Monday July 31st, 2006 @ 10:01 PM
Wow, I never thought this idea for piercing jewelry-attached eyeglasses patent would actually make it into production (it’s different than the pierced eyeglasses that BME has covered in the past). Barry sent me a link to what appears to be a commercialization of that patent, “ATTITUDE“, a pair of sunglasses that clip onto your eyebrow piercings rather than resting on your ears.
How stupid is commercializing that idea? I’ve got no problem with “experts” (people who understand their bodies) playing with things that don’t always work, but don’t push this stuff on a market that may not know better. I mean, unless the goal of the product is to get eyebrow piercings to reject, I just don’t see it being worth it. And anyone who really is in “the committed depths of Body Modification” (as they claim to be) should know that. It doesn’t matter what release mechanism you build in — even tiny amounts of pressure on an eyebrow piercing can radically speed up rejection.
Yes, you too could be this cool.
PHOTO: DOATTITUDE.COM
Well, I suppose there’s a sucker that doesn’t know any better born every minute — after all, think about how many people are perfectly willing to wear low-grade dollar-wholesale (or less) barbells (I’d say 90%+ of the market). Maybe they’ll make lots of money off this, and I’m sure they’ll even be able to find some leather skinned people who can wear them in the long term and post here complaining that rejection is not a risk… but personally I wouldn’t wear these if I cared about keeping my piercings as long as possible.
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Monday July 31st, 2006 @ 10:00 PM
No, this is not a breakfast club tattoo or anything like that; it’s an acronym — “To Obtain Anything Start Thinking”. Probably good advice. These are by Lawler at Magic Needle in Humble, TX.
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Monday July 31st, 2006 @ 9:59 PM
From BME’s love themed tattoo gallery, here’s two ways of talking about love. On the left we’ll start with a simple love letter, on Lil Miss Strange by Lucas in Beerse, Belgium. On the right is a tattoo by Mark at On Edge in The Netherlands, with a slightly more indepth explanation — “love is the reunification of the two halves of a split soul”.
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Monday July 31st, 2006 @ 9:58 PM
Such a cute tattoo! It’s on chickadee2084 (“a reminder to always Be More“, she says), and was done by Tina Carr at Inkers in Germantown, MD (the shading is a nice addition), and originally designed by Gray.
PS. Happy Sun Shirts!
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Monday July 31st, 2006 @ 9:56 PM
I blew the lines out a bit because I edited the photo on the wrong computer (it’s solid in real life), but I quite like Bronte’s facial tattoo, which you can see in more detail on her IAM page — it’s sort of a mix between street punk tattooing and something a bit more delicate? Applied by Jarrod Richardson at Psycho Clown in Ft. Worth, TX.
PS. More tattooed faces, heads, and necks.
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Monday July 31st, 2006 @ 9:54 PM
“Need I say more?”
- p2bb, Athens Greece.
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Monday July 31st, 2006 @ 9:52 PM
Midian2000, one of the first people featured on ModBlog for his Lucio Fulci tattoo, has recently had this dermal anchor put in his neck (placed so it can be seen through his stretched lobe) by Didier at Enigma in San Diego, CA.
You may also know Midian2000 from the CD of IAM musicians we released on BME Records a few years back, or from the wildly successful So. Cal BME BBQ which is about to happen again this weekend for the sixth year — click here for more details. I’ve heard some of the stuff they have planned and it sounds like it’s going to be a really nice time.
You should go!
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Monday July 31st, 2006 @ 9:51 PM
Thanks to Black Ink Pen for sharing her BME-slogan tattoo (I think this is my favorite of the various slogans, although “It happened when I was abducted by aliens” is near the top of the list too), appropriately customized to match her own story and personality. Tattoo by David at Desired Skin in Big Rapids, MI.
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Monday July 31st, 2006 @ 9:50 PM
Thanks to piercer and model Natalie Adams (photo: Lighthouse Studios) from California for this great shot (she’s a new member if you’d like to go say hello).
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Monday July 31st, 2006 @ 6:07 PM
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Sunday July 30th, 2006 @ 6:21 PM
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Sunday July 30th, 2006 @ 1:40 PM
I think you’ve heard me complain/comment before about how since Google and everyone else is afraid of the government and/or the Church and/or personally has a problem with sexuality, it’s virtually impossible to get non-porn advertising for ModBlog. Now, while I think that it’s important to recognize that this type of financial censorship is still censorship, I’m more concerned about simply being permitted to document the activities that are recorded here and on BME in more detail. These activities are a huge part of modern and historical human behavior and I think it’s as important to understand and record them as the rest of the art and culture we produce as a species.
