Having recently been tipped off about some of my material being on torrent sites, I have sent off a flurry of DMCA take-down notices. Rather surprisingly, the response in all cases was to remove the offending material immediately. This leads me to assume that some of them are running scared of the attention being turned …
Nina’s spectacular tie on Gorgone, photographed by Jay Graham, currently has nearly 2,400 ‘Love its’ on Fetlife. This is an incredible accolade for this team’s work. The cynical might say that much is down to a great photo or beginner’s luck. There is no denying it is a stunning photo. Although, I have to say that …
Just a quick taster to tempt you before we all go off to Peer Rope London. More later…
I had to share this post by the partner of a fairly recent student, Benjamin, who has been making excellent progress. This was his first public session at Exodus. As he says, he made a few mistakes but I think it’s a damn good job, especially since he figured out the hishi takate-kote by extrapolating …
By popular demand, group classes are back. Over the past couple of months, we have been inundated with private classes and various projects. These include, in addition to the usual shoots and web related stuff, preparing material for an exhibition with a prominent photographer, some major software upgrades to cope with the growing success of …
Laura, having conveniently left behind a substantial quantity of Parma ham that I had been given by 123Avalon to pass on to her, was forced to return to our clutches before we fell upon it like a pack of wolves. There is only so long a person can reasonably be expected to resist Parma. And …
The mutual back-slapping “if you haven’t got anything nice to say, don’t say anything” forum culture creates a very warm and lovely rose-tinted world. However, I feel it has a very negative side. It inflates egos, allows myths to be perpetuated, creates false prophets, risks unsafe examples being emulated without caveats and encourages complacency. For …
It seems that TheAngryNawashi is no more or at least has been silenced for the time being. Numerous rumours have abounded and accusations have been made as to who the masked crusader might be. As far as I can see, nothing conclusive had been proved so I am very cautious about speculating over certain aspects, …
BOUND is becoming more and more popular as the word gets out. We are starting to get quite a few people from outside the scene who have never seen Japanese bondage, which was one of our objectives. All the reactions have been very positive and I think we night have created a few rope junkies in the …
Ironically, after getting chastised for translating ‘takate-kote’ as ‘box-tie’ in a tutorial in an effort to reduce the use of Japanese jargon, which can be mistranslated, obfuscate the subject or make shibari seem elitist for beginners, I seem to have committed a gaff by using a Japanese word incorrectly. I mistakenly misused the word ‘deshi’, …