Photo realistic art, by Thorsten Freye
From one of our performance on the 2012 Venus fair in Berlin, German based artist Thorsten Freye created a number of photo realistic pieces of art. I think the art [...]
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Connective Rope or Tying from the Heart?
“Asking a bakushi: “what is the heart of kinbaku?” is like asking an artist, “what is the heart of a paintbrush?” Kinbaku itself has no “heart” to speak of, but [...]
Semenawa: what it is, and what it is not (part 2/3)
Tying or being tied semenawa-style is quite popular in today’s Japanese inspired rope scene. Semenawa is often understood as ‘torturous rope’, but is a context-dependent and nuanced term that can [...]
What is Japanese about Japanese rope bondage?
It’s time for a guest blog, written by one of RopeMarks’ rope models, the Shady Lady! All perspectives and thoughts in this post are her own, but they are supported [...]
Workshop Kinbaku, Getting comfy with the gote
Kinbaku Workshop, Getting comfy with the gote. Probably the most famous element of traditional Japanese bondage (kinbaku) is the gote...
Show: Krank, with Cobie
Here you see a compilation of the show I have called "Krank". "Krank" is a a very high-paced spectacular kinbaku show with some crazy suspensions. Hence the name "Krank". [...]
BoundCon, the bondage weekend, III
The third BoundCon bondage weekend, the more intimate variation of the big BoundCon that is in Spring each year, took place in Munich. This time I decided to enjoy the event as a regular visitor instead of working my ass off.
RopeMarks Ryū weekend, Moscow, Russia
While I’m writing this I am in a plane on my way back home. I just finished a short tour to Prague and the Prague shibari festival and to Moscow [...]
Portfolio | Series
Series are our way of giving back to the community at large. We don't always shoot for payed content, we also shoot for the art of Japanese rope bondage and [...]
Massad 285, Aug.-Sep. 2017, Netherlands
In response to Dutch (and English and German) media that jumped onto an informational article in the Daily Beast and made it wrongly sensational we have written and published this [...]
