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Mr-Tetanus
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[2007-11-07 02:57:03 +0000 UTC]
"Human Pincushion"
(Australia)
# Statistics
Favourites: 164; Deviations: 259; Watchers: 79
Watching: 55; Pageviews: 59093; Comments Made: 2505; Friends: 55
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: Picasso, Rick Griffin, Reg Mombassa, PollockFavorite movies: Tideland, by Terry Gilliam
Favorite bands / musical artists: All good bands. Ones that PLAY MUSIC!
Favorite writers: Spike Milligan
Favorite games: No time for games
Favorite gaming platform: Mine just sit on a shelf, gathering dust.
Tools of the Trade: iMac, MacBook Pro, Mac mini, oils, conte, canvas, acrylics etc.
Other Interests: Circus, freak shows, oddities. Oh, and art.
# About me
Current Residence: Adelaide, Australia
deviantWEAR sizing preference: baby bear- not too big, not too small. JUST RIGHT.
Print preference: Large. My eyes aren't what they used to be.
Favourite genre of music: Rock, old school punk, jazz, classical.
Favourite photographer: Don't have one
Favourite style of art: Cubism, Renaissance, Abstract
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5
MP3 player of choice: iPod. I have so many of the little suckers.
Shell of choice: Cone, man!
Wallpaper of choice: silver with a strong floral pattern in velour.
Skin of choice: One that doesn't BLEED!
Favourite cartoon character: Fritz the Cat
Personal Quote: There is too much art to cover the same ground twice
# Comments
Comments: 106
Wanted to tell you I really enjoy your work, both the paintings and Mr. Tetanus stuff. x3
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To see more of my miniature art work take a peak at my blog: [link]
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Cool taste man. I love Tideland myself.
I recommend Kin-dza-dza!, Russian masterpiece, I'm sure you'll love it
Best regards
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HEY!!
greetings from chicago! me and beanpole say hello
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HEY HEY HEY.
You finally GOT HERE!
Come inside. Make yourselves at home.
Love to stop and chat, but I've got a deadline on an album cover and I'm falling a little (lot) behind.
We WILL speak.
T
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Sorry for the delay. I only just realised I hadn't replied.
Real v perceived pain? Tricky, but it goes a little like this. If you slam your finger in a door, I'd say the real pain is about the same as the perceived pain. ie, it hurts about as much as you'd expect.
On the other hand, a paper cut doesn't look like much, but as we all know, they hurt like buggery. Actually, i have NO IDEA how much buggery hurts (honest), so who am I to say. In this case the real pain is far greater than the perceived pain.
What I've done, and I'm giving away HUGE trade secrets here, is come up with a collection of acts that LOOK really painful, but have nowhere near the impact on my body that the audience perceives. in effect, they feel the pain in their heads. For example, when I hang concrete blocks from my nipples, the girls always cringe, as they see it as something that would hurt them. Guys on the other hand, seem to cross their legs if I hammer nails through my scrotum.
I guess you get the idea.
T
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As if people haven't told you that your 'out there' enough as it is. But then again, everyone has their own flavor of crazy. Don't even ask what I had to do yesterday. It made me tear more than when I saw your Totem Pole photo. ;.;
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OK.. So now I want to ask.
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A pet rat of mine was dying. His lungs were filling with fluid from an illness. Every vet and shelter was closed that day and I couldn't just sit around with him agonizing. I attempted to snap his neck...four times, but his spine ended up stretching/popping out like rice crispies. The sound let alone the "feel" mind-effed my brains. He started to seizure but then eerily recovered, got up and crawled back into my hands. I was almost hysterical. The most it did was partially numb him but he was still mostly, mobile.
I ended up giving him a bath because he apparently developed mites from my dad's dog when I was away. He enjoyed it, at first. But when I was almost done he started to act like his normal self and jump around/out of the sink. His spine by then was already swollen and inflamed since a half hour passed by then. He slipped and ended up on his back, twisted himself over to his feet then jumped out right when I was literally about to take him out and dry him off. He suddenly stopped on the counter and flopped over on his side.
I picked him up and wrapped him in a towel. For a few moments he was paralyzed while I tried to make him comfortable. But then his legs started to curl in and I knew he finally pinched/jarred his spinal cord. He didn't last more than thirty seconds and I listened to his heart and breathing till it stopped. His front paw was still twitching against my finger for quite a bit. By then I was thankful because it was a lot faster than just suffocating. Still, I'm never going to attempt that again. I never thought I'd even dare to do it because I'm like an adoptive mom to my animals.
More likely than not the experience will end up in the script I'm working on. It's an odd way of coping but if I can get that experience translated to people and put on screen then surely there's a lesson to be learned. Now you know.
