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Good news! Lavina is accounted for and safe and sound.
We really hate having to relay messages like this, but we’ve received word that Lavina is missing. The details we have are as follows:
- She came up to Los Angeles to get some work done with her boyfriend on Sept. 17.
- She went with her boyfriend to San Diego (where he lives) and stayed with him for a few days.
- After a few days, she left for Albuquerque, New Mexico to meet up with a friend there who none of her friends or family knew. She apparently got there Tuesday, Sept. 22 and made a short phone call to her boyfriend. That was the last anybody has heard from her. The number from which she made the phone call was disconnected the next day.
- She was expected back in West Covina, California, on Thursday, Sept. 24, but nobody there has seen or heard from her.
- She’s 19 years old, about 4′9″ tall and about 115 lbs. She has long, dark brown hair and brown eyes.
- She has several tattoos on both arms, including a large octopus on her stomach, as well as one two-and-a-half-inch inch stretched lobe and a split tongue.
The Albuquerque sheriff’s department phone number is (505) 468-7100.
Any help whatsoever is welcome, of course. We’ll keep you all updated.
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We are incredibly sad to report that Andrew Niland, the body modification who was reported missing earlier this month, was found dead in North Bay, Ontario on Friday, August 28. This had been a very trying year for Andrew, starting with his arrest several months ago for performing certain body modification procedures and the legal case that followed. Details are light at this point, but we will do our best to keep the community updated as any pertinent information is released. Until then, this is as good a place as any for people to share their memories of Andy, if anyone so wishes. Our sincerest condolences go out to all of his friends and family members—this is a terrible loss.
It’s come to our attention that Andrew Niland of North Bay, Ontario, pictured above, has gone missing. In the North Bay Nugget, Maria Calabrese reports:
Friends are using a Facebook group to find a man who has been missing since Aug. 4, and North Bay police are circulating his picture in hopes of asking the public’s help.
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Police said friends reported Niland missing and confirm he is not wanted by police.
Niland has been free on bail since February after he and his girlfriend Adrianne Carbone, 21, were charged with aggravated assault for performing a labia reduction on a woman earlier that month at his residence.
A friend describes Niland as:
A 30-year-old piercer at Sacred Art in North Bay. He has been missing since 6:30pm on Tuesday August 4th, 2009. He is 5’10”, 150 lbs, shaved brown hair, blue eyes and is easily identified by his 1 ¼ inch stretched ear lobes, and various tattoos including stars on his forehead and “Vegan 4-Life” on his forearms.
Anyone with information leading to Andy’s whereabouts should contact his friends at Sacred Art (1111 Cassells St. North Bay 705-495-1962) or Detective Constable Jim Kilroy (North Bay City Police 705-497-5555).
The following is copied and pasted from Facebook:
Our friend Jennifer Chytra is missing.
She has a serious drug addiction ( opiates ) that have led to her dropping all contact with friends & family.
We are seriously worried for her life & want to find her to help her seek treatment.
When seen last in Toronto ( Dec.07 ), we found out she was living in an abusive environment with a drug dealer.Last place where she was said to be located: Brantford Ontario.
Stats:
Birthdate: May 11, 1984Height: 5′10
Weight: 90-110lbs
Eyes: Light brown ( no glasses )
Hair: Shoulder length, naturally blond dyed dark brown. May be blond again now but most likely not.
Markings: four circular scars in the middle of her chest, circular scars on her shoulder blades.
Black star outline tattoos on each upper arm.
Three cherry blossoms on her hip.She used to live in Mississauga until she was around the age of 19. We lost contact with her for the most part after she moved to London & got into the drug scene.
*She has been a member of IAM.BMEZINE.COM for several years. Her last update has been on 2006/03/09
If you live in one of the aforementioned areas & think you have seen her please contact us & call the police ( She is being abused, a heroin addict & associated with drug dealers ).
You may help save her life…..She will look more run down then the photos convey because of long term drug abuse, so please don’t hesitate to contact us even if you just see a resemblance of the girl in the photos.
* She is loved but doesn’t know it*
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Day three is halfway through, and it’s been another exciting one for sure!
A solid 21 suspensions have taken place today, including a six-point angel suspension by Paul King of the APP, who incidentally did a very interesting lecture today (and yesterday, which I forgot to mention) on Festival Practices of Sri Lanka.
At this very moment, Havard is doing an amazingly beautiful “installation” suspension, which looks incredible in a complex and curious sort of way. As his “piece” is coming to an end, we have what I believe to be the third spinning beam couple up and bouncing, with Kjetil on saxophone in midair, and Michele still in his aftercare outfit! You’ll be here next year, right?
