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Author: Jordan Ginsberg

  • Man vs. Wild

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    Jordan Ginsberg


    “Hey, I’m here for my consultation.”

    “Oh, hey. Have a seat, have a seat. So, what do you have in mind?”

    “Well, there are certain elements I’d like involved. A bear, for one.”

    “Cool! We’ll get a bear in there. Anything else?”

    “A squid.”

    “A squid and a bear? Ha ha, sure thing man!”

    “Also, we’re going to need a alligator in there. Oh! And a shark.”

    “So this is some sorta wildli—”

    “And there has to be a guy killing all of them.”

    “At the same time?”

    “At the same time.”

    (“A man punching through an alligator, stepping on an octopus, having a bear in a headlock, getting attacked by a shark, and killing a man with his teeth” by Caleb at Studio City Tattoo in Studio City, California.)

    See more in “Wildlife and Nature Tattoos“ (Tattoos)

  • Concrete Warfare

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    Jordan Ginsberg


    Huh. You know, I usually just use a rolled-up newspaper or a wet towel when I want to swat at an angel, but hey, to each his own.

    (This excellent piece is, of course, by Marc from Swastika Freakshop in Radolfzell, Germany. Is there a more distinctive tattoo artist working right now than him?)

    See more in “Sports Tattoos“ (Tattoos)

  • The Very Same Pit Still Yawns

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    Jordan Ginsberg


    Mike writes in about some scrotum-tightening guerilla suspension antics in Toronto’s High Park last week:

    We threw hooks in my living room and headed out via car to High Park. I drove with the hooks in my back already attached to the rig. We hiked into High Park at about 8 p.m. or so and found our spot with the nice tree. Jon had to rig it all by himself while I helped him with the gear. We wanted to rig it so as not to have any footprints in the snow under where I would hang. We got it all rigged, I hooked the rig up to the rope system and shimmied out across the rope system so as not to mark the snow and dropped off. I wore basically all the warm clothes I own so that i could stay warm long enough to get off the ground on the hooks, and then I stripped it all off down to my “short shorts.” The hang was only a minute or two long — my fingers went numb first and then my toes — and then I dropped down and got dressed real quick. It was snowing and around -5 degrees Celsius and maybe -9 or -10 with the windchill.

    More photos, all by Chris, after the jump.

  • Shocks of Adversity

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    Jordan Ginsberg


    Fun fact: This hand cutting is on none other than founding father George Washington, and was done by Ryan from Precision Body Arts in Nashua, New Hampshire, using nothing but a no. 11 scalpel and what can be referred to as a “rather simple” time machine. Hey, the more you know.

  • Waves and Radiation

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    Jordan Ginsberg


    Oh dear Lord, there appears to be some sort of white flakey substance falling from the sky in Oregon and landing on basophobic_angel. Is it the result of an airborne toxic event of some description? Let’s not take any chances. If anyone needs me, I’ll be in a motel room, under the highway, eating handfuls of Dylar like it is sweet, delicious candy.

    (Piercings by Jason Odd at Modern Epic in Hoodriver, Oregon.)

    See more in “Madonnas and Medusas“ (Lip Piercing)

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