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Author: Jordan Ginsberg

  • Coming Soon to a Bordello Near You Columbus, Ohio: Brian Decker!

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    Jordan Ginsberg


    Get excited, Ohioans! The littlest king of Brooklyn, Brian Decker of Pure Body Arts is packing up his hobo bindle and taking his show on the road! Next stop, Columbus, Ohio, from July 29 to August 4. Book your appointments as soon as possible, as these suckers are bound to fill up fast. In the mean time, check out the above video, courtesy of Nae, showing off her fancy (and healed, and gigantic) silicone hand implants courtesy of Mr. Decker (installation shown here). After the jump, a few stills of her hands in all their flowery glory.

  • The Funk of Forty Thousand Years

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    Jordan Ginsberg


    When Andy sent in this zombie Michael Jackson tribute (?) portrait, it was accompanied with the ever-present, “Too soon?” Now, under normal circumstances, sure, getting a tattoo of a recently deceased celebrity as a hideous member of the walking dead may be in poor taste, but hey, Michael Jackson was arguably most famous for a video in which he appeared…as a zombie! If anything, this is how he would want to be memorialized! (Maybe not.) At any rate, our initial clinical reaction was, No, this isn’t too soon. Get yer MJ zombie on with impunity and a clear conscience, folks!

    Oh, right, and then we noticed his right hand. You are going to Hell.

    (Tattoo by Bryan Lewis at Ink Factory Tattoo and Piercing in Hudson, Wisconsin.)

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  • Power Beyond Imagination

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    Jordan Ginsberg


    You know what the grand irony here is? That lip tattoo is almost 900 years old. True story. Now, I’m not saying Technodeamon is definitely a Highlander, but…Technodeamon is definitely a Highlander. That said, immortal or not, the turquoise-shirt-and-zebra-tie ensemble is sure as hell doing it for me. Fresh, indeed.

    It’s already Thursday, ModBloggers! Time flies when you’re looking at BattleDongs. But hey, we’ve both been very brave.

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  • Yield to the Tongue

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    Jordan Ginsberg


    Whoa hey, fancy! New-to-BME Nadyne checks in with this “endless knot” scarification piece by Timb Wilton at Third Eye Tattoo in Melbourne, Australia. It’s brand new, she says, but she’ll send in more photos as the healing process continues. That’s what we like to hear, Nadyne! And, hey, Mr. Wilton, we like the cut of your jib, too. Fine work all around, folks. And, as luck would have it, we’ve got a procedural shot, after the jump.

  • Let’s Flail Together

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    Jordan Ginsberg


    Sweet fancy Moses, can you believe it’s been almost a year since we’ve featured the very lovely Kristina on our fair ModBlog? This is shameful and inexcusable. Here she is, taking a breather in Thailand, possibly, I don’t know, carefully inspecting a map just beyond the border of the image? Hey, why not.

    (Tattoos by Matt Cunnington at Westside Tattoo in West End, Brisbane, Australia.)

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