Scarification by Bruno

I think this might be the first cutting we’ve featured by my friend Bruno; and it hopefully won’t be the last.
You can see more of his work/get in contact with him through his his website.

Back in February, Efix & Jesse collaborated on Gabriel’s birthday cutting… Efix just checked in with a healed photo.
It has the dubious pleasure of being the first image to go up with the new “theme” I installed over WordPress.

Not sure if I’m married to it, but change is usually never a bad thing!

Ron Garza just dropped this into my email box…

During a recent scarification workshop I was giving recently at BMX.net in Germany I was going to do a tissue removal workshop with the single line cutting workshop I also gave, but because of the design chosen( swastikas), and due to our understanding of certain legal factors at the time (like displaying a swastika in public, in Germany being Illegal), I decided not to have do the tissue removal workshop and had an impromptu workshop for a select few in a much more relaxed environment.

The design Lassi chose was in the shape of the Hindu good fortune swastikas, which most of you ( at least i hope most of you ) know is an ancient symbol over 3000 years old that only in our lifetime has became a symbol of hate.

It seemed fitting we do this in Germany , while listening to hip hop, and ironically enough, it was a brown man, making an Scandinavian Aryan bleed! I had to have a laugh and share with all of you.

Lassi being perpetually hungry, ended up disposing of the remnants.. ahh those Crazy Fins..

Living the Dream,
Ron Garza

(More pics by Damien Kenny after the break!)

From Efix:
Working on a friend is always very special for me. working on a
coworker or collegue, even more. Doing facial work holds a very
meaningfull place in my heart. combine those 3 and you get Frank’s
facial scar I did 2 days ago. It was quick and he handled it really
well. And the meaning behind it made it a true honnor for me to be
there and facillitate it for him. Thank you Frank!

It’s been too long since we’ve put up anything by the lovely Christiane of Oslo; in order to fix that… a really well executed (and may I say “pretty”) floral cutting.

Christiane can be reached via: http://www.pinpoint-piercing.no/

Efix has been working on a lot of Buddhist inspired pieces lately; his latest one (on client Julie) is of the Five Wisdoms. (which you can read more about here: Five Wisdoms Wiki)

The intricacy of the design works really well with the subject matter; I’ll bug Efix for healed photos to see how it’s progressing.

Welcome to 2010, Scarwarriors.
I’ve been taking a bit of a break from updating the Scarblog, but now I’m back and ready to get the fun train rolling.

My friend Matias sent this one in; a healing shot of his amazing demon cutting we featured back in November. Great progress and texture.

I hadn’t planned on updating tonight, but as I sat down to watch a movie and prepare for the threat of a major snowstorm I happened upon new cutting by my poutine loving friend Efix Roy.
He says this lettering took approximately two hours. Clean work as always. I’m counting the months till my summer trip to spend some time in Quebec City with Efix- until then….

Tabarnak!

Another pic from Thorsten!
I have so many amazing cuttings from Thorsten to choose from that I just couldn’t help using one more this week; with amazing work from Rata, Lewis, Capo and Thorsten over the last few updates we’ve covered two continents and more than a few countries.

My hellish Holiday Season is almost over; regular updates will commence soon and the much delayed books/shirts will finally ship.

As promised; more work from my friend Thorsten.
I bring this up a lot, but you can’t really predict how a cutting will heal; so many factors play into the end result. But going to a professional exponentially increases your odds of ending up with an amazing piece.

I’m seeing a LOT of folks getting into cutting; some of whom go about things the right way and learn from other professionals. Others just grab a scalpel (if we’re lucky) and start hacking up their friends.

Unfortunately there are very few sources for the aspiring scarification artist; and with that lack of availability there seems to be a justification of just doing it on your own. Sky Renfro and Fakir each offer courses; John Joyce and Wayde Dunn did a killer “introduction to scarification course” a few months ago that I’d love to see developed further… There are always options if you’re willing to devote time, travel and financial resources toward them.

Thorsten can be contacted via myspace at: Myspace.com/artofscars