BME: Body Modification Ezine

A black-and-white photo of a person mid-air in a Superman-style body suspension pose, supported by multiple hooks in their back and legs, smiling joyfully toward the camera. They are suspended horizontally in a large indoor space with high ceilings and visible rigging. A group of onlookers—some seated, some standing—watch with expressions of admiration, amusement, and support. The atmosphere is lively and communal, capturing a moment of shared experience and transformation.

Tattoo, Piercing, and Body Modification News, Events, and Culture

  • Fall Feathers

    Written by

    Rob

    Can you believe we’re only a week away from the start of autumn?  Pretty soon the leaves will be changing colours, the birds will be flying south, and the temperatures will start to drop.  Now I’m one of those that loves this time of year, especially the leaves.  You don’t see much of it in a big city, but outside, where the trees abound, the display that mother nature puts on every year is amazing.  Which brings us to this tattoo by Grzegorz Latoch from Street Tattoo in Warsaw.  It’s a nice rich blend of colours that subtly evokes the arrival of fall.

  • Lazy Hazy Days

    Written by

    Rob

    Summer workshopping with the 42 Suspension Group on what can only be described as a perfect day for suspensions. I can only imagine how wonderful these suspensions must have been for the people participating.

    These are only a sample of the many suspensions held that day.  Check out the 42 Suspension Group gallery to see the rest.

    Photography by Jaro Ridzon.

  • Colourful Calligraphic Tree Tattoo

    Written by

    Shannon Larratt

    Before I go on with my exciting plans for the rest of the day, which as those who know me are aware, mostly involve cocaine and hookers while Caitlin is off at work, I wanted to share with you this charming trash tattoo by André Cruz (andrecruztattoo.com.br). I’ve had this piece open in a window for a week or two now, and smile every time I look at it. There’s something just really happy about it, and I think it’s the perfect picture to use as my bow before leaving the stage for now.

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  • Complex Ear Reconstruction

    Written by

    Shannon Larratt

    Gabriele at Max Art in Italy (who you know best for the SkinTunnel project) recently performed a rather tricky ear reconstruction. The surgery involved both bridging two piercings into one, as well as repairing the damage from a piercing that tore out some time earlier. Once it’s healed, the client will be able to put in a new tunnel and no one will be the wiser — and hopefully they will have learned a valuable lesson about responsible stretching! Or getting in fights — I don’t actually know how the damage occurred.

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  • The Kindly Demon

    Written by

    Shannon Larratt

    I don’t quite know what it is — maybe he just has one of those friendly faces — but there’s something really welcoming about Martin Kraus’s horn implants, now in their second generation. They were done by Chai Calm Bodymod and are fresh and a bit swollen in this photo, so they almost look like ridges but they’re actually multiple beads. For me this is a good photo to show that heavy mods don’t have to look “freaky”. Of course I do see the world through mod-coloured glasses, so maybe I’m not the best judge?

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  • BRING OUT THE GIMP

    Written by

    Shannon Larratt

    There’s something strange about this photo from Enzo and Thiago. I don’t have anything particularly clever to say about it, so just look at it and draw your own conclusions.

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  • Floral Heart

    Written by

    Rob

    Morbid from Street Tattoo & Piercing in Warsaw has really outdone himself with this scar.  The lines are nice, clean, and even, which should hopefully result in a beautiful scar.  Hopefully we’ll get an update from him for a future follow-up.

  • Take a bite of my bad girl meat

    Written by

    Shannon Larratt

    Joeltron (FirstBlood.com.au, joeltron.com) shows us his teeth — yeah, he’s no Zygzag, but this is how Joeltron looks when he takes out his 13mm (1/2″) cheek piercing. If I was him I would totally wear clear glass plugs all the time or maybe tunnels with corks conspicuously stuck in them, especially if the size continues to increase. And gosh, I really love his eye tattoo — that lime green is one of my all time favorites.

    joeltron-teeth

  • Recent Nazareno Tubaro Creations

    Written by

    Shannon Larratt

    I have been a fan of master tattoo artist Nazareno Tubaro since long before I first met him at the Buenos Aires convention way back in 2004, but I realized today that he’s gotten very little coverage here on ModBlog, even though he hugely deserves it. He was an early innovator in the world of neotribal and modern blackwork, and hundreds if not thousands of tattoo artists around the world have drawn inspiration from (and sometimes outright copied) his style. So today I want to share with you just a couple recent pieces that struck me as particularly beautiful, but I encourage you to explore nazareno-tubaro.com — hell, I encourage you to get on an airplane, show up on his doorstep, and beg him to decorate your empty skin!

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    The first image can be zoomed in.

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  • Say hello to the mechanical faberge elves, ok?

    Written by

    Shannon Larratt

    I’m tripping over this great chestpiece by Pinkie Leenders (tattoopink.be). Or at least this tattoo makes me reminisce about tripping — what a gloriously psychedelic body he’s created for Laurent. This is a wonderful example of modern body modification Shamanism.

    pinktree