Suspension in the Holy City

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Before my ability to host it disappeared, you may remember that on another blog I mentioned that on the 20th of December the folks at

Bizzart Studio in Jerusalem were hosting the first suspension ever in the Holy City “since Jesus”. I promised I’d let everyone know how it went, and Bar Hofesh writes,

“It went great — lots of people, and lots of energy that went beyond what we thought there would be. It is amazing to see how many people come to these events… We had over 150 people”

Congratulations, and hopefully they can have many more events.

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Because I know you love Russia… 4/4

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One last set of photos before I go back to eating an enormous Christmas meal with Caitlin, and family…

As well as the show they did for Roks Club in the entry above, Apocalypse Party also arranged their own Halloween event called “Blood & Fire Halloween”, which Doggy admits was financially a bit of a failure, but was enormously satisfying on every other level and they had tons of fun — isn’t that always the truth though (don’t ask me how much money I lose every year on BMEfest!)? These photos are all by Dmitri Starchak I think .

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Because I know you love Russia… 3/4

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Team Apokalypse Party did a Halloween Show at Roks Club — this is their “standard short show” which includes skewering, suspension, and fire. In these shots their suspending star is Staruha and the piercers are Elvira and Clockorange (she’s the one with the braids). I like the effect of the flaming skewers a lot! These photos were also taken by Sergio Enfermo.

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Because I know you love Russia… 2/4

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These pictures were taken by Sergio Enfermo (check out his Picasa site for plenty more pictures in this vein) of the Apocalypse Party suspension at the Radio Inferno 6 festival in collaboration with Liki Bogov (Faces of Gods, a pagan/folk/electro/metal band) — Doggy is doing a crucifix suspension, with Staruha doing the fireshow… He says this was a difficult performance because there were so many bands playing and so much going on that it was hard to concentrate and get everything as perfect as they wanted.

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Because I know you love Russia… 1/4

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I noticed that you had a Russian guy as your featured first entry for a bit over a month. I assume this means you love Russia as much as I do (and I really do love getting submissions from Canada’s northern cousin), so I wanted to share a handful of entries today with you that are from some of my friends there. Thanks for this set of photos (in all four of the entries in this series) go to my friend Doggy and the other folks (Clockorange, Elvira, Staruha, and Skifik) from Apocalypse Party.

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Glenna the Glorious

In this particular order!

Hello, my name is Glenna Thomas, I thrive in Atlanta, Georgia. I’m 23 and here are some of my photos from the past two years or so. Enjoy!

Me (Glenna Thomas) and Puck Allen (piercer at Easy St. Tattoo in Atlanta) doing a chest pull with Psychotic suspension October the 20th of this year.

Labret, bridge and septum done originally by Gigi of Kolo Body Arts Inc., also in Atlanta.

Me attached to Spiral’s (of Psychotic Suspension) back.

Me doing my first chest pull one year ago with Psychotic Suspension.

Seventy play piercing needles in my back in the shape of wings, done by Max Brand of All Or Nothing Tattoo, Atlanta.

And finally, a fresh set of hooks for the October 20th show I mentioned above.

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Facial Saline Injection

You may remember the photos of Jerome‘s facial injections that have been featured on BME and on the cover of the ModCon book as well as on various television shows. Jerome generally does the forehead and sometimes cheek inflations, but my friend Fabien inflates his lips… On the clickthrough his face reminds me of the lips of the people in the Twightlight Zone episode “The Eye of the Beholder“…