Celebrating body modification culture since 1994.
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This tattoo is by Mike Haines at Scarab Body Arts in Syracuse, and is one of the nicer “Semper Fi” themed tattoos I’ve received. He also has a mini-portfolio on BME that you can check out.
And you can never go wrong with a partially de-clothed Marine, right?
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I’m a big fan of the band Godspeed You Black Emperor, so it was pretty cool to see this tattoo done by Ryan Zachary in Portland, OR. That reminds me — for fans of the band, check out Archive.org‘s selection of live concerts they’ve done!
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I think IAM:48×16 (good numbers: username improved from the original) has a great chestpiece (or at least a hilarious one, and I figure that’s a good thing). It’s designed and executed by Nate Hough of House of Poncho’s in Edgewood, Maine, and he implores you, “Do not take my design!”
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I’ve featured work by Lionel (Out of Step, France) here before, but I really liked the way this full-black forearm was capped off. I think I’d like it better though if the hand was fully black as well, as if he’d fallen into a barrel of black ink or something. But black hands are pretty weird looking I guess and would move the tattoo into a very different visual space.
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It’s quite common for me these days to see Islamic tattoos. I think in part because the calligraphy is so beautiful, as well as (the debatable “fact” that) becoming a Muslim is now one of the “cool” ways for white kids to rebel (sorry, please don’t blow up the BME HQ to show you’re serious), we’re seeing more and more of them… but most are script, so Phil and I were surprised to see this tattoo by Jim Coey in San Jose, CA, of a mosque.
Now, someone tattoo a cartoon of Mohammed please so I can post it.
