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  • Metal-esque Freehand Forehead Scar

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    Shannon Larratt

    I hope no one is upset with me for being a bit of a Samppa Von Cyborg (voncyb.org) fanboy and posting a good percentage of his creations, but I really do believe he’s one of the most important body modification artists working today, and everyone ought to have their eye on him. Here’s a freehand scarification, designed by Kali and cut by Samppa — forehead work always looks great, and I particularly like this piece because of the way it dances with the scalp tattoo that it echoes. I will have to keep an eye on this and make sure it’s eventually the subject of a “Friday Followup” on ModBlog.

  • Video Interview with Tye Olsen

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    Shannon Larratt

    I am just terrible about telling you about these on time, so go subscribe to his YouTube channel! J.C. Potts has posted the most recent The Modified World (and the new one should come online tomorrow I hope), and you’ll be happy to hear that it’s an interview with long-time IAM/BME member Tye Olsen, talking about his “surgically modified pointed elf ears”. Another great show.

  • How The Zeta Reticuli Exchange Program Began

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    Shannon Larratt

    If we learned anything from Project Serpo [serpo.org], it’s that the Zeta Reticulans fucking love flesh hooks.

    Seriously, is it just me, or does resurrection suspension really look a lot like some sort of Fire In The Sky sort of alien abduction? I guess I see aliens before resurrection because I was brought up on science fiction, not on the Bible, so when someone is being drawn up into the skies, it’s an act of the Greys, not an act of God. This picture is from the wonderful suspension campout that I posted earlier in the week — be sure to check out that entry if you haven’t already seen it.

    Click the picture to see the original, as it really happened.

  • The Matilda Piercing

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    Shannon Larratt

    Rick, who describes himself as “an old and rusted piercer from Rome, Italia” (currently at The Ten Bells), wrote me with a photo of a unique piercing he did a while back and was wondering if it had a specific name. It’s basically a vertical lobe, but done with an unusual placement. The jewelry is a curved barbell, so the jewelry is barely even in the ear, and is almost more of a surface piercing on the neck that just happens to exit between the anti-tragus and tragus. He calls it the “Matilda Piercing”, and I’ve never heard another name for it, so that’s good enough for me!

  • Full Ear Reshaping by Samppa

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    Shannon Larratt

    Samppa Von Cyborg (voncyb.org) just posted this remarkable ear reshaping. When Steve Haworth first pointed Katzen’s ear in the mid 1990s, the procedure was just a small snip and fold at the top of the ear, and by and large, the procedure hasn’t really changed a whole lot until recently, and Samppa is arguably at the forefront of showing that you don’t have to just point the top corner to one degree or another — you can actually reshape the entire contour and form of the ear from top to bottom. If I didn’t know and trust Samppa implicitly, I don’t think I’d even believe it was the same ear!

    While I’m mentioning Samppa, let me also post an update of the skull chest implant that I posted fresh a while back. The incision is still settling, but the implant itself is full healed and looks great. As far as I know more skulls are being added at the other points of the cross.

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