Here's something that even most tattoo enthusiast consider a little extreme: eyeball tattooing.
Apparently, you can tattoo an eyeball (it has been done on blind eyes to "hide" corneal defects). In this case, Pauly Unstoppable, Josh, and Shannon Larratt tattooed their pefectly healthy eyes, just to see if it could be done.
Link: Three Blind Mice at BME, Update on Josh's eye, Update 2, Shannon's Blog entry - Thanks esa!
Have they not heard of contact lenses?
"Yeah, I lost my sight because I wanted to look "cool" and freak out my brother freeaks."
Owen, read the article instead of just looking at the pictures next time, it makes you look less like an idiot.
Tim, this isn't exactly for "coolness", if you knew who these three people are who went through with it you'd know that they are guys who are doing new things and trying new things within the body modification community. It's as much trying something new as it is about proving it can be done. Bmezine ran an article a couple of years ago about eye implants as well, which isn't all that far from this. Just a solid titanium object (thin wafer) instead of a liquid ink.
Tempscire, such contacts do indeed exist, but that's kind of beside the point since this isn't about coloring the eyes by any means possible, this is about coloring the eyes by means of tattooing.
This is possibly the most idiotic thing I've ever seen. Some people truly, truly have too much time.
Beside that though, done correctly under sterlie circumstances (in other words, with proper equipment and in a clean environment) the actual risk of blindness is rather slim. The eye is more resiliant than you may think and also heals quite fast when it comes to minor invasions such as this.
So perhaps, before passing judgement you could actually try to understand why they did this instead of obviously just looking at a bunch of pictures and saying it's idiotic, not to mention do your research.
Sorry, body modification cen be pretty stupid at times, and this is definitely one of those times.
This is as stupid as smoking to look cool, going anorexic to look thin, or taking tons of steroids to look buff.
I read some of the article - "Don't try this at home, kids, but this is how we did it" - enough research to confirm that it's a really, really, dumb idea.
Except they are doing something that DOES carry risks, one of them was seeing doctors because he had PAIN when focusing on things.
They're RISKING THEIR EYESIGHT for what? To see if you can do it? Oh come on, it's just ridiculous... they're not risking their eyesight for the possibility of some great advance, they're risking their eyesight to have some blobby blue marks on their eyes.
Ridiculous, no matter how you look at it.
ted, because people don't do frivolous things in other fields on a daily basis? No, that cannot be, that's just not heard of!
I don't really consider something you do out of your own free will to your body as something stupid, I honestly don't care, it's your body to do with what you wish, as long as you don't hurt anyone else that is.
The research did not show that it was a dumb idea (you read "some" of the article, how about reading it all next time?), though it's not devoid of risk obviously hence you don't go out and recommend people to try it themselves. These are, as I mentioned, not a few bored teenagers not knowing what they're doing, quite the opposite. Not to mention that they know the risks involved and are ready to take them.
MrImpersonator, brave and trailblazing? I never claimed anything of the sort, I merely stated that they did something relatively new and knew quite well what they were getting into. You know what else carry risks? Walking across the street, bicycling, getting out of bed in the morning, and so forth. It's all about managable risk and accepting whatever risk there may be. Indeed, one of them was seeing a doctor, but did you bother to read more than that? The doctors didn't shit a brick because of what he did (which they would've if it was anything truly riskful) and the problem was more an irritation of the muscles around the eye than anything else. In other words, no risk of eyesight loss as you try to claim.
FFS read more than just the headlines if you're going to comment and appear smart, or just appear to look like you know what you're talking about.
Ridiculous? That may be how you look at it, it certainly isn't how I and many others look at it...so it does matter how you look at it.
You try to equate the risks, Mr. Pumpernickel, with crossing the streets, as if all risks are equally risky, or equally justified. The difference is that I cross the street to go to my job and make a good living, to go to my girlfriend's so we can have sex, to go to the art store to pick up more paint... in other words, the risk/benefit ratio makes the minimal risk worthwhile. What benefit do they achieve with this risk except getting a "first!" in the body mod community? What value does that community have when it rewards pointless risk like this?
I have read all of the posts regarding it (there really aren't many) and none of them make me think in any way that it was a clever thing to do.
As Justin said, crossing the street et al has a perfectly good risk/benefit equation.
