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Tag: Industrials And Orbitals

  • Stretched (6ga) Glass Industrial

    Written by

    Shannon Larratt

    I just got an interesting photo from Tommy in Germany, who wears a 4mm (about 6ga) glass bar, made for him by the talented folks at Gorilla Glass. The piercing started as a normal 14ga industrial, and over five years Tommy stretched it up using normal steel rings, never finding any jewelry he really liked until discovering Gorilla Glass. Much of the time he wears two separate short glass plugs, but here in the picture he’s using the 55mm (just over 2″) long glass bar with round ends, secured with O-rings. The bar is quite solid, having survived a few falls, and I suspect with that any guaranteed-concussion blow to the noggin hard enough to break the bar, the broken bar would be the least of his worries.

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  • Nasal Orbital

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    Shannon Larratt

    Ruslan, who has both large nostrils and a septum (which can function as a nasallang) just posted a unique looking picture of himself wearing a ring through them, making for a nasal orbital, a very unusual look. It instantly reminded me of another creative icon in this community — there’s a 2007 photo on ModBlog of Eaten Placenta wearing a similar configuration.

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  • An eclectic mix

    Written by

    Rob

    Joeltron isn’t the only one out there making custom jewelry for his clients.  Richard Ivey also has been making small pieces to go into ears.  Below you can see a custom bent industrial, in addition to the rest of the piercings, including the surface one next to the ear.

    If you’re looking to get one of those little hearts for yourself, look no further than the BMEShop.

  • All bent into shape

    Written by

    Rob

    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.

  • Foreheadmageddon

    Written by

    Shannon Larratt

    Oh, Joeltron…

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    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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