It's been a touch over nineteen years since we hosted the second of the Scar Wars events - that year moving from Philadelphia to Los Angeles - and Josh's facial cutting still stands out to me as on...
2025-03-22 22:32:21 +0000 UTC View Post
… An Insider’s History of Scar Wars.
For those of you attending this year’s BMXNET conference in Berlin, I’ll be offering two brand new lectures.
The first will be ...
2025-03-18 14:13:35 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm not sure if I've posted this before, but apparently I'd tucked the original print this scan comes from in a book some years back and, having rediscovered it when I needed to source a quote from...
2025-03-08 06:16:43 +0000 UTC View Post
The 1990s saw an increase in documentation of the emerging tattoo and body piercing boom; the best of the best were in-community projects - videos, books, magazines etc from folks who were in some ...
2025-02-26 16:31:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Not a lot of information about the gent in this photo- we posted the uncensored version over on Instagram earlier today, hoping anyone would recognize him.
So far, no dice.
What I do ...
2025-02-20 20:53:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Yesterday, I had a Brother Laser Printer AND a tiny, stinky cat named Ron.
I'd just changed toner cartridges and was sitting down to start getting everyone's Nodal Points 6 orders shipped an...
2025-02-19 16:33:23 +0000 UTC View Post
A. Viking Navaro- the Modern Primitive persona of Econ professor Bud Huizenga - wore some of Cliff Raven's early experiments with 'black graphic' tattooing, including these not-so-sutble phalluses....
2025-02-18 04:27:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Sacred Debris Archive Editions No.5
Evolution of a Subculture 02: An Insider's History of ModCon
7x7 inches, 76 pages.
Softcover, color & bw.
This book was put together ...
2025-02-14 14:40:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Now Available:
Sacred Debris proudly presents Nodal Points Issue Six, the latest edition of our ongoing exploration into the history, culture, and evolution of modern b...
2025-02-14 06:32:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Davy Jones is the tattooist responsible for Fakir Musafar's iconic black back/hip tattoos. He also helped Fakir facilitate some of his most iconic rituals - including an intense wire suspension and...
2025-02-14 05:55:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Val (Valeria) Watson began tattooing in 1972; she's one of those folks who I've seen for decades in tattoo history circles but didn't know much about- thankfully Sharky from Lonely Hearts Tattoo Cl...
2025-02-13 05:07:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Polaroid of A. Viking Navaro (Bud Huizenga) early 1980s.
Viking was one of the earliest adopters of Fakir Musfar's Modern Primitives movement. An econ professor and atavist, he wore numerous pu...
Running a little behind on these, but here we are!
We love love here at Sacred Debris. And we love body modification. And we love y’all. So let’s make it official with a card with a wande...
2025-02-04 15:39:19 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE: Stickers have sold out, but we still have zine preorders available.
Nodal Points 6 will officially go on sale on 14th, February, but we're doing a short run for US addresses only (Lo...
2025-02-02 06:20:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I just got word that the APs of the latest issue of Nodal Points has shipped. We should have them in hand in a few days and after a final proofread will be able to turn on the sales switch.
...
2025-02-01 18:09:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I often say, "if you love body piercing, thank a Leather Daddy."
It's true, of course, and has the desired effect of reminding people of the queer roots of modern body piercing as a subcultu...
2025-01-29 13:13:15 +0000 UTC View Post
One more photo (remind me to tell Pat to speed it up!) to process and an intro to write and Nodal Points Issue Six will be going to the printer.
Our man Ari was able to chat with former dick...
2025-01-28 16:33:41 +0000 UTC View Post
We're days from wrapping the sixth issue in our Nodal Points series; a few more photos to add, an index to build, and a final read through to make sure I removed all of the proofreading notes, then...
2025-01-25 23:33:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Bill was an American expatriate living in Copenhagen Denmark by the time I met him in the early 1990s. He was a close friend of my mentor Jack Yount, who'd brought Bill to my farm to say hello and ...
2025-01-23 19:07:26 +0000 UTC View Post
After pretty much every event we'd throw in Toronto- ModCon, BMEFest, Toronto Suscon - we're invariably end up back on Bathurst Street at Shannon Larratt's place for an afterparty.
The apart...
2025-01-23 18:49:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Posted Jan 22nd 2025 on Occult Vibrations Instagram cropped, this is the full version for members.
Sid was...
2025-01-23 15:07:05 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s almost time for our annual Valentine’s Day membership push/fundraiser. I always apologize in advance for fundraising week; I hate the tapdance of it all but it really helps us from going o...
2025-01-22 17:12:09 +0000 UTC View Post
We're almost ready to wrap the latest issue of our Nodal Points zine - Issue Six - which among other rad content features a write-up on the eponymous Madison behind the naming of the Madison pierc...
2025-01-20 22:17:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Post on Occult Vibrations Instagram.
There's something to be said for a pin-up tattoo; this one, done by legen...
2025-01-17 04:57:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Post on Occult Vibrations Instagram.
There's something to be said for a pin-up tattoo; this one, done by lege...
2025-01-17 04:48:57 +0000 UTC View Post
In 2025 I'm going to try and be better about reconciling our various social media accounts into a more - cohesive? - repository here on the SD blog.
If it gets posted on our 2025-01-17 04:31:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Kinsey Maxell was a body art fan who spent his later years in South Florida; as a friend of Sailor Sid Diller, he often shows up in photos from the golden age of the 1970s/80s body piercing scene. ...
2025-01-10 04:45:12 +0000 UTC View Post
John had an impressive collection of tattoos by Cliff Raven; I'm not sure if that's who did this tiger piece on his leg, but it's a beaut.
This was photographed at the 1986 Knoxville tattoo c...
2025-01-02 05:04:47 +0000 UTC View Post
I just realized, as I was typing away on the newest issues of the Nodal Points zine (issue six- should be dropping in February if all goes well) that today marks the 11th anniversary of of the laun...
2025-01-02 04:53:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Kissimmee, Florida, is a small suburb of Orlando that's mostly known for a kitschy themepark called Gatorland. The park is most famous for it's live alligators, crocodiles, and other ...
2024-12-18 14:50:03 +0000 UTC View Post