Matty’s Facial Cutting and Suspension

It seems like a lot of the people writing me have had a rough 2007… I remember when 2007 started we had a number of unexpected deaths in this community and a few people remarked what a bad year they felt was upon us, and maybe they were right.

Matty definitely had that experience, so on the first day of 2008 he decided to shave his head and start afresh… He took this great B&W picture that day in his garden and shares it with us.

To help him get through the rough patch, in December he had the chance to do his first four point suicide suspension with the Hack Suspension Team in Canberra, Australia, and about a week later he had the wonderful experience of having Lukas Zpira do a facial cutting on him as part of Lukas’s workshop in Sydney, Australia.

There are some more pictures of his experiences after the break.

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Above: Cutting by Lukas Zpira.
Below: Suspension with HACK

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Is it real or an art hoax?

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Will took the photo below and lots more this summer in Lyon, France at a suspension event organized by Lukas Zpira, xEddyx and the guys from Marquis Body Art in La Demeure du Chaos. What’s most interesting to me is the ultrasound above, of which Will writes,

The first picture is of a scan. To get in you had to take a pill — I presume it was vitamin of some sort (I felt no ill effects anyway). Once you took the pill, the owner of the place scanned you and that’s what showed up, a nice little skull!

Whhhaaaaaat? – There were language barriers, but I asked Will to describe this in a little more detail and he explained,

We all queued up outside the main area. There was a big metal container where the guy sat. He introduced himself, asked me a few questions, asked me to take the tablet (a capsule type), and he then put some lubricant on my neck where a madison piercing would be. He scanned me with the ultrasound machine and it made a printout, and up showed my little skull, which I presume was inside the capsule.

The owner has a blog with a few more details in French (more), and here’s a shot of the scan being done

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Maybe I don’t get Norwegian humor?

Oddbjorn says that he figured out the “huge all important question of…”

What do you do with your hands and feet while in a resurrection suspension?

You just:

1) Hook both your wrists in a loop behind your back.
2) Put both your feet into the loop.
3) Pull and enjoy.

He also sends out thanks to Haavve and the Wings of Desire suspension team, which I can definitely agree with! This was done at the December 27th Susday in Oslo.

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Apokalypse Party

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I got some more great photos from Sergio Enfermo of Russian suspension events by the folks from Apokalypse Party in Saint Petersburg. This set is from a suspension party at the tattoo studio Extreme Art, where they did the three suicide suspensions — Totay, owner of the studio (the guy with long hair and beard), Aspid, and Clockorange (I really like the touching photos of Doggy, her husband, and her in this set — below at full size, and you can find more if you follow the links).

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They’re aiming to host an event every week or two, and you can also find them on IAM — Doggy, Clockorange, and devil rejeñts.

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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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