Joao Caldara sends in this wonderful piece by Anderson at Outlaws Tattoo in Petropolis, RJ, Brasil.
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“VIDA”
How appropriate! (“Vida” means “life”). Joao sends in this picture of his tattooed hand (by Anderson at Outlaws Tattoo in Petropolis, RJ, Brasil) with his eight month pregnant sister.
Anyway, there should be a nice big BME update (starting work on that shortly with Phil) that’ll get posted tomorrow, but ModBlog is done until Moday or Tuesday… See you then! Hope it stays online — it’s getting linked like crazy because of the wristwatch piercing.
Like a drug trip: Set and Setting are Essential
Yesterday I posted Fabito’s Petropolis suspension, but I love the set that they found — an abandoned and run-down ski-lift — so much so that I wanted to also share Helena‘s first suspension experience which took place there, by Valnei, with Joao’s help as well. Two more photos: shot in less contrast, closer shot of Helena.
2006 BME YEAR END AWARDS
2006 BME YEAR END AWARDS
Let me first apologize for the terrible layout and style of this piece… I thought it was more important to get it online than to waste time prettying it up.
Thanks again to everyone for a year full of wonderful pictures, articles, and experiences. I think we (everyone from the person who helped financially, to the person who submitted a single navel piercing, to the megacontributors) did a great job bringing BME into it’s thirteenth year online, and continue to stay true to the reasons it was started in the first place… Essentially, to let people know that the way they feel is not just normal, but valuable.
For the second year in a row, our over top contributor was KitanoKaryuudo (who is pictured to the right) with a truly staggering 6,526 images submitted in 2006. What’s even more amazing is that Kokomi (another BME/HARD ultracontributor, and last year’s second place contributor) was only twelve images shy! Even outside of the BME/HARD realm, the top contributors submitted just amazing numbers of images. It blows my mind how generous everyone continues to be with their time. I can not thank you enough.
Anyway, I try to do these things a little differently every year. This year I decided it might be fun to do a regional breakdown, so I split the contributions into regions that roughly represented the number of contributions they generated… On the lists below you can see those winners along with their local and overall ranking. Links go to their IAM pages.
TOP IMAGE SUBMITTORS, OVERALL, BY REGION
ASIA | |||
Regional Ranking |
Overall Ranking |
# Submissions | Contact |
1 | 1 | 6,526 | KitanoKaryuudo |
2 | 29 | 592 | Crazy Glamour |
3 | 37 | 507 | Sui Otoko |
4 | 61 | 304 | nobcatz |
5 | 62 | 300 | BME/HARD – Anonymous |
MAINLAND EUROPE AND SCANDINAVIA | |||
Regional Ranking |
Overall Ranking |
# Submissions | Contact |
1 | 2 | 6,514 | kokomi.3k |
2 | 8 | 1,991 | madmax |
3 | 14 | 1,447 | BME/HARD – Anonymous |
4 | 15 | 1,391 | bena |
5 | 25 | 657 | BME/HARD – Anonymous |
6 | 33 | 547 | babakhin |
7 | 34 | 543 | BME/HARD – Anonymous |
8 | 40 | 480 | BME/HARD – Anonymous |
9 | 49 | 413 | tan0k |
10 | 53 | 403 | Shadark |
CANADA | |||
Regional Ranking |
Overall Ranking |
# Submissions | Contact |
1 | 3 | 3,056 | RussFoxx |
2 | 6 | 2,362 | Lexci Million |
3 | 10 | 1,705 | Holy Flesh |
4 | 20 | 834 | jasonvandervee |
5 | 27 | 599 | Efix |
