Humans 2.0
Top: I am a big fan of weirdness and eccentricity that isn’t permanently baked in—weird hair dye, bizarre clothing and here, contact lenses that create startling, improbable colors.
Below, on the other hand, we have a man in a music-blasted, trendy-as-fuck storefront in trendy-as-hell Soho. Paul Simon sang of “diamonds in the soles of her shoes,” but this guy does him one better—diamonds embedded in his teeth. The practitioner makes a divot in the tooth and inserts the gem, while the red glasses protect the customer’s eyes from the light that cooks the glue that sets the diamond. …I think.
But the alteration that really creeps me out—sorry, no photo—is when people get their tongues split in two, lengthwise, forked. Eeeeshhh.
We are a weird lot, we humans. While running the free clinic so long ago, I saw some really creepy things. One of our volunteer docs came out ashen…said the patient had his penis pierced! Ouch!
Good Grief!!
Another of our patients brought in a book on these mutilations…I think he’d been there when the doc came out aghast. I don’t get it. Yikes!