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 …
Everyone keeps asking me about this year’s festival. The problem is that Garry, Murakawa and I are the world’s worst procrastinators. Garry has little time as it is as his Lucha Britannia Mexican-style wresting project has become massive and he’s filming with Jonathan Ross. Add to that the fact that Mack has moved house, is …
People are keen to see more than the free public content and have been asking about full member access. It is not available yet but it should only be a few more days. Meanwhile, I have been busy loading content: videos from Toubaku, the last two year’s London Festival of the Art of Japanese Rope …
The first nine photo galleries are up. Now we have the UUGallery system running, it should be fairly fast to upload content. After a few glitches and some great help from Paul at UUG, we cracked it. Anyway, I have uploaded shoots with the diminutive Miss Pixie, the bendy Emelia ‘Foldaway’, the beautifully inked Adreena, …
I was with Kinoko a little while back and we got to discussing westerners doing kinbaku. I was saying whilst it’s nice to accessorise our shows with beautiful Japanese elements, e.g. kimonos etc., I think there’s a line between doing this and the whole ‘kimono boy’ (those who try to be more Japanese than the …