6 | 31 | 580 | lilfunky1 |
7 | 35 | 521 | Myke |
8 | 55 | 387 | Cerra |
9 | 57 | 358 | Vex Hecubus |
10 | 70 | 258 | JesseV |
USA | |||
Regional Ranking |
Overall Ranking |
# Submissions | Contact |
1 | 4 | 2,775 | perk900 |
2 | 5 | 2,426 | stainless |
3 | 9 | 1,739 | SteveBennett |
4 | 16 | 1,372 | Big Rick |
5 | 17 | 970 | KIVAKA |
6 | 26 | 606 | j_scarab |
7 | 32 | 552 | holeybody |
8 | 36 | 507 | BME/HARD – Anonymous |
9 | 43 | 445 | Allen Falkner |
10 | 44 | 435 | Shawn O’Hare |
11 | 46 | 423 | MUTE-ONE |
12 | 46 | 423 | Melissa |
13 | 48 | 414 | Zebra Tattoo |
14 | 51 | 408 | barryb |
15 | 52 | 406 | CaptNipp |
16 | 56 | 372 | HollywoodPiercer |
17 | 60 | 306 | toxicskin |
18 | 69 | 265 | Piercer Dave |
19 | 72 | 250 | phoenixxx |
20 | 76 | 225 | tattooedheart |
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA | |||
Regional Ranking |
Overall Ranking |
# Submissions | Contact |
1 | 7 | 2,323 | Valnei |
2 | 11 | 1,640 | cutuvi |
3 | 13 | 1,485 | Joao_Caldara |
4 | 22 | 725 | Lucas Takano |
5 | 39 | 487 | UREA |
6 | 41 | 460 | peco |
7 | 42 | 450 | Freakboy |
8 | 45 | 430 | RAFAEL |
9 | 58 | 341 | deb |
10 | 63 | 288 | wild skin |
THE UK, IRELAND, AUSTRALIA, AND NEW ZEALAND | |||
Regional Ranking |
Overall Ranking |
# Submissions | Contact |
1 | 12 | 1,501 | alienboy |
2 | 18 | 967 | Piercing Pete |
3 | 19 | 877 | dispel |
4 | 21 | 797 | Stretcher |
5 | 23 | 723 | holierthanthou |
6 | 24 | 715 | strawberry |
7 | 28 | 598 | joker |
8 | 30 | 580 | vampy |
9 | 38 | 503 | tattoodfreak |
10 | 50 | 410 | VEAL |
THE MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA | |||
Regional Ranking |
Overall Ranking |
# Submissions | Contact |
1 | 134 | 138 | dave |
Admittedly, the race for the top few spots is daunting, but depending on where you live, submitting enough to win a placement is definitely doable… It’s also interesting looking at the breakdown to note that different types of pictures are dominant in different areas.
As all years, there are prizes as well as recognition. This year there are three different prizes. First of all, everyone who places (on any of the lists here) gets either a staff shirt or a container (more about that below), or both if they place more than once. The staff shirts (which you may have already seen on my IAM page) are based on a sectional view of a head containing various body modifications, and their explanations in Latin. And of course he’s got BME on the brain…
TOP IMAGE SUBMITTORS, BY SECTION
As well as splitting up the results by geographic region, we generated them by section of the site again. Those lists follow:
TATTOOS | |||
Ranking | # Submissions | Contact | |
1 | 910 | Big Rick | |
2 | 479 | babakhin | |
3 | 285 | j_scarab | |
3 | 285 | Joao_Caldara | |
5 | 278 | Zebra Tattoo |
PIERCING | |||
Ranking | # Submissions | Contact | |
1 | 1,097 | alienboy | |
2 | 724 | KIVAKA | |
3 | 654 | Lexci Million | |
4 | 529 | holierthanthou | |
5 | 385 | Valnei |
SCARIFICATION | |||
Ranking | # Submissions | Contact | |
1 | 641 | Valnei | |
2 | 527 | Lucas Takano | |
3 | 513 | madmax | |
4 | 324 | Lexci Million | |
5 | 318 | Joao_Caldara |
RITUAL | |||
Ranking | # Submissions | Contact | |
1 | 2,614 | RussFoxx | |
2 | 2,073 | stainless | |
3 | 1,228 | SteveBennett | |
4 | 1,092 | cutuvi | |
5 | 964 | bena |
BME/EXTREME | |||
Ranking | # Submissions | Contact | |
1 | 523 | madmax | |
2 | 267 | SLS-Frank | |
3 | 247 | Valnei | |
