We have had a great uptake and response to the latest trilogy, ‘Tying techniques and rope handling’. In fact, enrolments have gone ballistic recently so it looks like we have hit the spot with this our on-line tutorials, especially this series. See what I mean? Here’s what one of my students said: “I didn’t know …
This video popped up in my feed and I was surprised to recognise footage shot by me of Nina and Ayumi and Fred Hatt and Ms Bones along with other shibari video of unknown origin. Among this, I spotted Boris Mosafir and Aliya Self Shibari but the others were a mystery to me. If you …
We got back from Burning Man over a week ago now and are still trying to get the last vestiges of Playa dust out of everything. It’s been a week of playing catch up, general fire fighting and fixing PCs. We arrived at Black Rock City, as the site’s called, with the advance party after numerous …
This tutorial concludes the planned 3-part series, ‘Tying techniques & rope handling’. However, whilst we have gone more in-dept into this subject than any tutorial before, there is still a wealth of knowledge that we can add. If anything, this is likely to be Season 1 with much more to follow. It is only by …
If you are local, the recent torrential rain will come as no news but those further afield might be unaware that we are experiencing classic ‘British BBQ weather’. As we tend to treat rope in small batches, due to the logistical issues, this isn’t great news. Whilst the wet bit is no problem, drying it …
Over the past couple of weeks, I was honoured with my first fake Twitter profile, @TheRealEsinem, which was posting moronic and egotistically antagonistic Tweets. The profile photo was a crop of one stolen from my Facebook profile. I thought it was only politicians and celebrities who were thus recognised with plagiarism and fake profiles; does …
I recently worked on a music video, with Laura Cylon as my model, for ‘Devotion’, a track on Tullia Benedicta’s new album ‘Anteros’. Thanks to Filippo Maria’s camera-work and direction, with Giorgio Gremigni’s editing, it looks stunning. This is what Tullia has to say about the inspiration for the shoot: “I’ve always been extremely intrigued …
I don’t know if this affected last Friday’s rope orders that were dropped off earlier on the day of the robbery at my local sub-post office. It’s a bit vague what happened, or indeed who got shot, but at least nobody died. The post office has been closed ever since with no news of when it might …
I’m reposting this on behalf of my re-sellers, Jakara-Rope: Blog link: http://jakara-rope.co.uk/blogs/news/64091843-warnin… They say that imitation is a form of flattery, but we are far from flattered. In fact, we are utterly outraged. A year ago, we discovered that a certain unscrupulous company was claiming to sell our products on Amazon. After many months arguing …
I once believed the BDSM community to be an environment made safe by consent, respect and self-regulation but in light of experience that view seems to be naive or, at least, optimistic. The more people I speak to, the more I realise it is a hot-bed of abuse and consent violations. I suppose one shouldn’t …