BME: Body Modification Ezine

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  • “Jandi Infatuation”

    Written by

    Jordan Ginsberg


    Oh. Um … hi. I … wait, what? Sorry, I lost my train of thought.

    (“Jandi Infatuation” featuring Jandi Lin, with tattoos by Mike Ledger of Ledger Studios in Honolulu, Hawaii, and photo by Ryan Kerns.)

  • Eh, Maybe Texas

    Written by

    Jordan Ginsberg


    Burgh heard the screams, the cries, and before he ever saw it, he knew exactly what had happened. He ran out into the backyard and there it was: His daughter, Sophie, on her first birthday, had killed and eaten a Smurf. Look at that face, that uninhibited bloodlust. Why? Who knows why. Sophie’s not talking. And not a jury in the world is going to convict a baby.

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  • Aww, Nothing Gets Santorum Out

    Written by

    Jordan Ginsberg


    I really like that this tattoo came down the pipe just as poet laureate Dan Savage decided on a definition for America’s favorite new dirty sexy sex word, Saddlebacking, in honor of the awful walrus-looking gay-hating purpose-driven pastor of the Saddleback Church, Rick Warren. That is all.

    (Tattoo by Peter at Rainbow Tattoo in Nora, Sweden.)

    See more in “Old School (and Old) Tattoos“ (Tattoos)

  • Swirls All Around

    Written by

    Jordan Ginsberg


    [looks out window, sees snow piled about five feet high next to the sidewalk]

    Sigh.

    (6 mm. nostrils, microdermals, 16 mm. lip plate, 38 mm. earlobes and 8 mm. flats, at least some which were done by Petr and Tattoo Angel Studio in Moscow, Russia. Oh, and it’s Hack!)

    See more in “Scalpelled and other large gauge lip procedures“ (Lip Piercing)

  • Pew Pew Pew

    Written by

    Jordan Ginsberg


    Hey, that’s a pretty good self-portrait, HEHNGHH? Oh wait, never mind, Tomasz fills us in:

    The Shrike is designed by Artur Szolc, on the basis of excerpts from the book Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons. It’s not based on any other drawings of the creature, and it’s supposed to be as accurate as possible. The head is only the first part of the tattoo. The upper body of the Shrike will cover my whole arm, and Shrike’s four arms will encircle my arm and go all the way up to the shoulder and down the elbow. Its blades shall seem to pierce the skin. Possibly, a thorn-tree background will be added as well to complete a half-sleeve.

    Thanks, Tomasz! A closer shot of the tattoo, after the jump.

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