Modern Trends in Body Art + On-line exhibits of Body Art through History

   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/ >