Body Art 7/7

Throughout history people in nearly every culture have gone to great lengths to decorate or alter the bodies they were born with. The reasons are as varied as the patterns and processes themselves: they seek to to define themselves and their positions in society, to declare their allegiance to a god or to a cause, to conform to the customs of their group, to shock or entertain, or simply to make themselves more beautiful. From body painting to piercing to scarification, from tattoos to plastic surgery, from the Bronze Age to the computer age, this film explores and celebrates the stunning diversity of Body Art.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• body art
• tattoos
• diversity
• culture
• art
• entertain
• shock
• plastic surgery
• piercing
• history
• documentary
• body
• society

[SailorBarsoom]

Thanks for posting.

Paint, mendhi, tattoo, piercing, scarification, plastic surgery, implants...

Next will be electronics. Tattoos that light up, or vanish and reappear. Cochlear implants that double as iPods. Eyebrow piercings that double as cell phone antenna.

[Calvintattoo]

look fucking gross......1000 times more painful than tattoo and people call this is art, beauty and discriminate agaist tattoo...

[MandersVonStrange]

they HAVE to put you under because it is so VIOLENT!!!!! ugh

[dirty1987100]

55

[ukgirlonce]

@CountessKitty18 i dont know...i love tattos and some body mod....i guess i just did'nt think of plastic surgery the same way...i feel icky about it too..perhaps it is because we have seen so many bad results..where women(especially) look so strange..huge lips and just awful results where they look "manufactured".

[ukgirlonce]

this is a teriffic documentry..i especially like the tattoo history...facsinating...thank-­you sooooo much for posting this wonderful film

[CountessKitty18]

damn plastic surgery

I don't want to judge people who choose what to do with their body but why do i hate plastic surgery so much?

[Ijustbeatyou]

Ewwww

[SailorBarsoom]

That's fantastic! Thanks for telling me.

[NickBlackDIN]

they have allready built a cellphone that goes under the skin and is powerd by your own blood :D

(and I would also like to thank shapeshift nation for posting this awesome documentary)