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Nuit Blanche 2009


This is what I spent the night of October 3rd, 2009 doing. And I have to say, there are much worse ways to spend an evening.

The Keyhole Sessions hosted a special event at Nuit Blanche this year, “Girls.Grease.Rope” and it was a blast. Seven models, six hours, two riggers, a lot of energy and some fantastic artwork made for a very memorable and exciting evening. Everyone pulled together and the whole night ran amazingly smoothly.

Click on the picture above for the Madame’s wrap-up post about the evening, she pretty much covers all the necessary thank-yous and shout-outs. My co-rigger for the evening, lotuslily, blogged some thoughts about the night here, and Skellington, one of our models, wrote about her first experience on stage for us here. I haven’t done much digging, but I imagine a search on Flickr  for “nuit blanche keyhole sessions” or even just “nuit blanche hot girls rope” might come up with a few images. Besides the amazing number of people who came out to draw, there certainly was no shortage of cameras, phone- and otherwise.

We took last week off of the Keyhole Sessions, giving us all a chance to recouperate. We’re back on stage this Tuesday the 13th, in the lower studio at 100 A Ossington in Toronto. If you’re around and feel like getting pencil to paper, come on by.

Rope & a whip, in Vogue

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Thanks to @violetblue for the tip.

“…where we play many binding games…”

Precision & aesthetics

I had dinner with someone on Tuesday night who’s starting up weekly life-drawing classes here in Toronto and who wants to introduce a rope-bondage element to the poses. I was referred to her by a mutual friend who knows both that I enjoy working with rope and about my background in the visual arts. We had dinner at a place on College street, talked about rope in general (she was actually part of the exhibition at Koma that Morpheous did as part of Nuit Blanche), and by the end of the dinner were talking quite specifically about plans for the classes. By that time I was sold on the idea. There’s a site for the classes here, and as I get more solid information from her I’ll post about it.
It’s an interesting thing to consider. Not tying for practical reasons but purely aesthetic ones. As well as being much fun I have a feeling it’ll be good for me to have a lab-like situation once a week where I can concentrate on form, not function. But then to also have some freedom to explore different things to do with tying one person, two people, three people – maybe with props? All things, of course, that would be most interesting to draw.
More details to come, as I said, as I get them.

More to come, soon…

It’s been too long, I know. Life got in the way but things are clearing up now and I’m back and have no plans to fade.

*image grabbed from… somewhere… forgotten… dammit…