4 | 181 | old soldier | |
5 | 173 | SteveBennett | |
6 | 169 | RussFoxx | |
7 | 156 | Stretcher | |
8 | 146 | holierthanthou | |
9 | 126 | Shawn O’Hare | |
10 | 122 | Anonymous |
BME/HARD | |||
Ranking | # Submissions | Contact | |
1 | 6,517 | KitanoKaryuudo | |
2 | 6,514 | kokomi.3k | |
3 | 1,447 | Urban Soul | |
4 | 832 | jasonvandervee | |
5 | 609 | Stretcher | |
6 | 592 | Crazy Glamour | |
7 | 543 | AvantGarde | |
8 | 526 | Holy Flesh | |
9 | 507 | Sui Otoko | |
9 | 507 | Anonymous |
As I mentioned earlier, as well as printing shirts, I’m also printing containers (sort of like a sharps or first aid container) with the same logo (although single color). Maybe a place to keep your jewelry, maybe a place to keep your play piercing needles… The exact style of container isn’t confirmed yet so I can’t show you a picture but it’ll be printed with the logo in one of these two ways:
THE SCRIBES OF OUR COMMUNITY
As well as pictures, personal stories and articles are the other core part of BME’s mission to inform and share experiences. The top writers wrote huge numbers of articles, with the top dozen all writing at least a full-length article a month.
EXPERIENCES AND ARTICLES | |||
Ranking | # Submissions | Contact | |
1 | 50 | Silhouettes | |
2 | 26 | strawberry | |
3 | 24 | broken_wings | |
4 | 19 | Fuzzybeast | |
5 | 16 | Caroline June | |
6 | 14 | Ribibe | |
7 | 13 | delusionalfairy | |
7 | 13 | sweetcheeks | |
7 | 13 | aniorange | |
10 | 12 | MilllieB | |
10 | 12 | deadly pale | |
10 | 12 | kyo | |
10 | 12 | rwethereyet | |
14 | 11 | Bondage-Kit | |
14 | 11 | Flutterfly | |
14 | 11 | GucciGurl | |
17 | 10 | Blackvampyremage | |
17 | 10 | Kyrenna | |
17 | 10 | ubergeekgawdess |
SPECIAL RECOGNITION!
As well as the obvious submissions, there are many other parts of BME that are generated by the volunteer work of people who go largely unthanked (including quite a few that I haven’t even mentioned in this article!). For example, there’s BME’s newsfeed, which has been tirelessly maintained by volunteers even though updates have been sometimes sporadic (my fault).
NEWSFEED SUBMISSIONS | |||
Ranking | # Submissions | Contact | |
1 | 909 | deadly pale | |
2 | 758 | rebekah | |
3 | 261 | Ebowlotus1960 |
As well as obvious and “official” parts of BME, there are large parts of the BME community which are run wholly independently and autonomously that deserve recognition as well. I’m sure there are many more important ones that I don’t know about… I asked at the end of the year who had made contributions to this community (that isn’t otherwise mentioned here), and a few names stood out with regularity… These included:
- Shawn Porter for organizing both fun events and the Scar Wars series of conventions, and his work in creating a cohesive scarification community both online and offline.
- Monica for maintaining the series of IAM.Pregnant forums which have been invaluable resources to the many new parents on IAM/BME as this community ages.
- Warren for his IAM.Learning forum for people learning to pierce.
- Rebekah for her tireless work promoting IAM/BME members and for her hard work with Modified-News.
- Anaesthetise‘s Postcard Exchange Forum on IAM is enormous fun for the many participants.
- Wlfdrgn has undertaken the important task of managing the IAM/BME Scholarship Fund (see BME’s guest articles for more information, or visit his IAM page), now in its third year.
