This is your future, and it's happening one minute at a time

[andrewducker]

Now, apparently corneal tattooing has been around for ages, covering up scars and leucomas and other disgusting shit. But it took Shannon Larratt, of the indispensable ModBlog and the BME online community of body-modification fanciers, to ask the question – what about scleral tattooing? Well, a specialist told him that tattooing your eyeball is basically dangerous and stupid. Shannon, being Shannon, decided that this was Condition Win and set out along with two friends to get stabbed in the eyemeat.

More here.

Comments

[meaningrequired.livejournal.com]

I kinda feel if someone wants to tattoo the whites of their eye they should be allowed to go do it themselves... and if they end up blind or in pain its their own fault.

I'm all for freedom of artistry.... but some things just seem a bit stupid to me :)

I would dearly love to have eye surgery so I don't need glasses, but I realise that its not perfected yet, and its not recommended to young people as it only lasts a number of years. I would be mortified if I lost my sight because I decided the whites of my eyes should have a funky design.

[andrewducker]

Well, exactly.

But if becomes more common they'll no doubt get better at it, and the results from long-term studies will be very useful for all sorts of things.

Self-chosen guinea-pigs are the best.