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.

Two Points, One Calf


This horrific, poop-covered beautiful landscape shot featuring Mike hanging, indeed, from two hooks in his calf, comes of courtesy of the wizards at Swastika Freakshop in Radolfzell, Germany, who literally cannot get out of goddamned bed without creating something visually stunning.

(More from Swastika Freakshop on ModBlog here, including this previously featured and equally gorgeous suspension shot.)

Comments

66 responses to “Two Points, One Calf”

  1. Ralex Avatar

    I really dont want to be that guy,
    But Jordan please can you mabey let go of the swatsika freakshop for like a couple days.

    I mean yes they are great but its like your there own personal fanboy.
    I lurch around on IAM so much time a day and see so many things which are as beautiul or even more beautiful.

    But yeah sorry for the hating here

  2. Ralex Avatar

    I really dont want to be that guy,
    But Jordan please can you mabey let go of the swatsika freakshop for like a couple days.

    I mean yes they are great but its like your there own personal fanboy.
    I lurch around on IAM so much time a day and see so many things which are as beautiul or even more beautiful.

    But yeah sorry for the hating here

  3. Jordan Ginsberg Avatar
    Jordan Ginsberg

    Honestly? I’m not trying to play favorites. I don’t look at who’s contributing until after I’ve chosen an image from a batch that Phil’s given me. The tattoos are recognizable enough, I’ll grant you that, but I didn’t realize this was them until afterward.

  4. Jordan Ginsberg Avatar
    Jordan Ginsberg

    Honestly? I’m not trying to play favorites. I don’t look at who’s contributing until after I’ve chosen an image from a batch that Phil’s given me. The tattoos are recognizable enough, I’ll grant you that, but I didn’t realize this was them until afterward.

  5. jazzybean Avatar

    the solution would be to continue to post awesome stuff from these guys, as well as from others.

    like most people, i really can’t enough of what they’re producing these days 🙂

  6. jazzybean Avatar

    the solution would be to continue to post awesome stuff from these guys, as well as from others.

    like most people, i really can’t enough of what they’re producing these days 🙂

  7. jazzybean Avatar

    ooh and a nice big resolution version of this would be great- would serve as a perfect desktop background…

  8. jazzybean Avatar

    ooh and a nice big resolution version of this would be great- would serve as a perfect desktop background…

  9. & Avatar
    &

    If you turn your head upside-down, it looks like he’s walking on the sky.

  10. & Avatar
    &

    If you turn your head upside-down, it looks like he’s walking on the sky.

  11. katy prost Avatar
    katy prost

    This is really incredible. I wanna hang! I can’t imagine the pressure. Love this.

    also, the little sharing feature is cool, im glad you went with the suggestion.. someone suggested that right?..

  12. katy prost Avatar
    katy prost

    This is really incredible. I wanna hang! I can’t imagine the pressure. Love this.

    also, the little sharing feature is cool, im glad you went with the suggestion.. someone suggested that right?..

  13. AmiiMetalFace Avatar
    AmiiMetalFace

    Ever read tarot cards?

    this looks like the hanged man.
    Meaning your life is hung in limbo, suspended in the balance.
    Anything could tip it one way or another, it’s your choice.

    Roughly, anyway.
    Nice 😀

  14. AmiiMetalFace Avatar
    AmiiMetalFace

    Ever read tarot cards?

    this looks like the hanged man.
    Meaning your life is hung in limbo, suspended in the balance.
    Anything could tip it one way or another, it’s your choice.

    Roughly, anyway.
    Nice 😀

  15. PhilipBarbosa Avatar

    Ralex: We are not playing favorites, it happens that a beautiful image of a suspension was submitted and I suggested Jordan post it to news.BMEzine.com(modblog).
    As well i don’t care who shot the image or who was in it. A two hook calf suspension is rare, unique and the photo is lovely! Lately all we have been hearing is there is not enough unique images posted on news.BMEzine.com(modblog) and it seems that some of the readership is listening as well! these good folks are making an effort to produce interesting and unique images to submit to the site, BME not just modblog! All the hating on beautiful images is only going to make people want to shy away from submitting images in fear of hearing the Simon Cowell’s of the online bodmod community telling them they don’t deserve their 15 minutes of internet fame.

