As the BME World Tour crew is busy playing working in Australia, I thought it would be fitting to feature a picture from the land down under.
This lip sewing comes to us courtesy of Rob at Polymorph Body Piercing in Sydney.
I am reposting this here thanks to Robin’s suggestion. Jayson was an active part of this community and the man behind the phrase “Get it”, that is tattooed on a few IAM members. His death was such an untimely waste and his killer, although accidental, was a habitual offender and shouldn’t get off with such a small penalty.
As some of you probably know, April 17, 2010 would’ve been Jayson Kilroy’s 30th birthday. He and his friend, Edgar Juarez, were killed August 6, 2008 by Barbara Thomas. She was charged with 2 counts of Vehicular Homicide, Driving Under the Influence of Drugs, Driving with a Restricted License (for prior DUIs), and she was not wearing her glasses when she struck & killed them.
She was sentenced to 3 years in jail. Three years for two lives. As if that isn’t bad enough, she has a parole hearing May 1,2010. If she is granted parole, she could be released as early as July 26, 2010. If that is the case, she will have served just over 1 year in jail for killing Jayson and Edgar. If you can, please email Tim Hand, head of the Colorado Department of Corrections Parole Board to oppose her release:
Tim Hand, Deputy Director, Regional Operations
940 Broadway
Denver, CO 80203
(303) 763-2420
[email protected] Thank you.When you write, please don’t be rude. Politely, but firmly make your point.
TSD was the original (modern) suspension crew and a lot of the amazing feats of engineering and artistry the members of TSD and there associates have come up still stand the test of time and many have not been duplicated or surpassed. I was thrilled to see another email from Ron Garza, with a picture, video and story about Mark’s rotisserie suspension circa 2003.
For a video of another one of Mark’s rotisserie suspensions, and to hear Ron tell the tale, keep on keeping on .
The story as told by Ron:
When I was involved with the old TSD group back in the mid 90′s most of us back then had our own individual visions of what suspensions were to us back then. It was a much different time and suspensions were still relatively a new thing and there wasn’t one way to do anything or just one mindset as to what suspensions were back then. There wasn’t really people doing this everywhere or pictures online to give people preconceived notions as to what a suspension were or could be.
The few of us that were into this stuff all talked and worked together and brought our own individual ideas, thoughts and visions to suspensions. We all differed in that aspect as well as out reasoning for being involved in this. You really saw this when you look at we did individually when everyone moved away or did solo stuff and started their own personal groups.
Steve Joyner ( of CoRE fame), with his excellent use of make up ,costumes, plots and show themes really brought more theatre to suspensions and took the emphasis off the act of suspenions, Allen with his intense solo shows and large group projects, Oliver Gilson whose engineering take on everything has changed not only larger suspension projects and hook designs but also whose rigging style has influenced many and taken suspension rigging into an artistic realm that is easily recognizable.
My whole deal with suspensions has always not only been multi-person suspension projects, but also high tension kinetic suspensions. This clip was one of my favorite things we pulled off. It was from an early MAYHEM show in Austin Tx back in 2003 I want to say. Mark Rose at the time was one of our hardest suspension models/hook monkeys who thrived on being able to take a large amount of intense stuff. This one threw him into shock and broke him. He still did this 2 more times at least that i can think of. I’m just glad someone had a camera around this time!This 360 frame was created by Tom Moore from Steel Fetish.
I know quite a bit of you modbloggers were a wee bit disturbed when I posted the pictures of Ala’s open wound fingering, so you can imagine how thrilled I was when Jamie sent me these pictures from the recent Dallas Suscon.
The pics are of me getting a hole in my arm fingered by my boyfriend. This happened after the two of us did a forearm suspension on a spinning beam together. I was prepared for some tearing on my arms with doing this suspension, but we were both somewhat excited when I ended up with a hole in my arm big enough for Biohazard to get a few fingers in. Tearing hooks is of course not usually something to aim for, but in this case the result was sexy! I suppose the slogan for the event was right – ‘Even bad ideas are bigger in Texas’. Haha
For a close up shot of the “open wound fingering”, keep on keeping on.
If you have ever suspended, watched a suspension, thought about suspending or even just enjoyed a photo of a suspension, you should probably go wish this old fart a happy birthday.
This picture took place at the recent Dallas Suspension Practitioners Convention. What this photo doesn’t show well is the fact Allen and Samar are gracefully balanced and rotating on a spinning beam. Photo credit goes to Rolf, who took dozens of awesome pictures of the event.
I came across some recent amputation pictures in the galleries and contacted the IAM member who had submitted them. He gave me the privilege of interviewing him and was extremely open about being a voluntary amputee, his life and his mods.
I feel I was pretty thorough in my questions and I definitely covered all of the basics. However, I know anytime an interview of this sort goes down, the readers of modblog always have questions they wish were asked. Well, now is your chance, if you have ever had any questions you wanted to ask a voluntary amputee, leave them in the comments section and I will pass them on.
Remember, I already interviewed him so the basic how and why questions have been asked already. So, please, make sure your questions are specific and original. Also, he had done a huge service for us by being so open about a subject rarely talked about, make sure the questions you ask are respectful of him.
Get yourself a bad ass portrait of Lemmy, like this one done by my old friend Shane Munce. When Shane isn’t on the road doing tattoos of rock stars, or doing tattoos on rock stars he can be found at Olde Media Tattoo in Media, PA.
One of the common issues I (and I would imagine a lot of other piercers) run into on a regular basis is the parents who bring their infant daughter in for ear piercings. No laws in my state keep me from doing this, but my personal ethics will not allow me to do any modification on an non consenting client. My view on circumcision is the exact same, I don’t feel it’s my right to decide the fate of my son’s penis. I feel that is a decision for him to make as a consenting informed adult.
Apparently, the parents of this BME Hard contributor, shared my viewpoints and left their son uncut. Now as an adult he has not only decided to get circumcised, it appears he decided to do the procedure himself using a gomco clamp.
To see the blood beyond the blur, keep on keeping on.
This BME Hard contributor has taken the term “oral hygiene” and creatively redefined it for his own pleasures.
For more pictures of this type check out the Saline, Sounds & Pumps gallery on the new (beta) BME site. For an unblurred version of this very picture, keep on keeping on.
Not since the the paparazzi caught Brad Pitt wearing fruit of the looms has fruit ever looked quite as sexy on someone as it does on my friend Katie’s side.
Tattoo by Zack Spurlock at Anonymous Tattoo in Savannah, GA.
