You know what the best part of these übercute toe-smiley tattoos done by Stacy from Electric Graffitti in Muscatine, Iowa are? They’re on a kickboxer!
Tag: Body Modification
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More constellation tattoos
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Recently I posted an Orion constellation tattoo that I liked conceptually, so I thought it might be nice to post a few other constellations — for whatever reason Orion is the most common… I suppose along with the Big Dipper, it’s probably the easiest to identify when you’re a kid so it becomes a part of people’s childhood memory. Assuming it’s not something worse.
Anyway, let’s start off with Gemini:
How about Scorpius rising? This one is by Nina Collier at Ancient Arts in Renton, WA.
Finally, this isn’t really a constellation, but I like this star tattoo by French artist NOON at Boucherie Traditionnelle out of Troyes and Paris… There are a number of French artists working in similarly art-influenced styles (see also Lionel of Out of Step, on BME, and Yann, profiled on Needled.
If you like that, you can see more of his work on his website and on BME.
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Another Episode of “The Case Of the Tattoo Ripoff”
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The original (left) was done by Brett Osborne of PURE Body Modifications, LLC. The rip-off, as shown in a tattoo magazine in the PURE lobby, was done by Erik Diaz at Asylum Studios in the Bronx.
MODBLOG has done stories about stolen artwork before, and almost always, the same question keeps coming up: If you’re going to steal someone’s design, aren’t you ashamed to post a version that’s not even close to as good as the original?
Other Modblog articles about stolen tattoos:
- TattooPlagiarism, September 20, 2005
- Morecopied tattoos, September 22, 2005
- Popculture is a language, September 25, 2005
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“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again”
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Here’s a vertical nipple piercing placed behind the scar left from a horizontal nipple piercing rejecting out and effectively splitting the surface of the nipple:
Anyway, I’ve got to take off now so I’ll leave you with some bloody handprints. That’s like the BME equivelent of waving or something, right?
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Finger tattoos and more
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I’ve previously mentioned silly finger tattoos of mustaches, tears, and even vampire teeth, but I thought I should be fair and mention (I think) some of the first people I met with finger mustaches. Here’s IAM:027 and IAM:Hooch:
Speaking of tattoos, I’ve always wondered if getting things like “Trust No Bitch” tattooed on you affect one’s dating options. I would think that it would act as some kind of a bad-boyfriend-alarm, but who knows, maybe it would attract people instead?
The strangest things are aphrodisiacs.
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UV Facial Tattoo
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Check out Cybermike’s UV facial circuitry, which in theory only shows up when he’s under a blacklight. I say “in theory” as a warning to those considering a stealth tattoo on public skin — depending on the way you scar (tattoos do leave slight scars) the tattoo may be visible (and any contamination of the ink, even from the stencil, could make the tattoo daylight visible as well). Still, very cool:
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Bodmod Miscellany
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1. Rebeccastar‘s boyfriend finally matches his monkey.
2. Intel Inside
Chase Chovan / The Body Shop
Marietta, OH
3. Barbell Inside
Yuck!
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Upfront rips off BME/BMEshop content
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Let me introduce you to IAM:lost raevyn (more on this story on her page by the way). She picked up one of the BME slogan shirts — “if you’re staring at me, fuck off” — and sent me a picture, so it was added to the BME gallery. Ryan from BMEshop thought the picture would illustrate the product page well, so after OKing it with her and making some small changes, it was added there.
Linked screenshots below:
Without permission requested or granted, the photo appeared in the October’s Upfront Magazine, an indie local that just happens to come out in lost raevyn‘s area — and you can see that they’ve nabbed the picture straight from BMEshop. Because the magazine is from her area, people around town are approaching her assuming she wrote the piece, so on top of the issues of theft, it’s directly affecting her.
Her mother brought it up with their editor, who replied first with a bizarrely inaccurate interpretation of copyright law, and then a punchline that shows the staff of Upfront Magazine to be, well, kind of stupid.
"Additionally, the image of your daughter wearing the t-shirt was not stolen from the internet. My graphic designer has provided me with a digital image of your daughter that he snapped himself of his computer monitor."
Alright…
So it’s not stolen from the internet because the designer took a photo of his computer monitor while he was browsing the internet and then cut the BMEshop photo out of that photo? Well hell, if that’s how cause-and-effect works and relates to blame, let me just state for the record that I didn’t burn down the homes of the folks at Upfront — the matches and gasoline did it.
Upfront Magazine
Phone: 519.254.5268
Fax: 519.254.6110
Email: [email protected]
Address: 325 Chatham Street West, Windsor, ON. Canada N9A 5M8It’s important to include the full address in this entry, because then when people do a search for this newspaper on the Internet, they’ll get to hear the story about how Upfront magazine rips off other people’s content without asking and doesn’t even credit it. If Ryan or others choose to pursue legal action against Upfront (which they would be entitled to do), I’ll post more as is appropriate.
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Oh noooooooo!
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I assume this was intentional? (c/o Mat Dapkuinas)
Update: Mat (IAM:The Truth) says that “oh no!” gets said so often when people come across this photo in his portfolio that he’s renamed it the “Mr. Bill Piercing”.
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Big stretched septum video
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Courtesy of my friend Babasom all the way over in India, here’s a video of his extremely stretched septum piercing. Visit his IAM page to see more pictures and meet one of IAM’s more interesting members.
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DivX download link for BME members: Extreme2 or Full members
