A simple message, executed nicely.  What a great way to round out a Friday afternoon.

Tattoo credit goes to Roger from Star City Tattoo in Roanoke, VA

While I’m sure some of you might be expecting a video game related post with that headline, the fallout I’m referring to is happening on ChrisB’s arm.

As Chris’ branding heals, the ink that was branded over will fall out, leaving a nice negative space flower on his arm.  As many of you with brandings know, they hurt, a lot.  So who was it that got to torture Chris?  None other than Brian Decker.  Which of course brings us back to the title, as Brian and Chris both work and live in New York City.  You can see more of Brian’s work in his BME portfolio gallery.

Today’s guess what is a first for me.  I didn’t have to crop or blur anything in the first photo.  Of course that doesn’t really help you with anything.

So, with a bottle of nice chianti, and a side of fava beans, what do you think is the main course?

And no, that isn’t someone’s liver.  It is part of someone’s body though.  The question is, what part?

Think you know?  Keep on reading to see if you’re right.

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Well, it is Friday, which means it’s time for this week’s scarification follow-up.  Today’s scar is unique in that it was the artist’s first scarification piece ever (that wasn’t done on herself).  The artist of course is none other than Hooklife and IAM’s own SouthTownBaby.  So for Misty’s first scarification piece she cut an anchor into her client.

We’ve seen other scars by Misty, and for someone who is still new to the art, she can nail circles like a pro.  Oh, and the rest of it is pretty awesome too.  Let’s see how it looks a couple of months into healing.

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Seriously.  Life would be so much better if every day we could spend 15 minutes bouncing around in one.  Ball pits are an acceptable alternative, but there’s something to be said for bouncing around like an idiot in a castle.  If you support the bouncy castle initiative, then you should be attending BMEFest 2011.  Oh sure, there’s a pool, some goats, baby ducks, slip’n’slides, bonfires, bbq, suspensions, campsites and more, but what matters most is the bouncy castles.  Alright, so spending a weekend in Virginia with some awesome people is probably a better reason to come down.  So get yourself over to the event page, sign up (if you have a problem signing up, try a different browser), and I’ll be seeing you next weekend (July 2nd-4th)!

BME logo scar by MaRTWy.

Or is it just Meizy?

Photo by Scott Miron See

DIY tattoos have been around, well forever.  Granted today they have a negative stigma attached to them simply due to lack of knowledge both by some of the people doing the tattoos as well as outside observers.  Yet what about tattoo artists who tattoo themselves.  Are they still considered DIY?  Here we have Palua Simbora Siagian, one of the artists from Paranormal Tattoo in Philadelphia giving himself a half hand-poked, half hand-tapped thigh piece.

I am alone. They have gone into the house for breakfast, and I am left standing by the wall among the flowers. It is very early, before lessons. Flower after flower is specked on the depths of green. The petals are harlequins. Stalks rise from the black hollows beneath. The flowers swim like fish made of light upon the dark, green waters. I hold a stalk in my hand. I am the stalk. My roots go down to the depths of the world, through earth dry with brick, and damp earth, through veins of lead and silver. I am all fibre. All tremors shake me, and the weight of the earth is pressed to my ribs. Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing. I am a boy in grey flannels with a belt fastened by a brass snake up here. Down there my eyes are the lidless eyes of a stone figure in a desert by the Nile. I see women passing with red pitchers to the river; I see camels swaying and men in turbans. I hear tramplings, tremblings, stirrings round me.

-Virginia Woolf:  The Waves

IAM: EvanxBurke

Dorothy was always going on about Kansas.  How much she loved living on a farm with a lovable cast of characters.  That was a long time ago.  Nowadays I think she’d rather click her heels together and wish to go to Roanoke, VA, to visit Roger at Star City Tattoo.

Her name may be Polareyez, but she’s definitely hot.  Featuring work from Nick Friederich, Jason Ackerman, Brian Decker, and Starr Belew, Polareyez has a lot going on for her.  Hopefully I can twist her arm to come down to BMEFest 2011.

I’ve got one more pic of her, but you’ll have to keep reading to see it.

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