This 14-point corset was done on Grace by Jason Hinchee of Spiderbite in Manchester, NH (previous seen scrotal fisting and doing a mega-needle play piercing, also on Grace) — photos by Joseph Rossetti at the Philadelphia Tattoo and Arts Festival.
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By Kevin Green, San Bruno, CA.
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Following up on the facial knife fight scars, here’s some chest work out of Istanbul, Turkey.
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Ben (Future Skin, Ottawa) was wondering if this 6-point calf and arm suspension he did is the first of it’s kind… He hadn’t seen it before, so he gave it a shot.
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Lefrog wrote me with some pictures from a great suspension they assisted for their friend Alan last Saturday. Alice filled me in on the back story, telling me Alan is from the Mutoid Waste Company, and cut the engine out of a van while hanging suicide-style from a crane. Shortly after he finished, the van caught fire and they let it burn out rather than extinguishing it. Alice also suspended (knees) that day, and their friend Mark hung as well. Photos by Dispel of Tattoo Nation UK — more continue after the break.
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In contrast to the many beautiful outdoor suspensions that have been posted, and the more sterile nondescript “warehouse suscon” environments, I always get a kick out of suspensions that take place in living rooms, shop waiting rooms, and other socially surprising places for a hooking. Shrimpansnowpea sent in this shot of a six point knee suspension with Nickk Leading.
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I feel like I kind of shortchanged Biohazard the last couple times I posted him by picking unflattering pictures, so I wanted to post these two (the second is after the break) of him doing an arm pull — you can see that the “cheek ladder” he has looks pretty neat.
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These are the lyrics to “Little Panda McElroy” by Xiu Xiu, if it makes any difference to the way you choose to interpret the image…
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I’d like to think I’m a fairly worldly guy, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned in my adventures about the French, it’s that the only thing that well hung Frenchmen love more than smoking cigarettes is being ridden by pussy. This is XD suspending with the help of Nico in France.
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Anna, who’s been featured here before, recently did her first suspension at an event MC’d by Havve Fjell of Pain Solution. She was the fourth to suspend, and very nervous (”I just don’t like needled, it’s stupid, I know”) and almost fainted when the hooks were put in.
A couple minutes later she was ready for her first flight, which she describes as the best thing she’s ever done. She swung for about forty minutes, not wanting to come down. Photos by her boyfriend and Przemek Kulikowski — many more continue after the break.
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xTVRx from Gdansk, Poland did this great side corset piercing on Outenkun last February for a photoshoot with Wioleta Brzostowska. Two more photos of just Outenkun follow after the break.
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In terms of the recent discussions about cutting, Tomii sent in these photos of his scars, now seven years old. Not that it’s not obvious, and but always remember that with cutting you may carry your pain with you in public forever — as a side note to this, I know someone who was excused from mandatory military service due to their scars (since covered up) making them ineligible for psychological reasons.
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There was a post over on AskBME today in which the criticism was re-raised that I don’t soft-censor cutting images due to issues of “triggering”… This was my response:
First of all, as I’ve said before, if someone is mentally ill to the point where they can not control their own actions, they should be seeking help, not reading BME. This applies to all parts of BME.
Seriously, if you are unable to take responsibility for your own actions, DO NOT put yourself in harms way by reading BME.
BME is intended for healthy individuals who enjoy a positive experience in body modification and ritual. I do not believe that the site should be geared toward people for whom body modification/ritual is an illness.
The REALITY is that when we’re talking about “triggering”, the piercing sections, tattoo sections, and so on are far more triggering — it’s just that fewer readers see being triggered in these areas as a negative thing. Singling out the cutting section is largely a game of POLITICS, not genuine concern for the underlying problem that people are deeply influenced by the actions of others. I feel very much that pretending that what amounts to “peer pressure” is a problem unique to the cutting section of the site is a mistake.
Now, I understand that I tend to take a somewhat no-compromises or radical stance on these matters rather than seeking out the safe or mainstream stance that most people feel is “reasonable” (and I appreciate how one could come to the opposite conclusion), but I really do think it’s important to be honest about this being much more about politics and cultural bias than anything else. Ignoring the fact that it’s very difficult to make a compelling objective case that differentiates cutting from play piercing, suspension, pulling, and other ritual that’s rarely decried, the truth of the matter is that when it comes to triggering, the whole site is a giant trigger for those who are prone to being influenced by peer pressure.
