AZ Fetish Ball 08
February 17th, 2008Life Suspended did a beautiful suspension at Fetish Revolutions on February 9. JD was a dark Angel helping a soul get to heaven.
Valentine’s Day hearts
February 15th, 2008This year it was Cookies turn to do Valentine’s Day….I woke up to find my living room turned into some sort of magical sexy valentines day land! I thought Valentine’s Day would be appropriate to debut my cast silicone heart shaped implants! I also have about six other items which I will post over the next day or two. On an interesting side note, my finger which the magnet is in is almost three years old. While setting up for one of my fetish balls (azfetishball.com) last week I took a slice right over the top of it, but not to deep. The cut is healing with no signs of rejection.[inspic=283,,,0]
CooKie throws a great birthday party
August 9th, 2007Every year CooKie does something special for my birthday. This year she threw a surprise party at one of the Pussy Posses favorite lesbian bars. The co-founder of the posse Zen created quite a unique birthday card which was written all over her body (lucky me)! I am getting back on track with my life and putting my nose back to the grindstone. More blogs coming soon.[inspic=282,left,,0]
Death of our son.
April 17th, 2007Steven Arthur Haworth Junior
Born: August 3, 1988
Died: April 11, 2007
There are a lot of questions and a lot of rumors floating around. I hope this gives you the answers you need and puts a stop to the rumors. Please understand that what you are about to read might be hard to hear. You do not have to read this if you are not ready. It will be here for you when you are.
Steven had been working at Pizza Hut as a delivery boy. While on a run to deliver pizza’s he was heading down 16th St at about Glendrosa when a truck abruptly slowed down to turn right. Steven was speeding and changed lanes quickly and lost control of his car. When he over corrected his car rolled a few times and went into a pole. No, he was not wearing his seatbelt. He immediately was unconscious and was actually pronounced dead at the scene, even though police are not supposed to do that. No one else was injured or in the vehicle.
When the paramedics arrived they had to tear apart the car to pull Steven from it. An officer found his cell phone and called Steve to notify us that Steven was going to the hospital and he was breathing.
When we arrived at the hospital an officer told us that he didn’t make it. Obviously, we were devastated. The officer wasn’t sure if it was our son since he didn’t have his wallet. We told him about the Trilobite brand on his chest as an identifying mark. The officer went back to check to see if the brand was on him. He came back to notify us that his heart started beating again and the doctors were working on him full force. They said they had never seen anything like that. He had been without a pulse for 5 minutes.
Friends and family came down waiting with us to hear what was happening. A doctor came into visit us and explained that he was stabilized for the moment and that they were doing a mobile X-ray on him. He explained that they had to wait till he was stabilized more to do a cat scan to determine where the bleeding was coming from so they could stop it, as that was the major issue at the moment. After the X-ray they let us into the room to visit Steven while we waited on the results. I will not speak about his condition. I will say, however, there was a light in his eyes and Junior was holding my hand. We told him we loved him and that he was strong. We sat with him talking about all of the love he had waiting for him outside and promised we would be there when he woke up. We gave him all of the encouraging words we could think of. We had to leave when another trauma patient was being brought in.
All of us waited, very impatiently, outside for results. We knew he was going to make it even though he had a long road of recovery ahead of him. Finally, after what seems like hours of waiting, the doctor came out and asked to speak to us privately. He informed us that Steven had fractured multiple vertebrae’s in his neck, there was severe hemorrhaging, his blood pressure was dropping and his pulse was slowing downing. They couldn’t stop the bleeding enough to move him to do the cat scan he needed to find out where it was coming from. The doctor was trying his best to politely explain that Steven wasn’t going to make it. Since his brain hadn’t had oxygen for so long even if they could pull him back they couldn’t guarantee the state of his life. We asked if there was anyway that they could stabilize him enough to get cat scan and figure out what was wrong. They said there wasn’t at this time but if they wanted us to keep working on him they would. We told them to keep working on him and we went back to sit with him.
