Ludwig behind the scenes

Thanks for all your good wishes. I’m still feeling under the weather, but have been back at work since yesterday - and have to do extra days to make up the time I took off sick, unless I want to lose three days’ pay. The joys of freelancing! Throw in a…

sleepyhead

I woke up this morning with a stinking cold. I’m snuffling and aching and hiding under the duvet with my cat, trying to sleep as much as possible. I’ll be back in a couple of days: right now I just need to rest.

after the masquerade

A few years ago I got hold of a large, gold-covered Taschen paperback. Taschen isn’t the most prestigious brand, but they introduced me to a lot of my favourite art growing up (and enabled me to discover fetish photography at a tender age, thanks to th…

the empathic rollercoaster

Emma-Jane and Haron have both written thoughtful posts recently about the Ryan Report. I’m going to ramble a bit: hope you don’t mind.I’d heard about the report from my vanilla Irish friends, but hadn’t read it. When I read Haron’s post just now and sa…

I put on my robe and wizard hat…

J sent me this artwork the other day. Sometimes I wonder if our entire friendship is founded on sharing select pieces of porn; he certainly has a good eye for what I’ll like. I love her harem pants, her slutty toenail polish, and especially I love the …

BoundCon VI: teaser

I have a three or four-part series of posts on BoundCon VI planned, but I don’t want to overwhelm you all with too many good things at once, so I’m taking a little break today. I’ll start filling you in on all the juicy details from the con tomorrow, b…

I love it when a plan comes together…

Lost Causes (provisional title) is the third film I’ve made with Roué. The first two weren’t much, really. The first was back in September 2006; my fourth ever spanking film shoot and my first longer film. The producer (let’s call him Jack) foun…

foam-born Aphrodite

There’s so much I want to tell you, but my head is so full I don’t know where to begin.I’ll start with yesterday. We didn’t make it to the kinky party in the end. Tom was held at work for a series of frustrating and bizarre reasons, and by the time he …

lost causes

We’re halfway through the Edwardian shoot, and are heading out shortly for the second long day of filming. Yesterday was fabulous. I was nervous as all hell - about whether everything would go wrong, about acting for fiddly, real camera shots rather th…

filthy gorgeous things

Well, I’m back.BoundCon was difficult and tiring and amazing by turns, and I have about 5000 words of personal journal on my netbook about it, which I will sort through and turn into something postable when I get time. This week is all about the kink, …

checking in before I check out

It feels like everyone has taken a break from blogging lately. I’ve been hard pressed to keep up with posting myself: lots of different deadlines have converged this month, so not only have I been working flat-out at the office, but I’ve had hours of w…

auctioning the Shambles

If you’re in the UK, did you ever visit the Shambles Museum? It was a recreated Victorian town in Gloucestershire that was open to the public, complete with cobbled street, shops, workshops and houses.

I’m not entirely sure, but unless there are two …

life without bruises

I’ve commented before on the similarities between kink and sport. Both are activities where one consents to physical discomfort and potential injury for purposes of enjoyment, social bonding and personal satisfaction. The only real reason I can see tha…

dormitory discipline

Two naughty girls in a dark, draughty dormitory.We knew we’d messed up. We knew we weren’t allowed to creep downstairs to the kitchens after midnight, giggling as we stole cake and biscuits from the pantry and tried to smuggle them back up to our room….

are you mentally disordered?

The DSM, the official diagnostic list of mental disorders for medical practitioners in the US, gets updated every so often. It’s about to undergo its fifth major re-write; each revision so far has resulted in the list of recognised mental disorders sub…