Tattoo, Piercing, and Body Modification News, Events, and Culture
Written by
Pauly Unstoppable just updated with a great “xray vision” photo showing exactly how his “Devil’s Threeway” nose-tip piercing that I posted about recently was done (making me feel a little sillier than I did before for initially thinking this was a microdermal project, not two mantis piercings and a septril).
Written by
Like the old saying goes, “once you go blackwork, you never go back to work”… err… something like that? Anyway, I want to share two great new pieces from two of the masters of geometric dotwork blackwork tattooing, with the top tattoo being done by Matt Black of Divine Canvas in London — I love the way he used multiple levels — and the bottom one, a beautiful swastika earburst, by Brian Gomes on Andre Cruz.
Written by
I’m totally geeking over this super cool piercing done by Lee McFarland, a piercer at Oak City Tattoo & Piercing in North Carolina. It’s actually a quite standard piercing when it comes right down to it, a three point industrial done with very clever placement and great looking custom jewelry by Body Vision. The whole thing threads together and “fakes” the blades/arms of the cross going through the helix. I have to admit it would be awesome if it was pierced through big full-size slots, but all things considered, this is the responsible way to do this that’s more likely to have success for the client. Superb work. Looks like there’s one piece of bar (the one on the “blade” end) that’s going to have to be shortened and perhaps have the angle slightly altered, but this is a simple matter — better to have erred on the side of too long than have it be too short and wreck the piercing.
Click to zoom!
Written by
J.C. Potts is back with another excellent weekly video magazine, this time talking about wood body — design, safety, and so on. I’d beg Rachel to offer J.C. a job here at BME if it weren’t for the fact that I think one of his strengths as a journalist is that he’s truly independent — he’s not sponsored by any website or company, so he can speak freely and without bias or influence. Always worth watching. I’ll keep on mentioning it here, but if you’re a YouTube member, you need to subscribe.
Written by
I’m not sure where to put “zip line suspending” on my “most fun suspensions” list, which currently has “freefall suspension” at the top, followed by “spinning beam”. If you’re wondering “360 degree rotisserie“, which might seem fun, is at the very bottom after hearing just terrible things about it. Photo: Tayri Rodriguez.
Written by
Alright this last shark week post isn’t technically a “shark”. It is however a Street Shark!!
This amazing Moby Lick tattoo was done by Sagie from Walk the Line Tattoo Parlor in Karlstad, Sweden.
Written by
Continuing with today’s shark theme we have this scarification by Misty Forsberg (IAM:Southtownbaby). You can find Misty most days at Southtown Tattoo and Body Piercing Studio in Fort Smith, AZ, or over on Hooklife. This scar is actually the second scar she worked on and it’s located on someone’s stomach.
Written by
I can’t believe that in the two years I’ve been writing for ModBlog I’ve never actually acknowledged shark week. So to make up for it, the next few posts from me today will all be shark related. We’ll kick things off with a very vibrant shark from Eimear Kearney who works at Art and Soul Tattoo Studio in Cobh, Cork, Ireland.
Written by
As promised yesterday, today’s follow-up is going to be a look at Misty’s (IAM:Southtownbaby) first scarification piece. We first saw it back in April of last year, and then again in June for a 3 month follow-up post.
Here’s how it looked originally..
And here’s how it looks today, with some roses that Misty added recently.
This one really show how differently scars can heal on different people, and even how much scarification can differ on areas of the body. You’ll notice more definition closer to the knee than there is at the top based entirely on the movement of the flesh in that area. Looking back on the fresh photo you can see that the scarification was done evenly, that’s just how this person heals. In any case, Misty did a great job for her first time out, and clearly the client is happy as he went back to her for the roses.
Written by
The pioneers of free fall suspension at Sinner Team in Moscow have just put together an amazing new video (vimeo.com/47674716) documenting nine new free fall suspension jumps. I’ve said it before, but this to me is the most exciting thing to happen in suspension for a long time, and on the scale of “fun” in suspension, blows away spinning beams, while also being incredibly pure and profound. Not only that, but the way they do it is a pinnacle of safety and professionalism. It makes me very proud to be a part of this community when I see things like this. Watch this full-screen!
There’s also a video folder here — vimeo.com/album/2041995 — that contains all four long videos they’ve done, which show lots of different jumps from people of all different ages, weights, genders, and lifestyles doing them without problems. Anyone can do this with the right training and attention to safety.
On that note I want to mention that on the 28th to 30th of September they are planning one more jumping event, and these are all legal jumps from a building near the Moscow centre, which also coincides with a party they’re throwing to celebrate the team’s 4th birthday (how thrilled am I that my birthday coincides with this team and this event!). The third day will be fairly open and will provide information to those planning jumps in the future, making it the final open event of “The Challenge”. After this they are starting to make a full movie which will accurately tell the story of how this all came about. A flight from New York City to Moscow is only about $500 according to a quick check on Expedia, and I’m sure it can be found cheaper with a minimum of searching. What’s stopping you?
If you are interested in learning more, contact facebook.com/TheSinnerTeam.