- Havve and Christiane for their suspension work in Norway and elsewhere.
- Allen Falkner for — among many other things — suspenion.org.
- Vampy and Dispel for their many suspension events in the UK and their excellent documentation.
- Perk900 for a series of great parties and a ton of photos.
I could really go on and on, and in a way I feel guilty stopping… There are so many other places people have contributed — reviewing experiences, helping me on technical issues, writing for and editing the encyclopedia, and more.
The core staff of BME’s QOD (Question of the Day — book coming soon!) continues to provide wonderful educational resource. They’re made up of Ryan Ouellette, John Joyce, Shawn Porter, Lori St. Leone, Sean Phillips, and Lassi.
Clockwise starting at top-left: Shawn Porter, Sean Phillips, Ryan Ouellette, John Joyce, Lassi, Lori St. Leone.
Finally, let me mention BME’s core staff, some of whom you probably already know, and some of whom you may not be aware of… Without these people, it would be much more difficult to keep BME going. Rachel runs the business end of things. Phil processes pretty much every picture that’s added to the site. Rooraaah does the same, but for naughty videos. Jon keeps our UNIX servers going and develops new toys for BME’s users, and Mike helps me keep our Windows boxes alive and uncompromised. Jen handles the customer support, and finally, there’s me, Shannon. Mostly I just put out articles long behind schedule.
Clockwise starting at top-left: Jen, Roo (and me in the background), Phil, Mike, Jon, Rachel.
And that doesn’t even include the staff of BMEshop (primarily Ryan and Corrie).
You’ll receive an email and/or IM on IAM from me in the next week with a form where you’ll need to fill in your address and shirt size and all that. I haven’t sent those out yet, but if you don’t hear from me within the week make sure that you contact either me or Ryan and Corrie so nothing gets missed… Other than that, I wanted to mention that there is one very special prize, sort of a secret talisman that will be going out to the very top contributors. Whether they reveal what that item is or not is up to them.
I won’t reveal it here, and probably won’t on my IAM page either, but let me say that (1) it’s very, very cool, and (2) it was created by an award winning butter sculptor.
Thank you everyone for another wonderful year. BME would be nothing without the community that surrounds it and creates it. If you’re reading this, there is a very good chance that you took part in creating this all… If so, thank you. You’ve helped me, and you’ve helped a lot of other people, and I hope you’ve helped yourself as well.
Shannon Larratt
BME.com
Clowns in Love?
Mazinha and Joo Caldara
Black Leg
Joao Caldara‘s leg by Outlaws Tattoo in Petrópolis, RJ, Brasil.
At least it’s a pretty location
I think this may be one of the first photos of an ass suspension where the person doesn’t, well, look like an ass. Now, don’t get me wrong — he’s hamming it up in the other photos in the set, but I really thought this picture had a nice zenlike “upside down meditation” quality to it. Thanks to my friend Joao_Caldara from Brasil for this.
Oh, and if you want to know what an ass suspension does to your undies…
Showing off stretched piercings at the clubs
Here’s how they do it in Brasil:
Looking glum, monster belly!