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OK. If this was some kind of race, I reckon you just won it before I even got out of the gates.
Why won't things just die when you tell them to?
Eeeewww!
Sorry to hear it. I remember my mother went to break a birds neck when the cat got it, but its head fell off in her hand. Whoops!!
T
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And my medal is a trauma with shiny gold-plating. Go fig. Its a race I would have gladly let you win. I've done some odd stuff, but nothing this crazy.
You always see in movies or hear how delicate life is/easy to destroy. Never really mentioning that the fatal blow isn't normally so...fatal.
Ewww is right. That's what I was afraid of. I knew I needed to pull hard(ack >.< ). Instead I freaked myself out thinking I might accidentally pull it off completely at the very moment I applied force the first go around...bad time to have second thoughts. Trying to remember what happened during each attempt makes me physically ill. I should just stop thinking for health's sake.
Bird necks aren't as strong as rats now that I think about it. I wouldn't be so torn up if it were a rabbit or bird I just hunted for food. But, crap. Give me my monster doodles, roadkill portraits and rabbit traps to the face any day. I need to wash the taste of torment out of my brain.
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You are one crazy lad, but I enjoyed your performance pictures. It's amazing what the human body can endure if one has a strong mind. It all depends on the psyche.
Your traditional art is pretty damn good too.
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My mind is about as strong as wet bread.
I'm glad you liked my art. I think it's where I'm headed. Pain is so two thousand and four.
T
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Ah. Then either you must have an abnormal threshold for pain, or you're just a self sadist, haha.
Do you still do shows?
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Pain threshold: well below average. I do however have a healthy respect and understanding of pain, and fully understand the differences between "real" and "perceived" pain.
I haven't actually given the shows up, as such. I'm taking a long, healthy break, and concentrating more on my art. Tam and I are beginning to go through the motions of writing a show which will hopefully be the swan song for Mr.Tetanus. I think the days of people hurting themselves being a "cool" thing to do are well and truly past. The world can do with one less idiot, and I'm the first to put my hand up for a chance to bow out gracefully.
Mr.Tetanus is over it.
T
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So how you you describe the difference between real and 'perceived' pain?
I don't think 'freak shows' will ever be a thing of the past. I'm going to my first live one in a couple of weeks (Norwegian 'Pain Solution') and I'm really looking forward to it.
As for people just hurting themselves 'Jackass-style', I think is completely retarded and moronic.
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OK, it goes a little something like this. There are some things that hurt like hell, like paper cuts for instance. I don't care what anyone else says, they bloody hurt, and I'm sure there wouldn't be too many people that disagree. Another thing that hurts like hell is shoving a skewer through your wrist (which thankfully stops a lot of people from doing it.)
However, if you get a nice sharp skewer and poke it through your face, it's not so bad at all. I'm not saying it's a walk in the park. It's just not as bad as you'd think.
A scrotum is the freak's best friend as far as this goes. Ball bags are just like elbow skin. Grab a good pinch of slack elbow skin and give it a squeeze as hard as you can, and you'll be pleasantly surprised at just how much it DOESN'T hurt. Ball bags are just like that.
You wouldn't believe the number of times I've staple gunned mine to a block of wood and lifted it, or hammered roofing nails through it, stuff like that.
The rabbit trap to the face is a different pain again. It's a sudden thing that you just deal with. Once you trigger the trap, you have no control, and after what feels like a whack over the face with an axe, it's all over. It's fairly painful, but the amount of blood it causes warrants the act itself.
At the end of the day, my whole show is put together with a series of acts which have the minimal amount of pain/harm for me, but the biggest impact on the audience. I don't mind a degree of pain, so long as the final result justifies the expenditure.
I could, for instance, Put the skewer through my wrist as mentioned before, but it would be absolutely excruciating, and the benefit to the audience would be minimal. However, if I put a skewer through my arm just below the elbow, it's much, much easier, plus there's the added bonus that if I hit a major blood vessel, there are many people in the front rows that will witness real spurting blood for possibly the only time in their lives. It happens occasionally, and usually a couple of seconds of pressure is all that's required to stop it instantly. I do tend to get a big yellow bruise over the coming week though.
The hooks through the back are probably the most pain intensive act that I do, but once again, I can justify that, because it goes on to the back pull, which is a bit of a hit.
So, there you have it. That's pretty well my show, and all it's tricks, in a nutshell. My own pain, versus the pain that the audience actually thinks I'm going through. The bigger the void between the two, the better for all of us.
I think the thing that will keep freak shows alive is the imagination that goes into the variety of acts, plus the increasing artistic input into the actual production of the shows. My own show relied on pure shock. It was just me up on stage alone, subjecting myself to a relentless barrage of pain. Not padding. No frills. Just blood, horror, and nudity. I didn't give the audience time to think of anything except fear, and how to keep their dinner down.
