This sparQ Brought to You By the Letter “P”

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Gray Miller

“Sure, I’m moving to Pittsburgh,” I told my friend. “But I’ll be heading back to Madison a lot.” “Uh huh. Sure. I’ll believe that when I see it!” she said skeptically, adding “…but I hope you do.” In a couple of weeks I’ll be doing just that – returning to the Bondage Capital of the[…]

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reBOUND, Shibari Style Impressions by David Lawrence

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Gray Miller

This may not come as a surprise, but I see a lot of rope bondage pictures. And videos. And live performances. And erotica. I actually read the text of Master’s K’s Beauty of Kinbaku, and loved every second of it. It’s a fault, to be honest. The stuff just interests me. I’m not proud of[…]

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The Somerville Bowline, Takedown Edition

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Gray Miller

You’ve heard about the Boola-Boola Purge, right? There’s a whole cadre of ropesters who have decried the many failings of this version of the single column tie. A quite vocal person is Topologist, from Boston (soon to be from San Francisco), and he even went so far as to create his own variation of a[…]

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The Dark Odyssey WinterFire Cabaret Social!

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Gray Miller

To say I’m looking forward to DOWF would be an understatement. The organizers approached me and asked if I would help with a fund raiser for NCSF. Of course I agreed, and they let me come up with this format (which has been a part of a few Shibaricons, as well). This is what “America’s[…]

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Hajime Kinoko & Asagi Ageha in Culture X

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Gray Miller

I have a real love-hate relationship with this video. On the one hand, it does some things right, such as referring to to the “art” as kinbaku, and linking the “rope culture” of Japan to the practice. On the other hand, starting from the Ubiquitous Zen Flute Riff when they show the “happy, sunny” Japan,[…]

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Agley Play

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Gray Miller

“Well, I’m guessing that didn’t go exactly as you expected,” she murmured into my chest. Her voice was fuzzy with happy afterglow of rope and orgasm-induced endorphins. My natural inclination towards sarcasm shaped my response. “Oh, no. I completely expected that reaction to the hood. It was all according to my Domly plan.” I was[…]

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Discovering New Limits at Midori’s Rope Dojo

Posted on January 19, 2011January 7, 2015 by Gray Miller

I’m going to be processing the experience of Midori’s Rope Dojo for quite some time – pages of notes in my moleskine, variations on ties I’ve been using for years as well as new ties I’ve never thought of uses for (dildo harness, here we cum…). There was also the transcendent beauty and power of[…]

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It’s Fucking Art, Bitches.

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Gray Miller

With all the disagreements about whether or not rope is an art or not (which I’m not interested, really, in talking about any more) I thought I’d just share with you some of the progress that fine artist Nancy Peach has been making on the painting she’s doing of me and MinxGrrl. You can see[…]

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Notes on Connection

Posted on January 17, 2011 by Gray Miller

As part of the Wicked Grounds Holiday Dinner, I offered a two-hour bondage lesson to whoever the lucky raffle ticket winner was. It was RopeMonk, who also runs the San Francisco RopeBite, and he asked me for a short class on building connection in a scene. With the help of the lovely ClurraBella we spent[…]

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Beyond Words

Posted on January 16, 2011 by Gray Miller

A short film that conveys pretty well why some of us bother with all this rope & connection shit.

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