Self-bondage art. Part XVI. Self-bondage for everyday life

See previous parts here.

16 various drawings today. Nothing special. Nothing unusual. Quite the opposite. Self-bondage for everyday life. It does not matter what you are doing or what you are going to do: relaxing, enjoying your morning coffee, shopping, learning, working, bathing, awaiting your boy- or girlfriend, playing golf or sleeping, there is always a place for some self-bondage.

It should not be very complex, inescapable or overly restrictive, but just enough to feel it. See also Lockable clothes. Or perhaps you have your own ideas? Please share with us!

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Stumbled upon on eBay. Purple latex swimsuit

Updated on Aug 20, 2011 @ 04:05:The suit is on sale again!

Posted on Jul 28, 2011 @ 4:42:
What: Latex swimsuit made by Rubberlicious. 0.05 deep purple and transparent latex.

Where: the item (it’s not currently listed, but since there were no bids made, it may reappear again), the seller

Why: Several interesting moments here.

Design. It’s constructed just like a usual one-piece swimsuit. Nothing fancy, no extremely high leg cut-outs, no closed back, no zips, tank top. But thanks to two colours the wearer will look much slimmer. The dark (purple in this case) defines the silhouette, while the transparent latex hides what should not be visible. Very clever!

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Rare water-polo and triathlon swimsuits on eBay. Updated with winning bids.

Where: the seller from NL

Why: The answer to “Why” is pretty much obvious after answering to “What”.

What: Rare new and used water-polo and triathlon lycra and neoprene matte and shiny swimsuits made by the following companies: Speedo (including s2000, Aquablades), Japanese Speedo, TYR, Essenuoto, Oceanline, Calvin Klein, TeamSport, AgonSwim, Solar, Zoot, Arena, Axis.

I think I answered to “Why” 😉 Some of the suits should fit me. Gonna try….

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How to make a rope shorter for easy storage

If you have long ropes (it does not matter why, for sailing, mountain climbing, camping, shibari, etc) sooner or later you will need to organize them somehow. Preferably without entangling, One obvious solution is to coil them up. But can you uncoil 10-20m rope without “spontaneous knots”? And what if you have a “collection” of 2,3,5,10,12,15,20m? Unmanageable spaghetti!

The method I use makes a rope 11 times shorter. In the example below I use a 408cm rope and transform it into a 38cm long braid. And look how easy and fast you can “unbraid” the plait (or unplait the braid).

Step by step. (And do not forget to check the video below.)

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Gothic festival “Summer Darkness 2009 ” in Utrecht – Part III. Fashion show. “Attitude Holland”

See Part I and Part II.

Publishing the third part before I forget about it for two more years 😉

These 22 photos are from the Gothic/fetish/lolita fashion show by Attitude-Holland. What I specifically like is the wetlook lycra. It also reminds me the “other” matte side of latex sheeting. This is the material I would like to have leotards, swimsuits and zentai suits made from!

Anybody can win a place in the fashion show in the following categories: fetish, gothic, lolita, burlesque/pin-up, emo or whatever the organizer/manufacturer invents. All models are from “the real public”. You can check on the website who won this year.

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Gothic festival “Summer Darkness 2009” in Utrecht – Part II

See Part I

Two moments.

First. It took me two years to return to this event and finally sort and process the photos I made there. (There will be one more part). And today (what a coincidence!) I’ve been to the Summer Darkness festival again.

Second. It too me five years to figure out why my vivid photos look so flat and lifeless on the website. And the reason is … oh…. this is soooo embarrassing… wrong colour space!

Now I have to either reprocess all the published photos again, or leave them as they are. I will probably redo only the posts I was going to rewrite/reformat anyway. In this set there are pictures in both sRGB and AdobeRGB spaces.

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Forum, users, spammers, bans, demotivators.

It’s nice to have many registered users. It’s nice to have them coming, joining and participating. It’s nice to have a raising graph. It’s nice to have nice users.

It’s not not nice to deal with SPAM. After the SPAM storm during the last two days, I finally looked into the user database and this is the result:

  • Deleted 500+ awaiting activation accounts
  • Banned 250+ users
  • Half of online users in the past 24 hours were in fact spammers (if you are registered you can see their account struckthrough).
  • 300+ profiles were thoroughly checked also against the “known spammers” database
  • Upgraded the forum software
  • Added plug-ins, tweaked configuration
  • Spent more than one day of my life on that crap

Is it gonna help? At least I’ve learnt a thing or two and will keep an eye on more details than used to before. Yeah, more work, less fun. Speaking of demotivators…

Oh, yeah… If you find your account blocked and you think that it happened by mistake, or or if you cannot register, drop me a mail or ask in the chat.

Black and white sensual stories. Andy Julia photography

Why can’t I just repost a photo or a drawing I stumbled upon on tumblr, facebook, *chan or various forums and shut up? Why am I so curious that I begin to search the source, who the author is, what else he/she does? Why do I spent my time and energy to compose these messages which nobody reads, cares of or gives me money for? Yeah, demotivated again…

OK, some useless details you do not want to know anyway. The author is Andy Julia, a freelance photographer from Paris. Books, exhibitions, on-line and off-line galleries… All that stuff you can find on his website Andy Julia Photography, isn’t it what it was created for?

And the reason why I bothered with typing is that these photos “work“. I would like to be in these clothes, these situations, “to touch and feel”. These moody photos tell stories and … motivate my imagination…

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What are you wearing? Demotivators of the day

Lady Arrakis' fetish and bondage artSimplicity does not always work like it should. There is nothing simpler than two naked bodies making sex with each other. But we want to spice things up, we need details, attributes, special materials, certain colours, icings to spawn, keep or increase the excitement.

Not bare skin, but shiny latex or nylon. Not just a baggage strap with a ratchet, but neat rows of glossy rope. Not masturbation with your lead hand, but desperate convulsive jerks of self-trussed, self-bound, self-plugged and self-gagged own body. Not an old egg-shaped vibrator, but a multichannel oscilloscope-like device, wires, USB cables, connectors, gel-pads, tri-phase electrostimulation and specially crafted musical files with hands free orgasm symphonies.

No, we are not looking for easy ways… And all that hassle is just for an internal and external erection…

By Lady Arrakis

The future of (self-)bondage-fetish-wear. Will it ever exist?

science fiction fetish bondage body suitUpdated on Jul 27, 2011 @ 03:23:
After three years since I posted this article, the subject suddenly sprang to life again. See this discussion in the forum: “Self-Bondage shop“. Have your own ideas or secret wishes? Dump them in the forum or here in the comments.

Published on: May 31, 2009 @ 01:18:
Technology and progress never stop. What was science fiction or fairy tales (many) years ago has become an integral part of our normal life. Even 15 years ago I could not even dream of a home computer with 4TB of storage space (95% full) and 12GB of real memory. (BTW, I need to vacuum clean it…).

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