Don’t get me wrong Brasil — you know I love you! Any country that names itself after fully waxed privates is A-OK with me. So don’t think I’m detracting from your wonderful smoothness in any way when I post these mildly hilarious pictures of a rite inflicted by Joao Caldara at Blitzkrieg Tattoo e Piercing in Petrópolis, RJ, Brasil. I don’t know which of these two pictures is funnier…
BMEZINE.COM 2005 Year-End Awards [The Publisher’s Ring
BME.COM 2005 Year End Awards Thanks for another great year! With your help, BME continues to go strong as it enters its twelfth year. In this wrap-up article, I’d like to thank a few specific people who helped BME grow in 2005. These lists are just the best of best (or the biggest of the best if you’d like) — thanks must also go out to the thousands and thousands of people who made smaller but still important contributions, to say nothing of the paying members and BMEshop customers who make it possible to keep the servers online. In 2005, BME received about 60 gigabytes of image submissions totaling approximately 300,000 files. Of those, 188,485 images met our standards and were posted to the site. These successful image submissions came from 24,257 people and were posted in 151 separate updates. Along with those pictures, 7,234 stories and articles were posted and reviewed by site members, and 4,803 articles were posted to the BME newsfeed — almost all by volunteers. Overall top image contributors The competition was fierce this year and the numbers are quite staggering. BME/HARD members were competing with both professional piercers and with event photographers for the top spot. Below are the winners for the overall top image contributor of the year:
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2. 4,159 images stained steel |
3. 3,733 images
kokomi.3k
4. 3,242 images
KitanoKaryuudo
5. 2,044 images
RussFoxx
6. 1,990 images
perk900
7. 1,523
vampy
8. 1,354
VEAL
9. 1,353
Allen Falkner
10. 1,229
peo52
11. 1,150
hypermike
12. 909
stainless
13. 872
dispel
14. 859
Lexci Million
15. 848
KIVAKA
16. 833
Urban Soul
17. 832
Joao Caldara
18. 824
bena
19. 762
jonathanpiercing
20. 712
Hornet
21. 708
giselle
22. 653
bastard
23. 612
Ars Bonus Gallery
24. 607
wildirishrose
25. 559
joker
26. 510
UREA
27. 507
freakypumper
28. 504
j_scarab
29. 501
Rings of Pleasure
30. 489
Anonymous
31. 475
Anonymous
32. 468
nobcatz
33. 450
Guerella
34. 441
Crazy Glamour
35. 434
RAFAEL
36. 431
Efix
37. 411
rwethereyet
38. 406
deb
39. 397
HeadlessLego
40. 391
mc4bbs
41. 384
Vex Hecubus
42. 354
holey13
43. 353
matt bruce
44. 336
Bea und Lehni
45. 326
Tranquility
46. 325
holierthanthou
47. 320
piercer_dave
48. 313
rollsplitt
Top image contributors per month
And let’s break it down by month as well:
January 1. vampy (871 images) 2. Big Rick (520 images) 3. matt bruce (216 images) 4. KIVAKA (210 images) 5. kokomi.3k (171 images) |
1. VEAL (241 images)
2. Big Rick (232 images)
3. KIVAKA (173 images)
4. 667 (170 images)
5. Anonymous (137 images)
1. stained steel (276 images)
2. Big Rick (240 images)
3. kokomi.3k (174 images)
4. Anonymous (144 images)
5. Crumbs (132 images)
1. stained steel (1,268 images)
2. Allen Falkner (796 images)
3. kokomi.3k (337 images)
4. KitanoKaryuudo (318 images)
5. bastard (251 images)
1. hypermike (486 images)
2. stained steel (448 images)
3. kokomi.3k (419 images)
4. KitanoKaryuudo (271 images)
5. rollsplitt (201 images)
1/2. Big Rick (448 images)
1/2. stained steel (448 images)
3. kokomi.3k (419 images)
4. gastaum (221 images)
5. KitanoKaryuudo (191 images)
1. Big Rick (1,346 images)
2. perk900 (707 images)
3. RussFoxx (685 images)
4. KitanoKaryuudo (615 images)
5. Anonymous (454 images)
1. kokomi.3k (916 images)
2. Allen Falkner (553 images)
3. giselle (397 images)
4. dispel (356 images)
5. vampy (276 images)
1. stained steel (954 images)
