http://ill-use.com Sick tattoos and body modification - full body tattoos and music Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:32:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is not the standard type of Bod Mod. This is more of a native tradition that falls under body modification. There is a place in Asia that is known for the old tradition of neck stretching using brass rings. The Padaung, or Ka-Kaung as ... http://ill-use.com/2007/body-modification/odd-bod-mod-neck-stretching-with-rings/ So a readers email about the good old 1980's garage punk days got me thinking... mostly of how damn old I feel since I was there at the time as well. I guess by many musical standards of 80's punk, I was lucky to grow up in LA and remember hanging ... http://ill-use.com/2007/bands-and-music/the-good-ole-days-yep-80s-punk-rock/ So many people think a symbol looks cool but like myself, have no clue to its meaning. So I did the footwork here and looked the shit up. Celtic Symbols in tattoos - the meaning (I hope) The following celtic symbol definitions have been collected from various internet sites and please do not ... http://ill-use.com/2007/tattoo/celtic-symbols-meaning-in-tattoo-art/   MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE read band lyrics  |  watch band videos  |  listen2music  |  read band history  |  catch band tours Song: 1 Download "THE BLACK PARADE" - - - - - - - -> Song: 2 Download "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" - - - - - - - -> My Chemical Romance (often shortened to MCR or My ... http://ill-use.com/2007/bands-and-music/my-chemical-romance-on-ill-usecom/ So where did flesh art and the "modern" tattoo originate from? hmmm... I doubt anyone can really say for sure, many would say that what we now know as the modern art of tattoo came from Polynesia and who am I to contradict that? But tattoos can be found in cave ... http://ill-use.com/2007/tattoo/polynesian-tattoos-then-and-now-ancient-tattoo-symbols-turned-modern-body-art/ Body painting has been traced thousands of years back and was a staple of ancient cultures and rituals. Some cultures still use body painting in modern times for ceremonial purposes. In many Indian cultures it is still in use today using a variety of pigments. Staining the nails, skin and hair ... http://ill-use.com/2007/body-art/body-art-awsome-painted-costumes-on-modern-dancers/ As tattoo art becomes more accepted and much more mainstream,  various companies have decided to use flesh art as a form af advertising. Yes, we now have the human walking and talking billboards and there are plenty of takers in this ad form. If you can live with a company logo ... http://ill-use.com/2007/uncategorized/walking-billboards-companies-turn-tattoo-flesh-art-into-advertising/ Tattoo portraits are always cool, and way sick when those portraits are of movie monsters, vampires and zombies. Check out the pics below of some way sick tatts. [gallery=34] And the mother of all Hollywood monsters, Alien... check out a few of these Alen theme tatts [gallery=41] <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-9327890866381624"; //468x15, created 1/21/08-ill-top-ban google_ad_slot = ... http://ill-use.com/2007/monsters/monsters-scary-bloody-creepy-monster-faces-as-tattoo-art/ Kane Hodder - Aboard The Leper Colony Download Aboard The Leper Colony ... http://ill-use.com/2007/bands-and-music/kane-hodder-is-on-ill-usecom/ For most people, and I assume this getting a tattoo is not that hard of a choice to make, you want it or you don't... right? well the hard part I would imagine is trying to figure out what image you want to spend the rest of your life with. So ... http://ill-use.com/2007/tattoo/what-to-get-for-your-tatt-that-is/