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Behold the Lizardman
WhiskeyJack writes "At the cutting edge of body art, student Erik Sprague
of Albany New York has turned himself into a human
lizard. His parents must be awfully proud. :) " Surgically split tongue. Ridge implants in his forehead. Green scales. And then there's me: scared to put on a rub-on tatoo ;)Update: 12/21 08:26 by H : For the not-so-squeamish, Zorro sent us some shots and pictures of the lizardman. Forked tongue, indeed.
http://student.rwu.edu/users/lpesce/munch/photos_% 20fffmunch.htm Yes, this guy is for real...and a real nice guy at that.
Here's a time magazine article,an interview , his bio.
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That is just SO wrong...
What the hell is wrong with that guy?? What reason is there to have your tongue spilt and scales attached to your skin? I think this is the result of an uncle playing "catch the trouser snake" early in that boys youth...
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There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
And i use it 12 hours a day, playing games, surfing the web (with IE), chatting on irc, cracking RC5, playing songs with winamp, use it as a router seriously, i have no idea how to even force a BSOD to appear. I've seen it twice in 1.5 years time on this machine. The Linux distro i've reserved 2GB for crashes more often.
I look forward to a world where people are able to have Klingon heads and prosthetic tails if they want to, and no one thinks them 'unhireable' for it.
By lamenting the way this guy spends his government loan stipend and circus checks you are simply keeping alive the old curmugeonly view of societal norms. I believe that if people were more free to express themselves as they saw fit without fear of humiliation, exclusion and retribution, then we would see less crime, less suicide, less violence against those who represent the 'norm'. I am thinking of Columbine - I heard the recordings those boys made, joking on their upright Christian classmates... It made me shake my head. If we, as a society, took more notice of the things right and wrong around us - but here's where the problem is. Who decides what's right? We can't fix ANYTHING until we become more tolerant of each other's differences. That means that the pious right-wing NRA guy has to respect the Latino transvestite VooDoo Priestess and vice versa. What's right for me may not be right for you, but neither of us has the right to make that call for the other.
Not trying to flame, honest. I think you are more or less on the side of freaks, but just wanted to point out it's not as simple as finding about 1,000 other ways to express one's creativity. Why should anyone have to compromise their vision?
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
The House Between - Original Sci-Fi Series
I think it can safely be said at this point in human evolution that sex-reassignment surgery alone is no longer the be-all, end-all of body modification. Why, its practically quaint at this stage in the game.
Now, putting in bumps in your head, L.E.Ds on your nipples, and a calculator in your hand (Talk about a Palmtop!).. that's what all the kiddies are screaming for this holiday season!
This article made me think of some times with a friend in high school. Whenever we saw people walking around malls and such while big chains around their necks we always wanted to choke them. This is much worse. This guy needs to be smacked in the head with a baseball bat a couple times. So do those doctors. I feel dentists and surgeons should concentrate on more important things than making someone look like an a$$hole. If he wants to be a lizard so bad he should change to a religion that believes in reincarnation and jump off a building. That would make for a better world...
My researches indicate two alternative methods of getting written up on slashdot:
1) Code up some brilliantly clever software and release it under the GPL.
2) Cut your penis in half and hammer some nails into your head.
...now, where in hell did I put that hammer...
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is
Thought exists only as an abstraction
This shows again how weird aol users are, not only do they use AOL, they split their tongue too!
"It's called marketability and employability." but that's not what i'm talking about. my apperance is *very* tame. in an interview, there's no need of my possible employers knowing about the things i've done with a needle. it's listening to sexuaphobic, closeminded, prejudicial co-workers with intolerant opinions about things they haven't even considered trying to understand that annoy me. people who then read the /. article about the fbi keeping an eye out for gamers, and get mad about how they are being judged for something they know doesn't make them a psycho.
It's a reference from startrek (and no, I do not possess a starfleet uniform). It's an acronym standing for Infinite Diversity, Infinite Combinations.
"I don't marshal my words to be quotable" - Captain Sodium, Gigsville...
If you want to see how fucked up society *really* is, take a look at that site. It's sad really, that men would willingly castrate themselves, take pictures of it with the blood splattered everywhere, and then post it to a website. Ack.
I don't believe those are the most recent pictures of him. It shows the tongue pretty well,
but you don't see his teeth, etc. His teeth are filed to sharp points. And I'm not sure how,
but his skin wasn't tattoo'd quite like that either. It was covered in greenish scales.
There was an article about him in a recent Time issue which had a pretty decent picture...
Where are the pictures?
I want to see PICTURES of this guy!!!!!!
anyone have a link? or is this just a text story?
How can anyone post a story like that without pictures?
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grappler
Vidi, Vici, Veni
Heh, I used to go to the bar he works at every week. It's ... interesting to see him change a bit every week.
Dude, power on if you're doing what you feel to be your calling in life. Congratulations. But, I can think of about 1,000 other ways to express one's creativity, be rebellious, get press, etc., that (1) leave you multiple options in the job market, (2) don't make you look like a moron when (or possibly WAAAAY before) you turn 60, (3) won't get your ass kicked between the pinball machines if you happen to have a layover in San Antonio, and (4) are reversible.
On a social level, I see the word "extreme" batted around in relation to this. "Extreme", as in "probably a bad idea", yes. "Extreme" as in "cool and MTV-televisable", who gives a shit? If we, as a society, took more notice of the things right and wrong around us, with an eye to making things more equitable for our fellow {men,women,lizards,klingons,lawyers,etc.}, than we do of someone making an arguable artistic statement by spending his government loan stipend and circus checks on scale tattoos and tooth filing, do you think maybe we wouldn't be completely fucked up as a race?
"Cause there's 40 different shades of black, so many fortresses and ways to attack, so why you complainin'?"
Nah, he called his company "Microsoft" for a reason you know :P~
WHOOPEEEE!
And the brethren went away edified.
I believe i've found this guys webpage, unless there is another lizard man out there. He apparently now goes by the name Spidergod5. Heres the URL:
http://members.aol.com/spidergod5/index.html
If /. is going to be publishing stuff about body modification, why not go with someone who has something to do with computers? He's been the editor of Phrack, he has really cool body modifications, and he produces code.
/.? There's a lot of good stories that are getting rejected, and we get stuff like this? I guess I would feel better about it if there weren't 200 stories in the queue right now. Some of those are probably really interesting things that we won't see.
Check out Nirva.
>rant<
Personally I think that body modification is cool, but do we really need it on
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Why can't I moderate something "Wrong" or at least "Grossly Misinformed"?
Give me a break! This is about one of the stupidest things I have seen posted here. Some kid who decides to rebel against society, parents, whatever. Who really cares? This isn't "News for Nerds". Feel free to post a story like this when he actually grows scales (not tatoos), or implant microchips in his brain. This isn't National Geographic.
I've met Erik IRL, and despite the fact that he looks "freakish", he is a super nice guy. Incredibly smart, very kind, soft-spoken. A PhD candidate, too.
He let me feel his teeth, and while it was wierd, there is NO doubt in my mind that he knows what he is doing. It's not just an act, it is what he perceives himself to be, and I say more power to him.
Some people are horribly afraid of peopel like Erik. They represent a paradox - "how can a person be so 'stupid' (as to do this to themselves), yet be far more intelligent than me?"
Wake up people. Looks aren't everything - in fact, they aren't anything.
Erik is also a regular contributor to rec.arts.bodyart (news://rec.arts.bodyart for browser babies) and BME (http://www.bme.freeq.com).
Erik - if you read this - rock on.
Tim
Sorry, but I'm sickened enough by body piercings... this is just too wacky...
(first post?)
-Neux
"This sentence no verb." -Anonymous
'nuff said
So, whats the pool at for 'How long before this guy is in some German Fetish pr0n'? Personally, I give it 6 months...
--sugarman--
I knew that slashdot wasn't devoid of R.A.B folks.
/.ers seem to be though. grow up - life your life, let others live theirs, and don't judge anyone until you know them.
I am surprised how idiotic so many of these
No pictures? I won't be able to sleep with this image I came up with.
I guess I'm not a nerd, because this crap does not matter to me.
I think this sounds really cool, and I'm actually thinking of doing it too. Does anyone know if they've open-sourced it yet?
Some of them EAT their nuts, afterwards. If you want to see how fucked up society is - look at yourself. Live and let live. Their life is their life. They have their own reasons, and whether you agree or not, you are a fool if you think you can judge them. You have no idea.
Ah, IDIC, right? I wonder if he just lays around and slurps up houseflies for a living?
Say.. On that note, I wonder if I could get PAID for laying around slurping up houseflies for a living! Hmmmmm.. Food (--- Arghhh!) for thought!
"I don't marshal my words to be quotable" - Captain Sodium, Gigsville...
Man, that's cheap. And I was already a lizard before this guy was. Just ask my ex-girlfriend.
Funny, I remember when slashdot posted almost nothing but linux stories, people complained about being too focused on linux. Now that they're spreading their spotlight, people complain that they've sold out.
I'm not saying slashdot is perfect in anyway, just that people will always complain, no matter what goes on.
...what's the emoticon for someone removing /. from his bookmarks?
Agreed!
What a weird little island this is.
For a rather informative interview, check out this interview at Body Modification E-zine. This guy is pretty intelligent, and has some good personal reasons for his modifications (whether we agree with them or not is another issue).
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he sure is hairy, for a lizard and all. i eat poop!
ZiM eats poop. I'm ZiM, I eat poop. Wheeeee.
Yeah, now that flash (tattoos) has hit the mainstream, the edge has move over into subdural implants and radical piercing. Now maybe I'm a philistine, but I can't see the reason for going to all that trouble for what's basically decoration. I've got as much patience for all this obsessive body art as I do for bric-a-brac shows like Martha Stewart. I think a lot of Slashdoti are of similar ilk. There's no FASHION topic on Slashdot, but there *is* a wearable computer thread. I won't get any body enhancements unless they DO something. Maybe like a tattoo that doubles as a watch, or implants that let me subvocalize cellular phone calls. This guy wants to be a lizard, that's fine. Now, if I could get gills... that'd be something else. simonadkins
If anybody remembers, in Gibson's cyberspace trilogy some people had all kinds of weird cosmetic modifications done to their bodies. Most people just made themselves look like the latest movie star, but some people had there faces redone so they looked monster-like.
Personally, I'm holding out for aftermarket muscle that can be grafted on.
"Reality is less than television."-Brian Oblivion
These things you say may be true, but consider, lest we forget:
he got posted on Slashdot.
All was not in vain.
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grappler
Vidi, Vici, Veni
Geez. Lizardman? Seems to me Slashdot has gotten noticeably lamer since the IPO of Andover.net. I guess if I were a 24, (oh, sorry, was it 23?, 22?) year old millionare, I wouldn't be working too hard either...no blame, just stating the facts apparent to me...(maybe it's all the posters to /. that have invested in the LNUX IPO at $30/share and subsequently quit submitting stories...)
/. seems to be down. Bring it back up, & fast. Please.
I see an opening here. Slashdot has had it, it's been there done that. == deadmeat.com. (well, that one's probably taken)
www.crashnot.com doesn't seem to be taken.
Would be a good url with a high-reliability connotation (would invite the crackers. tho)...For the anti-MS spoof-site, www.crashnaut.com would be good.
Point being, any of you cyber-dudes looking to bust into the slashdot-esque website business, looks like slashdot is getting old. I for one waiting to (re)load the new game in town.
'nother words. Quality at
Bang the head that doesn't bang!
Oh ... PLEASE .. spare me the "outside the box" "all societal norms are wrong" "brave vanguard" crap.
Value neutral here. The guy may be a genius. He may be a moron. He may just be having fun.
YOU sir, are just as guilty as those you condemn, by denigrating those who choose to live in their "feeble bodies" (by implicationin you call us feeble). I have no piercings, no tatoos, and if I'm rejected as timid or conformist because of that, then I want nothing to do with you anyway.
I've finally had it: until slashdot gets article moderation, I am not coming back.
:-) I'm an old curmudgeon. (A mere 26, but still feeling old and crusty.) I don't have a problem with the guy doing it. It's cool. But, I also have the right to mock him. See, right now people who surgically alter themselves are not protected from my mockery.
:-) (Watch my karma go way way down after my unsolicited mockery.)
A long while back, friends were getting tattooed. Well, a few of them got upset because "Everyone else was doing it" and so they went out and got pierced. And then, well, pierced in weird places. So, I made jokes that the next will come ritual scarring -- and then self-multilation.
Amazing how things said in jest come true sometimes. Lizard man may now be allowed to hang himself by his nipples from a tree, be spun around and beaten with rattan sticks until he has a vision.
I don't think it's him; just some other twit with a split tongue.
And the brethren went away edified.
Every picture of that split tongue is a fake. Am I one of only 3 people (that have posted) to notice this?
I think it's important to point out to the people here that don't read rec.arts.bodyart, that Eric's body modification is an ongoing project, and that he's not quite a lizard yet. He has the forked tongue, but he's getting all of his tribal tattoo work done before he gets his scales. It's an ongoing project. The end result is supposed to be a lizard man with a bunch of tribal tattoos, pretty damn neat.
marijane
They include things like surgical alteration, nullification, and extreme tattoos, though if you want really hardcore wierdness, you're going to have to go to BME/Hardcore.
-Violence never settles anything -- Genghis Khan
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. hmmm
Secondly, there's RAB and #bodyart on EFnet. I used to hang out there, and it's a great place for the freaks. It's funny that it gets so easy to spot the posers ('I got my belly button pierced') and the hard core people ('I got this piece of plastic embeded in my forhead!').
But please remember the Media distorotion that happens. He might look like a Reptile, but he's a nice enough guy. Smart too.
I started hanging on #bodyart cause my friends did, posted to RAB a few times, met my current girlfriend at a munch party, ran the bot on #bodyart, and then gave it all up. I don't look like a freak, but there is a reason people call me Gonzo in real life, i'm told anyway.
Gonzo Granzeau
"Nothing the god of biomechanics wouldn't let you into heaven for.." -Roy Batty
I thought this article was about this guy I saw on a special about human freaks. He had lizard skin tatooed all over his body, and implants in his head to give the impression of little nubs (horns). I believe this guy was on the X-Files at one point, but I haven't watched the show in years (no cable, rural Vermont) so I can't really give insight to that.
I'm sorry. What I meant to say was 'please excuse me.'
what came out of my mouth was 'Move or I'll kill you!'
Eric works in the Tavern. It is one of the favorite bars for students at the University at Albany (there are approximately 4 within several blocks of each other that are equally frequented). It is located on Washington Avenue near Quail Street. Stop by and say hello. Make sure you have proper ID. Otherwise Satan might show you the door.
I'm so excited! Now we can have a "Balrog Wings" thread just like on rec.arts.books.tolkien!!
I guess the question is whether this guy should get prosthetic wings next or not.
And the brethren went away edified.
I agree. Let's stick to linux and techy stuff. This lizard story was crap. There was not even a picture of the damn lizardman!
http://www.ambient.on.ca/bodmod/implants.html
also do a Google search on
The Enigma Horns
You'll find lots of links to the Jim Rose Circus.
The Bindlestiff Family cirKus is also quite unique.
Starman97@Gmail.com (bring it on spammers)
Is it just me? Let's look at recent events:
- Molecular biology progresses in leaps and bounds.
- Computer networks are becoming more and more a part of everyone's daily life.
- Corporations are becoming more and more powerful, while governments become less so.
- Neural interfaces to computers are possible, if crude.
- Surgery which used to be too dangerous for casual use is now being used for "art".
- Various and sundry other items that appear here on a semi-regular basis.
Ok, the link from this lizardman thing to here is a stretch, but it just kinda struck me as one more link in the chain. I remember thinking it was feasible to get to Gibson's world from here a couple of years ago. The more I watch, the more it seems to be happening.But maybe it's just me.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're NOT after you.
Here's an idea. Maybe it's been talked about before, but let me run it by you anyway. In the tradition of "fool.com" why can't we have strongly moderated forums on particular subjects? Some days I just feel like talking about the newest linux distro and there's no related stories so I can't. This makes sense when you realize that usually the threads digress to these popular subjects anyway. Just imagine if there were 50 forums here on linux, each one taking on a slightly different variation? The reason I think the forums should be strongly moderated is to keep the topics on focus. If you are posting on the corel linux distro forum and you digress, then it gets deleted. If you spam, it gets deleted. If you post natalie portman trash, it gets deleted. The goal is not to interfere with free speech, but rather to remove the signal noise that is rapidly overtaking slashdot. The moderation angle seems to be working really well on fool.com, for example, because they have forums on incredibly specific subjects and these are some of the most popular forums on the site. Now I'm not saying we can't still have news articles and respond to the news. I think we can have both, and then see which is more popular. Just an idea, anyway. What do you think?
for a better news site... Slashdot Poll: This article is not worthy of a) news for nerds b) stuff that matters c) super market tabloids d) my time
Unless you're capable of bending I-beams with your bare hands then you have a feeble body. Indeed I did imply that you have a feeble body. But I painted the entire human race with this brush. We've all got feeble bodies!
All that I ask is that if you call me or anybody else "sick" because we've got tattoos, piercings or other mods you provide some argument for your accusation. It doesn't bother me that you're un-modded. Don't let my body bother you.
/peter
but that's not what i'm talking about. my apperance is *very* tame. in an interview, there's no need of my possible employers knowing about the things i've done with a needle. it's listening to sexuaphobic, closeminded, prejudicial co-workers with intolerant opinions about things they haven't even considered trying to understand that annoy me.
/. article about the fbi keeping an eye out for gamers, and get mad about how they are being judged for something they know doesn't make them a psycho.
I'm not sure I understand the original problem then... I thought you had said that you were upset that employers didn't take a liking to people with piercings, tattoos, etc.?
In the case of coworkers who don't like your style... well that's their problem. Personally I haven't run into an employer who sides with certain employees and not others; usually they say "deal with it."
people who then read the
Okay I think I see where you're coming from... Lemme know if this is right: "Slasdot reader reads about FBI targetting gamers, trenchcoat wearers and nerds. 'That's not fair; I'm not like that!' Same slashdot reader reads about body piercing, tattoos, and other forms of body modification. 'Hahahahahaha you FREAK god you guys must all be lunatics!'" -- this is what you're complaining about? If so I agree 100%. It's always easy to stereotype if you're not part of the group being stereotyped.
12 ga nipple, 6ga lobes, 4ga PA, 8ga lorum. Used to have 8ga apadravya, more 10ga scrotals, another 12ga nip, several 14ga cartilage, 4ga tongue
enough of this tripe... I want geek-news, not freak-news.
When his stretched nipples and decrepid back can no longer lift car batteries. And his scaley ass is in a wheelchair rolled in front of the future equivilant of "wheel of fortune" on TV....ah sweet reptile of youth.
Nothing against the lizard man. More power to him. He's looking pretty good in the most recent pics, but come ON!
I guess I won't even bother with Reverend Alexander Cornswalled's essay on how Pokemon is from the Devil.....
"Live Free or Die." Don't like it? Then keep out of the USA
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Just lurking, thanks!
While you're at it, how about coral implants in your skull?
hm...
tom green, this guy.
both attention seeking weasels.
nuff said.
Someone thought this was a troll? Torture is being chained and padlocked to a Windows desktop and having a BSOD image tattooed to your forehead.
Yeah!
Yes I think it was dateline NBC or one of those shows that had a feature on all these weirdos. He really looked like a lizard with the green tattoos, shaved teeth and all. Freaky. There was this girl with a split tongue who decided to put a piece of metal through her back which was hooked up to some rope so that she could 'fly' around to feel the rush caused by the extremely painful pulling sensation. Plus all these other guys who had all these metal objects embedded under their skin.
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I mean, who would hire this guy to do anything? Who would want to patronize his business? What if he changes his philosophy in the future, something which tends to happen to most people during the course of their lives? I suppose this future establishes the tenuousness of the link between academic excellence and wisdom.
Logic ... merely enables one to be wrong with authority. -- Doctor Who
Hey I went to school in albany and knew this guy, We all called him satan, he was a freak, i guess he still is. If you want to meet him, he might still bounce at a crappy bar called the Old Town Taveren. It's a small slashdot world.
I have no
At first when I checked out his web page and saw the pictures, I thought "Damn what a weirdo", but then after reading some of his writing, I have to say that I'm rather impressed.
Art is not all "happy trees" and weird shapes on paper. Art is for the reaction or feelings that you evoke from people who look at (or hear) your art. You may not even be trying to get a "GOOD" reaction, but rather a reaction of disgust or hate. Notice that everyone has some sort of reaction when they look at Eric's body alterations.
I once saw an art performance where the artist was trying to make a statement about breast cancer. She had a display with photos of all kinds of breasts. She herself had had a masectomy (result of breast cancer), and in the performance, she did a cultural sort of dance, topless, along with another woman who hadn't had a masectomy. There was an initial reaction of suprise at first, because no one really knew what a masectomy looked like, but after the first initial "shock", the general consensus was that we were happy that we hadn't had breast cancer, happy that she survived, and she is still a real person even without her breasts.
I think that this is a similar thing that Eric is trying to evoke from the people who see him. It's "shocking" art, not the beautiful landscape Bob Ross stuff that all of you expect to see when you hear the word "art".
They're millionaire sellouts and it's showing everyday.
This is great. Dilbert and The Simpsons busted on Albany pretty good.... Now, the first time I see my hometown on Slashdot, it's because of a lizardman. What's with this punishment by the media? It's a conspiracy!
...These aren't the droids you're looking for....Move along....
You post 15 shit messages with no content to /. and you don't think that's spam. What would you definition of spam be then? I'm surprised you didn't slip something in this post about how you're so excited about how your company can sell domain names cheaply. We'd all be happy if you moved on somewhere else unless you have something valuable to contribute. (And no, complaints and spam don't count as valuable contributions)
I would enjoy beating the hell out of this degenerate.
News for Nerds. Stuff that matters. This DOES matter. While we may have the technology to do a thing, it doesn't mean that we are societally READY to do that thing. We could probably, in the next few years, develop a computer which is implanted, runs off internal energy, and can feed data to either the optic or audio nerves. But do we want to? Will people accept it or just totally freak over the idea - check out some of the responses to this. The people who read slashdot are routinely technologically aware. Their response is the response of the people whose sense of what we can do is least stretched by a new development such as this. So how will other people react? This stuff IS important, because it is something that in 20 years time you will see if not every day then on a more frequent basis. How people react to the first mover in a social change is quite definitely news for nerds and something that matters tremendously.
someone slams windos so they're a troll?
ok, watch carefully boys and girls, on the count of three:
SLASHDOT MODERATORS SUCK!
But why is this on slashdot??
More race stuff in one place,
than any one place on the net.
I've always believed that "Self mutilation is *NOT* an effective form of rebellion". In the 60's it was growing your hair long, in the 90's it was cutting off limbs and putting holes all over your body. I'm going to start a new trend of leaving my body the way it is naturaly (art in nature, right?)...until million_dollar_man style equipment is available of course... NightHawk
Jeff
Maybe he didn't like either of the options in MozillaZine's recent mascot poll.
"I'm not sure I understand the original problem then... I thought you had said that you were upset that employers didn't take a liking to people with piercings, tattoos, etc.? " i can see where you got that, but my complaint is with closemindedness in general. a number of people claimed to be openminded so as to add weight to their opinion on erik, even though the majority of the posters have no inkling to even try and respect other's decisions.
The photos are Here
More race stuff in one place,
than any one place on the net.
Alright fine. I never said anything about ear piercings in a mall or any of the other BS you extrapolated from who-knows-where.
You don't know anything about me. Admittedly my comment was rather short and wouldn't give you a chance to learn more about me, but the fact is it was YOU who jumped to conclusions.
My comment was intended as a short, simple, gut reaction to the story and pictures. If his intention is to be different from everyone else, and to shock those who see him, well he certainly accomplished that. With me anyway, I was definitely shocked...
As for piercings, tatoos, cosmetic surgery, etc: none that sort of self mutilation interests me at all. I've never had an earing, tatoo or anything else. I'm not saying there ought to be a law or anything, just that it is un-attactive to me.
I AM NOT being intolerant, I am merely expressing my opinion. If others want to do that stuff to themselves so be it. There should be nothing to stop them from doing whatever they want to themselves, and there should be nothing stopping me from saying I think they are crazy for doing it and I think their appearance distasteful.
I'm sure all these folks who do this are real nice people, articulate, intelligent, and all that. In response to this story on
And I guess I'm in the wrong for being all hung up on this too.
Finally:
Eric's part of a vanguard of pre-cyborgs
WHAT!?! You gotta be kidding me. What a load of horse shit.
Shut the fuck up, spammer.
As if it wasn't spam... You fucking copied and pasted the same fucking post.
Inbred fuck.
a) Why do that to oneself? b) Why is this of interest on Slashdot? Tossers.
Didn't I see this guy in a Budweiser commercial?
You don't look much like a lizard to me. A freak with a split tounge and lame tattoos - yes, but a lizard? Not a chance.
That is one sick puppy! Mom and Dad must be truly proud, this kid's even sicker than Marilynn Manson.
Well, I've always thought of my sex-reassignment as being the ultimate body mod. My tongue's not split though...:-)
-=Maggie Leber=-
Here's the link.
too bad it was a hoax.
If you're not wasted, the day is.
Odd people, odd hobbies.
"Right about now, the geek soul brother, check it out now, the geek soul brother..." -- based upon Fatboy
What brand of beer does he drink? I bet Budweiser are already thinking of the adverts now.
I've got a 12 gauge shotgun...
that is the dumbest thing i have every seen
why am i here?
Down on Garnet, there was a coffee house. And this guy hung out there (in many ways). He had a big piercing in his dick, and several women a night would come by and say "Hey, I heard about your dick, can I see it?"
So he would go out back and drop his shorts, and they would point and giggle and say "Oh my god!" you know the routine.
I don't know what was so fascinating about it, but the world is getting so sickeningly pure I welcome nerly any aberrant behavior, as long as it's adults and no ones getting hurt.
As I looked at the picture of his tongue, I couldn't help but think how many women get a little shiver up their spine, just a little curious what it would feel like...
There is a web site dedicated to body modification of all sorts... there are people who have done things to even make this a bit tame.
Body Modification E-Zine, at www.bme.freeq.com, is dedicated to this.
A warning before you look, however - it's not a place for the squeamish. There is some really odd stuff, especially in the extreme section.
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"You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same people you do."
Rent Cheech & Chong's Nice Dreams. Rated R: Some lizards are naked
or better still - let the moderators moderate the input queue on slashdot. let the moderating mejority bash the boring stories to oblivion while the interesting ones make it to the front page.
Lizardman and others who do things like that are repulsively fascinating.
Damn... this is for real! http://www.achilles.net/~dextr a/spako/spidergod.html
Reality has a liberal bias
Where are the pictures?
This guy is just plain stupid! That's all there is to it. He's trying to get publicity. Well, he's got it.
-- DuckWing
Wasn't there a story on Slashdot last week about mental illness? This is a prime example.
GNU/Linux is about changing society, not about innovating with clever arrangements of bits. This guy is challenging society to look at extreme body art as, well, art. I think its cool. If you don't like it, don't read it!
Ugh.
...way back in September http:// www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0%2C3266 %2C30492%2C00.html
Reality has a liberal bias
1) tongue surgically forked
2) forehead ridged with implants
3) breath fire
4) lift car batteries with chains running through his nipples.
bring it, ok? fine! it's all good,
just no more BSOD
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You can see more of "Amago", the lizard boy at the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow site: http://www.ambient.on.ca/jimrose/ - I'm a longtime fan of the Circus, and I blew off the show the last time they showed up in SF. I'm very sorry, and I promise I'll never do it again.
It's a big closeup..
here
He'll be an unemployed freak, living off the state, regretting his decisions. But, I guess we all have choices to make...
I wanna hear about Microsoft buying Best Buy last week. not this crap.
it saddens me to see that future employers and co-workers are so intolerant of such trivial things. there is an on-topicness to this thread, sorry so many of you can't see it. it's strange that technologically minded people don't see how modifying our own bodies, rather than parents genetically altering them before birth, is a wonderful chance to explore the possibilities of our physical limitations. hack your body, the one thing truly your own.
And anyone who goes around calling himself "Satan" is just screaming "wannabe somebody." What a joke. Poseur.
This guy clearly is a geek in some way. Now, a lot of you read the "Hellmouth" articles by Jon Katz and agreed, that many of us computergeeks were discriminated just for being other than "normal".
But now, you discriminate someone, just for being other than you are. In german, we call that "Doppelmoral". I don't know if you can say that in english, double-moral.
Everyone's free to modificate his body the way one likes. Plastic surgery is just the same.
On the other hand, I'm already frightened, when I need to get a haircut. =:-)
CU, Ventilator
--- If OS were buildings, then the first woodpecker to come around would erase 95 % of civilization.
I used to live just outside of Albany and I never got to see that guy. What a let down. If you've ever been to Albany, you'd know that observing a lizard-guy walking down the street is about the most interesting thing that you can see... :-) -dvorsd
Celebrate Diversity -- Eradicate Your Heritage!!
Sure... although he does have a tendency to fall asleep if his desk is too far from the window...
Does he eat the insects that come into the room?
That guy who blew up his house is right by me here. And he is real close to cmdrTaco as well.
I didn't know he made CNN though. Do you have a link to the story?
Seems to be a rather odd, Experiment (tm), what's he supposed to do when it's over ?
Once again we are shown that "intelligence" does not provide immunity to mental illness. This does, however, make it more difficult to simply write off such behaviour as mere "stupidity" rather than a symptom of a mental health problem.
This person is obviously not "stupid", but he lacks wisdom. I predict a self-inflicted death in his future.
This isn't about geekiness. This is about common sense. He has none. When he gets older he will regret having marked up and hacked up his body as he has done. He's not the only one; he has just taken it further than most.
If some guy like this wants to become a side show freak, that's bad enough but it sickens me even more to see some otherwise lovely young girl with a bunch of ugly-ass tatoos.
It would be interesting to find out how happy they are with their decision to modify their bodies like this 20 years from now.
Wansu, th' chinese sailor
In the very least he is challenging peoples perceptions of the norm and saying that it is ok to branch out and be different from the sheep. In the same way that Orlan is challenging peoples perception of what is beauty in this day and age he seems to have thought hard about what he is doing, especially the fact that man is animal not some special being.
Working for the (other) man
http://member.aol.com/Spidergod5/index. html
some more detailed pictures there, looks a little more up-to-date...
Hmm...Can we say...Cry me a river? Don't like it? Don't read it. It's still a free country, yes?? I only wish I had a picture of that lizard man...*sighs* -Intrigued Geek Grrl
Sure... although he does have a tendency to fall asleep if his desk is too far from the window...
Madness takes its toll. Exact change please.
I actually know this guy, we go to the same school. I don't really know him that well, but he's definitely a freak.
I bet his girlfriend isn't complaining. He can hit both holes at once. cool.
rob, please don't turn slashdot into a tabloid.
man.. I know why they didn't attach any pictures. Because the guy doesn't even look like a lizard.. Here I am expecting some hard core green guy with scales and I get some biker who slipped with the knife whilst eating spam. LAME.
How we know is more important than what we know.
They did a whole show about body piercings and body modification, with a segment just on this guy. He was very......interesting....looking.
This is flaim bait and I know it but hopefully someone will enlighten me with something more than the BS of he is an artist. How does this freak on a leash effect anything in the world? Other than to make people look at him and go, ok so there are people out there dumber than I previously thought.
What some people will do for 15 minutes of fame.. Sheesh!
Nice to see our scholarship dollars are put to good use these days.
Polymorphism -- It's what you make of it.
First... On a personal note I am a 22 year old with 5 tatoos, 3 earings (used to be 5), and a nipple ring and I do not regret any of it. Why, you might ask? Because I can take out the rings and I can cover my tatoos. What I have done to my body (call it self mutilation if you must)is out of artistic self expression and if I choose I can dress in a manner where anyone and everyone can see this self expression. HOWEVER, I also realize that I want to be a productive part of society. I have a $50,000 /year job and wear a suit to work five days a week working as a computer consultant. Furthermore I want to have kids some day, and when I am 40 and at a father/son picnic I don't want my poor kid to get made fun of because his dad looks like a circus side show gone wrong. I believe in self expression, but as with anything I also believe in moderation.
Second... What is up with all these people askin' for pics. I am glad to see so many people read the article, but how about you try reading some of the comments. That is one of the best and most valuable aspects of /. , reader input. Even if you are only viewing comments with a score of 4+ you had to have notice atleast one or two posts about links to pics. Yet I see a dozen requests for pics. Come on folks, repitition is NOT always the secret to sucess, after a while it get's really annoying seeing post after post asking for the same thing. Just my opinion, kill me if you must...
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. -- Benjamin Franklin
I'm imagining as human kind in general runs out of new ideas, new styles and fads.. When we're stunningly over-entertained and burned out playing Quake v.23; when movie studios have finally run out of ways to repackage 30 year old Sci-Fi concepts, and Son of the Matrix #15 is a box-office flop;
With a large majority of people starved for any form of new stimulation, body manipulation will become fully realized.
Forget prosthetic implants, and tattos, and branding. Think more like altered genetics, functional sex changes. Species changes, complete and flawless quick.. and expensive - but just cheap enough that the biotech firms and unions that perform the manipulations make optimal amounts of money.
How many of you Linux Zealots would spend $200k adjusted, to be a giant intelligent penguin?
At least the world would be perhaps, tolerant, when your boss is a talking tiger, and your co-worker is a hermaphrodite medusa-ish thing.
Plus!! The office furniture and keyboard manufacturers would make a killing!!- adapting for all those body forms and new hand shapes. Everyone's happy! and plenty of $$$$ going around.
I'd personally just like to be a giant possum. As those have ambidexterous hind feet, with opposable thumbs, my wpm could double.
Mozilla.org should recruit him for doing PR and scare the programmers to speed up.
Wow.. actually coming to the defense of this place...
Slashdot has been one thing: What Rob finds cool. Rob found the lizard boy cool. If you don't like the lizard boy, too freakin bad! Skip the story and carry on. Not EVERY story has to be high tech, nor geeky. Of course, being a lizardman is the epitome of geek. Remember 'circus geeks'???
Lighten up folks... and if you don't like it, just go someplace else for your news....
Rob, you just go on posting the stuff you find interesting, even if people don't like it.
Freud said sometimes a cigar is just a cigar; same goes with Anonymous Cowards. For what it's worth, I'm glad Rob reaped the rewards. It's a classic case of good karma - they worked their butts off and it paid off.
The revolution will NOT be televised.
So what makes this just SO wrong? Because Eric doesn't look like you? Because he doesn't fit one of your preconceptions about what people are supposed to look like? Is all cosmetic surgery wrong, or just surgery which doesn't make you look more "normal"? What makes the ear piercings done by some untrained, unsanitary teenager in a mall with a reusable(!) piercing gun less wrong than Eric's large gage tunnels?
Eric's part of a vanguard of pre-cyborgs who have taken control of their own bodies and aren't constrained by the feeble bodies evolution has given us. Admittedly the mods are mostly cosmetic at this point, but, at least in my opinion, it's one of the first steps to a bionic body.
Hairiest lizard I've ever seen...
-Chris
Hey, can we next start posting naked photos of Bill Grates in the shower? I'm sure that some chicks (and even some dudes) out there want to see how a $100 billion + man is decked out.
Windows is going the way of phlogiston...
Eric is really a nice guy. He is a regular in rec.arts.bodyart, and he even has a homepage with pictures and tons more info at:
http://members.aol.com/spidergod5/
Duh. I guess he will want some sort of funding from the National Endowment For The Arts or something.
People want pictures now? I want to see a picture of this guy when he's 50.
I'm still working on a clever footer.
I suspect you might find this in the Weekly World News eventually ... "Bat Boy vs Lizard Man!".
Too bad they didn't have a photo to go with the story.
If you are interested in body modification, please visit bme.freeq.com. On a side note, the lizard man has been around for quite some time...why is it making headlines on /. of all places?
;)
Anyway, what mods do my fellow geeks have? Ive got a few biomechanical tats, plus both nipples pierced (14 guage), 16 guage navel, 10 guage PA, and a few safety pins in my eyebrow
Could we get ESR to give him a brain dump? He could be great publicity for the Mozilla project. He'd certainly convince people that open source software is serious stuff, not just a bunch of hot-blooded geeks ready to breath fire on businessmen.
Gates' Law: Every 18 months, the speed of software halves.