2. Big Rick (436 images)
3. RussFoxx (348 images)
4. Anonymous (309 images)
5. dispel (256 images)
1. Big Rick (704 images)
2. kokomi.3k (412 images)
3. KitanoKaryuudo (322 images)
4. deb (277 images)
5. Crazy Glamour (160 images)
1. KitanoKaryuudo (767 images)
2. RussFoxx (580 images)
3. bena (488 images)
4. Anonymous (404 images)
5. mc4bbs (282 images)
1. stained steel (823 images)
2. kokomi.3k (624 images)
3. KitanoKaryuudo (433 images)
4. VEAL (304 images)
5. wildirishrose (243 images)
Top image contributors per section
To make it more fair, I’ve also broken down the winners per section. Most of the names are still familiar, but this also shows you some of the niche contributors who helped keep some of the more difficult sections alive:
Tattoos 1. Big Rick (3,528 images) 2. bastard (629 images) 3. j_scarab (260 images) 4. babakhin (186 images) 5. Efix (158 images) 6. Anonymous (152 images) 7. RAFAEL (150 images) |
1. stained steel (1,464 images)
2. KIVAKA (675 images)
3. Lexci Million (337 images)
4. piercer_dave (214 images)
5. holey13 (199 images)
6. holierthanthou (199 images)
7. alienboy (150 images)
1. perk900 (433 images)
2. hypermike (360 images)
3. Joao_Caldara (318 images)
4. matt bruce (294 images)
5. stained steel (204 images)
6. UREA (152 images)
7. vampy (144 images)
1. stained steel (2,090 images)
2. RussFoxx (1,930 images)
3. Allen Falkner (1,347 images)
4. vampy (1,115 images)
5. bena (718 images)
6. stainless (663 images)
7. dispel (661 images)
1. perk900 (1,145 images)
2. Big Rick (643 images)
3. newaddict (257 images)
4. spot (197 images)
5. Allen Falkner (176 images)
6. Lexci Million (169 images)
7. B-boy (162 images)
1. jonathanpiercing (511 images)
2. mc4bbs (391 images)
3. emilio gonzalez (214 images)
4. old soldier (173 images)
5. stardust99 (165 images)
6. Anonymous (141 images)
7. Anonymous (124 images)
1. kokomi.3k (3,733 images)
2. KitanoKaryuudo (3,218 images)
3. VEAL (1,264 images)
4. peo52 (1,229 images)
5. Hornet (712 images)
6. Urban Soul Bonus Gallery (692 images)
7. Ars Bonus Gallery (612 images)
Most diverse image contributors
While some contributors tended to submit in just a few categories of BME, other people submitted to many different galleries (piercers especially). In 2005, 739 galleries were updated at some point during the year. The following people deserve recognition for having an active involvement in a wide range of activities covered on BME:
1. stained steel (71) 2. holey13 (62) 3. KIVAKA (55) 4. Lexci Million (55) 5. Efix (50) |
6. j_scarab (50) 7. alienboy (47) 8. babakhin (43) 9. holierthanthou (42) 10. redneckzombi (42) |
11. HollywoodPiercer (42)
12. el tio pincho (40)
13. Joao_Caldara (39)
14. bob-omb (39)
15. RAFAEL (38)
Most consistent image contributors
Some people submitted only occasionally but in large numbers — for example, folks who documented conventions and events. Others contributed on a more constant basis, meaning that any given update was likely to have an image from them. Of the 151 separate updates posted to BME in 2005, the following people were represented in the largest number of them:
1. KIVAKA (61)
2. Lexci Million (60)
3. j_scarab (55)
4. alienboy (51)
5. Joao_Caldara (45)
Top experience authors
I was blown away by the number of articles some people wrote this year, with the top place being a tie of a story submitted on average every twelve and a half days for the entire year! Here are the top authors of 2005:
#1. 29 stories kyo |
#1. 29 stories cuthalcoven |
#3. 21 stories aniorange |
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BlueStar (18) |
psychonautje (15)
Lozza_mc (15)
\wolfbane (15)
Skip3s (14)
Paindreamer (14)
hunterjackson (12)
Anonymous (11)
Ebowlotus1960 (11)
WarMaiden (11)
Anonymous (11)
Flutterfly (11)
Honorable mentions (10 experiences): gothicphoenixx, d’Latta, and Orilind.
