Some ancient culture Emily made this clay BME/Calm!

I thought that given some of the recent debate about mainstreaming and so on that this might be a good opportunity to post an interview with queer/leather/biker outlaw tattoo artist Jacki Randall. Click through for the interview, come on back to comment.

According to Faye, half of this gallery exhibit, “this is what happens if you are not sleepy.” Apparently Arnhem in the Netherlands has more interesting things to do at night than my neighborhood. I live next to a printshop that specializes in church donation envelopes… not very exciting at all. More pictures of their bloodshow after the break.

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This story of performing at the Encuentro Arte Corporal festival submitted by my friend Ego Kornus (visit his blog for more info on Kavadi rituals). It was originally posted in 2007 on BodyTwo.com and I am reposting it here now — continue reading for the article if you haven’t already read it. Thanks again for his support and wonderful stories. - Shannon

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I just uncompressed an update for the main site, and barring me getting latenight inspired and posting a midnight interview, and perhaps a few sporadic posts here of course, I shall return in earnest on Tuesday. Until then, a pretty drawing by Zaleska.

On a technical level, Lincoln’s tattoo was assisted by Laci at Tattoo Tradition in Sao Paulo, Brazil. I like what he’s doing a lot, both on a conceptual art level, and on a visual art level.

“The discovery of line.”

“Homage to the three jewels and my root guru.”

“Lines to write haiku:
Observations and others
inscriptions about transitoriness.”

When I posted the “LUST” scar, it was commented that it looked a lot like dermagraphism, a relatively common skin condition (affecting as many as one in twenty people) in which even minor contact causes inflammation. Anyway, I saw today on Neatorama a reference to artist Ariana Page Russell, who uses her dermagraphism to create art — these are temporary of course, but I like some of the designs a lot and they’d translate really nicely into permanent designs as well. There are a few more pictures after the break and of course, check out Ariana’s page for more.

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I’ve always been split on exactly where various forms of “tooth art” fall on the “is it body modification” question. Clearly wearing temporary caps on ones teeth is not (and if is is, so is wearing a hat or a mask), but permanent caps? I think one could make the argument that they’re beginning to move into the same realm as an implant? But then what about dreads?

Is tooth filing the same as cutting fingernails? What about gluing gems onto ones teeth? What if they’re set into a drilled hole first? In any case, I was looking at dental fangs made by iam:DistortedSmiles in NYC (who’s at myspace.com/distortedsmiles), and the thing I was most thrilled about were his unique “orc” or troll style teeth… As a big fan of warthogs, this is a sort of fang that I’ve been hoping someone would figure out for a long time. There are more pictures of them after the break, and for BME members there are lots of pictures of how he makes them out of acrylic in the next update (which I may end up posting early; later tonight).

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Merlin5 got “framed” by Chandler (of Superfly Suspension in Berlin, Germany)…

This is far from the first time that the folks from Ascension Suspension have done a movie appearance, but Steve just wrote me with some teaser shots from the work they did with the team from Game, a dystopian movie about future MMPOG environments gone wrong.

In the photos, as well as Kasja, *Stitch*, and _Stigmata_, are Efrain Ramirez (Pedro from Napoleon Dynamite), Brian Taylor (the bald guy — the director), and Gerard Butler (who you probably know better from 300). The shoot went well, so fingers crossed that as well as the scene in the movie, we’ll get to see the footage in the DVD extras in 2009/2010.

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