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  • And the winner of the trivia is….

    Written by

    Sean Philips

    Jamie Mayhem!!!!!! Her answers were flawless and best of all she wrote out the answers so well, I can cut and paste most of hers when I post the answers later!

    When I went to Jamie’s page to tell her she won, I saw this picture of some cops watching a pulling “just to check it out”. Back in the day at a BME Social I threw at my old place in Maryland, we had some cops come out because they heard we were “hanging people”. They came out and were a bit weirded out by it, but all in all they were respectful and just reminded us to be done by 11pm when the noise ordinance kicked in. Luckily for all involved they came when they did and not during the group genital pull that also took place at the same event!

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    Answers to the Trivia questions coming in a few hours and a feature on our winner, Jamie, should show up in the next week or so.

  • Shlockingly good time

    Written by

    Sean Philips

    Long time friends of BME, The Great Orbax and Sweet Pepper Klopek are currently spreading their own brand of filth through jolly old England. If your in the area, make sure you check them out!

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    Well, sweet pepper and I are in merry old england performing as, of course, our monsters of schlock comedy sideshow.

    http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Monsters-of-Schlock/9231078316
    we’re going to be at Bournemouth Ink this weekend, the Bournemouth tattoo convention, May 29 & 30th
    http://www.bournemouthink.com/extra_performances.php

    June 3 we are in Croydon at the black sheep bar
    June 4th in london at the first alternative artists awards launch party, Resistance Gallery London
    http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118838971488817&ref=ts
    June 5 the gypsy hotel london.

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  • Smile pretty for the camera

    Written by

    Jen Savage

    Check out this awesome tattoo by Rain Partlow out of Under the Needle in Seattle, WA! All of my tattoo work is done in black and grey but I’ve always admired really vivid colours in tattoos and this one in particular is extremely eye catching. The shading in particular really stands out. I bet the wearer of this one turns a few heads!

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    Some BME news follows the jump.

    I just wanted to post a brief update to let everyone know that I’ve added over 600 new images to BME over the weekend. That’s in addition to the 100-200 that have been added daily. So far today I’ve added another 30 or so and 14 new videos, mainly from the Dallas Suspension Convention. BME is giving away more free content than ever before, all you need to do is sign up for a free profile. You will have access to between 45-100 photos per gallery in each of the following galleries, Piercing, Tattoos, Scarification, Culture and Ritual. With updates happening just about every day, that’s a lot of free content!

    I also want to say how much we appreciate both the constructive criticism (key word being constructive) we’ve received as well as all the positive feedback. Often times you only hear the complaints so I just want to take a minute and say a huge thank you to all of the people who have written in lately to say how much they love the new site. We’ve made several changes based on user feedback so don’t ever think you’ll be ignored; as long as you have something constructive to say, our ears are open.

    Before I run off to have lunch and go about my day I wanted to mention a couple of things. The first is that I’ve heard that a few people are having trouble uploading photos. I’d never know it by the massive amount of new photo submissions we get daily but apparently it’s been an issue for some. If you’re one of those people, you may simply need to update your flash player to the latest version. It’s quick, easy and free (and recommended not just for our site). If you’re running Windows and using Internet Explorer, make sure you grab the update for that browser as well as any other browser you may use.

    Also, I’ve created a FAQ that should help new users and answer some questions about the site. I’ll add more to it as I see a need but for now I just wanted to make sure everyone knew about it.

    That’s all folks!

  • BME Trivia

    Written by

    Sean Philips

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    As an “old fart” by the piercing industries standard, I have a high appreciation for things in the modern history of body modification.  In talking with lots of young piercers and modification fans I am often shock and saddened by their total lack of knowledge (and to some degree lack of caring) about  where this community came from. This is why I try and do From The Vault features to show readers some of what happened pre-modblog.

    Anyhow, I used to post these trivias on my iam page, with random prizes and I thought it would be fun to post them here occasionally as well.  I don’t have much in the way of a prize to offer, but whomever gets all the answers in first (or in the event no one gets them all right whoever gets the most correct this weekend) can either have a feature on themselves, or an artist or friend of their choice on modblog.

    For the questions, keep on keeping on.

    -What does Muzak (the generic elevator music company) have to do with body piercing?

    -What modern body modifier first made a name for himself by wholesaling CBR’s for under 4 bucks when Gauntlet was still charging around 20?

    -What is Fakir Musafar’s birth name?

    -What does PFIQ stand for?

    -Name at least one of Erik Sprague’s aliases besides “The lizardman”.

    -What does “TSD” stand for ?

    -What was Todd Bertrang formally arrested for?

    -What is a RABbit?

    -Who’s collection of photos, were the basis of the Shawn Porter Collection?

    -Who was the primary photographer of the BME trading cards and the Modcon books?

    -What bodmod artist worked with Dee Snyder to design the piercings seen in the movie “Strangeland”?

    -What was BME’s original url?

    Bonus Question:

    In the acronym DFWC, which stands for ‘Don’t Fuck With Chuck”, who is Chuck?

    Email your answers to [email protected]

    PLEASE DO NOT POST ANSWERS IN THE COMMENTS!!!!!!

  • She’s a squirter!

    Written by

    Sean Philips

    A pictures worth a thousand words, so I will let this picture speak for itself.

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    This picture was submitted by lucyneckface, who credits the artist as Julian Wildhack Poyser.

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