This got me thinking about our own achievments for 2009. On one hand 2009 was a year for us like any other. On the other hand we made some decisions and changes that most certainly had a great impact on how we run RopeMarks and how you see us.

One very important change for us, and we mentioned this before (read the blog here), RopeMarks is an official Dutch company. This has opened up more options than we thought when we started this and, unfortunatly, closed a few doors too. The latter we expected. If I should make a quick conclusion about the effect of doing this is that it has clearly moved us from amateur/semi-professional bondage-arena to the professional bondage arena, and to be honest, it feels good there :)

The other big change we made is the way we work. In the past (pre-2009:)) we did everything and all at once... honestly, that is not the best way to go :) This year we decided to do things project-based. Do a project, finish it with as little interuptions as possible and move to the next project.

The effect of this change is that this year we finished and published our second DVD, RopeMarks Art Series 1, started our bondage meetings, R.A.R.E. and were able to offer you a brand new website, Club RopeMarks.

• More details about the RopeMarks Art Series 1 DVD are here
• More details about the bondage meetings is here
• Club RopeMarks can be reached here

A serieus company requires some serieus web-presence, another project. We are running on our own servers! This is still a project being in process of finishing, configuring, fine-tuning and moving. We plan to have this finished before the end of next month.

All these projects make us a little more silent on the web than we usually are but, fortunatly, does not stop you from finding us and booking us for your (media) events, parties, (erotic) fairs and participating in our workshops.

This year we've been doing big main-stage shows to all-night interactive shows either in co-operation with the bigger names in the fetish/BDSM-world or all by ourselves. We've done more workshops than we care to count and either operated camera equipment or stood before the camera numerous times for our own Club RopeMarks shoots or recording for national and international television programs.

We have some backlogs in updating our sites and once the move to our own servers is finished we promise to make up for that and show you all the exciting things we've done and all the new sexy models we have ready and waiting for you. Here are just a few samples of what we did this year and what you can expect next year.

Have a very happy 2010 everybody and may this become the year we meet (again) and share good times!

Bob & Chantal
http://www.RopeMarks.com
http://www.ClubRopeMarks.com

We are not just working, we also try to have fun. Last weekend we certainly did. It was time for the Nuit Demonia week in Paris, France. On our first night we attended the Nuit Demonia party, as always it's a little different from what we are used to, but in a good way. It was a lot off fun.

What was very unexpected was the presence of Mistress Hibiki from Japan. I've already spent a short blog on her here
RopeMarks Meets Mistress Hibiki from Japan.

The second night it was time for the "Cosy Party", basically a fetish bondage party. Personally I am not a big fan of wearing the regular fetish clothing (latex, leather, etc.) when doing bondage but when you see the pictures that have been taken (I'm still seeing bright spots in front of myeyes...) it does look good :).

We have not received any pictures yet but when we do we'll post them on thesite.

The Links: RopeMarks, Mistress Hibiki, Nuit Demonia Party, Cosy Party.

The main reason why there is sort of a cyber-silence from us is that we have started the last project of this year, or more correctly, we plan to have this project finished by the end of the year. In a blog-post at the beginning of 2009 we talked about a number of projects for this year. We are on schedule of finishing all we have planned, the one we're working on now is the last (no, I'm not spilling just yet :)).

A small recap of what I think are the highlights of this year sofar for us:

 - RopeMarks has become an official Dutch company
 - Our second DVD came out
 - The R.A.R.E. meetings started
 - A kickass big mainstage show where we collaberated with a lot of people
 - A relaxing holiday with friends

Then some things that kept us busy the last month orso.

We went to Hamburg, Germany for a show on the Respekt party of Master Grimme. This edition was a special occasion, it was the 10 year anniversary of the party. What I always seem to say about German parties and location, the people show a tremendous amount of respect and the locations breathe an enormous amount of atmosphere. The Respekt party was no different. We had a great time.

We also did our "RopeMarks Interactive" show again, this time on the B.I.T.C.H. party. RopeMarks Interactive is a night long activity where we interact with the audience and the audience gets the opportunity to experience our style of bondage. You might remember form a previous blog how our first "RopeMarks Interactive" was not executed how we envisioned it. With that knowledge in mind we talked with the B.I.T.C.H. organisation how to improve. This time we are very happy with how it was executed. We had fun and the audience participation (and appreciation) was very good. For ourselves there was a special moment with Miss Duveaux. She wrote about the experience, you can read it here http://www.MissDuveaux.com (scroll down to the "B.I.T.C.H." entry)

There was a short exposure of our material on Dutch national TV again. This time Dutch adult star Sofia Valentine was invited for a program about Japan and Japanese TV. Her input dealt with p*rn (obviously :)) and she was invited to show material of herself in bondage, that was our (still unpublished) work.

The links: Respekt party, B.I.T.C.H., Miss Duveaux, Sofia Valentine, as always,keep an eye on our calendar.

To elaborate a little on that, my desk was stacked with stuff that needed "processing", old videotapes, magazines, DVD's, rope (don't forget about rope :)), somewhere between that mess was my keyboard, my external hard drives, I found my iPod again and a penquin mp3 speaker...  The result of this cleanup is that the RopeMarks website now has all media related material that we appear in or on available on the website. Compared to our last update, somewhere last week, it's mainly magazines and tear sheets from those magazine's that make this update.

Go see: http://www.RopeMarks.com/en/media/magazines
and see: http://www.RopeMarks.com/en/media/tear_sheets

Enjoy,
Bob

RopeMarks Home Page

Below it is an easy link to the other awards we have received over the years

Enjoy,
Bob

available now

With the move to a new house and other stuff we finally have a new batch of DVD's available for you again.

To the DVD - RopeMarks; A Study in Red 

* 12 mei 1962
† 2 februari 2007