#jon cobb

[maybeiwasbornthere]

Jon Cobb for PFIQ Magazine

[intricatepiercings-blog]

I feel that some piercings reflect the personality, and those are more like haircuts or styles of clothing that you embrace. Other piercings are supposed to be there. When you look in the mirror, you don't look different so much as same somehow, as if it has been there all along.

Jon Cobb

[abeastinthedark]

When we come to grips with pain, that's a new thing for Westerner. Our rites of passage are getting drunk, going to college, getting laid.. But this is a moment where you really do have to earn it. This is going to hurt. Why am I doing this?

Jon Cobb - Opening Up

[abeastinthedark]

What if we all knew there was no point in selling your soul and working for twenty years, that there's no pension plan because the Earth's polarity is going to flip and we'll all be under water?

Jon Cobb - Opening Up

[abeastinthedark]

You are speaking volumes about yourself, whether it is to embrace as one more facet of the business suit the potential for going farther down that road, so in a sense you're trading yourself in, or to beautify yourself just for your own sake.. that's modification.

Jon Cobb - Opening Up

[abeastinthedark]

Hair, nails, body language, body shaping - that's all body modification.

Jon Cobb - Opening Up

[carnytrash]

In the not so immediately apparent, a lot of possibilities aren't regarded for what they are: Bodybuilding, yoga's physical aspects and contortion, pilates (a type of exercise that leads to full realization of the elastic potential of the body; you can literally grow an inch or more through loosening up the connective tissues between bones, etc.), martial arts hand conditioning, cosmetic surgery or dentistry, hair removal or adorning or patterning (tribalized chest or forearm shaving patterns can only be so out there to somebody), anorexic, bulimic, or fasting behavior intended not to appease the mind but result in a bodily appearance that better reflects the self image, name it; my wife just suggested fashion (if clothing is worn continually with the primary purpose of adornment and encasement, or possibly negation, it ceases to be both temporary, surface, and necessary, therefore a real modification). We no more "need" to comb or keep our hair, or wear clothes inside our houses, than we need to pierce ourselves, but we do, so we should recognize this gift for what it is. In short, any conscientious deviation from the base form of the nude body.

Jon Cobb

[carnytrash]

I help people find themselves, decorate themselves, and embrace the one thing you get in a culture where you are what you do -- the body. And people don't even realize you can do that any more, and that's a very natural human thing -- to decorate and cherish. You are your own medium and it's the only thing you're going to get to take with you.

Jon Cobb