As I have hinted previously, I’ve been becoming less and less interested in performing. It was touch and go whether I performed at last year’s Festival and, as you probably know, I decided not to do so this year. I’ve been wondering for some while now whether to give up performing altogether, hesitating to make any …
There’s some good news and some bad. As I think I mentioned, Kalahari cannot make it this year and I just heard that Dragonrope/Umino is unable to extricate himself from his work commitments. I noticed that Bob Ropemarks, a veteran of shibari from the Netherlands, is coming over for the Naka Akira course so I …
Don’t hang about if you are thinking of coming to LFAJRB as tickets are selling fast. We have another fantastic line up including the legendary Naka Akira, Osaka mistress Saki Kamijoo, plus the cream of the west’s shibari artists. Japan’s top kinbaku photographer, Sugiura Norio, will be our guest of honour. This will be our fifth and …
In the latest delivery was an experimental batch of 10,000m of rope made from some pre-waxed double twisted yarn. The idea was to create a rope that came pre-treated and wouldn’t need any treatment. It didn’t turn out exactly that way though. Initially, the rope feels extremely crisp and even makes a lovely creaking crunchy …
After much deliberation, here, in alphabetical order to avoid expressing any favouritism, are the performers for LFAJRB 2013, barring any unexpected cancellations. It’s a lucky coincidence that our star performer’s name starts with an A or I might have had to formulate a different order 🙂 I can’t tell you how tough it has been …
Rope is flying out the door! I have just placed orders for more than 40km (25m) rope today as the rope store is looking rather bare and I’m down to my last 50m of 6mm Amanawa Linen Hemp. The latter seems to be selling itself with a lot of the orders being repeats from happy …
Where art gets knotted BOUND is Europe’s first monthly Japanese bondage performance and social event. The mission is to bring shibari, like butoh*, out of the shadows and into the mainstream of alternative art. Until now, the only place you could see this sort of show is in BDSM or fetish clubs with a strict dress-code …
D/s and protocol can be wonderful instruments for developing submissives in a positive way. A benevolent Dom/me can use them as a tremendous power of good in ways that reach far beyond merely play interaction. It can instil a sense of self-worth, be used to promote a desire to learn, develop self-discipline and punctuality…the list …
UPDATE: In 2015, we started a specialist shibari learning resource, ShibariClasses.com, based on purpose-made educational software which allows full multi-media tutorials. This is now undoubtedly the most comprehensive resource ever produced with around 40 full-length tutorials and growing. These are not 5-10 minute ‘paint by numbers’ videos, some have over an hour and a half …
The techies have just completed some significant changes to the page layouts and the way the galleries look. There’s more to come. I hope you like the results. Although, what you won’t see are the improvements behind the scenes, which should pay off in terms of reliability and performance. It looks like they have also …