Let's look at the risk/benefit equation with this moronic act:
* Risk: Possible loss of eyesight. Possible life long irritation, possible partial loss of eyesight, possibly being left with life long 'splodge' of ink in the eye which doesn't look good to anyone (including them). Loss of eye due to infection
* Benefit: Erm... um... having a splodge of blue in their eye that doesn't look good to anyone including them.
It is just ridiculous, they should not be congratulated, they should not be applauded for doing something new, they should be looked upon with sadness as they obviously have something missing from their lives to need to do this and the many, many other body mods they have done (yes, I've looked at their sites/blogs).
i thinks its cool. i will consider doing it if it gets safe :)
learn to respect other people! pretty much trash talk in here
This was the birth of piercings, or at least it went something like that.
Somewhere else thousands of years ago, some dude took a sharp stick, dipped it in ink, and repeatedly stabbed himself with it. He thought it was pretty cool, he probably got laughed at to, maybe even put to death. This to caught on, it's now called tattoo.
If there were never any idiots to push the boundaries of social acceptability (if that's even a word) then we would all be wearing the same pair of pants and shirt of the same material in the same color, with the same hair cut, etc etc etc.
I'd never do this to my own eyes, because it's not important to me. These individuals however felt that it was important to them and I respect that, so long as you're not harming others or your community, do what the hell you want.
Just curious why you people are so upset about it.
oh and to teh individual who would avoid them in the street.... it really wasn't all that long ago when someone with a lot of piercings and tattoo's would have been avoided in the street.
I think there's a lot of growing up here needed,
Cheers
Chris
cheers
Eyeball tattooing was not always done as a medical procedure to fix discoloration problems, etc... It was done cosmetically for long before any one single one of us was born. Do you criticize those cultures where they tattoo their entire bodies, or use piercings all over in increasing size, that would shock any sane person in the free world? You are going to sit back and say that their culture is wrong, and you are right? These gentlemen have chosen to partake of a culture that does things differently than you do. It is not your right to judge, and you should be ashamed for doing so. Every day there are those of us out there fighting and struggling with the rest of the world trying to prevent people like you from taking voice in any kind of public forum, because all you do is continually embarass not only yourself, but everyone around you who hears the ignorance coming from you.
This is as of yet, still a free country, and there is no law, or prejudice stating that they are in the wrong. There are risks yes, but there are risks in everything you do. Getting behind the wheel of a car is a risk, a tattoo, a piercing, eating, giving birth, etc... Anything you do in any part of our society and culture, has a risk attached to it. So far from all the research I have done, there is really almost no risk whatsoever in tattooing the eyeball. There is more risk in getting into an automobile accident than there is to damaging your eye and causing lasting harm. It is done in medical practice. And some people just do not want contacts. So back off and STFU! It is not your right!
Check your research, make sure you do it thoroughly and you will see exactly how little there is. And btw, if you had read the article, and the research, you would realize that he is not done, and these men are planning on perfecting the process, and plan on continuing to do this until they have achieved their final results. Since this article has come out, many more people have actually done this, and not one so far has had any kind of problem.
All of the people stating their opinions about this have the right to say how they feel. Since this is "a free country". You do not have the right to tell them how to feel about those people's body modifications. Over all this IS a bad idea. Tattooing the eye is a BAD idea. Surface piercing (if done wrong) are also bad due to the chance of rejection and leaving horrible scars. Tattoos and most piercings only carry the chance of infection, which is easily cleared up since conventional tattoos and piercings are done through the Epidermis.
People are too caught up on being understanding of other cultures. Understanding is different from imitating. I am all for body modifications. I have numerous piercings and tattoos. BUT at the moment it is the general concensus that the risk is higher than the benifit, i.e. IT IS A BAD IDEA.
You entry makes me sad, if you are in fact a scientist, then you are extremely close minded and that's a shame because in our scientific community we need open minded individuals. Just think, if everyone thought like you and was afraid of risks, coppernicus never would have said the world was round (under fear of being executed for heresy), the wright brothers would have never tried to fly, Mr bell wouldn't have invented the light bulb etc etc etc.
cheers
chris
Mark
People are different, that's what makes them special, instead of hating them why don't you look in a mirror and realize that the only reason you laoth them is because your jealous that they thought up the cool tattoing ideas first. Jealous son of a b***h.
DemonicEMT is a hero among bloggers. I applaud you.
