A black-and-white photo of a person mid-air in a Superman-style body suspension pose, supported by multiple hooks in their back and legs, smiling joyfully toward the camera. They are suspended horizontally in a large indoor space with high ceilings and visible rigging. A group of onlookers—some seated, some standing—watch with expressions of admiration, amusement, and support. The atmosphere is lively and communal, capturing a moment of shared experience and transformation.

Last Chance For Year End Awards!

Thanks again everyone for the support and see you in 2008!

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PS. The logo in the picture — taken by his sister — of Tom-Tom (who works for one of Norway’s biggest corporations — anti-mod stigma is disappearing all over the world) isn’t the year end shirt, it’s a logo that I drew called “Ultracalm” which may or may not be run as a shirt in the future.

Comments

30 responses to “Last Chance For Year End Awards!”

  1. Don Avatar

    Shannon – I think “Ultracalm” would make a superbly fitting shirt with which to mark your eventual full return to proper posting of updates to BME – whenever that may be!

  2. twiggy Avatar
    twiggy

    I’d love to see that logo on a sticker!

  3. Tetsuo Avatar
    Tetsuo

    Supercalm… that name alone just makes it worth making a t-shirt! I know that part of the reason I love the calm logo so much is because of the name!

  4. Shannon Avatar

    Thanks — here’s an EPS file by the way: ultracalm.eps
    Any non-commercial use is generally fine.

    If anyone feels like printing stickers (say via http://www.stickerguy.com/ or something), please send me some!

  5. jezebel Avatar

    that is a beautiful take on the calm logo!

  6. grundstuck Avatar

    the photo and the logo are wonderfull.
    and i second twiggy,it would be great for a sticker! 😛

  7. Brett Avatar
    Brett

    Any chance of getting the Calm logo EPS?

  8. Shannon Avatar

    Sure, here’s an EPS of the (classic) calm logo… It could use some fine tuning but this is a fairly nice version:
    bme_calm_logo.eps

  9. Brett Avatar
    Brett

    Not sure what, but something isn’t working with that one for me. I click on it and get a 404 Not Found page so I right-click save as and it open in Illustrator but shows the text from the 404 Not Found page.

  10. Heretic Avatar
    Heretic

    Please please please make this into a shirt. 3x would be nice, I know I would grab one..

  11. twiggy Avatar

    Shannon, any chance you have “team bme” and “bme heart” in eps-format too?

  12. Brett Avatar
    Brett

    Wicked…Thanks Shannon.

  13. BelowTheSurface Avatar
    BelowTheSurface

    seriously. Love the design. Make it into a shirt and I’m sure we would all grab one. Particularly if it was a return of Shannon to BME kinda thing 🙂

  14. Nika Avatar
    Nika

    I really love the Ultracalm design. And it would make a fantastic shirt. Perhaps to celebrate your return once you get posting access back?

  15. yttrx Avatar
    yttrx

    I would like to propose a resounding nomination for ME, YTTRX, as the only bitchass not directly involved with the situation that Shannon patently refuses to keep private with balls big enough to repeatedly and consistently stand up to him and tell him that hes a goddamn fool.

    Actually, the truth is I don’t deserve an award for just being myself. I do however deserve an award for not posting a list of IAMers who Shannon secretly thinks are completely fucked in the head, but in public always lies and says they’re “evolved” or some shit. You can’t imagine how difficult that is.

  16. cuntcumber Avatar

    I like the logo except for the chin. It kind of looks like a penis….

  17. Burnt Flowers Avatar
    Burnt Flowers

    Love the pic, love the logo.

    Have a good one yourself! I plan on having a cold, wet one here in the NL (which is not that much of a challenge with this stinky weather…) but Toronto would’ve been nice as well 🙂

  18. echo Avatar
    echo

    please to make into belt buckle 😀

    please pretty please? super pretty please?

  19. Shannon Avatar

    That would be a great belt buckle!

  20. Archetype Avatar

    #17 – I see that too.

    A t-shirt would be amazing, and I’d wear a belt buckle 🙂

  21. Warren Hiller Avatar

    have a good new years eve to all the Toronto folk! Wish I could be there to party it up! But I’ll take the 25C-30C temp with a lil monsoonal rain then freezing cold wet snow! muwahaha! ;P

    ps: I’m really digging the Ultracalm. But lately with all the various names for some reason I’m picturing like Godzilla movies with Ultra-Gigan, Mecha-Godzilla,etc,etc,etc hahaha!

  22. ImmureME Avatar

    I love the new logo, and am proud to say that my penis looks nothing like that. wait… how many of you guys have penises (penii?) that look like that?

  23. Dreadlocksmile Avatar

    Wow…I don’t think I’ve ever felt as calm as that little dude looks. Guess I’d better cut down on the death metal.

  24. echo Avatar
    echo

    shannon or roo how could i go about making that into a belt buckle?! 😀

    ya know, if you dont make it into one, perhaps ill go for the electrolyte/salt water etching route….

  25. Shannon Avatar

    echo – If enough people are interested Ryan could add them I’m sure… As to the best one-off methods, I’m not sure… if you attempt an etching, I’d love to see it though.

  26. echo Avatar
    echo

    🙂 i have a flask to etch and an altoids tin, so ill figure something out, and ill link whenever i get around to doing it, thanks for the image, glad your back, even if its just a smidgen

  27. EternalLife Avatar

    Love the logo 🙂

    And he is gorgeous…c’mon, someone had to say it 😉

  28. Shannon Avatar

    This shirt (hoody) is available in BMEshop now — I’ll post a photo of later, but it’s a great big print and really looks great.

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