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Tag: Body Modification

  • Fark Future Mods

    Fark is currently running a Photoshop contest on “futuristic body modifications”. There are some clever entries (but sadly most are pretty lame), but what’s especially funny to me is that some of the modifications are far from “futuristic” to BME readers — things like eyelid piercing and tongue tattoos. Click the picture to jump to the forum:

  • Firefighter Tattoos

    Adding to my entry on 9-11 memorial tattoos, I thought I ought to mention some of the firefighter tattoos that have been submitted to BME over the last few years. Here’s a gallery of some of them:

    In addition to BME’s various tattoo sections there’s a great tattoo site dedicated entirely to firefighter tattoos with giant galleries of pictures: Strike the Box

  • It’s like an anatomy lesson

    Most of the time genital bisections have enough scarring and inaccurate cutting to hide the original underlying anatomy, but sometimes I see split penises that are so cleanly done that they might as well be part of an anatomy text. In the one below you can see exactly where the urethra once was, as well as all of the internal functional elements. Click the picture to unpixelate it.

  • Bad kanji tattoos

    Tian that runs the always funny “kanji debunking” blog Hanzi Smatter has been keeping me updated as to the many errors that show up in BME’s kanji tattoo gallery. Here are a few recent errors:


    Thought it meant: Chaos slogan
    Actually means: Nothing, due to missing dot.
    (Tian speculates that artists are sharing bad flash)

    Thought it meant: “I can’t remember”
    Actually means: Confuse.
    (Oh, the irony!)


    Thought it meant: Screw this
    Actually means: Insert Screw-Nail Here


    Thought it meant: Carla (Mother’s name)
    Actually means: Karaoke
    Thought it meant: Healthy
    Actually means: Nothing

    You’ll see plenty more examples on Tian’s site, with many being poorly rendered characters, often mirrored or inverted, with missing strokes and dots making them meaningless. See also: Twenty Kanjis

  • DVD logo tattoo

    Hey, remember the guy (IAM:teddyfourskinn) that got the WENDY’S logo tattoo? Well, he just got a new one (done at Body Language Tattoos in Barbourville, KY), and it’s just as oddball:

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