic hair in the future. “It will save her a fortune in waxing when she’s older.”
Little Britney says: “I feel like a supermodel and if I do ballet or go swimming I don’t have to worry about hairy legs. Although the pain makes me cry, I feel like a cool grown-up when it’s all over.” Kerry plans to get Britney’s eyebrows waxed this year. She is also hoping to get them lightly tattooed to an arched shape and is also considering a light pink tattooed lip-liner.
When it comes to body modification, it’s an individual making the choice to alter their body in a way that they desire. But at what age is it acceptable to start thinking about serious modifications? There is no doubt that the mother is putting pressure on her child to achieve a desired physical transformation, but waxing the crotch of your 8 year old daughter just seems pretty excessive. Not to mention injecting botulism into her face, and letting her think that wanting implants at her age is normal. I try not to be too judgmental when it comes to non-celebrity stories, but this story really makes me want to slap the mom upside the head.
More to news to come…
If you recall, last year the 9th circuit court of appeals in the US made a ruling that tattoos are a form of free speech and therefore protected under the first amendment. The reason that this case made it so high up the judicial ladder was because the city of Hermosa Beach in California was trying to prevent a tattoo studio from opening within city limits. Well it seems that even with the law on their side, some studios are still having problems setting up shop in the city.
Six months after a federal appeals court struck down a Hermosa Beach ordinance outlawing tattoo studios, a fast-growing group of residents is trying to block their potential proliferation in town. They’ve passed out fliers, organized on Facebook and relayed messages on Twitter. They’ve signed petitions and taken out newspaper ads. And this week, they took their fight to City Hall.
“This is going to be a playground for the element of people that live that style. We believe that will bring problems.”
I’m a little curious as to what style of life they think tattooed people live. Any ideas?
How much do you love video games? Or one game in particular? Well a fan of Yakuza 3 went all out and won a contest that allowed him to get about $9000 worth of tattooing done for free. The catch? Get the same tattoo as one of the characters in the game.
Gaming tattoos are not a new phenomenon and we’ve seen plenty of examples ranging from small and cute to large and painful. But last year Sega ran a competition in Australia offering one gamer and dedicated Yakuza 3 fan the opportunity to win the tattoo main character Kazuma Kiryu has on his back.
In order to win you had to state in 25 words or less why you deserved the tattoo. The winner was 46-year-old Fari Salievski who has now had the tattoo applied with Sega releasing pictures of the finished tattoo and stages of Fari getting it done.
It looks like the artist did a good job copying it from the game, although the script on the left side is completely different, which may have been intentional.
In what I think is “celebrity” news, a woman who thought her relationship with her boyfriend was over had a tattoo of his name removed… and hour before he proposed to her.
It was a twist ending that could only happen in The Only Way is Essex, which saw Lauren Goodger lasering off her Mark Wright tattoo just moments before he proposed. After thinking that their on/off relationship was finally over, Lauren made the decision to erase Mark from her life, and her skin. So she headed to the skin clinic to have his name removed permanently from her crotch.
But as Mark heard the shocking news about his stamp being removed, he raced off to find his true love to quickly pop the question. Despite Lauren telling her sister Nicola that she was completely finished with her ex, it seems she still found it in her heart to give Mark yet another chance, and said yes to his proposal.
I’m assuming this is some “Hills”-like reality show.
Finally, Lada Gaga is back in the news (did she ever really leave it?) with an interview regarding the reasoning behind her tattoo placement.
Lady Gaga has revealed that the reason she only has tattoos on the left hand side of her body is because her father requested her to try to remain “normal” on one side. To this she added: “I think that he sees the right as like my Marilyn Monroe side and the left as my Iggy Pop side.” While the singing superstar has admitted she is able to control herself in the name of her father t is her wild side that seems to be winning the fight. Lady Gaga said: “I think, from a neurological standpoint, I’m creatively driven by my left side. But he’s asked that I don’t get any on the right side for whatever reason.”
And that’s all the news for this week. Keep sending in those stories you find and enjoy the rest of your Friday, and then your Saturday, and afterward your Sunday.
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If a BMEBoy falls in the forest
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Does he make a sound?
This handsome fellow is IAM:Seeeingred who was nice enough to grace the miscellaneous tattoo gallery with some pictures taken while he was on a stroll in the woods.
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“My BMEGirl Friday”
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It’s Friday. We’ve had the scar follow-up, and the news is coming up in a couple of hours. What’s missing? Oh that’s right, a BMEGirl post. Today LadyFrankenstein is gracing us with her beauty.
Tattoos by JayJay Dallas, Tiny Miss Becca, Mike Ski, Bailey Robinson, Norm AWR, Theo Mindell @ various studios & conventions (Photo by Sideview Inn).
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The Friday Follow-up
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Last week in the Follow-up I asked you to send in pictures of scars that are several years old, and boy did you deliver. While seeing a scar after 6 months or a year can give a good indication as to what the scar will look like, a photo of a scar that is 3-4 years old can give you a definitive look at how a scar can heal up over time. This week’s scar comes from IAM member EvanxBurke. Way back in 2007 Evan’s scar made it to ModBlog when it was still fresh from the 5 hour cutting by Wes from Electric Chair in Riverside, CA.
So, here it is, 4 years ago shortly after it was cut.
Keep reading to see how it looks today.
Four long years later, the scar is still very visible and slightly raised.
Now Evan’s scar wasn’t the only older scar sent in over the past week. Be sure to head over to the scarification galleries to see what else has been submitted.