I did see a recent show that was almost a direct rip off of my show, or at least about a quarter of the easier stuff, but it was delivered with nice lighting and impressive theatrics. What I would have done in 5 minutes, they dragged out to about an hour. The audience loved it. I was impressed also, but pretty well gutted that they hadn't done a single original thing. I've worked on my material for about 15 years to come up with an original act.
I'm really glad I'm getting out.
Thanks for chatting, and letting me get that off my chest.
t
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Ah, I actually didn't know that about bollocks. Fascinating.
I did, however, know that the head can bleed a hell of a lot just by a small cut. I can understand the nice effect of blood gushing from your face, haha! I can't see a rabbit trap locking down in your face being comfortable in any sort of way, so it's pretty gutsy I'd say
I'm interested in knowing/seeing how you would put a skewer through your wrist. I haven't seen that before.
Glad I could be of therapeutic help. 
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A skewer through the wrist is easy. Take one skewer. Place point end against wrist. Push like buggery. As skewer is about to come out other side of arm, be sure to support skin to avoid it delaminating from the arm. Bow to audience. Remove skewer. Staunch flow of blood. Try to hide tears (big boys don't cry).
Easy!
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Haha! Sounds iffy.
Do you push it through the top of your wrist or do you just go straight through the bone?
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I go about a third of the way down from the elbow towards the wrist, about the thickest part of the forearm. Getting past the bone is a bit of an issue. I usually have to back it up a bit and go around. The bone has a spongy outer which seems to have a lot of nerve endings. When you hit it, the pain is similar to pushing your finger hard into your eye.
I think to go through the bone, you'd need an electric drill. You can try it if you like, and let me know how far you got.
T
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Haha! I'll pass.
But really, you go as deep as the bone? Dang.
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Not on purpose. It's usually an unwanted stop over on the way through to the other side, or if the staples in the staple gun are too long for the meat that I'm poking them in.
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And you don't hurt any muscles or anything? Fascinating.
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It's really just a pin prick. A very DEEP pin prick. I do hit the occasional nerve on the way through, which usually results in a twitching finger as the skewer scrapes past it, or instant pain, or sometimes latent twitches that can last for several months.
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Hi Steve-so can you tell me the bands& singers you like?I am always on the lookout for new& different music.Love your gallery.
cheers,anne
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I like most styles of music, from classical, through to jazz, funk, grunge, punk (the REAL punk, not the punk of today where pink is the new black), anything good. On the other hand R&B (how dare they call it that?), rap, and wishy washy "pop" leave me cold. They make me want to tear out my eyes and stuff them in my ears. Well, maybe not quite that bad, but you get the idea.
Relaxation music is cool too, for just hanging around the house. There's a podcast called Ultima Thule, which churns out an hour and a half episode each week of what they call down tempo music. It automatically feeds to my ipod each week, and best thing of all is it's free. I sound like I should be doing an advert for them. I just like it, that's all. Great to paint to, but then again, so's Grand Funk Railroad.
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Hi-thanks for taking the time to reply to my quest to find more music I would like.Where I live, we are very limited in the radio reception,one channel that it is my dream to receive-alt. rock-alas eludes me.
I do so agree with you about the so-called pink punk! ha! they wouldnt know punk if it came up & rammed a safety pin through their earlobes-come to think of it,they have!-
so, the quest continues.
thanks,cheers,anne
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Well, I guess if the radio reception's bad, internet's right out. But then you're on here, so I could be wrong. If you've got an mp3 player of some sort (your computer?) I could send you a compilation disc of stuff I like that I think you might like. That could be fun. Hell, even a couple of discs. Bugger the expense!
T
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yes-a conundrum! the radio only plays on the abc radio national-which has decent music for an hour a day,& the 2 other ones are commercial ones,& play-get this-country music,the other-pop noise-I dont call it music!
Internet is fine.thankfully!
cheers,anne 
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And greetings to you.
Very inspiring gallery you have there.
Where you from?
T
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Ah,
yes.
You might recognise this spot then.
[link]
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hmmm it was was because I missed you. I missed the freaky shit. I have more pictures soon. your gonna get them whether you want them or not. sorry.
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I found you, im still stalking you by the way. Dont forget about me.
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one [link]
well I cant find the other, it starts with a Z I actually used it a few years back to make some 3d GIF's in highschool.
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lmfao that only took you how long to start watching the canadian blundstone girls DA. Sheesh!!
Thanks
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ur photos are great, u got some balls there with ur stunts, keep up the good work 
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Thanks.
I'll try NOT to.
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