Top experience reviewers
When experiences are posted they first have to move through a moderation process whereby members of the site determine what should be posted and what needs to be sent back for revision first. Of the 7,526 experiences that were posted, the following list shows which reviewers were successfully involved in getting those ones posted (so this doesn’t include the experiences that were rejected):
1. Ebowlotus1960 (3,387)
2. deadly pale (2,759)
3. cuthalcoven (2,618)
4. Frisky_Vixen666 (2,608)
5. dressxupxdollie (2,442)
6. Yknits2001 (2,374)
7. Skip3s (2,159)
Top BME newsfeed contributors
BME’s newsfeed is maintained by a small team of volunteers (anyone can submit stories) who troll news sites finding any articles that might be of body modification interest to readers of BME. The following people posted the greatest number of stories to the newsfeed:
1. rebekah (2,337)
2. Ebowlotus1960 (881)
3. CajunChefClay (392)
4. piercedjenny (336)
5. Frisky_Vixen666 (334)
BME/News Interns and Staff
In 2005, BME brought on two interns to develop content for BME/News. Much thanks to them for their hard work and articles, and good luck on their future ventures, writing and otherwise:
snackninja Read all of Jordan’s articles |
typealice Read all of Gillian’s articles |
In addition, the following people maintained a column in 2005 on BME:
The Lizardman |
Jim Ward
FREE
Fakir Musafar
Princess_Poop
QOD Staff
As it has for years now, BME’s QOD staff tireless answers body modification questions from the public. Here are the members who posted regularly over 2005:
MONTE |
Gary
shawn.spc
spikesandstuds
amorphous
LexTalonis
vampy
The Fog
j_scarab
Lassi
BMEshop
BMEshop is a small family business that runs independently from (but is still partnered to) BME. Here’s who makes sure that your BME swag and body modification gear gets to you quickly and at a fair price:
badseeds |
tcie |
BME Core Staff and Volunteers
And, of course, BME’s core staff of volunteers and employees:
badur Badur’s done a wide range of things for us including being held hostage by a hostile ISP! |
CT
CT helps with server maintenance, especially with our IIS servers.
PhilipBarbosa
Phil does much of the day-to-day image processing.
1101001
Jon maintains and administers many of our UNIX servers and also does development work.
dita
Dita runs BMEjapan.com
Jen
Jen handles customer support email and manages the experience moderation system.
Rachel
Rachel runs the business and financial end of BME and also does server maintenance, installation, contracting, moving, and more.
glider
That’s me, Shannon!
I have almost certainly forgotten people from this list, and for that I apologize! I’ve also I’ve left off related projects like wlfdrgn‘s IAM scholarship, Shawn Porter‘s SPC, and Crow‘s Modified Mind, folks that contribute to ModBlog, that all deserve their own credit as wel.
But what did they win?
Everyone you saw mentioned on this page gets a limited edition 2006 BME staff shirt (in whatever color they’d like). The design is based on military unit shirts for those of you who don’t have family in the armed forces, and the latin on the front says “free will”. Anyway, if you see someone wearing one of these, you can bet that they made significant contributions to BME (or perhaps robbed someone who did), and thus influenced the future of the body modification community with their input (thus “PROPHET”) on the back.
But wait — there’s more! You know I love making t-shirts, so instead of just one staff shirt design for 2006, I’ve made two for winners to choose from. If they appear on this page once, they can choose one of the two shirts, and if they appear more than once, they get both. Shirt number two (available in any color but black or white) is a picture of BME’s pinup of the year, Eva (KitanoKaryuudo) — click here for a closeup:
In addition, the top five image contributors won $100 gift certificates to BMEshop, as did the top three experience authors. Oh, and everyone here got free access for a year (not that they need it since they contribute so often). I wish I could give out more prizes!
Thanks again everyone for a great year. Big things are in store in 2006 on a lot of levels; a new content management system, a rewrite of IAM, some new sociopolitical projects, tons and tons of free stickers, and more. I think you’ll like what’s coming…
Shannon Larratt
BME.com