Saturday May 10th, 2008 @ 12:12 PM
At the end of March Shannon posted a link to article about Sophie Lancaster. Here’s a follow-up of this story: Goths’ blackest day and Standing up for Goths.
You can also read and voice your opinions on these articles:
- Down with tattoos;
- Painful-looking piercings produce unnatural body mutilation;
In other not that good news: Teen’s lip piercing leads to MRSA infection (submitted by krikitfrog) and weeks in hospital after getting pierced (this one is in German);
New law in Australia soon: Australian state to outlaw “intimate” piercings of minors and Age limit on body piercing welcomed.
Also, with a recent wave of graduations from colleges and universities, journalists give us something to consider: suited for the workplace.
IAM-ers mentioned in the online articles this week:
- Allen Falkner and his TSD in Stabbed in the back for fun;
- MONTE in Suspend all disbelief at Dr Jack’s ;
- iam: bleeding in a Swedish article submitted by Aghori_Baba.
People and their tattoos: Social Distortion singer about music and tattoos, Braddock Mayor gets tattoo for every victim of violence, a Mexican tattoo artist featured in Tattoos by Goethe, a daughter of a Dutch tattoo artist about her father (this one’s in Dutch) and Drummer changed man’s life.
Some of you may find this concept interesting: Electronic tattoo display runs on blood submitted by cocaire
On the final note, something funny submitted by Pademelon: Baywatch actor popped for pilfering pages.
As always, all IAM-ers are welcome to submit links to body modification-related stories here
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Saturday May 3rd, 2008 @ 11:35 AM
Not really in the scope of BME interests but since body art has many faces, here’s two of them:
- Orlan and her Post-Identity Strategies;
- Temporary and yet ancient – the art of henna;
Tattoo artists speak: Local tattoo shop offers body art, Got ink?
For legitimate tattoo artists, health and safety is as much an issue as art and Behind the scenes reveals more than tattoo TV shows.
In one of my favorite categories of articles about body art, people and their tattoos, you can read about an Alabama sports fan covering himself with tattoos , a tattooed college professor and a pretty heavily tattooed lawyer from the UK.
And let’s not forget about Susan Sarandon who got her tattoos done to celebrate her 60th birthday (I came across several posts about it but this one is “special”). In case we don’t want to get anything permanent, we can always wear it like Beckham.
In the law-related news: Health department bans tattoo branding in PA and Teen tattoo creates a stir in ND.
havoq submitted an interesting link about Spiderman tattoo (comments about this one are also interesting).
On a different note, looks like temporary tattoos may be used for kid’s safety.
Finally, to add an international touch to the post, a few articles about body art around the world (some of them a little older than just one week): Tattoos, piercing on the rise as fashion statement from Pakistan, Youth line up to get tattoos erased and Tattoo tales go wrong from India and tattoo artists hope to work legally in Turkey.
As always, IAM members can submit links to interesting articles here.
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Friday March 28th, 2008 @ 10:06 AM
So about a zillion people have written me about how the TSA has banned — at least in one ill-advised case — people wearing nipple rings from flying in America. Because, what, terrorists are planning on using exploding nipple rings? (Photo c/o Enrikay). Obviously this is a screener over-stepping their authority and abusing their power, rather than an official TSA mandate, but I think it illustrates both that the prejudice against even basic piercings is still strong, and that one of the strong arguments not to give any unwarranted powers to the government is that individuals always will abuse that power, even if the government itself is in theory “good”.
It also reminds me that the BME newsfeed has been sorely neglected over the last while — entirely my fault — despite the continued efforts of Ania and others. I’m pleased to say that Ania will be taking over managing the newsfeed, so over the next couple weeks, watch for regular updates (perhaps “this week in Mod News” or something) on what’s going on. IAM members, as always, can submit news here.
Update: The TSA has refused to apologize and stated that the above was in accordance with official policy, although they say they’ll be updating the policy to allow people to simply show their piercings rather than being forced to remove them.
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Tuesday June 26th, 2007 @ 6:01 PM
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Thursday June 7th, 2007 @ 6:01 PM
As you can see, I’ve finally moved the newsfeed over from the main site to here — it will be updated daily, thanks to the help of the IAM submittors.
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