Anthony Loffredo, also known as The Black Alien, at Expo Tattooarte in Mexico, in 2011.EDGAR NEGRETE LIRA

BODY MODIFICATIONS

After having some fingers and his ears removed, The Black Alien abandons his body modification project

Before the next step in his plan, which consisted in amputating a leg, Frenchman Anthony Loffredo decided to change course

Tras amputarse dedos y extirparse las orejas, Black Alien abandona su modificación corporal

Daniel Soufi
29 December 2023

Anthony Loffredo, also known as The Black Alien (35 years-old), announced last week his decision not to continue with his body transformation plan to look like a being from another planet. In an Instagram post, the Frenchman explained that the project had lost all meaning to him and that he was done altering his body. He plans to conclude his metamorphosis with a full cover-up, applying black ink to every inch of his skin. The body modifications he had done so far include finger amputation, the removal of ears and parts of the nose and lips, skull implants, the removal of parts of his dermis, the removal of his scalp and ink injections in the outer membrane of his eyeballs. Still, with all this, Loffredo considered his transformation to be at 65%.

Wold of Old Japanese Tattoos / Circa late 1880s

World of Old Japanese Tattoos, circa late 1880s

Since the influence of Confucianism and Buddhism on the Japanese culture, tattoo art has a negative connotation for the majority of the Japanese people. In the eyes of an average Japanese a tattoo is considered a mark of a yakuza - a member of the Japanese mafia - or a macho symbol of members of the lower classes.

Who owns your tattoo? Maybe not you

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Who owns your tattoo? Maybe not you

August 7, 2016 8.03pm EDT

Shontavia Johnson

Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Drake University

More than 20 percent of all Americans have at least one tattoo, and for millennials that number jumps to almost 40 percent. What could be more intimately a part of you than a work of body art permanently inked into your skin? You probably assume that the tattoo on your body belongs to you. But, in actuality, somebody else might own your tattoo. Recent lawsuits and events have shown that tattoo artists and companies can have intellectual property rights in tattoos worn by others, including both copyright and trademark rights.

Kate Moss and the £1million Lucian Freud tattoo

Kate Moss and the £1million Lucian Freud tattoo

Kate Moss has disclosed that Lucian Freud, the late artist, inked a tattoo on her lower back which is worth more than £1million.

Kate Moss's tattoo by artist Lucian Freud Photo: PA/Rex

By Telegraph Reporters

11:30AM GMT 18 Nov 2012

The 38-year-old model befriended Freud, considered one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, in 2002.

He subsequently told her how he used to give homemade tattoos using permanent ink and a scalpal when he was in the Merchant Navy during World War II.

He drew two tiny swallows at the base of her spine. Moss told Vanity Fair: ''He told me about when he was in the navy, when he was 19 or something, and he used to do all of the tattoos for the sailors.

"And I said, 'Oh my God, that's amazing.' And he went, 'I can do you one. What would you like? Would you like creatures of the animal kingdom?'

'He told me about when he was in the navy, when he was 19 or something, and he used to do all of the tattoos for the sailors.

And I said, 'Oh my God, that's amazing.' And he went, 'I can do you one. What would you like? Would you like creatures of the animal kingdom?'

''I mean, it's an original Freud. I wonder how much a collector would pay for that? A few million?"

Freud, who died in July 2011 at the age of 88, was introduced to Moss after she named him as the person should would most like to meet.

After going for dinner with him, he began painting her in the nude when she was pregnant with her daughter, Lila Grace.

She said in interviews: "I went to his house and he started [the nude painting] that night. Couldn't say no to Lucian. Very persuasive. I phoned Bella [his daughter] the next day and said, 'How long is it giong to take?'. She said: 'How big is the canvas'. I said, 'it's quite big.' She said: 'Oh dear, could take six months to a year."

In the event, the painting took nine months to complete. The model sat from 7pm to 2am, seven nights a week, and the painting was later sold to an anonymous bidder at auction for £3.9m.

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