  16. PhilipBarbosa Avatar

    Ralex: We are not playing favorites, it happens that a beautiful image of a suspension was submitted and I suggested Jordan post it to news.BMEzine.com(modblog).
    As well i don’t care who shot the image or who was in it. A two hook calf suspension is rare, unique and the photo is lovely! Lately all we have been hearing is there is not enough unique images posted on news.BMEzine.com(modblog) and it seems that some of the readership is listening as well! these good folks are making an effort to produce interesting and unique images to submit to the site, BME not just modblog! All the hating on beautiful images is only going to make people want to shy away from submitting images in fear of hearing the Simon Cowell’s of the online bodmod community telling them they don’t deserve their 15 minutes of internet fame.

  17. La Negra Avatar
    La Negra

    ..just great!

  18. La Negra Avatar
    La Negra

    ..just great!

  19. SDietz Avatar
    SDietz

    While yes…pretty much everything the shop gets it’s hands on is magnificent, and I too can not get enough of their work; I completely see what Ralex is saying.

    Maybe Swastika Freakshop needs to stop being so damn amazing?

    Or, just keep at it! Gorgeous photo.

  20. SDietz Avatar
    SDietz

    While yes…pretty much everything the shop gets it’s hands on is magnificent, and I too can not get enough of their work; I completely see what Ralex is saying.

    Maybe Swastika Freakshop needs to stop being so damn amazing?

    Or, just keep at it! Gorgeous photo.

  21. steven kelly Avatar

    yep, incredible image. even if these are the same individuals hopefully it will promote others to submit the same quality of work. not that competing is key, but i’m sure their are plenty of others that have amazing shots to throw in.

  22. steven kelly Avatar

    yep, incredible image. even if these are the same individuals hopefully it will promote others to submit the same quality of work. not that competing is key, but i’m sure their are plenty of others that have amazing shots to throw in.

  23. Twylasue Avatar

    love the Swastika Freakshop. love the image. lovely. love. lov. lo. l.

  24. Twylasue Avatar

    love the Swastika Freakshop. love the image. lovely. love. lov. lo. l.

  25. jungle Avatar

    maybe if one would rather just see an image for what it is(beautiful), rather than to debate on who submitted the images, it wouldn’t even matter. I really enjoy the photo. I see a unique suspension… someone hanging from the tree like he’s just part of it. dopeness… interesting clouds too.

  26. jungle Avatar

    maybe if one would rather just see an image for what it is(beautiful), rather than to debate on who submitted the images, it wouldn’t even matter. I really enjoy the photo. I see a unique suspension… someone hanging from the tree like he’s just part of it. dopeness… interesting clouds too.

  27. yttrx Avatar
    yttrx

    BOOOOORRRRRIIIINNNNG. Wake me up when someone does a six hour suspension from a trans-scrotal.

  28. yttrx Avatar
    yttrx

    BOOOOORRRRRIIIINNNNG. Wake me up when someone does a six hour suspension from a trans-scrotal.

  29. yttrx Avatar
    yttrx

    And:

    Blah, everyone is a photographer these days. All you need is an expensive camera and the first 45 seconds of an introduction to photography class, when “stick the subject off center” comes up, but before you start hearing anything about the rule of thirds. That way you can have exactly one trick up your sleeve that you can show off in every. single. photograph.

  30. yttrx Avatar
    yttrx

    And:

    Blah, everyone is a photographer these days. All you need is an expensive camera and the first 45 seconds of an introduction to photography class, when “stick the subject off center” comes up, but before you start hearing anything about the rule of thirds. That way you can have exactly one trick up your sleeve that you can show off in every. single. photograph.

  31. jazzybean Avatar

    yttrx – chear up a little 🙂 if you think modblog has become boring, then simply leave.

    yeah i agree it has changed during the past year for a number of reasons, but no one could stop these changes from taking place and although i miss the old modblog, i’m welcoming these changes with open arms – posts such as this one couldn’t be further away from being boring!

