Now I have finally overcome the blown Firewire issue with my DV cams, I have been able to capture some video from Boundcon. The first is an ad hoc session I did with the beautiful Aliya from eastern Russia on the British Bondage stage, shot by Boris Mosafir. You will have to forgive the odd …
Few of us can have escaped hearing about ‘50 Shades of Grey‘, some of us appear to have actually read it. I confess, I haven’t but I have read ‘I read and review Fifty Shades of Grey so you don’t have to‘. I have to say, I love this review and I think it has …
This is my friend Hedwig’s (pictured above with Clover) undergraduate dissertation. She finished it in 2011 and presented it at Stockholm Pride to a very receptive and appreciative audience… including her mother, so this was quite an emotionally charged coming out about bondage as well. In it, she explores previous research into kink in general …
I refer, of course to Australia, not Hades, although I suspect the trip to the latter is quicker and less arduous. I am also reliably informed that the weather is better in Hades right now, although I believe summer temperatures are similar in both. On Wednesday night, Emirates will be wafting me off to Sydney, …
I spent this afternoon photographing and documenting the 30 steps of my own box-tie this afternoon. It is the culmination of a series of experiments to come up with a version that doesn’t use conventional cinches, yet has sufficient stability and benefits from the comfort factor of an extra upper wrap. Why did I bother? …
A recent conversation with the Grand Nawashi who sits atop Mt Fuji, or at least one of them, prompted me to ponder the wisdom of adopting Japanese words to add to the jargon of shibari. I mean, we do speak English so maybe that’s the best langauge to use for easy comprehension? There are so …
Like many others, I have been constantly frustrated by the instability of the standard shibari knot, often called a ‘boola boola’, used to close things like single and double column ties. In my experience, it has been something of a hit or miss affair whether this knot locks or collapses into two half hitches. In …
Nawakiri Shin started learning shibari in 2004, under nawashi Kanna, a student of the great Akechi Denki. He is a founding member of BDSM.TW, the only BDSM group in Taiwan, and has performed at various various local events the group organised. In 2011, he performed at Toubaku 2011 in Tokyo. More recently, he and other …
We have been having a very productive Saturday night. First, our lovely friend MaYa came around with a Spanish photographer friend, Jose Furtado. We did two shoots. First, I tied MaYa in a very exposed semi suspension which ended as a severe full suspension. Around 11, Gestalta showed up with the express purpose of getting …
NinaRuss is running BOUND a fantastic night of shibari shows, plus rope peer workshop and social. We have special guests: Nawakirishin from Taiwan, who performed at Toubaku in Tokyo, coming with self-suspension artist, Mai Maya Yaya and Nancy Wang. We also have Halcyon, a model from France, who is performing with Lotsofknots (UK) and a …