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I meant to blog about this event right after it happened and was frankly unforgivably lazy about blogging for the longest time. Now I've blogged about an event since the guilt pressure is finally...

https://rope-topia.com/2015/05/viennese-rope-festival-2015-part-the-first/

The after party performance night! I wanted to give this one a blog to itself as in the end it's a bit of a saga. To start with we'd had something like a total of 8 hours sleep over 3 days and fr...

https://rope-topia.com/2015/05/bed-2015-part-the-third/

Saturday, BED is now in full swing. Breakfast at the hotel and then on to teach our first class. It's an early one and we have to be there right at the crack of 10:45 in the morning! Pressure and...

https://rope-topia.com/2015/05/bed-2015-part-the-second/

In an excellent round of to our working year we have a magazine cover. This is the cover of Hustler's Taboo magazine. The model for this shoot was the lovely and very sexy MaYa Homerton. A wonder...

https://rope-topia.com/2013/12/taboo-magazine-cover-shibari-bondage/

From my personal blog on WykD.com I’ve been very lucky recently to get to work with some incredible people. Most recently it was a privilege and a pleasure to work with the American director a...

https://rope-topia.com/2013/12/robert-wilson-lady-gaga-and-the-louvre/

This article is one of those that you wish didn’t need to be written about. However here I am writing it anyway. So what is is that I’m going to write about here that I wish I wasn’t? Rope ...

https://rope-topia.com/2013/11/luck-self-awareness-responsibility-rope-bondage-injuries-2/

This article is one of those that you wish didn’t need to be written about. However here I am writing it anyway. So what is is that I’m going to write about here that I wish I wasn’t? Rope ...

https://rope-topia.com/2013/11/luck-self-awareness-responsibility-rope-bondage-injuries/

This was one of our very first shoots and I have to say what a pleasure it was. New to shoots though we were I think we got some good stuff here. Okissakki was great to work with and Clover captu...

https://rope-topia.com/2012/11/shoot-with-okissakki/

A friend today made a very good point about when he found things most likely to go wrong in rope bondage. And I absolutely agree with him on this. Often its when you’re doing the routine things...

https://rope-topia.com/2012/10/absent-mindedness-and-routine-cockups-in-rope-bondage/

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far... OK a couple of years ago in Cambridge (The one in England not the one in Masachusetts.) I had the opportunity to do a  shoot of Japanese style rope bondag...

https://rope-topia.com/2012/09/shoot-with-rodm-and-gestalta/

Yesterday we went to a lake where we knew their to be a small landing at the waters edge. There are water lilies on the lake and it's surrounded by trees. It's a beautiful location and for a whil...

https://rope-topia.com/2012/09/by-the-water-lilies-on-the-lake-rope-bondage-feeling/

While we were staying in Queens we had a teaching session with a local New York rope enthusiast Joey Red. There's not a lot I can say about this class except that Joey worked really hard and real...

https://rope-topia.com/2012/08/teaching-in-queens/

I've already blogged about a couple of our visits to London. We've really enjoyed both occasions. On the second visit we stayed over in London and did a bit of an exchange rope shoot in the morni...

https://rope-topia.com/2012/08/kinbaku-shoot-with-nina-russ/

Coming to re-write these blogs Legarti seems both a long time ago and very fresh in my memory. Firstly we were naturally enough very excited to be going to Rome. We'd never been before and this w...

https://rope-topia.com/2012/08/legarti-rome/

This was our first time at Bound so we weren't too sure what to expect. First up the venue The Flying Dutchman this is a great venue and they've gone to lengths to make it accommodating to the...

https://rope-topia.com/2012/08/bound-1-london-2012/

This was a bit of an intense shibari session. Clover spaced out very early on in the performance and even though we were up on a stage in an art deco ballroom it managed to feel very intimate. Th...

https://rope-topia.com/2012/08/nemesis-rope-shows-2010/

Well Friday was a bit different to the usual. Took the girl down to London for a shoot. Having dropped her off I had a couple of hours to kill so called up Hedwig who's suffering with an essay an...

https://rope-topia.com/2012/08/wimbledon-common-are-we-2/

It's always great when you can be part of a new event. We had a great time at this one in Bristol. There were a lot of very different demos and interests, some quality vending and a very fun play...

https://rope-topia.com/2012/08/wickedone-bristol-2012/