[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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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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This one (with a “slightly more negative, but it’s only a cartoon so it’s ok” feel to it than the previous post) is apparently by Diverse Tattoos, in Hamburg, but I think the sender might have meant something else.. Either way, it made me smile!

I’ll be offline over the weekend hence an earlier newsfeed post:

Body piercing aftercare according to one doctor: Hygiene important for piercing

On a slightly bizarre note: Man wearing nothing but tattoos arrested in woman’s home in CO, Man sticks it out 900 times for piercing record in TX and Chinese man sticks 2008 needles in his head in, quite obviously, China (the last link submitted by CuteLittleMetal)

A recent event with a comment by Lyle Tuttle and an upcoming event featuring designs by Ed Hardy

Modern tattoo artists – a female tattoo artist from Phililippines and a prospective one from USA

An interesting and thought-provoking read: Norms and Deviations. Who’s to say? (submitted by prurientpenguin)

Scare tactics – an article about unusual phobias, including a phobia of body jewelry.

Law-related: Swastika tattoo arrest in Germany (in English; submitted by freekyeyes) and new laws proposed in Russia.

Tattoos on swimmers: Top 5 tattoos in swimming.

Thanks for the links submitted this week; as usual, you can use this link if you come across anything body modification-related.

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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So, it took magneticdistortion over two years to finish her laundry, and now she’s tackling her next task. Everything!

I’m much more efficient, today I splashed out on a stick of 1GB DDR RAM for my (borrowed) computer, what does this mean for you? It won’t take five minutes for Photoshop to resize an image I’m editing for ModBlog. 256MB just doesn’t cut it.

How *not* to use ear cleaning solution!

Sometimes it goes the other way: my father likes to show off his nipple rings, I love her but I don’t love her tattoos and a boyfriend’s piercings stick a fork in romance.

“Appearances matter” says the author of In NBA playoffs, less ink means more viewers (submitted by xPurexFuckingxGonzox and MrNoModifications). A different point of view can be found here.

A handful of statistics and personal opinions in the article about ‘body art stigma’ in workplace.

Economy leaves mark on tattoos and tattoos of presidential candidates ( more… )

Thanks to elissamay for submitting an article about voluntary amputees and BIID (you can also read a BME interview with ‘One Hand Jason’)

Philly chefs’ tattoos tell tales.

Our “roots” with a modern twist: Show us your tattoos, sailor.

To end it on an international (and “slightly” older) note, here’s a short but interesting article submitted by MrNoModifications: Members of believed-to-be-extinct Metyktire tribe show up in ‘civilized’ world, sporting huge lip plates (in German); more in English

Thanks for the links submitted this week and, as always, IAM members can submit articles on the subject here

My dad used to treat me to the odd shandy or two when I was younger (I felt like such a grown-up!), so I can totally partially relate to this tattoo on IAM jam..

By Xtina “La Gypsy”, Tattoo Vibes, Amsterdam.

Modblog posts devoted to earlobe reversal show clearly that there is some interest in it; here’s some extra information on the procedure itself and its cost when done by a doctor: Gauges a new problem for plastic surgeons (submitted by iam: quinnnchick).

Tattoo convention coverage: NYC Tattoo Convention, Hell City Tattoo Fest, Maritime Tattoo Festival in Canada and another one about a tattoo convention in Prague, Czech Republic.

Eligible for an economic stimulus check and no idea how to both help economy and have some fun? You can find some inspiration here: Helping the economy bounce back, one tattoo at a time. Before you go out to spend this extra money, though, make sure you know what to look for and which shops you should avoid: Tattoo terror: a special undercover investigation in CO.

This one, also from CO, was submitted by Roo; I like the picture!

The 2008 presidential election in the US seems very interesting, so no wonder that people show their support in many ways, also by means of tattoos; let’s just hope no one will regret the indelible Hillary (more…)

A small selection of articles about body modification and jobs: Army bars tattooed man from re-enlisting in the UK, 100 ‘extras’ wanted but no-one with tattoos also in the UK, Sheriff: cover your tattoos (more…) in OH and now, the tattoo policy published in MI.

Something light and interesting to read: Zulu Tattoo; and an article I found pretty confusing (not to say plainly weird): Paris and Nicole forget which Madden brother is which.

Big thanks to Roo and the person who sent it to BME: Bites.

As always, IAM members can submit links to articles about body modification here.

I love this tattoo (and the hair) on Anarkos. By the way, you’re supposed to kiss that spot gently then give him a bubble bath, not shoot him. He’s a gentle punk*.

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