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 …
We are now accepting pre-registrations for tickets for the London Festival of the Art of Japanese Bondage. We are doing it this way so we can decide on the number of one and two person tickets to allocate. Your application does not guaranteed tickets. If you are successful, you will be sent a link to …
Due to a change of plans, Nina will be here in early July and will be running BOUND on 6 July after all, while I am away in Australia. Even better news is that early bird tickets will only be a fiver and advance tickets a tenner. Where else can you get a night of …
The photographic experiments continue and I really think we are getting somewhere. A little more tweaking of lighting and the addition, after a friend’s recommendation, a £10 Ikea light that works for fill or to create a spotlight-like pool of light. All I have heard from Nina for the past 24 hours is “Oh my …
Nina and I are still in love the new Asanawa Lite. It looks every bit as good as it did at first sight and the feedback we are getting is endorsing this. “I recently spent the evening at our weekly Schwelle 7 Bondage jam using my new set of your “FeatherLite” Tossa. I must admit …
No, I haven’t been driven mad by it. I have recently activated Windows 7 speech recognition. Unlike my early experiments with SR, it actually seems to work. Of course, it has been over a decade since I first encountered this sort of technology and it seems the software and hardware has finally caught up. I’m …
We delighted to announce that now have confirmation from Kazami Ranki that he will be our star performer at the Festival. The lead-in will be four days of master classes by Kazami commencing Monday, 1 October. Having organised and attended his first series in April, I can tell you that it was extremely well received …
Don’t forget The Knot is on this Sunday, my mentored shibari peer workshop (click here for more info and to book). This event is unlike the usual rope peer workshop we find in the UK, which can have over 100 people. Although this can be great from a social point of view, it can be …