When we saw Steven his eyes were cold and he no longer held my hand. The nurses said that he had been heavily sedated and that his blood pressure was still dropping. We realized we had to let him go. At this point we were only holding on for selfish reasons. We gave the nurses the go ahead and sat there with him. We told him we loved him and to just relax. We weren’t sure if he could hear us but incase he could we talked to him till the end. He moved very peacefully on to the next world with no pain. Steve was the first person to hold his son coming into this world and we were the last to hold him as heft us.
Steven Jr. was a charming, intelligent, hopeless romantic. He was also stubborn, persistent and irresponsible… but what 18 year old isn’t? He was our boy and we loved him. He had come so far with his struggles life had presented him. With the help of his Steve and CooKie, uncle, aunt and grandpa he was growing into what a man should be. We are all proud of you, Steven, thank you for being apart of our lives.
Steven Jr. had only one modification thus far. He had his father’s Trilobite symbol branded on the right side of his chest, which he was very proud of. Tonight, Steve and I branded the logo on each other in honor of our son. CooKie also shaved her head in honore of our boy, which you will see pics of below
We would love to have you attend the Memorial Service for Junior. We will have an area set up in the front of the podium with pictures and other memorable items. We will also have a place for you all to set any letters written to him that you would like to share. We will add them to a book that we will keep with him until we determine what to do with his ashes. The book will be buried with him if that is the direction we choose however, we haven’t gotten that far in the process yet. We would love to have you all attend, and celebrate the life of Steven A. Haworth Jr.
The Memorial Services will be held for
Steven Arthur Haworth Junior
on Saturday the 21st Day of April in 2007 at 1:30 pm
Lincoln Heights Christian Church
2121 East Lincoln Drive Phoenix, Arizona 85016
We will be doing a Party for Steve on May 11th at The Sets in Tempe. Kim from 13th Floor Entertainment and The Sets are helping us set it up. ALL of the profits will be donated to an organization that councils abused children. Please keep up on information on our website:
www.azhornshalos.com
We thank everyone for the kind words and support. We are still very much in mourning and Steve will not be accepting any appointments for the time being. We thank you for the understanding. The phone will be shut off for a while. If you need to contact us please do so via email.
Sincerely,
Steve and CooKie
Tampa Tattoofest!
March 31st, 2007Me and Mitch are spending the weekend at the Tampa Tattoofest Convention. I did seminars and had the opportunity to meet many new friends in the process. I would like to thank Bruce Ripley (who runs the convention) for being a gracious host and also H2ocean for covering airfare.[inspic=253,,,0]I ran into one of my old friends at the convention. Mark Lichtenberg had commissioned transdermal horns in November 1999 and has worn the the same size spike for eight years. I brought him much larger spikes and I think he was pretty happy! [inspic=252,,,0] Mark is a great example of the success of transdermals when placement, material and aftercare are implemented correctly. Mark is an amazing body piercer and one of the kindest souls I have met. He has also been a collector of other various mods in which are pretty obvious in the picture to the right.[inspic=250,,,0] I also had the opportunity to meet Mark’s lovely fiance Colleen who has beautiful tattoo work, Mark’s a lucky guy![inspic=251,,,0] CooKie is 2000 miles away on the West Coast and is dearly missed.[inspic=254,,,0]
CooKies chest work
March 10th, 2007CooKie has always had unique symbolism to all of her modifications. The first implant she had placed in her chest was the Infiniti symbol in 2001. The next was the two crescent moons in 2003. Then came the two large 7/8 half cut beads in 2005. Then in 2006 she had laser branding enhancing her implants.[inspic=249,,,0] Definitely my favorite chest work, they even make Hawaii look good![inspic=248,,,0]
Louie’s Horns
March 8th, 2007I know this first picture of Louie on the left has been circulating around the Internet for some time but it is still one of my favorites! On the right is a picture of Louie sticking his split tongue through one of his 1 inch diameter Labret piercings, one of my other favorites as well. [inspic=244,,,0]Louie came to me for his first set of horns in May of 2001. Since then he has gone up one generation every year and is now at 6th generation which is the largest set of horns I have ever placed. 6th generation are 1 inch tall by 1 inch wide. He says they are still not big enough so we are working on 7th, 8th and 9th generation. The picture below on the left shows the external visualization from 5th generation to 6th generation with 5th generation being on the left. The picture on the right shows both the 5th and 6th generation silicone jewelry with the old 5th generation on the left and the new 6th generation on the right. [inspic=245,,,0] Lastly I could not leave out the picture of Louie and his son at the local train park, Louie makes impressions in all kinds of ways!!! Louie also has a web site called mexicanmutant.com with more detailed information on his modifications and contact. Once we move Louie up to 7th generation I will make sure to put up pictures.[inspic=246,,,0]
Shot Glasses.