  32. jazzybean Avatar

    yttrx – chear up a little 🙂 if you think modblog has become boring, then simply leave.

    yeah i agree it has changed during the past year for a number of reasons, but no one could stop these changes from taking place and although i miss the old modblog, i’m welcoming these changes with open arms – posts such as this one couldn’t be further away from being boring!

  33. yttrx Avatar
    yttrx

    “yttrx – chear up a little 🙂 if you think modblog has become boring, then simply leave. ”

    1. I’m quite cheery.
    2. I didn’t say modblog has become boring. Train wrecks are never boring. This photograph is boring, however. The only that keeps me staring at it is the wish beyond wish that somehow I get to see the guy fall on his head.

    Also, the suspension method is boring. Two knees, then one knee, then someone’s ass, et cetera. I know for a fact that I’m not alone in waiting for something truly astounding to be attempted and photographed badly.

  34. yttrx Avatar
    yttrx

    “yttrx – chear up a little 🙂 if you think modblog has become boring, then simply leave. ”

    1. I’m quite cheery.
    2. I didn’t say modblog has become boring. Train wrecks are never boring. This photograph is boring, however. The only that keeps me staring at it is the wish beyond wish that somehow I get to see the guy fall on his head.

    Also, the suspension method is boring. Two knees, then one knee, then someone’s ass, et cetera. I know for a fact that I’m not alone in waiting for something truly astounding to be attempted and photographed badly.

  35. yttrx Avatar
    yttrx

    Whoops, addendum:

    3. And the old modblog was a pile of horse shit with no point at all. This modblog is neither horse shit nor pointless, though not even its sudden relevancy in a deader than dead scene cannot save this photograph, nor its subject matter.

  36. yttrx Avatar
    yttrx

    Whoops, addendum:

    3. And the old modblog was a pile of horse shit with no point at all. This modblog is neither horse shit nor pointless, though not even its sudden relevancy in a deader than dead scene cannot save this photograph, nor its subject matter.

  37. SDietz Avatar
    SDietz

    Dude, do what I do…
    Generally..if you don’t have something positive to contribute…then shut the fuck up.
    No one cares if you don’t like what you see, we are all here for the blog itself, not the incessant bitching.

    It’s a beautiful photograph, if you don’t agree then find something that you do like. Comment on that.

  38. SDietz Avatar
    SDietz

    Dude, do what I do…
    Generally..if you don’t have something positive to contribute…then shut the fuck up.
    No one cares if you don’t like what you see, we are all here for the blog itself, not the incessant bitching.

    It’s a beautiful photograph, if you don’t agree then find something that you do like. Comment on that.

  39. heretic138 Avatar
    heretic138

    its called freedom of speech, asshole.

    i wish BME would stop favoring that pro-nazi shop!

  40. heretic138 Avatar
    heretic138

    its called freedom of speech, asshole.

    i wish BME would stop favoring that pro-nazi shop!

  41. jazzybean Avatar

    yttrx: Explain how the scene is dead? Its following with all different kinds of life, that in turn have changed with time.

    “And the old modblog was a pile of horse shit with no point at all. ”
    Surely if it was a pile of horse shit and pointless, it wouldn’t have survived all this time? Not just survived, but has been extremely popular and has no doubt helped many people in many ways. It’s not a ”trainwreck” so to speak. And when i said the ‘old’ modblog, i wasn’t refering to the style and asthetics of it but rather the style of which certain people had when they had posted in here. But hey times change, and we have to live with that.

    The person above me, couldn’t have put it into better words – everyone is entitled to their own opinions and contributions. And its true; no one cares if you dont like what you see – you don’t need to tell the world just to make yourself feel good about it, or what ever reason you have for doing so. Do you have a ‘suitable’ photograph do contribute? If you do, i would love to see it. If the above photograph is beautiful in *most* peoples eyes, then surely beauty in your eyes must truely be something out of this world. There is no doubt that a two-point calf is pretty amazing stuff and this photograph only magnifies that.

