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BANQUET DINNER This year’s banquet dinner included a 70th birthday celebration for Jim Ward, the founder of Gauntlet, the first piercing specialty business in the world. Birthday hats and party favors were provided at the door! Many of Jim’s friends, peers, admirers, and loved ones spoke about the impact he had on their lives, and paid him respect for his crucial role in the founding of our industry. The emotion in the room was thick, and hearing firsthand about Jim’s legacy and his importance to everyone in the piercing community made this year’s banquet especially memorable. The birthday wishes culminated with the singing of “Happy Birthday” as a scantily-clad leatherboy jumped out of Jim’s man-sized birthday cake. Afterward, banquet attendees took turns at the piñata—shaped like a black leather boot and stuffed with candy, purple hankies, and condoms. Hilary Whitmore of “Operafication” closed the evening with several stunningly beautiful opera arias. 2011 Conference Raffle The annual APP Conference and Exposition is the main source of income for the organization, and the yearly raffle at Conference is a crucial part of it. The money raised in Las Vegas supports outreach efforts throughout the entire year. All of the raffle prizes are donated by companies who support the APP and the work it does. Special thanks are due to all the companies—and individuals—who donated what turned out to be an incredible doublegrand-prize offering this year: JD Lorenz and Industrial Strength donated $10,000 in jewelry and $10,000 in additional gift certificates; Barry Blanchard and Anatometal donated $12,000 of merchandise credit. Add to this other prizes donated by Body Circle Designs, H2Ocean, LeRoi, NeoMetal, and Omerica, bringing the total to more than 150 different prizes awarded. Congratulations also to Italo Fernandez, who won the Industrial Strength top prize, and Ryan Ouellette, who won the Anatometal top prize. Mark Montgomery at The Zone Tattoo and Body Piercing picked up the most individual prizes. (continued on pg. 36) PRESIDENT’S AWARD The past two years, I’ve honored two of our unsung heroes with this award, two people who have worked tirelessly for our industry without recognition. This year’s recipient is different. He’s been a very visible and public figure for the past two decades, and he’s always been the first and best person to promote himself—but without much “official” recognition from the APP. He was one of the first members of the APP’s Board of Directors. He has at times been a vocal critic of the organization, but through the years he’s also been one of the APP’s biggest supporters. He has manifested a passionate and opinionated persona online, and he’s been a consistent presence on the internet since the very beginnings of the online body art community. But his biggest contribution has been through his dedication to suspension. He has been a tireless advocate for the acceptance of suspension as an art form, and the founder of both TSD—considered by most to be the first suspension group—and suspension. org. He’s a piercer, a business owner, suspension artist, educator, event organizer, photographer, and laser tattoo removal technician—in addition to being one of the industry’s biggest all-around shit-stirrers. It’s my pleasure to give this year’s President’s Award to Allen Falkner. —James Weber 34 THE POINT ISSUE 56
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