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Art comes in many forms, and while some people love lavish and detailed works, others prefer a more minimalistic approach. Gábor Zagyvai from Budapest is one artist that excels in minimalistic tattoos.
Of course that’s not all Gabor can do, as a quick look back into the ModBlog archives shows his abilities with complex pieces of art in both tattoos and scarification. Head on over to the nature and wildlife galleries to check out a couple more minimalist pieces that he has done recently.
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Vincent Van Gogh is known for a few things; his impressionist paintings, his bouts with mental illness that lead to his death, and a DIY partial earlobe removal. As you can see by the tattoo below, his influence still carries forward to this day. In a piece sent in by lollison to the tattoo galleries, artist Kris Miller puts together a piece heavily inspired by Van Gogh’s “The Starry Night”.
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Sean: First off, some basic information: How old are you? Where do you live? What do you do for a living?
Сергей Губанов: I am 47 years old and I live in Moscow, Russia. I’m p.h.d in computer science, I work as head of IT-department in one medium-size Russian company.
Sean: Is their any other personal information that you would care to share?
Сергей Губанов: I married and have two sons – 5 and 11 y.o. My hobby are photography and guitar playing.
Сергей Губанов:No. I don’t like tattoo,s piercings and other body mods.
Сергей Губанов: It’s difficult to answer. I dreamed about it from my childhood. And I don’t know why.
Sean: How did you go about doing the amputation?
Сергей Губанов: Those day I made some carpentry work with electric saw. It was in my summer house, just for fun. I was alone. Suddenly I felt “now or newer”.
So…
Then I called to ER 😉
Сергей Губанов: No, I happy doing this and I regret that I didn’t do this 25-30 years ago.
Сергей Губанов: There are no difference except one – I can’t scratch inside my right ear
with my right pinky 🙂
Сергей Губанов: My relatives and friends think that it was an accident and sympathize to me.
From time to time I see stares to my hand, but I don’t know what those people thinks.
Сергей Губанов: I don’t think I will. Finger amputation only attracts me, but I need 5 left
fingers and 4 right to play guitar.
On behalf of myself, and several of the modblog readers, thank you SO MUCH for taking the time to answer my questions and bring us some insight into your life, your motives and your amputation.
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There’s something about a tandem suspension that appeals to me. How the suspension enables two people to become joined together both physically and spiritually. Bonding together by both the hooks and the experience.
While this photo was found in the knee suspension gallery, credit goes to the #Leeds Suspension Team for putting it together.
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Don’t you just hate it when something happens and your entire earlobe is ripped open and is left dangling off the side of your head?
This is how the lobe looks now, two weeks after being closed up by Quentin from Kalima Emporium in Worthing, Sussex, UK.
I’m always amazed that body modification artists can reconstruct earlobes so well, yet some doctors can’t seem to figure out how to make a lobe look like a lobe again.
You can check the earlobe reconstruction gallery for shots of this lobe when it was first stitched up, as well as photos from other artists who can work miracles with a dangling piece of flesh.
