The articles about buildings of the future becoming living, breathing things was very encouraging to me. I felt that it went hand in hand with the look we took at biomimicry in engineering. I think this could lead to a much more sustainable way of life.
Erik Dakota, visionary body piercer who developed a number of now popular ear piercings such at the rook, daith, and the industrial. I like this image I found of Erik because it catches him in the midst of a more extreme act of body piercing, as he inserts a needle across his forearm, during a benefit performance for Body Manipulations (a piercing parlor in San Francisco). Which is a side to Erik that it could be easy to miss in a head shot where one one only see his short cut hair, black no logo cap and no visible tattoos or body jewelry. Without Erik I wouldn't have a research topic. Thank you Erik for all that you have done for the body piercing industry, and incidentally also for migraine sufferers.
My research topic is on the Daith piercing being used as an acupuncture treatment for migraines. What's up with that?? I have been body piercing since 2007 and around 2012ish people began coming into the shop and asking for the piercing that will cure their headaches, toting that it was a form acupuncture. I've spent the last two years in TCM school waiting to see if anything I learned would lead me to this Daith acupuncture location. So far nothing has. And so I've decided to choose this as my research topic and dig a little deeper. As a bay area body piercer I have access to the people and publications from the body piercing industry that other acupuncturists do not. I hope that having access to both sides of this question will lead to greater understanding.
