first of all, forgive me for the vertical video. second of all, forgive me for the absolutely horrendous sound of the space heater.
here's a video that kitten and i filmed to submit to a weekend intensive in the fall as a sort of skill assessment. i love realizing that i have the exact...
2025-02-26 17:15:56 +0000 UTC View Post
an itty bitty little preview of a shoot kitten and i did recently to promo a very exciting soon-to-be-announced thing i can't talk about yet š¤« which i think pretty perfectly captures how i love to play
photography by @cabwhat
2025-02-19 14:25:49 +0000 UTC View Post
if you've been following along for a while now you know that i have a bit of a pattern: i find a thing (a harness, a shape, a sequence, etc) and i FIXATE. the current fixation is the hip harness you see here. i've found that it's the perfect recipe for broken dolly cartwheel fliperoo (official te...
2025-02-12 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
i walked into this sesh with about a half of a brain. january was a roller coaster of a month for me in many aspects, and this day was a toughy. margherita asked what my wants were for the day, but my mind was a blank slate. i'm not sure i had an ounce of creativity in my bones that day. genero...
2025-02-09 20:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
i know, i know, instagram already saw the first photo. but honestly, its one of my favorite rope photos i've taken in a good while. this tie was a TREAT.
what was not a treat: me having to wear my anya-spit-soaked sock home afterwards. oopsies.
cutie pie sock face @anyalita.tied from ...
2025-02-05 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
on complexity, patience, stillness, and how they fit into each other....
i had a silly realization a few days ago: i am quite impatient when i'm tying. i find that sort of funny, because i consider myself an extremely patient person in other aspects of my life. i was tying for a photoshoo...
2025-01-29 20:00:05 +0000 UTC View Posti saw āthe last showgirlā (staring a very beautiful and very sparkly pamela anderson) last night. i wonāt spoil it, but iāll tell you that i cried through most of the movie. iāve been thinking a lot lately about longevity. mostly iāve been thinking about how, if i plan to continue thi...
2025-01-25 22:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post
will's flippy dippy debut to this page * insert sparkle emoji *
aguras in suspension are rare-ish for me these days. they require a model with shins of steel (or a particular desire to suffer as such) and sometimes i feel like i'm spending so damn much time tying harnesses th...
2025-01-20 23:44:47 +0000 UTC View Post
you know, iāve been typing and untyping a paragraph for about twenty minutes. instead iāve decided to keep it short and sweet-ish. hereās a lil reminder that itās ok to un-tk mid tie. hereās ALSO a reminder that itās ok to un-tk mid tie and *keep going*. something feeling off (your ...
2025-01-11 16:58:05 +0000 UTC View Post
happy new year, rope folks! i'm back and i am absolutely kickin'.
i am absolutely a resolutions girly. i love the new year. i'm only mildly joking when i say it may be my favorite holiday. i love reflecting, i love goal setting, i love writing my hopes and dreams in my silly little notebook...
2025-01-03 00:41:15 +0000 UTC View Postjust dropping in to offer some sweet holiday cheer and a big and resounding thank you to each and every one of you. as the year comes to a close, i reflect on what a wonderful, challenging, inspiring, and adventure filled year itās been. thank you for making it so.
iāve spent my day get...
2024-12-24 23:03:59 +0000 UTC View Post
i know, i know, this is already on instagram. don't you worry, more ~exclusive~ content is on it's way. but for now: this sequence had me thinking about an exercise/task/game/challenge that i want to offer to my advanced folks in the room...
in an improvisational sequence using two futomomo...
2024-12-15 16:47:40 +0000 UTC View Post
a theme of the year: befriend your greatest inspirations
ya'll, i try hard not to pedestal people. especially in the ~age of social media~ it's pretty easy to see some one with a bazillion followers and assume they're rad as hell. in tam's case, he actually is rad as hell. i first learned r...
