Marjolein appreciates that driving a gas guzzling polluting car is killing the Earth, so in Maastricht, Holland, she rides her bikes through the streets. That said, I’m not sure that T.A.O.S would agree that this isn’t a lot more effort? (Just kidding: this photo is from a Lifestyle Maastricht suspension event).
Thanks to kinkyevil* for these really nice photos from the Wings of Desire Oslo SusCon. I’m not sure exactly what it is about these pictures (it’s not just the big BME banner, honest, or just being fooled by black-and-white), but I really like them a lot…
* See also: CRUSTPICTURES
I mostly just thought that this pre-suspension photo of IAM:bodmod*starlet was really nice.
I really love this photo of Skatuaba and Perola doing a play piercing scene down in Sao Paulo, Brasil. Unless I’m missing something, he’s taken the easy way out — tape doesn’t cut it… Is this part of the conspiracy that always gives women the tougher role in life? I don’t know, but I love the smile.
Hey, if you’re a hardcore smoker, I guess it’s not that unreasonable to take a break and smoke while you’re suspending*. Thanks to el Verno at Holy Mackerel in St. Paul, MN for sending in this photo of Sprout taking a puff while hung.
* I’ve got a great photo that I should post some time of my old friend Martini suspending with a beer in one hand, a slice of pizza in the other, and a smoke in his mouth — and it’s just a casual snapshot, not a posed photo.
Thanks to my friend tan0k from Moscow, Russia for sending me these play piercing photos (by Alex and n00kie)… Oh, but don’t ask me about the Russian bootleg Dr. BME shirt, because I’m not so sure that I have warm feelings about that particular aspect!
Or should I say suspension imitates art which imitates life? Thanks to Cutuvi down in Sao Paulo, Brasil for sending in this superman suspension which mimics the BMX tattoo on the suspendee’s back.
Note to would-be experimenters: this circle jerk of nipple abuse is not something you should do as anything other than a photo op unless you want to mess up and/or tear out your piercings (although, like breaking a wishbone, one lucky contestant gets to keep their nipple).
It doesn’t matter who this is a picture of (and I think it’s actually an old picture anyway), but I always cringe when I see this particular hook placement for pulling — and I see it very regularly. When someone pulls, they never lean backwards (since humans tend to fall over when they do that), but pullers almost always do lean forward… Think about the way the hooks will rotate when the body leans that way, and you’ll see that they can easily either rotate out completely, or rotate just part of the way, hooking and piercing the inside of the hook channel. Ouch!
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…
