Happy New Year!! Let’s start this off by giving away free stuff!

It must have been the year I turned 21 that each day started by passing more and more quickly. I remember being 12 thinking I”d never be 16, then 18, then 21 and now I’m 4 months away from being 30. It means another year of growing BME has come and gone. It seems like the 2008 Awards were posted just a few days ago but it’s been a year. A whole year. We’ve seen so many ups and downs. This year marks the largest contribution by one person over the course of a year, which is also the largest contribution by one person during a year in the history of BME. There are also a couple faces here from last year that we couldn’t kick off the leader boards if we tried. Perk900, I’m talking to you, let’s see you get first place next year!! With this being the last day of 2009, I figured I’d kick it off right and present the 2009 Year End Contributor Awards!

You’ll also note that if you check the leader boards you’ll see different people listed in the top ten for image contributions than are listed below. Our 2nd and 3rd place winner is actually the same person so they’ve been combined and Jen gets disqualified and doesn’t get to win a contributor staff shirt because she already gets one for being staff! That moves everybody up one or two spots and that’s how we’ve come up with the list below.

If you are on the list, you’ll be contacted by me personally. If you don’t hear from me, check your spam or please email me with your address and shirt size to shop@bmezine.com. We will be sending out a very special surprise to the top contributor in each section!

I’m throwing in some BME trivia for you all to enjoy as well:

BME Facts:
Photos: 4,493,138
Experiences: 46,980
Videos: 7,942 (plus more that have been posted on Modblog!)
Posts on Modblog: 8,061
Comments on Modblog alone: 177,491
Average Daily Modblog readers; 112,387
Tattoo & Piercing Shops listed on 411.BME: 10,680 (not including the shops that are pending verification
Countries with users on BME: 70
Ask.BME answers: 1,083 (not including the previous version of the QOD)
Ask.BME comments: 2,870

There are tons of other things I haven’t included but I just wanted to show what we have all built together and thank you all again for contributing to BME and making the site what it is today.

TOP 10 IMAGE CONTRIBUTORS

1. 45,802 images

Kitano Karyuudo

See the rest of this year’s top contributors after the break!

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Some may find it trite to say things like, “Without the readers, none of this would be possible,” but with BME it could not be more true — each and every year, the community sustains us. Without you, there would be nothing here, and we’re routinely awed by the amount and quality of submissions we receive. This year, we published thousands upon thousands of new photos and experiences, to say nothing of guest articles, Ask.BME contributions and roundtable participation, and that, friends, is incredible. And now, on with the awards!

TOP 10 IMAGE CONTRIBUTORS

1. 8,707 images

kokomi.3k

   

   

2. 5,834 images Kitano Karyuudo

3. 2,930 images Perk900

4. 1,476 images Joao Caldara

5. 1,339 images Alienboy

6. 1,027 images Freakboy

7. 995 images Inksation

8. 979 images Allen Falkner

9. 929 images Bena

10. 903 images Holeybody

TOP 12 EXPERIENCE CONTRIBUTORS

1. 12 experiences Bluestar		2. 10 experiences Popecatapetal		3. 9 experiences Deadly Pale		4. 8 experiences PhoenixTX
5. 7 experiences (tie) Devro		5. 7 experiences (tie) Trannyboy		7. 5 experiences (tie) Bondage-Kit		7. 5 experiences (tie) Metal Faced Yazzy
7. 5 experiences (tie) Dreadlocksmile		7. 5 experiences (tie) Melissa Rose		7. 5 experiences (tie) LotN		7. 5 experiences (tie) Lucass

EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTORS

Tiff Badhairdo Ask.BME staff	Meg Barber Roundtable member	Brian Decker Roundtable member	Stephen DeToma Roundtable member
Allen Falkner Roundtable, Author	Ferg Author	Russ Foxx Ask.BME staff	Ron Garza Roundtable, Author
Warren Hiller Ask.BME staff	Derek Lowe Ask.BME, Roundtable	John Joyce Roundtable member	Paul King Author
Lexci Million Ask.BME staff	Ryan Ouellette Ask.BME, Roundtable	Sean Philips Ask.BME staff	Shawn Porter Ask.BME, Author
Efix Roy Ask.BME staff	Joy Rumore Roundtable	Lori St. Leone Ask.BME staff	Steve Truitt Roundtable member
James Weber Author

BME STAFF

Phil Barbosa Image processing, party planning, mustache rides	Mike Brum Server maintenance, TOS banhammer	Jason Cartwright Programmer, code- monkey	RooRaaah Crumbs BMEvideo guru, Mod- Blogger, whimsy
Jordan Ginsberg Managing editor, head writer, dick jokes	Tristan Henry-Wilson Graphics, T-shirt design, lithe	Jen Savage Customer service, loud noises	Jonathon Marshall Former programmer and over-all tech genie

Rachel Larratt Publisher, Editor-in- Chief, BMEshop, HBIC

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(Cutting by Russ Foxx at The Fall in Vancouver, British Columbia.)

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This pleasant, summery photo from the shores of White Rock Beach in British Columbia comes from Russ Foxx, and is presented as a gift (or perhaps a taunt?) to all those who are in a climate that is currently being pummeled by winter’s dreaded hammerfists. Seems plenty warm in that photo, though. Must be nice.

See more in “Modern Body Suspension“ (Suspension Teams and Bonus Galleries)

I feel we need some “dessert” after the last post, something light and fruity perhaps?

I’m afraid some of the images above didn’t have credits, but I can say that the top-left-brunette-lad is Mostly Canadian, the top-right-blonde is Miss Duveaux (more), the septum-piercing-in-the-centre was done by Russ Foxx (more / iam), girl-with-frilly-red-knickers is Lessaa and the bottom-right-lad’s tattoos were done by Alan Gilb, Top Dog Tattooz, Cosham, England.

See more at, erm, BMEzine.com, obviously!

	Cerah’s first suspension, and she went guerilla!

Suspension aided by Russ Foxx (IAM).

* - We really must agree on how guerilla is spelt on ModBlog.

See more in ““Suicide” Suspension“ (Ritual)

Peter Mahoney hasn’t worn any jewellery in his lobes for over six months. They’re sitting at just over 3/4″ now and he’s quite happy about it (although he’s found that he’s asked more questions about them now than ever before).

Photograph by Richelle Forsey, tattoos by Daniel Innes (Good Time Design), lobes initially scalpelled by Russ.

* - Not to be confused with the awe-inspiring photographic project by Syx of BlackFrame Studios.

It’s about time I outed the folks behind this “guess what game” I posted back in May!

It was Russ Foxx (IAM) repairing Jonn’s navel, which he’d stretched from 14ga to 1″ 3/8 (34mm) over a five year period (Jonn had, not Russ).

Unfortunately on the last stretch it decided to split and resulted in the “mouse balls” you saw in the post linked above. It’s all healed now and he’s still aiming for his goal size of 40mm!

I really like this cutting Russ did on the forehead of a friend (not while he was asleep, obviously).

Close-up after the break..

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