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Tag: Suspension

  • Fun and performance

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    Shannon Larratt

    Two suspension/ritual videos for you today. At the top is a quick clip of Alyssa Jane (the music is Electric Frankenstein doing a cover of The Tubes‘ I was a punk before you were a punk) courtesy of *chel*. The video at the bottom is from a performance put on by Matt Cottrell of winged play piercings (the music there is Trio in E Flat, Opus 100 by Schubert assuming you don’t recognize it).

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    DivX download link for BME members: Extreme2 or Full members

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    The clip from Matt is especially worth downloading, I think he’s done a very beautiful job in the way he’s placed the feathers and the resultant way the wings move naturally.

  • Just a man and his will to survive

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    Shannon Larratt

    Another goofball suspension video from FoxxWorks in Vancouver:

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  • Oslo SusCon, Day Three

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    Shannon Larratt

    First, some more pictures from Allen Falkner from the 2005 Wings of Desire Oslo SusCon. These are from day three of the event:

    For those of you who’ve never been to a suspension convention, they’re much more than just a bunch of people going so they can hang. Certainly that’s a central aspect, but I think more importantly it’s a gathering of friends and family.. and these days it’s also a travel experience — it’s not as if Oslo is in Rhode Island! Cere (from the NYC chapter of Rites of Passage) discovered some of the differences between home and Norway while talking to locals at a pub:

    Smiling Norwegian: It’s great that you love Oslo; is there anything that you want to see while you’re here?
    Cere: Well, actually a few of us would like to find a local strip club.
    (The Norwegian is no longer smiling.)
    Norwegian: You like that kind of thing?
    Cere: Strip clubs? Well yeh, it’s naked girls… Who doesn’t like naked girls?
    Norwegian: Well I have respect for women!

    At this point the Norwegian storms off, and his sentiments are echoed by the others in the pub. At a later party that night, Cere is offered a giant plate of cocaine as a welcoming gift.

    Smiling Norwegian:

    You like cocaine?
    Cere:

    Nah, I’m good… I don’t sniff, but thank you.
    Norwegian:

    You are an American though?
    Cere:

    Yeah, from New York.
    Norwegian:

    You lie!!! You are not an American if you do not want cocaine!

    Ah stereotypes… America, a nation of strippers doing lines of coke off your cock.

    I think Cere will enjoy SusCon: Red Light District in Amsterdam.

  • Allen Falkner straightens a 6ga hook

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    Shannon Larratt

    Cue Nelson: “HA HA”

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    The critical moment is about 1:20 into the clip.

  • Oslo SusCon

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    Shannon Larratt

    Thanks to Allen of suspension.org for sending us some snapshots from this year’s WINGS OF DESIRE Oslo SusCon, going on right now. There’s actually a solid representation of American enthusiasts over there this year… I should have more for you soon (and of course lots on BME later)!

       

    Oh, and to those of you who have been asking for an RSS feed for this blog — I don’t have one yet because I still have to write the code that outputs it, but I’ll try and get that added some time over the next week as we finalize the way this thing is going to run.

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