Posts Tagged ‘Ritual’

Just like Nazareth sang….

By Sean Philips • Jan 25th, 2010 • Category: ModBlog

….Love Hurts.

It hurts even more when it is proclaimed with cigarette  burns.

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On Modblog we feature some of the most amazing artistic scarification in the world. Yet, we often overlook the rarely updated ritual cutting and ritual branding galleries when looking for pictures to feature. In these galleries the scarification is rarely about the finished result and usually about the process.

For a picture of the process of this scar, keep on keeping on.

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As We Two Are One

By Jordan Ginsberg • Oct 5th, 2009 • Category: ModBlog


And finally, fair ModBloggers, let’s end on this single-point forearm suspension courtesy of Brian Wood at Liberty Tattoo Company in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, who last submitted this handsome scarification piece. We suspect this was not a particularly lengthy suspension, but hey, this gentleman stayed up long enough to get a picture off at least, potentially impending arm-related doom notwithstanding. And while you all go off to bed, just remember that there are folks out there risking life and limb not just for their edification, but for yours, too.

Until tomorrow, folks.

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I Like You Temporarily

By Jordan Ginsberg • Oct 5th, 2009 • Category: ModBlog


Whoa hey, lots of great play piercing photos around these parts lately, no? These things feel cyclical sometimes, and what better way to keep the cycle going than with another revolution—like, say, with this lovely set sent in by (and featuring) SweetNausea, for whom this 13-needle session was a graduate photography project. The final product, of course, became the hit Pixar summer tear-jerker Up. We think. Either way, we should all be so lucky to have such fun for school, right? More helium-aided photos in pink and blue, after the jump.

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A Rising Tide

By Jordan Ginsberg • Sep 29th, 2009 • Category: ModBlog


Hey, would you look at that? Another day, another picture too good for which to not offer an embiggening click-through. This glorious shot is courtesy of Hangman Suspensions (the Hawaii- and Oregon-based one, that is, not to be confused with Pete Sheringham’s Hanged Man Team in Melbourne, Australia), from their end-of-summer suspension convention held recently at Cape Kiwanda on the Oregon coast. Lovely stuff. And, of course, more, more, more…after the jump.

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Part of the Force

By Jordan Ginsberg • Sep 28th, 2009 • Category: ModBlog


The Sinner Team is for lovers! God, these kids and their adorable suspension photos, right? The last time we checked in with these folks, Anna was hanging from Stanislav, and there were many awws. This time around, this group of longhairs is being just as cute, except now it’s Pavel and Kate giving each other the lovers’ stare while some folks mill around in the back. We liked this photo so much, we decided it deserved a click-through, so enjoy a higher-res shot as well. As for The Sinner Team, we don’t know how many more couples you count among your ranks, but we are very ready to send some Spanish Fly up Russia way if it means more pictures like this. Just a thought, you know?

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Get a Better Duty

By Jordan Ginsberg • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: ModBlog


One of our favorite sets of suspension photos that we’ve come across in the past belong to Nacho, who can be seen here, in all his white-striped glory. Well, good news! Nacho is back, as you can see above, just having a mid-air sit-down, possibly as a posture-healthy alternative to you typical office chair? Either way, he’s in the very capable hands of local sensation La Negra, and under the very capable photographic purview of Martin Del Pozo and his friend, Marco. After the jump, Nacho gets his knees cut down, plus video!

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Please My Ghost

By Jordan Ginsberg • Sep 11th, 2009 • Category: ModBlog


The last time we featured Russia’s The Sinner Team on these here ModBlogs, a pretty good discussion broke out about safety in suspension, seeing as they were getting up pretty, pretty high. This time around, they’ve shared another pretty impressive and rather ambitious suspension, as you can see!

That’s me (Stanislav Axyonov, the leader of The Sinner Team suspension crew) and my girlfrend, Anna, doing our second tandem suspension together. The first was more casual, which can be seen here—sorry for bad quality. There was a risk of tearing my knees of course, but everything was fine. We were the first in Russia to perform this kind of suspension, so it was pretty fun for us to know we were going to do something “new.”

After the jump, a scene of post-suspension sexytime between Stanislav and Anna.

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A Bountiful Crop

By Jordan Ginsberg • Sep 10th, 2009 • Category: ModBlog


Hot on the heels of this frame-worthy post from the good folks with Berlin, Germany’s Superfly Suspension, we’re quite pleased to publish yet another particularly striking shot from the crew. Sadly, we don’t have any other pictures to determine what the two hooks in this gentleman’s back are attached to, but if we were to hazard a guess, hmm, mistletoe? We’re going to say mistletoe.

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It Was Blue and Gold

By Jordan Ginsberg • Sep 8th, 2009 • Category: ModBlog


And here, courtesy of the fine folks involved with Berlin, Germany’s Superfly Suspension crew, we have a suspension so nice you just want to hang it on your wall—which, um, was kind of the idea, apparently. This may have been done before (likely by the Superfly team themselves?), but we applaud a clever and well-executed take on suspension like this—one that’s a little more performance art than straight spectacle (not that there’s anything wrong with either, of course).



Oslo Fakir School Fire — UPDATE

By Jordan Ginsberg • Aug 21st, 2009 • Category: ModBlog


Earlier in the week, we had the misfortune of reporting that Håvve Fjell’s Fakir School was severely damaged by a fire. The exact cause is still unknown and a complete investigation is pending, but Håvve has sent us a status update and a bunch of photos from the scene. (Note: There are a couple spots with some very minor English translation issues/phrases I didn’t understand, but nothing that should obscure the actual story.) The good news: It’s not all bad news! Håvve’s report and photos are after the jump, and for those who would like to make a donation to the cause, please visit Suspension.org for details.

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