  42. jazzybean Avatar

    yttrx: Explain how the scene is dead? Its following with all different kinds of life, that in turn have changed with time.

    “And the old modblog was a pile of horse shit with no point at all. ”
    Surely if it was a pile of horse shit and pointless, it wouldn’t have survived all this time? Not just survived, but has been extremely popular and has no doubt helped many people in many ways. It’s not a ”trainwreck” so to speak. And when i said the ‘old’ modblog, i wasn’t refering to the style and asthetics of it but rather the style of which certain people had when they had posted in here. But hey times change, and we have to live with that.

    The person above me, couldn’t have put it into better words – everyone is entitled to their own opinions and contributions. And its true; no one cares if you dont like what you see – you don’t need to tell the world just to make yourself feel good about it, or what ever reason you have for doing so. Do you have a ‘suitable’ photograph do contribute? If you do, i would love to see it. If the above photograph is beautiful in *most* peoples eyes, then surely beauty in your eyes must truely be something out of this world. There is no doubt that a two-point calf is pretty amazing stuff and this photograph only magnifies that.

  43. little-swastika Avatar

    what the hell goes on here.
    first . yttrx ..
    the picture was loaded up by mike not by me not from the swastika-freakshop.
    the picture is shot by me. im into photography since 10 years and start with old cameras befor thze digital hype are coming. experts see that teh picture isnt a quick shot. i work with seperate flashes to fight against the shadow under a tree. so at first you hang up peoples for photograph and make some pictures and than you can talk to me.. and second the pictures you see are just the testpictures – the real pictures i made with a manual camera on black/white film and isave it for a photobook and i will never publish it in the internet .

    heretic138

    say me what are you for an … (you can use the words you used) you writting al the time the same bullshit and you writting al anonymus – why.. maybe you know that you writte bullshit.
    and when you think to call me an nazi than come to me and i kick your ass. open your eyes – man how stupid you can be. btw. i have a spezial paper from teh goverment in germany to sell swastika t-shirts and for me its legal to use it because i promote it in a striktly way against nazis.. so shut up you fucking nazi..
    free tibet – free swastika – free life….

  44. little-swastika Avatar

    what the hell goes on here.
    first . yttrx ..
    the picture was loaded up by mike not by me not from the swastika-freakshop.
    the picture is shot by me. im into photography since 10 years and start with old cameras befor thze digital hype are coming. experts see that teh picture isnt a quick shot. i work with seperate flashes to fight against the shadow under a tree. so at first you hang up peoples for photograph and make some pictures and than you can talk to me.. and second the pictures you see are just the testpictures – the real pictures i made with a manual camera on black/white film and isave it for a photobook and i will never publish it in the internet .

    heretic138

    say me what are you for an … (you can use the words you used) you writting al the time the same bullshit and you writting al anonymus – why.. maybe you know that you writte bullshit.
    and when you think to call me an nazi than come to me and i kick your ass. open your eyes – man how stupid you can be. btw. i have a spezial paper from teh goverment in germany to sell swastika t-shirts and for me its legal to use it because i promote it in a striktly way against nazis.. so shut up you fucking nazi..
    free tibet – free swastika – free life….

  45. little-swastika Avatar

    and say me…
    you ever seen a one calf suspension befor – me not.
    you want make one – me not..

    so give the respekt to mike. he makes the shit and i think it doesnt matter who made the suspension or who made the picture. and i think i dont care if you like the picture or not. you can try something like this than you will get some respekt but not from talking bullshit here

  46. little-swastika Avatar

    and say me…
    you ever seen a one calf suspension befor – me not.
    you want make one – me not..

    so give the respekt to mike. he makes the shit and i think it doesnt matter who made the suspension or who made the picture. and i think i dont care if you like the picture or not. you can try something like this than you will get some respekt but not from talking bullshit here

  47. Pee Avatar
    Pee

    to 7 : I thought exactly the same thing…

  48. Pee Avatar
    Pee

    to 7 : I thought exactly the same thing…

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