March 6th, 2007I ran into my friend J. Coburn during APP last year and had the opportunity to photograph the implants I had done on the back of his hands. He is an amazing artists and you should definitely check out his web site http://www.provoke-productions.com When we had done these he had asked for the largest size rings that I could place in his hands and told him in doing so the concept of digging things out of his pockets would be difficult. He can literally use his hands as shot glasses! As we were talking about his hands and the previous discussion when they were first done he asked “now that we’ve established that I can no longer reach in my pockets can we go bigger” we haven’t gone larger yet but I am working on it.
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Getting started with Internet Bloging
March 5th, 2007I am starting off with shaped Piercing Holes since there is very little information about them. The first discussions that I can remember revolving around the creation of a shaped hole in the upper ear/cartridge took place in the mid-90s. One of my good friends DJ works in an aerospace manufacturing facility and had brought me a couple of parts that he had machine that had a similar resemblance to what I was wanting to create. After I engineered some designs and concepts he went off to see if it was possible to manufacture my designs. About two weeks later thanks to the help of DJ the Star shaped piercing hole was born.
In the first picture, No. 1 is an example of the piercing blade. These are very expensive to create so therefore are reusable and easily to sterilize. No. 2 is the star eyelet itself and has been engineered in such a way to the minimize the recession of cartilage during healing. No. 3 is a standard O-ring to hold the eyelet in place during healing. I personally recommend using silicone O-rings during this healing period. No. 4 is an intestinal clamp that I modified for use as a shaped hole punch tool. No. 5 is the assembled version of the shaped cutter, backing and tool. And finally No. 6 is an actual star shape removal. (Note that you can actually see the perfectly shaped cartilage star in the middle).[inspic=215,,,0]
The second picture is a shaped star on Amanda. No. 7 was the freshly pierced star shape hole. The process takes all of about 10 seconds to complete. No. 8 is the completely healed hole showing full definition on the inner points of the stars. No. 9 is a view from the back side. In No. 10 is a beautifully healed example with eyelet in. Amanda took approximately two months to completely healed her star.[inspic=219,,,0] The third picture is Dita from Japan who had both of her ears pierced into heart shapes. Dita was the first person in Japan to get this style modification. In No. 11 you can see the piercing blade as well as to heart shaped sections removed. Here in No. 12 we actually see the fresh piercing. In No. 13 the eyelet is in and the O-ring is in place. And lastly in No. 14 a beautifully healed heart several months later.[inspic=223,,,0] In the next picture is Andi. In No. 15 you can see that she has a uniquely shaped upper flat cartridge which makes her a perfect candidate for this kind of piercing. In No. 16 she is going through the process of the piercing. In No. 17 we see a completely healed piercing with silicone O-ring. In No. 18 with eyelet removed we see the evidence of an extended healing process due to a diabetic condition. The average healing period for this type of upper cartilage piercing averages 3 months. In Andi’s case if memory serves me right I believe it took about one year.[inspic=217,,,0]Amanda is a body piercer from Boise ID http://www.krahnic.com and had both of her upper ear cartilage pierced with the heart shape. She had the point of the hearts angled in such a way that they point through the center of her lower stretched ear lobes. I’m really liked this affect. Also I believe the picture on the left is on her wedding day so congratulations are in order![inspic=216,,,0] Lastly, I will show a close up picture of some star and heart eyelets. The eyelets themselves, both hearts and stars, retail at $100.00 each and I charge $50.00 per piercing so you would be looking to $150.00 per ear. [inspic=226,,,0]I’m going to be looking into mass production of the eyelets as well as the shaped cutter in order to make this modification less expensive and more accessible to other piercers. Once I have figured out cost issues I will also create a seminar to teach the other body modification artists these techniques. As always I recommend H2 Ocean for the healing process.
