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January 11, 2008

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GAME Suspension Scene Outtakes

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Shannon Larratt

This is far from the first time that the folks from Ascension Suspension have done a movie appearance, but Steve just wrote me with some teaser shots from the work they did with the team from Game, a dystopian movie about future MMPOG environments gone wrong.

In the photos, as well as Kasja, *Stitch*, and _Stigmata_, are Efrain Ramirez (Pedro from Napoleon Dynamite), Brian Taylor (the bald guy — the director), and Gerard Butler (who you probably know better from 300). The shoot went well, so fingers crossed that as well as the scene in the movie, we’ll get to see the footage in the DVD extras in 2009/2010.
January 11, 2008

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Josh’s Permanent Pinkeye

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Shannon Larratt

Of course you know my friend Josh, who was one of the three of us who got the initial eyeball tattoos. That first one was done via an injection, a difficult and perhaps risky way of doing it. He had a friend attempt the procedure using a cosmetic tattoo machine with mixed results as you can see below (or not see due to the ink colour). They’re going to try again with a regular tattoo machine, although I still believe personally that injection (if you’re not looking for a design, as such) offers the most dramatic results.
January 11, 2008

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Shannon’s Halloween Trauma

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Shannon Larratt

For her second suspension, Shannon jumped into the deep end with a performance at Trauma on Halloween night 2007 with the help of Modified Soul, ihung and Only Flesh. The photos — and there are lots more after the break — are by Chris Thornton of Hellophoto.net. The part that surprised me is what she wrote about the zen of it:

This suspension was so much fun! Despite being in an environment surrounded by tons of people, music blaring and people yelling I still found that clarity, inner peace and pleasure I always feel from my suspensions.
January 11, 2008

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VRN 1138

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Vern (by Taylor). It’s a great, clean shot (“THX 1138-esque” is how Vern and Taylor described them), but it has a personal pet peeve of mine in it… crooked septum ring in an otherwise perfect shot!
January 10, 2008

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I recognize that arm

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Shannon Larratt

Congratulations on your move to South America and getting a sexy Brasilian girlfriend. The beard is looking good — I’m glad you decided to grow it back in.

Anyway, I think this is the last time I’ll write you in this fashion. Stay tuned for lots of images, lots of videos (well, that’ll be your job), an interview with Howie, and more.

PS. Note to readers — this is actually ModBlog reader Juan with his girlfriend Paulina… I asked Roo how he felt about someone having such a similar sleeve and he said he didn’t mind, but did feel a little weird about it. A few people have “borrowed” my forearm/hand tattoos, and while I don’t mind one bit either, it is a little odd when you first see it.
January 10, 2008

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Birthday Suspension

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Shannon Larratt

Danae (Queen of the Covergirls) wrote me with the story of her recent birthday suspension,

I’d been talking to Steve Truitt for a little while over iam, and he invited me to come down to Upland, CA to watch a suspension event he was doing with Jon. It was the weekend of my birthday in December, so I drove down with a friend and met up with a couple more friends. Adam came with us to take pictures, Mateo and Meli came along to hang. We all met up with Steve and Jon in Upland. Steve told me I could hang if I decided I was ready. After watching my Meli, who has a birthday within a couple of days of mine, I decided I was ready to go up.

After getting my hooks thrown (four point suicide), which was not as bad as I expected it to be, Steve hooked me up to the rig. Jon pulled on the rope and put a little tension on the hooks. I felt my whole body get warm. I was so calm and ready for this experience. Steve walked me back and forth and with each step I felt lighter and lighter. Before I knew it, I was up. I felt like everything negative in my heart and mind had melted away from me. I just remember I couldn’t stop smiling. Everything felt perfect and right, like I belonged on those hooks.

My back felt really tight, so I started swinging around and reaching behind me and grabbing my feet. Everything loosened up after that. It was so much fun! I could have stayed up forever it seems, but it was starting to get cold and dark and there were about four or five other people waiting to hang, so I decided it was time to come down after about twenty minutes.

Anyway, thanks for letting me share! It was an amazing experience and I can’t wait to do it again.

Lots more pictures after the break!
January 10, 2008

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Holly’s Microdermal Corset

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Shannon Larratt

My friend Steve Truitt in Albuquerque wrote me with this photo of an eight-piece microdermal corset he did on a client. The oldest one is about eight months old and the newest about half that, and they’re all doing quite well (although it seems that there was a bottom pair that got removed; I’m assuming due to pants interaction). She’s worn the slave ring ends for over a month now, and as a dancer, occasionally laces them up for work — I wonder if she gets more or less tips those nights?
January 9, 2008

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10-Point Kneeling Crucifixion

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Shannon Larratt

Hugh with Hack Suspension Team in Australia (maybe you recognize his bat wing eyebrows) recently did this unusual ten point crucifixion-style suspension with his legs rigged to his back, giving an alternative to dangling limbs. Click through for a second photo.
January 9, 2008

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Recycling Moments in Life

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Shannon Larratt

Echo says that his tattoo, done by X at Whatever Tattoo on St. Marks Place, Manhattan NY, is symbolically meant to be both simple and vague so that people could pull different things from it.

For me its rooted somewhat from the recycle symbol, but thats only because its moving in a clockwise fashion symbolizing the passage of time, the black and “white” areas represent duality of self and situation.

He tells people a variety of things — that he’s recyclable, that he loves the spin cycle, that he’s a poke’mon master, but his personal phrase that he uses when he’s being serious is,

The black area is when you’re in a shitty place, the white area, a good happy space, and it’s a reminder that when shit sucks eventually over time it gets better, when it’s awesome, don’t take it for granted… it might not always be that way.
January 9, 2008

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Role Reversal

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Shannon Larratt

I have to admit that my friend Lane‘s new photoshoot (with Candice — who did the makeup — and Cody) bothers me a little because the whole subject is so sensitive to me. He explains what he was going for,

I wanted to do a shoot showing the viewer what the world may look like today if men had evolved being the home makers, wearing dresses, makeup, and being the submissive ones and women where the dominant figures. Then domestic violence for the most part may have a very different outcome. I may do a series focusing on reversed roles.

For me there are a few subjects that I feel uncomfortable using even in an art context (not that I think other people should shy from using anything — this is just how I feel)… Domestic violence, child abuse, rape, and other crimes of consent really get to me for some reason.