You may remember that quite a while back BME did an emergency move out of the United States (we were hosting out of California at the time, but are now back in Toronto where I live right now). If you’d like to know why, ask the recently sentenced folks who got three years in prison (down from over five) for shipping a nipple piercing video across state lines. This case also defined nipple piercing as “violence” and not protected under “free speech”. I can’t even begin to say how relieved I am that Canada has protection of “free expression” (including sexual expression), and that obscenity is defined by harm caused, not by moralism. So yeah, this picture goes out to all my friends at the FBI.
That said, with adult sites being “inspected” (if they’re searching your whole house, I think a better word would be “raided”) across the United States, I still am a little nervous that some of that censorship and oppression will flow North across the border. Well, at least now you know the real reason Christina Aguilera got rid of her nipple piercing, ha… Last thing she needs is to pay a $550,000 fine for letting anyone see it in public. Man, here in Toronto you can walk down the street topless with your nipple rings showing (male or female, thanks to equality laws), and there’s not a damn thing the cops can do about it… and CityTV can even broadcast it if they want to up their ratings!
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Sunday July 30th, 2006 @ 1:36 PM
I feel like I’ve been neglecting the “BMEgirls” department a little lately with all the tattoos I’ve been posting. Don’t worry, I haven’t gone over to the darkside mainstream.
Let me share with you two quick pictures. On the left is a photo that’s either a killer turn on or turn off for you depending on your kinks — thanks to Nyne for this DIY tongue splitting photo from Vancouver. And thanks to Britt Laird in Houston, TX for the 29 needle photo of Sarah on the right.
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Sunday July 30th, 2006 @ 1:33 PM
I’m going to write more about this later, but can I just say how angry it makes me that we censor people’s right to sexual expression? As sexual beings (our primary biological function is reproduction), the most pure form of expression we have is sexuality. If you want to really understand humans, you have to understand the way they express themselves sexually, and when that expression happens in exceptional ways, it is worth encouraging like all exceptional behavior, rather than working to stifle it.
And watching the way a culture’s sexuality evolves will tell you more about them as a people than most other factors that we take seriously in my opinion.
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Sunday July 30th, 2006 @ 1:28 PM
It is not very often that you will see a full color tribal piece this large.
AZA tattooed this amazing full back piece.
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Sunday July 30th, 2006 @ 12:46 PM
I like this tattoo Nicole got of her dogs by Brian at So. Cal Tattoo in San Pedro, CA.
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Sunday July 30th, 2006 @ 12:45 PM
From Malaysia, courtesy of El Tio Pincho.
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Sunday July 30th, 2006 @ 12:44 PM
Isn’t this stuff illegal in Singapore? Or maybe this is what happens to kids when you take away their chewing gum. If so, I’m all for it!
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Sunday July 30th, 2006 @ 12:43 PM
Brotherdroogie is starting with a “GOONIES NEVER SAY DIE” banner, and it will be followed by a full front torso (neck to beltline) Goonies themed collage. The work is being done by NumberOne at X Body Emporium in Swansea, MA.
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Sunday July 30th, 2006 @ 12:42 PM
Work by Ryan Corrigal in Edmonton, Alberta. This is the second piece they’ve cut on Justin.
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Sunday July 30th, 2006 @ 12:41 PM
Check out this well keloided scarification by Urea, Joao Pessoa, PB Brazil.
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Sunday July 30th, 2006 @ 12:40 PM
Te amo, ya vas lyublyu, ja cie kocham, eg elskar deg, kimi o ai shiteru, ani ohev at, ich liebe dich, je t’aime, ana behibak, ek is lief vir jou. You can say it so many ways, why not take on the curse of the paired tattoo?
By Jim Couey at Ink Fiend in San Jose, CA (the text is love and “one-four-three” I think).
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Sunday July 30th, 2006 @ 12:38 PM
What Would Thundershield Do? Durkon Thundershield tattoo (from The Order of the Stick) by “Baby” Tim at R U Tattooed in Colorado Springs, CO.
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