Had 2 hours of tattooing done earlier and I am now in this strange but wonderful state of relaxation which is unlike the norm. Very pleasant indeed. The purple and green ink is embedded into my left forearm with some hours of work left to so. No pics yet.
Wandered to and around Camden Market – http://www.camdenlock.net/- http://www.camdenmarkets.org/ – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camden_Market – with some friends yesterday. Some of the shops are below. What you can’t see here is the wide variety of people wandering round too. The last image. There is a shelf on the wall above them. You sit on the seat to eat the food. There was one overlooking the river but the pic isn’t as nice to look at. Inside the market there is probably every cuisine you can think of being cooked right in front of you. Fantastic place to go.
So the Submissive relationship breaker and overall “Mr Ego” from Mold (who now lives in Boston MA) who now works for Sophos (Paul – you missed your extra-curricular activities from your LinkedIn profile. Surely there is a boss just looking for you?) will be a dad. You do have to wonder about someone who is apparently working for a reputable firm who tries to erase all trace of himself and his activities on the net as his green card application approaches – I would love the images from the hidden directories on the old UPB site. And still his old sites (and hers) remain apparently offline. Nothing to hide is there?
It’s amusing how you can have a private profile on facebook but your gallery images are public. Still, at least we know the unfortunate child will be law-abiding – his parents will surely whip him into shape.
(And I know that only 3 people will agree with me but hey, like I care)
The veins tattooed on my left arm have been beefed up. Slight shading, more blue, tiny bit of black and some purple. Should look perfect. Took 2 hours. First colour (black) was easy, no pain. Purples were next and they stung a touch where they overlapped with the previous black. The blue was last and it crossed both sets of angry skin. Ouch it was esp on the inner elbow. Or maybe I’m a wuss :) Felt fine when there, came back and felt ill. As always. Even now some 5 hours later I feel ill. Not bad ill but as if I’ll wake up with the flu tomorrow.
Neil at abody (the tattoo studio) has an apprentice. She’ll not be tattooing for a while and seeing as my arms are now complete (bar a little colour top-up in the right arm) I’m thinking of taking her in a copy of Bartleby Anatomy and suggesting that my right calf could do with some action. I think the neck would be better but that’s an expensive place for a mistake. Should be free though and Neil could oversee. This of course depends on him and her and me so it may not come off. But it’s a thought.
Photos will be taken tomorrow in daylight and then in a couple of weeks.
And best of all they don’t want their site changing yet – http://abody.co.uk – and they have a vacancy for a tattooist.
Need to check on what the latest advice for a healing tattoo is. I used cocoa butter before and also just a light moisturiser on another but there could be something else? My left arm is being completed (or the next stage done depending on what happens after).
So Shannon has left BME. While this is obviously a private matter it proves that (1) Rachel did in fact orchestrate the ‘takeover’ and (2) modblog will go to sh*t like it did before. I said that I thought before in an entry on T2 I just re-published but my money says that IAM will be opened up to search engines or advertisers happy with the content. I recall Shannon saying he would never, but not her. Then watch people run to alternate communities. Oh well, modblog unsubscribed, zentastic added.
It was Rachel Larratt a couple of days ago.
It very much looks like Rachel Larratt has indeed stolen BME from it’s creator.
(Please consider all links here to be NSFW)
I used to read Modblog every day. I would also read Shannon’s page at IAM and at Zentastic. I am an ex-IAM user and there are photos of mine in BME Extreme. I’ve been reading a while and even debated joining IAM (but they didn’t take Paypal and that’s a whole other story). So it was more than surprising to see Shannon blog at Bodytwo that he was locked out of everything he had created. And it has continued. The guy isn’t allowed back. What he has worked for over years is now being stolen by a woman who has no history of presenting content. Sure she may have done financial stuff but the actual person who blogged every day and who drew the audience in has been thrown out.
Modblog is already stale – they have also removed the comments code from the template. Not just turned comments off, but changed the theme files. So they aren’t even prepared to speak and have comments – which is stupid because comments go elsewhere, you lose that last semblance of control, of keeping things in one place, of moderating and defending, of allowing the voices of reason and calm to also have an influence. It’s a short-sighted move when you are answering to tens of thousands of users. Zentastic and the IAM page are dusty and unused – yet despite all the garbage Shannon is still there blogging and promoting what he does and loves. Rachel Larratt might know cars, might know other stuff useful elsewhere but she has no clue at all about making sure BME runs. It doesn’t run because it’s cheap, or it’s got a large userbase or because it’s cool – it runs because of the ceaseless promotion by the one person. And in all my time reading there I can’t recall anything bar the one article when she has the gold star inserted into her eye. So who is going to promote the site? It won’t do it by itself.
The words below were at the bottom of http://bmezine.com. I copied them here because the Shannon’s copyright notice at the bottom of ModBlog was removed and replaced by something else. You can’t do that.
READ THE FINE PRINT: All pages and images copyright © 1994-2007 Shannon Larratt unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. …. All BME logos and slogans are trademarks / copyrights of Shannon Larratt.
So she is using his work, without his permission. That’s wrong. That’s theft.
If I had an IAM account right now I’d backup and quit. Delete and go. It won’t get better and from various blog reports it’s not so stable.
So ……. why did Rachel Larratt steal BME?
Girl almost died in crash as navel stud shot through her ‘like a bullet’
The seatbelt she was wearing forced the metal stud through her body almost to her spine, causing serious internal injuries. … also left the student with facial injuries and blood on her brain. But the most serious injuries occurred as a result of her piercing.
This is not good.
If it had not been for the piercing, she would not have been in a life-threatening situation.
No. If it had not been for the crash, or her wearing a “stud”, or her wearing the lap belt as she did, or her being so skinny. Many factors, not one.
Infections and other complications because of piercings are thought to cost the NHS up to £1.5 million a year.
5 years ago the NHS budget was 48 BILLION. In fact, Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust raised that amount in parking charges alone. So that £1.5 million isn’t anything really is it?
… that his step-daughter was determined to make others with piercings aware of the possible risks.
What’s she going to do? March on Parliament? Demand changes to legislation? Have a Support group? Give her 6 weeks and she won’t care less.
Infection is the main risk associated with body piercing. If hygiene standards are not adequate, those with piercings can catch hepatitis and HIV
Now this – pardon my language – is absolute bollocks. I’ve been pierced over 50 times if not more, I know people with many piercings done by many people and none have HIV and none have Hep A B or C. That sentence is scaremongering. It’s crap.
“If hygiene standards [insert place] are not adequate” …
- [restaurant] then you can get hepatatis, salmonella, e.coli 157, listeria etc.
- [hospital] then you can get MRSA and hospital acquired infections or dead
- [your own kitchen] you can get salmonella, listeria, e.coli 157, other gastro-intestinal disturbances
- [swimming pool] you can get verrucas, conjunctivitis
- [anywhere] [practically anything]
So to summarise that news article from the Times Online:
- the girl had an accident and got hurt but not entirely by the navel jewellery
- NHS Direct haven’t a clue.
and lastly, but most importantly – it’s not a stud. Not.a.stud. IF it WAS a stud then she deserves everything she got because she really should have got a clue.
Oh yes – and Times Online need to write better articles on bodyart.
At least the BBC don’t trot out the NHS twaddle, though they do end with “Have you had a negative experience of body piercings?” And here was me thinking they gave a balanced view….
I’m sure Claire linked to this somewhere in the past but this post makes for disturbing reading. It must also have some implications for bodyart galleries by studios. It must also surely have implications for IAM members and Modblog readers (last 2 links are NSFW). Nasty laws.