2065438+July 2008, Montreal.
A man with a skull tattoo on his face sat on the sofa with a straight face. There was an empty bottle of agave on the coffee table in front of him, the carpet at his feet was full of discarded cigarette butts, and the TV with interrupted signal made a weak current sound.
After smoking the last bite of marijuana, he stood up and staggered to the windowsill.
Outside the window, the streets of Montreal are empty, and occasionally only one or two cars pass by. Under the dim light of street lamps, the whole city looks dark and hazy. A stray cat jumped past a tramp sleeping under a newspaper in the street and disappeared at the other end of the street.
The man stepped on the windowsill, opened the window and jumped.
Canadian male model? Zombie boy? Rick. A few days before his 33rd birthday, Genest chose to jump off a building to end his life.
Before his death, he was famous for being covered with exaggerated and bizarre tattoos, and his face was covered with human bone patterns, like a shriveled skeleton, so he was called? Zombie boy? . Genest, which is famous for its unique style, has been working with the French fashion company Thierry? Muller maintained close cooperation and filmed many men's fashion videos. He was very popular and had many fans of his own.
20 1 1 also participated in the MV shooting of the famous American female singer Born This Way, and formed a friendship with Lady Gaga in this cooperation. 20 13 also appeared in the movie "forty-seven ronin" as a savage. In addition, he also set a Guinness World Record with 176 insect tattoo and 139 human bone tattoo.
Why Rick? Will Genest tattoo himself with a skull from head to toe?
It started when he was a child.
1985, Genest was born in Montreal, Quebec. He wanted to attract attention from an early age.
At the age of five, he fell in love with the sticker in bubble gum. He thought that putting stickers on himself would be different from other children. So, as soon as he has money, he will buy bubble gum and put a sticker on himself. These stickers started his yearning for tattoos.
/kloc-at the age of 0/5, Genest was unfortunately diagnosed with a brain tumor. Desperate, he gradually fell in love with the dark things related to death. Fortunately, the brain tumor resection was very successful and he survived.
/kloc-When he was 0/6 years old, he made up his mind to get a tattoo and left his first tattoo. He began to want to run away from his family and live a wandering life. The sky is a quilt and the ground is a bed. When he is tired, he sleeps on the roadside. So, after quarreling with his family, he ran away from home.
From then on, he began a wandering life and became a street child. I wash other people's cars during the day and perform in a rock band at night. The rest of the living expenses are used for tattoos. At the age of twenty-one, he tattooed his face into a skeleton and was well known? Zombie boy? .
After that, when he walked in the street, he always attracted the attention of others. Many people looked at the strange man with strange eyes. Someone started taking photos with him and then gave him some change to make him a little happy.
His photos were uploaded to the Internet, and he soon became an online celebrity. One by one, some Gothic fashion magazines came to the door, hoping to take his picture and publish it in the magazine.
Soon, Nicola Formichetti, the stylist of Lady Gaga, discovered this maverick geneticist. Nicholas found him and helped him get an appointment with a best-selling magazine to work with Lady Gaga.
Since then, Genest has become an international first-line male model and often appears in various fashion activities.
People never imagined that Genest, who was rich and famous, would choose to commit suicide in his thirties.
Lady Gaga tweeted her condolences:
? The suicides of my friends Zombie Boy and rick genest are really sad. We need to work harder to change the existing culture, make people pay more attention to the importance of mental health and eliminate the stigma of mental health. If you are in pain now, call your family or friends to talk. We must save each other. ?
Lady Gaga said that Genest suffered from depression, which made him choose to end his life.
When he was a child, he was eager to be different and get everyone's attention, which made him think of tattoos. Being diagnosed with a brain tumor at a young age has caused great psychological harm to him. Without proper guidance and care, he began to think about death, fell in love with dark things and suffered from mental illness. Due to the lack of communication and help with others, his condition became more and more serious and he finally committed suicide.
However, his sashimi art has influenced quite a few young people so far. As a contemporary culture, tattoos have become more and more popular. Many young people like to flaunt their uniqueness, and many people also think it is a symbol of the black class. For tattoos, be rational. We can neither regard tattoo culture as a scourge nor indulge in tattoos.
References:
Brain tumor made him a tattoo man? Zombie boy? What eventually led to his death was depression.
What is the cause of rick genest's suicide? Zombie boy Rick Jean is only 23 years old.
Tattoos all over your body? Zombie boy? Suicide, people know nothing about him except tattoos? British newspaper sister