Title : The NYT runs the style piece "Face Tattoos Go Mainstream" the day after the obituary for the heavily face-tattooed Zombie Boy.
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The NYT runs the style piece "Face Tattoos Go Mainstream" the day after the obituary for the heavily face-tattooed Zombie Boy.
August 4th: "Face Tattoos Go Mainstream" (noting various characters with an "amazing pop star life" who have things tattooed on their face, such as "Stay Away" on the forehead or a marijuana leaf on the temple or a portrait of Anne Frank on the cheek-to-neck region (and then tattooing a marijuana leaf on Anne Frank's cheek*)):[In the past] one saw a face tat and thought: Aryan Brotherhood or gang member or sideshow performer. Famous face tattoo wearers of the recent past, like Mike Tyson, Charles Manson and the drug-addled skateboarder Jay Adams, conformed to the stereotype of the rough character....August 3rd: "Rick Genest, Tattooed Model Known as Zombie Boy, Dies at 32":
“A lot of kids are doing it to make themselves bigger on social media,” said Travis Hardy, 30, a creative director in Los Angeles who works with musicians. “It’s kind of corny.” Last month, he a got a lightning bolt tattooed under his left eye. “I don’t need that,” Mr. Hardy said, referring to others’ quest for attention. “This isn’t for followers or comments.... There’s no turning back. There’s no normal job or whatever... I’m going to continue to creative direct or write treatments for music videos or stage design. I’m not going to turn around. This served as a stamp: I believe in myself.”
When he was a teenager he was told by doctors that he had a brain tumor and that he would need surgery that would leave him disfigured for life. [But instead he received a laser treatment that was not disfiguring.]..._____________________
He then began getting tattoos. His first was of a skull and crossbones on his left shoulder. Then he had his face tattooed to resemble a skull. He decided to shave off his mohawk and had his head tattooed to resemble a brain....
Lady Gaga approached him in 2011 to participate in the “Born This Way” video,** in which she wore makeup that resembled his tattoos....
Mr. Genest wrote in The Mirror that he was proud of achieving his boyhood dream of becoming “a freak.” “And yes,” he wrote, “Please do stare, I like it.”
* For real.
** Here's that video, and, obviously, he was not born that way. It was a later, intentional imposition on his physical being... as was the death, if Lady Gaga's initial tweet is to be believed.
(My screenshots from "Born This Way." To see the Zombie Boy part of the very long "Born This Way" video, begin at 4:11.)
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