I have just heard that I have won some places in the Bondage Awards. Although it is seen by many as just a popularity contest rather than any great gauge of merit, I am honoured to have some recognition. Granted some categories had barely any entries, so getting Runner Up or Honourable Mention probably means …
Until tonight, there was a fascinating thread running on Fetlife’s Kinbaku Group discussing the wrist tie in the TK and specifically Marai Masato’s technique but for some reason, it was closed for further discussion. I say “for some reason” as the stated reason doesn’t seem to justify closing the thread. It appears to be a …
I have never heard much said about using the multiple contact points that rope affords. Although I have long employed this idea, I have recently started to solidify it into my theory. I am not saying all the ideas are new by any means but I have never seen the principles consolidated into a single …
We recently published a photo from a shoot with a top photographer who is working under the pseudonym, Jay Graham. Within a matter of hours it made Fetlife’s Kinky & Popular and currently has well over 2,000 Love It’s! If you love it too, please give it your vote on Fetlife. It got a Like …
via Drawing from an uncomfortable position: Air, floating and Graham Fitkin. Some composers serve up meringues. Airy confections that disappear. Delibes. Walton on occasion. Anyone involved in the score of La Fille Mal Gardée. A musicologist just said Saint-Saens to me. Hmn. By contrast, the composer and performer Graham Fitkin is making real meringues, ones …
I hate to say it but I saw a list of dates for last suggested posting dates for Xmas (you know, that traditional Yule/Winter Solstice highjacked by the Christians) in the post office yesterday. Some more far flung destinations need you to post by 5 December. Bearing in mind that not all orders go out …
Nina and I are starting to plan the second set of shibari tutorials. These will to continue from where ‘Tying people, not parcels’ left off and to develop this theme. Some years ago, whilst discussing sex and bondage with the late Prof Petruska Clarkson of Harley Street, she said “most people treat sex like cleaning …
I have just loaded up a gallery of photos of our ‘Bob the Builder’ show by the very talented Izaskun Gonzalez. They galleries contain duplicates but these have been subjected to Izas’s uniquely distinctive post-production for a very different feel. Check back over the next couple of days as there will be more of Nina. …
As those who follow my ranting will know, I regard Douglas Kent’s ‘Complete Shibari’ tutorials like the curate’s egg: good in parts. The good parts are excellent and well-researched but in others he is clearly out of his depth or venturing into ‘shambari’. In many ways, he has raised the bar in bondage tutorials with …
For one week, I am offering 15% of almost all the jute and linen hemp shibari rope in my eBay shop to make way for my new deliveries of reinforced jute and more tossa. So grab a mid-month bargain while you can!