Tattoo, Piercing, and Body Modification News, Events, and Culture
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Hey, Scar Wars got linked on MetaFilter today! Neat, right? I bet a highly intelligent and thoughtful discussion came about.
*** "GROSS. Gross, gross, gross. My skin is crawling."*** "WARNING: May be trigger material for people with SI problems. Maybe that warning should be on the front page."
*** “that’s incredibly disgusting. i don’t even know what to say about these people.”
*** “Guys, go ahead and do all the fucked up shit that you want. But girls. You beautiful, lovely girls of the world. PLEEEAAASSE stop it! That pretty little girl with the big bonsai tree cut into her (on the left). WTF!?!? Don’t do that!! You have not been made prettier!”
*** “Those people are so remarkably ill. I wish we lived under a dictator who would kill people who do shit like that to themselves.
Seriously, kill yourself, cutters– you’re just going to do that eventually anyway when all your skin is gone and you can’t get people to gawk anymore.”
Oh … right. I
Kill yourselves, cutters! Love, Metafilter.
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The Needled tattoo blog beat us to the punch and has a longer entry on it that you should check out, so just let me say: HAPPY 75TH BIRTHDAY FAKIR!
“The body belongs to the spirit that lives inside. And to no one else.”
– Fakir Musafar
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Another goofball suspension video from FoxxWorks in Vancouver:
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Rape is an act of violence that, in practice, takes something beautiful and turns it into something ugly. We are familiar with acts of rape in prison, of our women, and of our children.
Rape by tattoo is not a new concept; most of us are familiar with the numbers etched onto the arms of concentration camp victims. (Survivors’ stories are in the news all the time, but they’re generally not part of the BME Newsfeed. We did, however, log David Blaine honoring Primo Levi by getting Mr. Levi’s number, 174517, as a permanent tribute.) I first read about this cruel practice in the noir thrilled Flood. In a very moving scene, the beautiful Flood shows the scar from when she used gasoline to burn off the tattoo bikers put onto her thigh. Later, I learned more about it in the rec.arts.bodyart FAQ. What makes this a particularly brutal crime is that the survivors’ scars are visible as well as emotional.
This crime has been prelavent in the news in recent months. Dr. Gregory Roche removed a vulgar tattoo from the face of a New York teenager after some former friends and he got into a fight over a girl. A gay inmate in Texas has been granted permission to sue the state; in addition to sexual abuse, the inmate’s face had been forcibly tattooed.
Recently, the tables were turned in the UK. Jackie Clarke lured her alleged rapist to her home, drugged him, and then used a pin and ink to tattoo “Rapist” onto his penis. While fellow victims around the world may cheer her on, the judge hearing her case says that her actions “amount to torture.”
A pimp in Illinois tattooed his nickname, “Mr. Cream,” onto the bodies of two teenage girls. In a happier turn of events, justice may be served: he crossed state lines, and the FBI and US Attorney now plan to make an example out of Mr. Cream.
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First, some more pictures from Allen Falkner from the 2005 Wings of Desire Oslo SusCon. These are from day three of the event:
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For those of you who’ve never been to a suspension convention, they’re much more than just a bunch of people going so they can hang. Certainly that’s a central aspect, but I think more importantly it’s a gathering of friends and family.. and these days it’s also a travel experience — it’s not as if Oslo is in Rhode Island! Cere (from the NYC chapter of Rites of Passage) discovered some of the differences between home and Norway while talking to locals at a pub:
| Smiling Norwegian: | It’s great that you love Oslo; is there anything that you want to see while you’re here? |
| Cere: | Well, actually a few of us would like to find a local strip club. |
| (The Norwegian is no longer smiling.) | |
| Norwegian: | You like that kind of thing? |
| Cere: | Strip clubs? Well yeh, it’s naked girls… Who doesn’t like naked girls? |
| Norwegian: | Well I have respect for women! |
At this point the Norwegian storms off, and his sentiments are echoed by the others in the pub. At a later party that night, Cere is offered a giant plate of cocaine as a welcoming gift.
| Smiling Norwegian: |
You like cocaine? |
| Cere: |
Nah, I’m good… I don’t sniff, but thank you. |
| Norwegian: |
You are an American though? |
| Cere: |
Yeah, from New York. |
| Norwegian: |
You lie!!! You are not an American if you do not want cocaine! |
Ah stereotypes… America, a nation of strippers doing lines of coke off your cock.
I think Cere will enjoy SusCon: Red Light District in Amsterdam.
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Cue Nelson: “HA HA”
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The critical moment is about 1:20 into the clip.
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I woke up a few short hours later and, as I’m prone to do, headed straight for my computer. I hopped on IAM, checked my messages, and saw one that read simply, “Sad day.”
With the London terror attack fresh in my mind, I jump over to CNN, expecting to see the end of the world — but nothing. Then it occurs to me, Of course, BME is under attack again — we’re being shut down for good this time. I go right for Shannon’s page, and that’s where I see it.
Kind of like stepping out of bed and into a bus.
It doesn’t seem real because it can’t be.
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"The original Nazis tattooed their targets so they could always find them later. The new ones tattoo themselves. So we can find them.Hitler'd be ashamed of the morons."
- Andrew Vachss, in Dead and Gone
While I can see the temptation in breaking some laws, by golly, stupid criminals crack me up!
Case (or five) in point: Arizona Republic just listed its Top 10 most wanted. Five — half — of them are tattooed. New York recently debuted its new high-tech command center, which will provide officers crucial data about crimes and suspects including convicts’ nicknames and tattoos even before police arrive at a crime scene (click here for an online demonstration), and Ottawa recently unveiled its new parolee database. From police reports to rap sheets, if you’re modified and you’re arrested, your modifications are going on record.
Of course, the “winner” is Justin Breakspear of Massachusetts, whose tattoo reveals the serial number of his illegal gun.
Gives all new meaning to “tattoo gun,” eh?
