B-List

A. Modern Trends in Body Art

1. "Tattoos are, like, totally boring"
   <http://www.newyorkish.com/newyorkish/2004/01/tattoos_are_lik.html>
"A few years ago, you went out and got a tattoo or piercing. Sure, it looked
 cool and edgy at the time - but now? ... This much is clear: if you want to
 create a little attention in the 21st century, you're going to have to do a
 lot better than that"

2. "Report: Local teens branding bodies, running health risks"
   <http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/2900131/detail.html>
"She was branded, using a coat hanger, a blowtorch and seconds of pain"

3. "Jewellery that puts a twinkle in your eye"
   <http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1083620.htm>
"The latest fashion trend to hit the Netherlands is eyeball jewellery"

4. "Pouty bellybuttons newest fashion trend"
   <http://www.ncbuy.com/news/2002-12-24/1005759.html>
"During the so-called 'umbilicoplasty' surgery, doctors put a 'purse-string'
 suture around the navel to control the circumference and give it a ridge at
 the top"

5. Make me look like ...
*  "Sci-fi fan gets Spock ears"
   <http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1008940.html>
"A sci-fi fan in China has had plastic surgery to give himself ears like Star
 Trek's Mr Spock"
*  "The real-life Barbie dolls"
   <http://www.toxicstories.com/pivot/entry.php?id=115>
"Cindy Jackson and Miles Kendall have spent about $300,000 transforming them-
 selves into copies of the best-selling dolls, undergoing 89 operations -
 ranging from jaw implants and chemical peels to liposuction"
*  "Belgian has nine ops to look like Jackson"
   <http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_761474.html>
*  "Man undergoes plastic surgery to look like J-Lo"
   <http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_921054.html>


B. On-line exhibits of Body Art through History

1. "Bodies of Culture: A World Tour of Body Modification"
   (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)
   <http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/exhibits/online_exhibits/body_modification/
       bodmodintro.shtml>

2. "Body Art" (Australian Museum Online)
   <http://www.amonline.net.au/bodyart/>

3. "Body Art: Marks of Identity" (American Museum of Natural History)
   <http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/bodyart/>