Hungry for more entertainment, Håvve has asked some of the participants to throw something else our way, so this evening will see a collaborative show by Cookie (US), Lucky (Australia), Alice and Benoit (UK), Steve Joyner (US) and Bena (Sweden). International improvisation ahoy, I am way excited!
Ah! I just got word of Håvve’s calf suspension which I missed due to seeing Paul’s lecture. He must have been less than static whilst hanging, as his skin ripped to the point where Christiane could jam a finger not only into one of his hook holes, but right through his calf! I sure hope we can get a picture of that up here. In fact, I’m going to go and rob photos off of people right after this!
The convention is slowly coming to an end, and it’s definitely on my to-do list to return next year. Of course, it won’t be over till the after-party is dealt with tomorrow night, another tradition which tends to kick the ass; nothing to end a perfect weekend like a bout of drunken silliness with heavily modified crazies. Well, it’s eating time once again, and you know what that means…
Peace out y’all!
- Alex
Alexander Trowell is a body piercer and student nurse from Southport, U.K. He’ll be filing reports all weekend from the Oslo SusCon — keep checking this spot for updates.
So it’s all coming together nicely.
Friday saw a total of six suspensions go down (or up if you wanna be smart about it), and so far today another twenty-five people have hung. We’ve seen resurrections, chests, suicides, supermen, comas, some custom combination-suspensions (such as a suicide/chest combo), and amazingly two single hook chest suspensions! The first brave young soldier to attempt one of these bad boys was Bena, who commented on ’seeing the light’ and ‘whiting out completely’ for the first time.
On stage about an hour ago we got to see a somewhat improvised show! Lucky, who’s also known as Ruby Rum (and for the evening Dorabella Awful) told me she had to step in at the last minute due to some mix-up meaning Lassi (of The Saviours and CMA) was unable to attend, and the show culminated in Jussi (also of CMA and The Saviours) doing the second single hook chest suspension of the day. (Guess it was Lucky that was the real Saviour today huh guys) - I have total awe for you both Bena and Jussi. Particularly today, after trying another 2 point chest myself.
Interviewing people has never been my forte, but I managed to get a couple more comments from participants, including Adina who excitedly said, and I quote, ‘I came here to get my head screwed up, and it worked!’ She did her second resurrection today and enjoyed it lots. She also managed to comment on my choice of pink rope and rig - a choice I stand by proudly!
Oddbjorn did a suicide from a spinning beam with Stine, and told me he really enjoyed the intensity and rapid speeds the beam added to the experience.
Talking some more to Cookie Haworth, she emphasized something she mentioned in her and Steve’s lecture yesterday. I completely agree although I wasn’t there back in the day, that it’s fantastic how modern suspensions have moved from the backyards, forests, and other generally hard to reach spots of the world, and evolved into events like this which truly make it an attainable thing to achieve for anyone who wants to try it.
Anyways, it’s eating time before I post this, so I better go get my calories on..
Good night from Oslo!
- Alex
Alexander Trowell is a body piercer and student nurse from Southport, U.K. He’ll be filing reports all weekend from the Oslo SusCon — keep checking this spot for updates.
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| Photo credit: Rachel Larratt / BMEzine.com |
In what is fast becoming hardened tradition, participants from around the globe are here to meet like-minded suspension aficionados and newbies alike. Wings of Desire, the group responsible for the convention, have proven yet again that they can pull talents from across the worldwide mod community together to educate and inform.
The SusCon officially began around 2 p.m. today, with lectures by Havve Fjell (of Pain Solution and Wings of Desire), Steve and Cookie Haworth (of Life Suspended and HTC) and Steve Joyner (of CoRE). The weekend’s first suspension, however, is already over 20 hours old. Marte did a beautiful suspension, the like of which I had never seen before; the closest comparison I can draw is to a resurrection-style suspension, but with a line of four hooks placed along middle of her torso, including one placed over the sternum.
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This, the seventh installation in the Oslo Suscon legacy, will see between 60 and 75 suspensions take place over the weekend, and it’s no small achievement that it has attracted people from three more countries than last year - a staggering 14 nations are represented. Not too shabby!
Havve and Christiane Lofblad (of Pinpoint Piercing and Wings of Desire) have proven their competency again in organizing the event, with the help of a great crew and some absolutely awesome volunteers.
It is the plan of this humble blogger to report daily on suspensions and events going down here, so stay tuned to see what’s going on. Now, to get some food before it’s all gone …
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| Photo credit: Alexander Trowell / BMEzine.com |
