Ritual, not play, as photographed by Arco at last October’s vegetarian rituals in Phuket, Thailand. Lots more photos from him and others in the cultural rituals gallery on BME.
Traditional “Play” Piercing
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Another beautiful suspension location
Herrich, Fousage, and Shemon from Hell.cz in Prague (“personality tuning and body modification”) did these beautiful suspensions on a hill overlooking Czech farmland to celebrate the end of summer (2007). More photos after the break, and if you’re wondering what’s in the last photo, they’re inserting PTFE through the suspension piercings in order to retain them afterwards.
Ocean View Suspension
Banana (of Extigma in Copiapo, Chile) sent in this great shot of a four-point lotus suspension off an old iron bridge in Caldera overlooking the ocean, a beautiful location that reminded me of the Navio Mara suspension posted earlier this month. Nice backpiece also!
“Dirty Touching Man”
I’m sure his intentions were honourable, Jessica.
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Geneva, New York.
Self-Cutting Meets Self-Scarification
So my first thought was, “wow, that’s a really great quality skin removal given that it’s DIY with a Swiss Army knife”… My second thought was, “YOU’RE CUTTING TOO DEEP! YOU’RE CUTTING TOO DEEP!”
Psycho Cyborgs – Birmingham 2007
Nik was in Birmingham, UK doing some work for Tattoo Nation UK when he shot these photos at a Psycho Cyborgs stage show. As soon as the final steps required to update the site are taken you’ll see tons more from Nik in the Psycho Cyborgs gallery on BME — until then, a few more continue after the break, and I think Roo is working with Sammpa to get some high quality video of their show up here as well soon.
“Old Main” (Santa Fe, NM) Prison Suspension
Outside of the fact that the folks from Ascension Suspension have some of the best performers in America, they also get some of the best locations. They recently did a photoshoot at the “Old Main” Prison in Santa Fe, NM, which was closed in 1999 and was the site of one of America’s most violent prison riots. *Stitch* suspended from a rope between the railings of the second tier in one of the cellblocks, and Kasja hung from a catwalk over the “Sally Port” (where buses and trucks enter and exit the prison), and they took their staff photos in the gas chamber.
There are more photos after the break that Steve Truitt took, and hopefully in the future I’ll post an entry with some of the pro photos as well.
Two-Hook Resurrection Suspension
In one of 2007′s most intense suspensions, Christiane (PinPoint Piercing, Oslo and Wings of Desire) did this amazing two point resurrection-style suspension at the 2007 Oslo Suscon (with Håvve‘s lifting help) — thanks to Stephan for the photos, who adds, “Christiane was going up, hanging, and coming down just like it was an every day suspension — very impressive.”
Lots more pictures after the break.
“The most fun ever for a school project”
Myjah’s friend Alex was taking a photography course at their local community college, and for his final project, an elective, he asked for Myjah’s help.
He gave me a call and asked if I would let him snap a couple of photos of the few mods I have. Of course, that led to him asking if I would actually consent to being pierced by him that night, and voila! My first play piercing session. I think the funniest bit about it was that he had the most stand-out subject in the class — everybody else shot pictures of their pets or houses, albeit in an artsy way. I have a feeling we had more fun with this final than the others.
Below is one of Alex’s black and white shots (“with mild boobage”), and after the break are a few more photos that were taken with Myjah’s digital camera.
GAME Suspension Scene Outtakes
This is far from the first time that the folks from Ascension Suspension have done a movie appearance, but Steve just wrote me with some teaser shots from the work they did with the team from Game, a dystopian movie about future MMPOG environments gone wrong.
In the photos, as well as Kasja, *Stitch*, and _Stigmata_, are Efrain Ramirez (Pedro from Napoleon Dynamite), Brian Taylor (the bald guy — the director), and Gerard Butler (who you probably know better from 300). The shoot went well, so fingers crossed that as well as the scene in the movie, we’ll get to see the footage in the DVD extras in 2009/2010.