2024-12-06 22:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
this may still be one of my favorite ever sets of rope-for-photo. i love that anonymization of teo, i love the rawness of being able to see the ābehind the scenesā of the backdrop. perhaps ironically, about a month later i learned the shape i improvised this one from fede (@rope.tales2) in pe...
2024-11-24 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
my love of futomomo-knee-balance is no secret. if you look closely, youāll see a tiny spikey addition to this particular one
many moons ago, with @simply.specimen , on 35mm š
2024-11-20 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
i tie hashiras so infrequently. i love the stillness, the complexity, the rigidity. they are quite challenging, both for myself and the model, for many reasons. that rigidity can be infuriating to some folks, boring to others, calming to some. maggie (@baby.girl.bites) fits into the last categor...
2024-11-16 19:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
myself and my favorite chew toy tyin and shootin for Hot Stuff, something like a year ago. i so rarely get photos taken of me tying, and this was quite the treat (pun intended). i even broke out the assless skirt for the occasion
check out volume 1 of Hot Stuff Zine To see this whole spread...
2024-11-13 19:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
tell me the hair to backdrop coordination here isnāt ~perfect~
from a conceptual shoot dreamed up by @aerielmoonpie earlier this year, definitely not at all related to halloween
2024-11-07 19:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
caption coming soon š for now, enjoy stevie in my ropes for a sweet handshake tie
2024-11-02 18:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
the title says it all ;)
some casual playtime with my favorite @bbropebttm, who's wearing some ~accessories~ i got her for her birthday.
i'm gearing up to teach my first full day workshop on tengu! the one you see here is just about the same as the tutorial from a few months ago, and ...
2024-10-30 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
from the archives of accidentally forgotten rolls of film... a quick trip to the bay for an escape from the city and some rope nerdery with a few of my favorite humans.
pictured here: @notyranything at voxbody, sometime in the spring of 2024, captured on 35mm
this may re-spark my in...
2024-10-26 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
this was previously posted as a treat for my high tier folks, but i love this sequence and this human too much not to post for all of ya'll.
some of you may know already that anna is leaving for a year to travel the US with a national broadway tour. i'm so damn excited for her, so proud of ...
2024-10-23 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View Posthey rope folks. i'm curious, what type of content are you most excited to see on this page? what are you here for? what do you want more of?
(feel free to comment too!)
2024-10-22 15:01:57 +0000 UTC View Post
you'll have to forgive me for one of those photos being a cellphone grab, but i was so enthralled with this tie (also kitten's lingerie) i nearly forgot i had my camera setup.
i've been vibing with this armbinder lately as a chets harness option. i haven't quite figured out th...
2024-10-20 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
...a fun game i like to play with teo's bendy bendy back. bonus: can you spot the sneaky ass rope in the last photo?
a sultry session from august with my favorite wiggly bottom, @b0ydyk3
2024-10-14 20:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
created originally for a performance at a berlin nightlife themed play party, now my go to playlist for a heavy/dirty/gritty type of session (a rare treat)
2024-10-10 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
a playful yet labby afternoon with two of my favorite humans.
@anna.in.rope in my and @theropejourney's ropes , captured on 35mm
2024-10-08 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
yes-- underexposed and oversaturated, but these photos feel special nonetheless. it's rare these days that i "risk" only capturing a tie on film. partly because i don't trust myself to get them developed in a timely manner (for example, this tie was in may and i just developed this roll), partly ...
2024-10-01 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
(a gentle content warning for neck rope)
remember when i said the last post was the end of my europe posting? oopsies.
anna had one request for our lessons with fede and marta -- "some type of choking predicament". i believe this was our last exercise before a lunch break, and i was g...
2024-09-27 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
is this a foley fan girl account now? maybe.
the last of my shareable photos from my european adventure ā foley and iās performance at kor berlin, captured by sweetie pie marcos mangani
these photos feel particularly accurate for how the two of us interact on stage. weāre playf...
2024-09-22 18:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post