Bloke. Tattoos. His. Face. With. USA. Flag, sensation.

Click the screenshot below to read the Seattle P-I article..

Fark.

[Premiere.com] Long-time BME supporter (and full-time-job-having sell-out) Jenni recently interviewed Vera Farmiga, co-star of the new amputation-fetish film, Quid Pro Quo. Nick Stahl takes the lead as wheelchair-bound journalist Isaac, who, while researching the subculture of voluntary amputees (some of whom mention their jealousy of Isaac’s condition), meets Fiona (Farmiga), a woman with Body Integrity Identity Disorder who wants nothing more than to spend her life in a wheelchair. Something tells me Farmiga’s been reading BME. From the interview:

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Oh, my! Who is that handsome devil? What’s that? You don’t recognize him without the slick part in the hair, bright blue eyes and cherubic cheeks? Well, I’d know that goyische punim anywhere — it’s none other than Shawn Porter, and he’s just released the snazzy shirt you see above, featuring original artwork by Jasonthe29th! These are available exclusively to people attending BMEfest 2008 on June 27, ModProm on June 28 or Jana’s Toronto Island BBQ on June 29!

The details:

Price: $10 USD

Size Range: Babydoll-XXL

Color: The classy olive drab you see above

How To Get One: Send a PayPal payment to awap@aol.com with your size and at which event you’ll be picking up your shirt. These will not be shipped to anyone who doesn’t show up, so make sure you’re RSVP’d for the event(s)!

Tickets for ModProm are running out, so get yours while they last!

Via those sassy dames over at Jezebel (“sassy dames” is the preferred nomenclature, right?) comes this inspirational story of a courageous woman named Sarah Robbins who learns to see past the gruesome disfigurement terrorizing the precious corpus of her boyfriend. Or something. Let’s give this the thorough FJM’ing it deserves.

Is Love Skin Deep?
One guy’s scary body art puts his girlfriend to the test.

Hey, we’re all pretty experienced, erudite fans of body modification here, so the chances of one of us finding body art “scary”? Probably pretty low. That said, I can certainly sympathize with the average un-modified person (let’s do everybody a favor and bury the term “plainskin”) who may be fascinated, disturbed or even, yes, scared by someone like, say, Skullboy. If body modification were totally foreign to me for whatever reason and I ran into him randomly? Might be a little spooked.

So … clearly the “scary body art” referred to in the title here must be something like that, right?

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As a precursor to the Northen Ink Xposure tattoo convention (NIX), Toronto’s Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art played host to the Art Fusion Experiment (AFE), which ran June 11-12. On Saturday night at M.O.C.C.A., canvases from the AFE will be auctioned off to benefit Art City in St. James Town, a Toronto-based not-for-profit organization “committed to providing free and accessible art programs to the children of St. James Town.”

I’m glad to be able to republish the recap of the BMXnet conference to help support the efforts of INKstar and others in putting together a great educational conference. Click the image to read last year’s recap and find out information on this years convention. I’m happy to be a sponsor this year and should be attending the conference, even though due to Germany’s restrictions, BMXnet cannot link to BME.

In early November 2007, about 150 piercers, tattooists and other body modification artists came together to attend and participate in the first BMXnet Conference. This is an account written by one of the organizers, and was translated from German to English by Hillary.

One of the drawbacks of being a columnist is occasionally having to write insane, rambling, borderline incoherent insane ramblings and then try to justify these random words and phrases as a cogent thought you squeezed out of your very own mind grapes. For example:

In NBA playoffs, less ink means more viewers.

Sigh. Excuse me while I go all Fire Joe Morgan on what is sure to be quite the tone poem, after the jump.

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Jessica sent me the following email, asking for feedback on her high school media studies project.

I’m a 17 year old piercing apprentice studying in Hong Kong, and I intend to pursue a career in film and television. I combined my two passions together and for my final film project, I created a documentary about tattoos and piercings in Hong Kong.

As part of the project, I’m looking for feedback both from people involved and interesting in the subculture. I was wondering whether it would be possible for you to tell me what you think of it, or even help me post this somewhere so I can gain some criticism that isn’t the youtube “lol datz good”?

Happy to help! Here it is; let her know what you think.

We all love surprises, don’t we? Sometimes they happen around tattoo conventions – Philadelphia, PA and another one in the UK.

Tattoos in academia – TX twice, NE once.

Body modifications and the Law – a little older article from NY and two more from IA and MN; and yet another one from Germany.

You can try to discuss the subject of body piercing but tattoos apparently remain a mystery

And, finally, something both exotic and lighter from India.

IAM members can submit links to articles about body modification here

Tattoo popularity soars but you still can get ”good” ol’ comments about your body art.

Stories behind people’s tattoos again, this time from Scotland.

As many of you know, this weekend in Philly, PA and in Reno, NV …

A little older but very interesting articles about Leo Zulueta and Guy Aitchison (submitted by faeven).

Something body piercing-related.

Ink as art in WI and an article about ritual suspensions from Thailand.

And finally, when we decide tattoos aren’t that cool anymore … (this one’s in German).

IAM members are welcome to submit newsfeed links here.