Here’s a new name for Modblog: Alex Blakan. Alex is a Spanish modification artist that works out of Clandestine Body Art in Bilbao, Spain. He’s also responsible for some pretty impressive implants, like this skull that you see below.
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The Bees?? Not the Bees!!!
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Yes. You’re getting the bees. And the flowers. And even a dragonfly.
Tattoo by Sean Ambrose from Arrows and Embers in Concord, NH.
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Don’t wake me when it’s over
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Now this was a tattoo that I could have never predicted. Back in October I was a little surprised to see a Lifehouse tattoo in the music tattoo galleries. Like I mentioned then, I don’t have anything against Lighthouse, but they’re just not a band you think of when someone says “I’ve got a band tattoo”. Well, the original was a great piece of lettering by Marcin Liana from Alien, located in Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland.
It turns out Marcin wasn’t finished with just this, and has since expanded it to become an amazing abstract typography sleeve.
For those curious, that’s IAM: Kornik in the photos.
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All bent into shape
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It looks like Joeltron has gotten his hands on some kind of jewelry erector set, as he continues to upload these incredible ear projects. Who knows what he’ll come up with next.
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Lost Soul
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Here are a pair of wonderful black and white portraits of Will Powel taken by Daniel Milbourn of Meantime Photography (facebook.com/mean.times.1 and flickr.com/photos/meantimes/) in Inglewood, California. You can zoom in on the picture of Will’s hands with a click.
Edit: After initially posting this entry, I saw another wonderful modified person portrait by Daniel Milbourn that I wanted to feature as well. This is a picture of Dom Short who has quite an amazing and unique tattoo on his face. I should also add that limited edition framed and unframed prints are available, and you can contact Daniel directly if you’re interested in purchasing them — they would look amazing decorating tattoo and piercing studios (as well as homes and other businesses).
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Dr. Paul Y. Unstoppable, MD
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This will help you understand why doctors are notorious for messy handwriting. It’s because it’s not actually handwriting. It’s facewriting, or if we are to speak with the proper Latin term that doctors prefer, nostrilphiltrumlowbretwriting, which is difficult for even the most talented of calligrapher to do well.
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Foreheadmageddon
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Oh, Joeltron…
Keep reading after the break to see exactly how this contraption was installed.
Hopefully enough people had the momentary whimsy of not realizing that was a photoshop job on the jewelry? Side note; I sure do love Joeltron’s eyeball tattoo by the way — the bright green that both he and now Eva Medusa have (gosh I love that when I post on ModBlog, rather than just on Facebook, I can actually easily find old entries and link to them!!!) is such a great colour for eyeballs. Now if we could only figure out how to do mirrored eyes…
Anyway, what you’re actually looking at is the jewelry that Joeltron (firstblood.com.au and joeltron.com) used on Sally Hacket’s ear, one of his chaotic and technological trondustrials. They’re a bit of a love it or hate it aesthetic I think, with some people seeing them as neo-cyberpunk masterpieces, and other people seeing them as the earwork version of a scribble. In this case he built the jewelry out of an Industrial Strength connecty bit, Anatometal hearts and barbells, and “lots of joiny doo-dads and miscellaneous bits”. If you look carefully you can see the divets where the pieces all connect. Unlike most industrials of this type, Joeltron builds out of smaller components joined together to make a larger whole, rather than bending a single long bar into a complex shape — this technique adds to the high-tech sci-fi look that he’s going for I think (zoom for a closer look).
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“You’ve come a long way, baby”
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When you compare Mechanical Demon (tattoo artist at Harness in Helsinki, Finland) from 2007 to 2012, you can really see what an improvement the jump from tattooed and pierced person to full heavy-mod enthusiast has made. In addition to some more tattoo work, I can also see that he’s added some sternum implants, a pair of transdermal implant spike horns, radical ear pointing and I think lobe removal, as well as black eyeball tattoos. Really checked off that wish list quite successfully, didn’t he?
You can zoom that picture but the others in this entry are at full size. Anyway, to no small part because of his striking and eye-catching appearance he’s had the opportunity to model for some great photographers, but one shoot that really struck me was this amazing photo by Tinttu Henttonen, with make-up by Mia Magia. Click here for a close-up that shows his ear very nicely — the reshaping work that was done on it is quite something.
Another photo I liked was this old-time portrait, which also shows his mods nicely and reveals one that I’d missed in the first photo, a set of subdermal horns higher up the scalp, a placement that works very nicely with his transdermal spikes (but might otherwise look odd on its own).
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The Friday Follow-up
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The beauty of scarification is that the end result can never be fully predicted. Sure you can get an idea of what a scar is going to look like if you have scars already, but even then there are so many variables that can affect healing. Sometimes you’ll get a scar that is perfectly defined and with the colouration you were hoping for. Other times your body just says, “hey, this is how I’m going to heal this scar, deal with it”. The reason I’m bringing this up is based off of IAM:Polareyez‘ comment on the latest photo of her snail scar. To give you a bit of backstory, the scar (which is actually a combination cutting/branding by Brian Decker), started out as all scars do, as an open wound.
A few months later, it was well into the healing process and was turning a pale pink colour.
And now here we are today, 10 months since the initial cutting and as you can see, it’s lightened up even more.
You may need to move your monitor around to see it, but it’s there. What’s worth noting is that even though this isn’t the exact colouration that Polareyez was going for, the details Brian put into the scar are still well defined. I’d even go so far to say that it’s looking a lot better than it did several months ago, if only for the consistent colour. Fans of pale scars will certainly appreciate this scar. As I mentioned earlier, scarification isn’t something that can be predicted with 100% accuracy, but that shouldn’t discourage you from committing to a scar if that’s the modification you’re looking to get. You never know, you may end up with something that surpasses your expectations.
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Orbits within orbits
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I might not normally post such a “simple piercing” (which this isn’t), but I’m on a science-high when it comes to the word “orbit-anything” after reading a few days ago that a whole slew of new extra-solar planets have been discovered, at least a dozen of them in the habitable zone of the stars they rotate around. This most recent set is a mix of super-earths (rocky planets like the Earth, but a little larger) and small gas giants (which could easily have moons capable of supporting life). One of the many things that makes me want to live as absolutely long as possible is all the new extrasolar planets we’re discovering, and the new space telescopes we’re putting up capable of imaging them — capable of actually taking pictures of planets around other stars. Eventually we will find one with the telltale nighttime energy use, like when you look at the Earth at night from space. I am 100% certain that intelligent alien life will be confirmed (if not communicated with) in my daughter’s lifetime, and that it will be on a large scale.
BUT GETTING BACK TO THIS PIERCING… This is a just wonderful placement of a nested pair of orbitals in a helix done by Shaun Benesh of Primo Ink in Grand Rapids, MN. For any piercers or technique obsessed readers, He adds that in an ideal world he would have placed the rings a little higher up the ear, but she had some giant blood vessels that he had to avoid. Shaun gave this client one of those piercings that sits in a wonderful niche — “safe” enough for the mainstream office, but something that will still “wow” piercing fans.