One of the reasons I know this is that if I post a particularly nice serious of photos of a modification, I’ll almost always receive an influx of that particular modification over the next little while, as people see the pictures and decide that it’s something they want to do as well. How many times have I seen comments along the lines of “this makes me really want to suspend” or “this makes me really want to get another tattoo” and so on? Even in a culture that’s steeped in the concept of individualism, the truth is that a significant percentage of people are deeply influenced and “triggered” by the actions of others.
Again, I’d strongly urge people who are not able to take responsibility for their own actions (let alone control their own actions) not read BME (or at least the sections of BME that they’re not comfortable around) or other “triggering” media and get the help they need so they can be happy and self-empowered individuals. I’m sorry if some people feel that makes light of their mental illness, but I’d like to keep BME focused on people for whom body modification and ritual is a positive force, not those who see it as a mental illness.
And now, a beautiful butterfly play piercing by Kevin:
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Val made this piece at the San Jose State Glass Studio out of furnace glass, steel rod, and hanging wire…
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In relation to the skewer pictures below, here are some current photos that are quite graphic on the subject. This particular photo set is from back in February, and since then the sender has healed without complication and submitted another set of similar pictures of a more recent ritual. Illustration of the depth of the cuts continues after the break.
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In reference to the previous history post, Matthias wrote me with a pointer to the cover of a 1973 Campo di Marte album (an Italian prog-rock band). The album focuses on the foolishness of war, and with that in mind, the cover is an old Italian engraving (probably from the 1500s — please post here if you know more) of Turkish mercenaries doing play piercing to show their courage.
Click to see a much higher resolution scan of the album cover that shows the illustration in good detail. BTW, Mattias released this album on his label if you’re interested!
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A la the various “Mindfuck” images that are floating around the Net, here are a few photos from today that sort of fall into that category (emphasis on “sort of”, I admit). Not that I expect anyone to be shocked — it takes a lot more than this to surprise a ModBlog reader!!! Anyway, let me start off with Kiki and friend (La Macchina Da Cucire) in Italy having tea for two…
Assid23 took this photo of a double suspension done at the biggest freak party in the Czech Republic at Abaton Klub from the folks at HELL.cz.
Finally, Kirill sent in a photo of his shoulder tattoo of a cuttlefish done by Ofer Peri at Body-Line in Israel.
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The remainder of the photo set of E-Vomit and her boyfriend continues after the break (and on BME/HARD in the next few days as well)… one of the few cutting entries that isn’t solo, I think?
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Continue reading after the break for more wonderful photos by David Riedel of Samar suspending at the San Francisco Armory, assisted by Erik Dakota and Andrea Costantino, transitioning from a resurrection suspension to a suicide suspension.
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iam:Godzilla Riots recently experienced an eye and lip sewing by Pierre Rogers at Lucky Monkey in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which must have been quite intense. They write,
The sewing ritual helped me come to terms with the fact that events in my life are not always within my control, and that sometimes I am subject to the uncontrollable forces of the world. After understanding and accepting my own lack of control — and that it’s okay — I realized my ability to overcome my own fears and physical pain by focusing my mind and its thoughts. Intense concentration on my mental processes, I learned, endows me with an ability through which my mental conceptions and ideas are manifested outside my mind and into the physical world — my fear and pain are not real, expressing and personifying these thoughts only hold me back. Through mental concentration I may conquer any limitations and constraints that I create and perpetuate in my life.
Many more photos continue after the break.
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Aww, hell, one more for the road. Cale and Mandalyn got pierced together for a photoshoot with Nickk Leading of Perforations. A second photo including some cutting is after the break.
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Continuing in the gratuitous meme, here’s Rae (who’s not just eyecandy, but also a tattoo artist that’s been featured here before) having some “wings” play-pierced by Scott for a photoshoot at Paul’s House in Lubbock, TX. Three more photos continue after the break.
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