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Not too long ago, I made my first ModBlog post when I interviewed the lovely Rachel about her art. She let me know the incredible tattoo on her belly was now complete. Behold, the awesome:
Credit goes to Erich Foster, owner of Rise Above Tattoo in Buffalo, New York. Detail after the jump.
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Here I am with your weekend update, what I will now refer to as your “better late than never news”.
What would news be without some celebrity gossip? Apparently, Katie wants a tattoo, but Tom says, I don’t think so! Charlie Sheen is having some personal problems but his tattoos seem to be the topic of discussion. I’ve seen several reports on his recent spat with his (probably soon to be ex) wife and nearly every one talks about his tattoos. Of course, most importantly, Miley Cyrus wants Taylor Swift to get a tattoo. Whatever you do, don’t let Kanye find out!
Ok, now that we’ve taken care of that, let’s move on to some real news:
An exhibition in Philadelphia is tracing the history of tattoos and sailors. The exhibition runs until February 7th so if you’re in the area, check it out and let us know what you thought.
In California, an Air Force recruit, whose tattoos caused some controversy, has finally been sworn in. The Air Force is continuing to look at the issue of tattoos and whether or not to develop some kind of policy about them.
Here’s the kind of story I love, about a 78 year old lady who just got her first tattoo.
In Orlando, a firefighter’s tattoo has inspired a line of clothing.
Finally, I was just sent a link to this story, that interviews a mother who, along with her husband, is being charged with cruelty to a child after they gave 6 of their 7 children homemade tattoos. They used a homemade machine to “draw” the tattoos on, as the article says, using a guitar string as a needle. The youngest of the children is ten years old. Please correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m thinking the guitar string wasn’t autoclaved and the risk to their children goes beyond some poorly done tattoos. What’s your opinion?
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I don’t know if how many of you know this but BME has its own Wiki. While there is a wealth of information on it, there is always more to add and entries to clean up. If you’d like to help out, consider signing up for a free SSO account. This will give you access to edit entries on the BME wiki.
Take a look through it to see how things are done. Read the “Intro Help File“. Since the Wiki was create we have wanted it to be an all encompassing body modification reference. While there is a wealth of information about various body modifications entries for films, books, television shows and even celebrities remain sparse. Please consider contributing information in these categories if they happen to be something you know a fair bit about. Templates exist for film and television pages. I plan to create similar templates for adding people relatively soon and any old pages under these categories will need to be edited for uniformity.
If you’re new to editing Wikis, have a look at this off-site Media Wiki Guide. If you’re an IAM member, there is even a Wiki Editors Forum. (I accidentally deleted the previous version of this forum but it’s definitely the place to go with questions.) Much like Wikipedia, entries are on the BME Wiki are monitored to ensure no vandalism occurs and that all entries are relevant BME content.
Every little bit helps, like checking for broken links, fixing layouts and doing grammar and spelling checks as many of the old BME Encyclopedia entries that were migrated over when the Wiki was born still need to be cleaned up. Even if you don’t feel that editing the Wiki is something you would enjoy, pop over and check it out.
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This is why you should always tip your hairstylist! Aside from a large gauge tongue piercing (equipped with tint brush jewellery), we also get some nice 2ga nostrils.
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Continuing the theme of “why you should visit Montreal” are these incredible portraits by Melissa Valiquette out of Sin City in Montreal.
One more after the jump.
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Coming to you from Poland is this delicious diamond filled strawberry. The calf belongs to Factorygirl and credit for the ink goes to Slawek, in Poznao, Poland.
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My first reaction to this photo was “OUCH!” This electrocautery BME logo is forever imprinted into IAM member Chavito.
Closer view after the jump.
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This beautiful black work was done by the father of modern tribal tattooing, Leo Zulueta out of Spiral Tattoo in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The lucky wearer is wlfdrgn.
More after the jump.
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Congratulations to IAM member and moderator of the popular IAM pregnancy forum, Monica. She and her husband welcomed their daughter, Willow Ann, into the world on December 24th.
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as_animals sends us a photo of his freshly inked breast cancer awareness tattoo, by John of Atomic Tattoo in Brandon, Florida.
