Club Update: Suspended under the stairs

Simply a set of beautiful images by Guldor of Chantal suspended under the stairs. Nuff said, go look!

The Links
 Club Update - Suspended under the stairs

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Exhibition: Naughty but Nice

Starting 1 August until 12 September 2010 the ABC Treehouse in Amsterdam is hosting the group exhibition "Naughty but nice", RopeMarks will be present with five pieces (*proud* :).

This is what the Treehouse says about the exhibtion:

Naughty but Nice is the follow-up to the groundbreaking Happy exhibit, which began in 2006 as the largest exhibition of gay and lesbian artists in the Netherlands, and by its fourth edition (2009) had grown enough to question its own premise: what, actually, is 'gay' art? Are we helping - or stereotyping - the artist by promoting him/her in a 'gay' exhibition? The 2009 edition of Happy was a particularly good example of this conundrum: pieces like "Symphonic Red Chairs" by Etienne Go - a brilliant photographic study of the Jay Pritzker Pavilion - could be seen as 'gay art' only when the viewer was informed of the sexuality of the artist.

Exploring this question, the curators of Happy (Harald Seiwert and Rene Zuiderveld) and the director of the ABC Treehouse (Donna DuCarme) came to the conclusion that many people, when thinking of 'gay art', imagine erotic poses and skimpily clad models. But this begs a further question: why does a 400 year old nude elicit praise and critical analysis, but photos of a nude 60 year old woman elicit outrage and criticism? Is it really a struggle between Rubens and Playboy, or are we uncomfortable with the idea of seeing a woman over a certain age as a sexual person? Why is a photo of a buffed, underwear-clad man "advertising" when it's a giant billboard on Broadway, but "gay" when it's a photograph hanging on the Treehouse walls? When are high heels high fashion, and when are they kinky? Can one man's gay art be another woman's romantic pose? Would a rose still look as sweet, when painted by someone who doesn't share your sexual orientation?

In Naughty But Nice, Seiwert, Zuiderveld and DuCarme invite some of our favorite HoLeBi artists from the Happy exhibits to join with some new Het artists to explore erotic art. These artists, in accepting this challenge, challenge all of us, in turn, to look at our ideas of gender, sexuality...and art.

Bob

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Art

A number of days ago it was Bob's birthday, no big party but one gift I would like to mention here. Artist Pedro Konijn made a very quick drawing of one our photo's from the latest Club Update. I really love this.

Thanks Pedro!
Bob

The Links:
 Pedro Konijn,
 Club RopeMarks.

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Club Update, Glamour Bound

In four individual sets Dutch Dame gets beautifully rigged emphasizing her body. Next Chantal gets rigged emphasizing her wonderful curves. Then it's time to put the both of them together in a sensual bondage, finally the cuteness of both is brought out in a simple wrists together bondage.

This update gives you 4 sets of beautiful glamour bondage shots of the amazing Dutch Dame and Bondage Diva Chantal.

The Links:
 Club RopeMarks, Glamour Bound.

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Club Update, back at the School Gym

It's been a while seen I was in a school gym, not my best memories there. Personally I always preferred the glow of a computer monitor over the sweaty bodies of young boys. :)

Now, being a perverted adult I can see the advantages of a school gym, together with Chantal we go back there for some adult workout.

This update gives you seven sets of beautiful images taken by Frits Kraefft

The links:
 Club RopeMarks, back at the School Gym

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Shop RopeMarks

RopeMarks has been a personal project for years (and a full business for the last few years), focusing on the beauty of Japanese bondage in particular and bondage in general. At no point in the past have we ever considered RopeMarks to be more than a personal project, a way to satisfy exhibisionistic tendencies, a way to happily geek with the technology of the web and still produces something useful. However, because of our web precense and the (Japanese) bondages we showed we got people interested; interested to just watch, to learn it themselves or have us show it at their event.

One of the returning questions we received was "what type of rope do you use?" and "where can I get it?". This made us decide to start selling rope for (Japanese) bondage through the RopeMarks website. After a while we stopped, selling rope ready for bondage in the quality we want was way to time consuming. We wanted to focus on actually doing bondage.

Selling rope through the RopeMarks website was however the first version of our webshop. From that point on there have been several versions of our webshop selling different items. All items related to the things we personally create or like in (Japanese) bondage and BDSM.

Growth from our part and demand from the community made us decide to detached the webshop from the RopeMarks site and move it to its own domain, et voilà, that is where we are now.

The Links
 Shop RopeMarks

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Club Update, Dutch Dame Finger Bound

We told you she'd be back and here she is, Dutch Dame. This time we get to fool around with the lovely Dame in a Japanese room. To not fall into standards I decided on a non-traditional Japanese bondage.

First we tie the Dame with her arms parallel on her back, helpless... Or, so I thought. Her limber fingers tried to reach for the knots, bad Dame!

To make reaching the knots a tad more challenging hose clamp are added to her fingers, take that. That did help but now she tried to get of the bed. What to do? Ballet boots! and, to be sure she's not going anywhere tie her legs in folded position.

For encore I make sure her greedy little fingers will stay away from the knots and tie each individual finger stretched to the max.

I heard she still wants more...

Enjoy,
Bob

the links:
    Club Update, Finger Bound,
    Club RopeMarks.

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In another bedroom

Recently we had something fun happen to us. We got contacted with a request for a high quality image of one of our photo's. The reason was they wanted to hang it on their bedroom wall. To not make the story longer than need to be:

Here's the original from our portfolio:

And here's the end result in someone else's bedroom:

This makes us really proud :)

Bob

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