Feast your eyeballs on this gorgeous suspension footage care of Valnei and his mob.
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This intense two-point resurrection-style suspension is from a recent The Hanged Man Team show in Melbourne Australia (c/o Piercing Pete). Click through for another photo from the same event, a22-person circle jerk, assuming I’m counting correctly.
I’m sure you’ll agree after you’ve watched this video of João‘s O-Kee-Pa suspension (more) in Petrópolis, Brazil..
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He’s definitely a keeper!
Ron Garza, John Durante, and Chris Glunt have been exploring the world, and recently found themselves at San Marcos on Lake Atitaln in Guatemala — $10 a night accommodations — and after doing some 50ft cliff dives, already high on adrenaline, Chris suspended with two 6ga hooks and rigging tied to a boulder. Looks like an amazing experience — continue reading for more photos, and add their pages to your reading list to follow their adventures of course.
And some random travel photos as well… What’s stopping you from being in pictures like these?
One of my favorite books on body ritual, if not my favorite, is Havve Fjell‘s brilliant retrospective Ten Years of Pain (click the link for a review). After being unobtainable for too long, Ryan at BMEshop tells me he’s got another shipment of the book in from Norway. It’s not cheap unfortunately, but it’s worth every cent, and the good news is that if you type in the coupon code “Modblog-Loves-Norway” at checkout, it’ll knock $10 off the price. Click the picture to jump to the shop page now.
So says BastardBenny.
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As an aside, if anyone notices the FLV (when you press play, not when you download the DivX) stalling could you let me know which browser and version you’re using please. Ta!
I’m always so jealous of the beautiful photos I receive from AlienX (Xtreme Body Art) in Natal, Brasil… I haven’t posted scenic suspension photos in a brief while, so let me post two they did recently (the girl is xFABIx and the guy is Henrique). A small gallery of pictures of each continues after the break.
From my point of view, a large part of suspension (and body ritual in general) is intense connectivity with the surrounding environment and the universe as a whole, so a natural setting is important…
PS. If you like these sorts of photos (and really, I think the my favorite suspension pictures probably come out of Brasil), what’s stopping you from planning a suspension vacation?
January recently put on this marionette suspension show with Michelle as the marionette, costume and makeup by J-Chans Designs, rig by Mr. Chris at Pavlovia in Denver, and photography by Shawn Shell Photography.
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It’s hard to make out the faces of these Russian Man Dolls, but I’m sure they were grinning from ear to ear!
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Pain Theatre Suspension Group with dA j0inT, Palma, SlivTime, tan0k and Petra.
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