IGNORANT PEOPLE. thats all you are.
grow some fucking balls pussy!
wat other colors can you do it in
ill b a canidate for it
OK, it's cool that there's so much of mad people in the world that there's always the one lunatic who dares to try something new and well, now we'll know if you can actually succesfully change the color of your eyeball.
It's the sort of "no need to know, but cool to tell people" kinda info, I guess.
I, personally, would never try anything that risky for such a "childish/playful/naive cause", but this is interesting, I've got to say. I just would NEVER f*ck with my eyesight. I'd be so lost if I lost it.. I had a swollen eye for 5 days after a haggard beatdown by 3 guys (I was alone) and even losing my depth perception made me miserable, since I couldn't see from my other eye. At all. When I finally got my eye open, the whole white area was red. Yes, it did look "KINDA COOL! uh hu huh..", but no, I'd never want a permanent eye like that.
And I got to admit, I've laughed alot to the bodymodifications of the world... pointless neck-implant things that kinda look like freakish little balls on your neck and whatnot. I just can't find it beautiful, no way how I look at it. I understand tattoos and the "normal" piercings but COME ON.. some of them are just for the attention-whoring and "LOOK WHERE I GOT A PIERCING, HEE HEE"-kinda wannabe-unique-ism... At least that's how I see most of the people I've met with pointless "F'ing stupid" piercings. But no, I'm not saying bodymodders are stupid. Most are REALLY cool and artistic looking and give the world a nice bit of variety. Not HATING here. Certainly not. Just covering multiple aspects :)
But hey, I'm glad it's all out there, as an option who ever may like the likes, so - I guess it's good that someone who knows the risks, will attempt it under good circumstances.. after all, tattoos weren't originally made under SAFE circumstances anyway, WAAY BACK. Humans have always tried such things and I see this no way different...
And I can say, I'll be following these news about the "Guy with the blue eye" and hope he doesn't go blind :) And hey, maybe the result will actually be cool.. (I kinda doubt it though... :S)
They've got some balls.
I can't even get a tatto, period. Let alone one in my eye. X
well there's my two cents.
peace!
Also, thefuckinganarchist, please do not try to pass off knowledge you obviously do not, since to the people who do have a background in medicine tend to pick out frauds quite easily. (Yes, this means you)
As for the comment about humans of histories past, sticking themselves with objects, leading to tattoos I wish to believe that we've come some ways since then and have the reasonable ability to "try" things in a safer manner.
To the art community, expression of self can come in various forms, but as a member of the medical community, please keep safe and healthy in whatever may muse. (There's nothing sadder than a loss of knowledge and art that "could've been")
I know that this has been a somewhat long comment, and I wish to thank those of you who stuck through and read it in its completion.
To the rest of the people on here saying this is stupid and all, why is it so stupid, and why are they Darwin candidates? You all just make yourselves look ignorant. Body modification isn't for everyone, no, but it's what some people want to do. I love the way some tattoos and piercings look, but would never get them done. Tattoos? Got 'em. Tattoos on the face? Hell no. Does that mean that if you get one because you want it you're stupid and retarded? No, it just means you want something different.
Some people spend their lives as accountants, sitting behind desks and playing with math all day, because that's what they want to do. I am working towards tattooing, because that's what I want to do. My life choices about my body seem better to me, while yours to you. That does not make either choice stupid, just different. Accept that not everyone in the world likes things your way, and shut up.
i just want to know how they are doing now?
any problems? it would make an interesting article,
if you have a update please e-mail me. i would love to see if i could use it as a article.
face@paris.com
Is it painful..???
I would hate to get part way through something like this a wuss out, you know?
That would stink...
Raine
Spoky
And to Zach: - It's ironic how you tell people to "accept that not everyone in the world likes things your way" while telling them to shut up because you can't accept that they do not accept this act of stupidity. It's self refuting.
And to those who frown upon judging others, you seem to not find it inappropriate to judge those who judge the one's who tattooed their eye balls in the name of "art" or to simply be the first to attempt this dangerously idiotic procedure which is going to influence more to do the same, maybe someone's son or daughter who might live the rest of their life with a disfigurement that they might regret later for not knowing better. I applaud you courageous, daring individuals who I am very jealous of, big thumbs up.
It doesn't affect you whether they tattoo their eyes so quit talking shit about it.
Mrpumpernickel needs has way too much time on his hands. You straight up write books as your "comments". and NO ONE wants to read them.
FFS they made the choice knew the risks
If you dont like it just leave it alone