This isn’t as popular as it was 10 or so years ago: model’s getting creative with the back pages of their portfolios. This most welcome art form deserves celebrating and I’m hoping this is the return of one trend that should never have ended.

Zenia is at FM London.

Just as life’s roller coaster drags me down, it must take me up and so after one of the most frustrating experiences I’ve had for years, in Paris last week, along comes Masha (FM London) and all of a sudden the black cloud has gone. I’ve been saved. Business as unusual. A very nice shoot for Sang Bleu III&IV.

Jon Arias, half of the bodmod performance group Un Autre Corps has not only been taught by the world famous Luks Zpira, but displays numerous gorgeous tattoos and bodily experimentations.

More information and contact can be found here: jon’s myspace page

portrait and jewelry by Aleksandra Wisniewska (Adam & Eve jewelry)

Implants and modifications by Lukas Zpira & Un Autre Corps, photography by myself.

Tattoo (in progress) by Jef @ Boucherie Moderne, Belgium

Lettering tattooed by Guillaume Alternative tattoo, Toulouse, France, design by Bastien, the other half of Un Autre Corps

“pied de poule” pattern tattooed by mr Karl Mark.

Cailin was collared by immigration yesterday and is now on her way back to Canada. She was booked for a 2 day shoot for Sang Bleu III with Dean Moriarty and Jo Beaumont later this week so we have a bit a problem. But good luck to Cailin. Hopefully she can sneak back in time for Sang Bleu IV.

Cailin Hill (Premier London)

Everybody needs a muse or two.

I’m going to make sure that Cailin’s first and second tattoos make it to the pages of Sang Bleu III.

Last summer, casting for the ‘Onto You’ story for Sang Bleu II, I met Friday. Her grandfather had won the Nobel Peace Prize and was honoured with a stamp. Eric Blose of Skull Kitchen Studio in Portland Oregon stuck it on her arm. The gorgeous Ocean Moon was with her.

Raquel (Premier. London)

“be: new york, a reminder to just be

liberate: new york, to liberate yourself

live free: san francisco, there you go

love: san francisco, all we need is love love, so only love comes out of me

in the hand is thai buddhist symbol for good luck, made in thailand, made a trade tattoo for tattoo”