Celebrating body modification culture since 1994.
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I’ve blogged here in the past about finger mustaches and finger tears, but here’s a new one. Erin Z sent this to me after seeing it as part of mySpace profile, so I’m afraid I don’t have a proper credit for it as I’m not a member:
Update from Dan: “The girl in the picture is Anna Perry. The tattoo was done by Brian Holton at Bleeding Heart Tattoo in Lees Summit, Missouri.”
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One of the coolest things about running BME is getting to meet people from all over the world… and one of the amazing things has been seeing how even though we come from different cultures and histories and speak different languages, we respond to body modification, body art, and body rituals in the same way, and it becomes a really obvious example of humans being the same all over the world.
Today let’s start with a photo via the West Coast of Canada where I’m originally from:
Next we’ll shoot over to Star Studio in Bali. These photos are of MrJaxon, Albar, the boss, the tattooist, and a mystery person… There’s more on his page if you’re interested.
Staying in Asai, we’ll move up to Qingdao, China. I’d be surprised if this is entirely legal there?
How about something closer to home like the shores of France?
Or maybe you prefer Brasil?
Speaking of travel, apparently Pingy travels by RyanAir, and has previously been to Pottstown, PA.
Becky on the other hand isn’t going anywhere:
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Do I really need to tell the story of the bottom star?
Q: “Why do you always have to take two straight edge kids fishing?”
A: “Because if you only take one, he’ll drink all your beer.”
O dios mio! I’m just kidding!
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…butt I’ve been doing more staring than writing.
Tony Styles / Evil Ways Tattoo
Seriously though, I do have lots of stuff to post… I’ve just been focussing on getting Phil (BME’s new employee) trained… the last image updates are mostly from him. Sorry for the pause.
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As a general rule of thumb I tend to distrust the quality and safety of door-to-door piercers that service the “piercing party” market — which range from the friend that pierces other friends to the stranger that makes their income from this. That said, I’m sure there must be some solid ones… However, this isn’t one of them. If a piercer works shirtless, start to wonder, but when he works without gloves, leave.
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Speaking of commentary that will alienate the people who contributed the photos (I apologize for that), I find getting tattoos like the one on the right a little disturbing, even more so when they’re not just old tattoos, but current work by artists with a regular clientéle… For starters, it always surprises me when I see the general public get tattoos like this — there is so much good tattoo media out there these days that there’s no excuse for them not to be able to find a solid artist. In all seriousness, what is wrong with their vision that they can’t indentify aesthetic quality? I mean, everyone can identify a beautiful girl… why can’t they do the same for a tattoo?
But what surprises me more is the artists. If they’ve ever picked up a tattoo magazine, ever been to a convention or visited the other studios in their area, surely they know their work is atrocious? Surely they know they’re scarring people for life… Is there not a moral obligation on some level to find a different job? Or do both they and the client simply not care what it looks like? Is simply getting a tattoo the goal, rather than going to the effort to make sure it’s a specific dream piece?
Anyway, lest we get too hung up on bad tattoos, here’s one from Hawaii that I really like:
