This amazing book is a beast — almost a quarter million words!
It includes the following interviews, done for BME between 1995 and 2008: Jon Cobb, Tom Brazda, Anne Greenblatt, CM Hurt, Piercers “Behind the Scenes”, Keith Alexander, Dr. Robert Stubbs, Kristian White, Reverend Drew Lewis, Fabiola, Erik Sprague, Todd Bertrang, Patrick Bartholomew, Anders Sandberg, Mick Noland, Reverend Mad Jack, Fakir Musafar, Urban Primitive, Fingerless “S”, Elayne Angel, Blair, Derek Lowe, Eizo Mamiya, Chaz “No Hand”, “Adding and Subtracting”, “Fingernails”, Steve-O, “Joshua”, A Modified Man in the Air Force, Fish Piercing, Todd Huffman, “Homo Raelianis”, Eyelid Piercing, Kerra Fowler, Punch-and-Taper Piercing, James Sooy, “The Customer is Always… Angry”, “The Customer is Always… Suicidal”, “The Customer is Always… Perverted”, “The Customer is Always… Stinky”, Love at First Bite, Ben on Dermal Anchoring, Johnny Brought His [Tattoo] Gun, Michelle the Pass Around Girl, FK, The Indestructible Man, Magnetic Vision, Alvar Saenz-Otero, Ashley Crawford, Leen’s Half Foot, Howie, Toph, One Hand Jason, Fabrizio Divari, DJ Minor, G.C., Boff Konkerz, Daniel DiMattia, Jae the Scratcher, Johnny Thief, Anders the Piercing Guy, Vincent Hocquet, Trepanation, Frances Sand, “Semi-Voluntary”, “De-Fingered”, Allen Falkner, Mohan Gurung, Jacki Randall, John Joyce, and Got Your Nose.
There’s really a lot of amazing body modification content in here, and now that BME has chosen to delete this archive of articles, this is the only place you can get them. Because my goal is to make sure this content is always available, it’s released under a creative commons license and you can download the complete 460 page PDF file here for free (this also means you can reprint it yourself).
It’s 460 pages in a 6″x9″ trade format. Two versions are available (click to purchase):
Softcover for $19.99
Hardcover for $34.99
Here are a few samples, and you can of course download the PDF for more (and you can click here to see my softcover copy and look at the real thing to review the quality):
23 Comments
Great! glad to have your interviews back! The pdf li_nk is broken though :’(
not borken, just needs a bit of fixing. :) here you go:
https://zentastic.me/pdf/openingup.pdf
Thanks — just a typo — fixed the PDF link.
I am reading the PDF version of the book, and am on page 55. I have found a few typos, I’m not sure if it will be the same in the books themselves, but I’d look on fixing that. No, I am not a perfectionist, I just like perfect grammar. =]
SNM511 – Other than correcting for spelling, I haven’t edited the interviews from what they were originally… Both because I want to preserve what was printed at first, and because it’s a literal transcription of what the person wrote/said to me.
THAT SAID — if you see stuff tat you think should be corrected, please do drop me a line. The nice thing about this type of publishing is it’s easy to revise minor issues.
ordered :)
and im gonna hit up the PDF aswell, because im impatient. haha
I’ll be ordering one of these for sure, once I get paid.
I’m excited to see that the quality of lulu’s books is so high. You’ve inspired me so much that I’m using lulu to publish a poetry book for my book design class! Thanks for the tip–this will be a LOT better than hand-binding or stapling together a chapbook.
Cool :) I was thinking about their cost-per-page for color stuff, and figured that doing a big color photo book yearly instead of a normal photo album would be cheaper and higher quality!
I’m with Alice!
This will become a great stocking stuffer ;)
Whee I got mine and I am so excited! I am letting a few friends borrow it and hopefully they will get some more insight into what this “body mod” thing is.
I got mine today, but although it has your cover on it, the inside is something else!! “Het Jaar van de Maker” apparently!! How very bizarre! Here is an excerpt from it: “met rode wangen en licht openhangende mond had hij ingespannen gestaard naar de kleine aarden held die ombeurten geteisterd werd door rukwinden, een mini regenbuitje en hop het laatst zelfs door een vonkenregen.”
Just going to email Lulu now to find out what happened!
What happened to me???? :(
to gemma i can translate it for you.
“Het Jaar van de Maker” apparently!! How very bizarre! Here is an excerpt from it: “met rode wangen en licht openhangende mond had hij ingespannen gestaard naar de kleine aarden held die ombeurten geteisterd werd door rukwinden, een mini regenbuitje en hop het laatst zelfs door een vonkenregen.”
year of the maker
with red cheeks and an open month, was e staring intensly to the litle clay hero who was being teased by a whipping, a litlle bit of rain, and in the last a little bit of falling fire.
its dutch
Where can i get this book and how much is it?
thanks alot =]
Hi Shannon, I just wanted to thank you for sharing your books for free, for me it´s quite impossible to get them ordered ( I live in Slovakia and the shipping costs are 2x the price of a book ). They were a great read, “Opening up” had me slackin´my work, I just had to read it at any cost :)
Keep up the good work !
Received my copy in the mail today. Lulu was lightening fast in filling my order. Thank you for putting this together and making it available. The people you interviewed, and the information they shared, are invaluable.
does anyone know what ever happened to rev drew lewis?
HOW CAN I GET YOUR DOG SKULL COMPUTER MOUSE AND HOW MUCH IS IT????
Hi I just downloads the PDF of opening up but can’t get it to open is there a program for tablets that is for PDF like this?
Yeah, thete are many free option, Abode Acrobat being the obvious one. Should be in both the Apple App Store and in the Android Market. Or search the apps for “PDF”.
Just received mine today! Thanks Shannon :)
Hey Modded People
I was delighted to be in Shannon’s ebook as Octoarse (page 250 or similar )He told my story very well and as a eunuch getting cut was a very hot experience !
Cheers Derek
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