Tattoo, Piercing, and Body Modification News, Events, and Culture
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Vincent Van Gogh is known for a few things; his impressionist paintings, his bouts with mental illness that lead to his death, and a DIY partial earlobe removal. As you can see by the tattoo below, his influence still carries forward to this day. In a piece sent in by lollison to the tattoo galleries, artist Kris Miller puts together a piece heavily inspired by Van Gogh’s “The Starry Night”.
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Sean: First off, some basic information: How old are you? Where do you live? What do you do for a living?
Сергей Губанов: I am 47 years old and I live in Moscow, Russia. I’m p.h.d in computer science, I work as head of IT-department in one medium-size Russian company.
Sean: Is their any other personal information that you would care to share?
Сергей Губанов: I married and have two sons – 5 and 11 y.o. My hobby are photography and guitar playing.
Сергей Губанов:No. I don’t like tattoo,s piercings and other body mods.
Сергей Губанов: It’s difficult to answer. I dreamed about it from my childhood. And I don’t know why.
Sean: How did you go about doing the amputation?
Сергей Губанов: Those day I made some carpentry work with electric saw. It was in my summer house, just for fun. I was alone. Suddenly I felt “now or newer”.
So…
Then I called to ER 😉
Сергей Губанов: No, I happy doing this and I regret that I didn’t do this 25-30 years ago.
Сергей Губанов: There are no difference except one – I can’t scratch inside my right ear
with my right pinky 🙂
Сергей Губанов: My relatives and friends think that it was an accident and sympathize to me.
From time to time I see stares to my hand, but I don’t know what those people thinks.
Сергей Губанов: I don’t think I will. Finger amputation only attracts me, but I need 5 left
fingers and 4 right to play guitar.
On behalf of myself, and several of the modblog readers, thank you SO MUCH for taking the time to answer my questions and bring us some insight into your life, your motives and your amputation.
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There’s something about a tandem suspension that appeals to me. How the suspension enables two people to become joined together both physically and spiritually. Bonding together by both the hooks and the experience.
While this photo was found in the knee suspension gallery, credit goes to the #Leeds Suspension Team for putting it together.
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Don’t you just hate it when something happens and your entire earlobe is ripped open and is left dangling off the side of your head?
This is how the lobe looks now, two weeks after being closed up by Quentin from Kalima Emporium in Worthing, Sussex, UK.
I’m always amazed that body modification artists can reconstruct earlobes so well, yet some doctors can’t seem to figure out how to make a lobe look like a lobe again.
You can check the earlobe reconstruction gallery for shots of this lobe when it was first stitched up, as well as photos from other artists who can work miracles with a dangling piece of flesh.
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I first saw this photo on Brian‘s page a few days ago, so when I saw he had submitted it to his portfolio gallery I made sure to get it up as soon as possible. Now there is a fantastic story behind this piece, and since Brian explained it so nicely, I’ll let his words explain the bands.
I don’t remember if i posted about this last year, but here is some scar work i did on a young, Native American girl. In her Blackfoot tribe it is customary to have a line scarred around their arm for each year they’re alive. It is known as Ponn Miistis, which literally translates to “the rings of a tree”. When they run out of room on one arm they move to the other, then the legs, but apparently their average life expectancy is only 43.
Anyhow, her parents are more modernized now and didn’t want her having this done while she was growing up. She was intrigued by her grandfather’s rings, which covered his arms and legs, so decided to come to me from Montana to catch up. Last year i worked on her upper arm and finished it up this time. She’s 24 now.
She promises to be back every year for another line, too!
I love the fact that not only is this scarification so deeply personal for the girl, it is also a way to remind the rest of us where our modifications come from. When I read news stories talking about a “new trend” of people getting scars, it saddens me to think that we live in a world where the vast majority has no concept of just how significant cultural rituals involving modification are. Of course I’m speaking from a North American perspective. There are many places the world over where not only are these rituals remembered, they are still practiced. Thanks to this brave young woman, and Brian’s talents as an artist, the people she encounters in her life will be able to learn of a tradition that has faded away.
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As many of you know, every Friday ModBlog features a follow-up post for scarification pieces. It’s made possible thanks to the contributions of artists, as well as those who have the art on their skin. What we don’t see a lot of is images of tattoos in progress, sent in alongside the completed tattoo. Thanks to Hoiers, and his submissions, this week we can show you a piece as it transitions from line work and shading, to a full colour piece.
This koi is by Artjoms Saviljevs from Rigas Tinte in Riga, Latvia. As you can see in this first image, the majority of the outline is done, as is some of the grey shading.
And here’s what it looks like with a splash of colour added.
You can check out more of the artist’s work in the oriental-style tattoo gallery.
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Ok, so Anna may not actually be a witch, but when you suspend with the #Leeds Suspension Team, you never know what you’re going to end up becoming. The title for this specific piece is “Witch’s Indulgence”.
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The last time we saw Rebecca she was just about ready to pop out her first child. Well on Dec 30th of last year, baby Emory joined the family, making Rebecca a certified MILF.
You can check out more photos of the gorgeous Rebecca in the BMEGirls gallery.
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From what I understand, Yankees fans are some of the most dedicated fans in sports. Of course I’d argue that the Leafs fans are a little more dedicated, but that’s beside the point. Last week Brian got to do a small cutting for a Yankees fan to fit perfectly behind his lobes.
Brian’s done quite a few new pieces in the past couple of weeks, so keep an eye on his BME portfolio gallery for when he uploads the pictures.
While you’re there, check out the new portfolio gallery sorting that Jen did recently. They’re all sorted alphabetically, making it much easier to find a specific artist.
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While it may not affect her hearing, this dotwork piece on Fiona’s face does accentuate her ear nicely.
Amos from Forevermore Tattoo Parlour in Glasgow was the one who took the time to put all that stippling on her face. You can get a better look at the full sized image in the facial tattoo gallery.
