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  • Bite down on this…

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    Shannon Larratt

    Nothing much to say here except I thought this was a funny photo.
    The title as sent was “Attempt to self pierce… failed.”

  • Simple

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    Shannon Larratt

    Nothing to say here, I just thought this picture from ExBP Team (France) was a pretty shot. Since I’ve posted a couple other suspension things today I thought I’d add it. That is all.

  • Extreme Ironing, Hooker Style

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    Shannon Larratt

    You may remember that back in August I posted about “extreme knitting“. If you liked that, IAM:namesofthedead has also tried extreme knitting. I think when these photos came in to BME they were processed by Phil, who’s an avid unicycler and mentioned to me that extreme ironing is actually a sport. Well, here’s the suspension community’s contribution I suppose!

  • Outdoor suspension

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    Shannon Larratt

    Thanks to IAM:dragon for these suspension photos. Most suspension goes on in an urban environment, so I really like seeing these outdoor suspensions in really natural environments. Perhaps it’s my own prejudices speaking having grown up in the country, but I feel like the sense of peace that’s inherent in places that look like this must positively affect the suspension.

  • “You call that a taper?”

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    Shannon Larratt

    c/o IAM:Juju_76m; stretching a friend from 8mm to 16mm:

  • Sexy or Sekushi?

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    Shannon Larratt

    I suspect most of all because I put a major typo in the caption, writing “Canonese” instead of “Cantonese”, a lot of people have been writing in corrections on a Kanji piece currently in the BME galleries. Anyway, the wearer told me that it said “sexy in Cantonese”.

    This isn’t some kanji tattoo horror story, but at the same time, the caption isn’t quite correct. What it actually says is “se-ku-shi” in Japanese Katakana, which would be the closest phonetic translation of “sexy” (so in a way, it’s sort of like speaking English with a really thick Japanese accent and pretending that you’re speaking Chinese). It pretty much does say “sexy”, just not quite in the way they thought.

    Anyway, thanks to everyone who wrote in about it.

  • Assorted short suspension videos

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    Shannon Larratt

    Here are six short suspension video clips of varying quality shot by people around the world. If you’re in the video, drop a comment in the attached forum if you want with the story!

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    Bonita80 suspending at this year’s All Girl Suscon; shot by Rebekah.

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    Big long-swing superman crane suspension in Brasil.

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    Cutting down from a superman-style suspension to suicide-style.

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    Modified Soul suspensions by Dave Kelso.

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    Holy City Suspensions BBQ; if you download just one of the clips, I think this is the best one.

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    Sana suspending with ROP.

    PS. If you have video clips you’d like me to post here, just email them to me at [email protected] and let me know that they’re for posting on ModBlog.

  • Who or what are you dressing up as?

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    Shannon Larratt

    For Halloween, IAM:vanillalife dressed up as The Lizardman:

  • Celebrity Sighting

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    Shannon Larratt

    Ice is back with a brand new invention — guess who hangs out at the New Jersey Tattoo Convention? That’s right, it’s Robert “Vanilla Ice” Van Winkle, with style like a chemical spill:

    Update: ta2lu writes to tell us he’s a regular — 2002 NJ Convention.

  • BME Travel Files

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    Shannon Larratt

    One of the coolest things about running BME is getting to meet people from all over the world… and one of the amazing things has been seeing how even though we come from different cultures and histories and speak different languages, we respond to body modification, body art, and body rituals in the same way, and it becomes a really obvious example of humans being the same all over the world.

    Today let’s start with a photo via the West Coast of Canada where I’m originally from:

    Next we’ll shoot over to Star Studio in Bali. These photos are of MrJaxon, Albar, the boss, the tattooist, and a mystery person… There’s more on his page if you’re interested.

    Staying in Asai, we’ll move up to Qingdao, China. I’d be surprised if this is entirely legal there?

    How about something closer to home like the shores of France?

    Or maybe you prefer Brasil?

    Speaking of travel, apparently Pingy travels by RyanAir, and has previously been to Pottstown, PA.

    Becky on the other hand isn’t going anywhere:

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