BME: Body Modification Ezine

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Author: Shannon Larratt

  • Jewelry for Vampire Killers

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    Shannon Larratt

    I’m totally geeking over this super cool piercing done by Lee McFarland, a piercer at Oak City Tattoo & Piercing in North Carolina. It’s actually a quite standard piercing when it comes right down to it, a three point industrial done with very clever placement and great looking custom jewelry by Body Vision. The whole thing threads together and “fakes” the blades/arms of the cross going through the helix. I have to admit it would be awesome if it was pierced through big full-size slots, but all things considered, this is the responsible way to do this that’s more likely to have success for the client. Superb work. Looks like there’s one piece of bar (the one on the “blade” end) that’s going to have to be shortened and perhaps have the angle slightly altered, but this is a simple matter — better to have erred on the side of too long than have it be too short and wreck the piercing.

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  • Wood Body Jewelry Facts [The Modified World]

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    Shannon Larratt

    J.C. Potts is back with another excellent weekly video magazine, this time talking about wood body — design, safety, and so on. I’d beg Rachel to offer J.C. a job here at BME if it weren’t for the fact that I think one of his strengths as a journalist is that he’s truly independent — he’s not sponsored by any website or company, so he can speak freely and without bias or influence. Always worth watching. I’ll keep on mentioning it here, but if you’re a YouTube member, you need to subscribe.

  • Wheeee!!!

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    Shannon Larratt

    I’m not sure where to put “zip line suspending” on my “most fun suspensions” list, which currently has “freefall suspension” at the top, followed by “spinning beam”. If you’re wondering “360 degree rotisserie“, which might seem fun, is at the very bottom after hearing just terrible things about it. Photo: Tayri Rodriguez.

    ziplinesuspension

  • Free Fall Suspension: The Challenge (4th Run)

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    Shannon Larratt

    The pioneers of free fall suspension at Sinner Team in Moscow have just put together an amazing new video (vimeo.com/47674716) documenting nine new free fall suspension jumps. I’ve said it before, but this to me is the most exciting thing to happen in suspension for a long time, and on the scale of “fun” in suspension, blows away spinning beams, while also being incredibly pure and profound. Not only that, but the way they do it is a pinnacle of safety and professionalism. It makes me very proud to be a part of this community when I see things like this. Watch this full-screen!

    There’s also a video folder here — vimeo.com/album/2041995 — that contains all four long videos they’ve done, which show lots of different jumps from people of all different ages, weights, genders, and lifestyles doing them without problems. Anyone can do this with the right training and attention to safety.

    On that note I want to mention that on the 28th to 30th of September they are planning one more jumping event, and these are all legal jumps from a building near the Moscow centre, which also coincides with a party they’re throwing to celebrate the team’s 4th birthday (how thrilled am I that my birthday coincides with this team and this event!). The third day will be fairly open and will provide information to those planning jumps in the future, making it the final open event of “The Challenge”. After this they are starting to make a full movie which will accurately tell the story of how this all came about. A flight from New York City to Moscow is only about $500 according to a quick check on Expedia, and I’m sure it can be found cheaper with a minimum of searching. What’s stopping you?

    If you are interested in learning more, contact facebook.com/TheSinnerTeam.

  • Orange Scleral Tattoo

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    Shannon Larratt

    This awesome totally gonzo bright orange eyeball tattoo was done by my friend Emilio Gonzalez of MithosTattoo.com fame while visiting Hawaii on his bro Kalawela Kaiwi. Of course I also love the black eye tattoos, but I just love the way the bright coloured ones look. I’m still very worried about the long-term implications and consequences of eyeball tattooing and hope that it proceeds with caution on people experienced in heavy mods — as Kalawela obvious is — but gawddamn I do love scleral tattoos!!!

    orange-eye

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