Tanos's weblog en http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/all/ © 2012 Tanos@tanos.org.uk The IC RSS Gadget admin@informedconsent.co.uk (Admin) 360 Mon, 14 May 2012 14:21:32 GMT Mon, 14 May 2012 14:21:32 GMT http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/330688/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/330688/ Mon, 14 May 2012 14:21:32 GMT This weekend I finished off some things at the wood and tidied up for the first Event Day next Saturday. As well as opening up the South Ride properly for the first time and hundreds of metres of fencing over winter, there are now lots of little improvements that will make things easier.... http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/330429/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/330429/ Tue, 08 May 2012 22:28:27 GMT "Territories" is a French/Canadian production, directed by Olivier Abbou. It's firmly planted in the torture porn tradition of Hostel I/II, with the ingredients of violence, captivity, nudity, and kidnapping served up in a dish that's quite BDSM. "Territories" goes beyond this with a political message, but also some great scenes if you're interested in bootcamps, harsh discipline outdoors, or orange jumpsuits.... http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/330377/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/330377/ Tue, 08 May 2012 01:00:35 GMT Last month Lush, the high street retailer of bath bombs etc, ran a campaign in many of their shop windows involving people in cages or dressed as animals to highlight animal testing of cosmetics. In their Regent Street shop they put on a performance lasting several hours in which a body-stocking naked actress was tortured by a man in a white coat. Not surprisingly, the coverage of this got some BDSM attention.... http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/329678/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/329678/ Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:48:11 GMT Tonight I've posted the listings for the next The Warehouse event at Exodus in Birmingham on Informed Consent and on FetLife. I've also updated www.thewarehouse.org.uk to include the date, and it will be a good way of closing the Open Air season which finishes in October. http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/328941/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/328941/ Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:23:33 GMT I've updated the Open Air BDSM events list a couple of times this week, following the sad news that TrainerBryan is stepping down from running the North Downs Pony Club events in Kent for health reasons. The good news today is that SirIan is taking over the reins with the aim of going ahead with all the published dates. http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/328566/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/328566/ Sun, 08 Apr 2012 20:04:41 GMT Yesterday was the second The Warehouse event, at Exodus in Birmingham. We had another great afternoon of BDSM that normally needs outdoor space, with an emphasis on pony carting and pet play. ... http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/328146/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/328146/ Sun, 01 Apr 2012 23:47:20 GMT This weekend I've been doing more preparation work for the Bridgewood event days this summer, and for The Warehouse at Exodus next Saturday.... http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/327806/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/327806/ Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:22:42 GMT Yesterday I took mia to Lyme Park and we had a picnic before going round the house and gardens. Originally it was a medieval hunting lodge on wild moorland, but it was gradually extended and remodelled over the centuries until it became the principal home of the family surrounded by sheltered ornamental gardens. There's even an orangery greenhouse for fruit, but just beyond the fence the moors take over again.... http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/327731/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/327731/ Sun, 25 Mar 2012 20:29:21 GMT Over the winter I've been clearing the South Ride and doing the fencing work I mentioned last month. This picture taken yesterday shows one of the straight stretches of the ride. Previously there was a thicket of hazel bushes in the middle distance of this view, which forced the path down to single file. ... http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/327429/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/327429/ Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:42:27 GMT This week @mia, @secretsmile_101 and I had a trip to Birmingham to see friends, to try out a newly modified pony cart, and to make some preparations for The Warehouse event at Exodus next month. ... http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/327155/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/327155/ Thu, 15 Mar 2012 07:59:05 GMT mia and I went to @Crimson_Crowbar in Bolton yesterday the for the first Kink Start night and I really enjoyed the evening :) The venue has so much potential but even at this early stage it has some great kit and is a very workable location for play events. Well done to @Mr_Smith_UK, @charliecoxx and the rest of the team who've worked to get it this far already! http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/326962/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/326962/ Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:49:52 GMT With just under four weeks to The Warehouse on Saturday 7th April, I've added a provisional timetable on the event thread on IC, with a request for comments and more ideas. It now includes sprint and distance pony cart races, plus a show/parade of puppies, kittens, and ponies. http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/326829/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/326829/ Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:56:29 GMT At the Northern Discussion Forum in Sheffield last weekend safewords were one of the things we talked about. I think BDSM took a wrong turn when they were called safewords, and that it would have been much better if they'd been "stopwords" because I think the word safe is so very often a trap. In fact I'm going to try to say stopword from now on.... http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/326606/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/326606/ Mon, 05 Mar 2012 23:41:43 GMT One tricky thing that's being preying on my mind since I bought Bridgewood has been the state of the gate into the wood. It's a wooden field gate of the type that are common in the country, but the gatepost has settled and leant over causing the gate to catch on the ground.... http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/326116/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/326116/ Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:59:51 GMT This month most of my work at Bridgewood has been repairing and putting up fencing. Traditionally, rural fencing is there to stop livestock crossing boundaries, but at Bridgewood there are a few extra dimensions.... http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/326009/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/326009/ Sat, 25 Feb 2012 13:32:31 GMT I've created some versions of the Pony Pride Flag which I'm distributing under a Creative Commons license so you can download and use them yourself. I started with an SVG version, and then made several fixed-size PNG images.... http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/325604/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/325604/ Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:29:02 GMT The ball and chain is an iconic tool of captivity, and I've been making a couple as you can see in the picture, mainly for use at Bridgewood. The shackles are Darby style leg cuffs from KUB, but I've adapted the iron balls from off-the-shelf iron gate components. The balls are 5 inches in diameter and weigh about 7kg each which is something mia can carry for a bit but not wander around where she feels like with (we felt the weight of them in the shop), and cost less than .10 each. ... http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/325222/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/325222/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:49:03 GMT I've had a great weekend, with another O&P Open in Manchester on Saturday afternoon, followed by the dinner, and then Club Lash in the evening. Lash seemed particularly busy with lots of people we know there. Today I've bought some Bridgewood related hardware, and have been putting attachment points for chains on some 7kg cast iron balls that I'm turning into ball-and-chains. http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/324676/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/324676/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:22:45 GMT Walkers are frames that allow horses to exercise by themselves in a circle. For horse owners, they reduce the amount of supervision required, and like a lot of equestrian equipment the idea can be adapted to BDSM. Horses spend their whole lives in some form of bondage or captivity if you think about it :) You do see horse walkers appear in pony play contexts now and then: there was one at the old Deferre woodland in Devon, and a couple of Insex scenes had them made out of some of PD's scaffolding. So it's something I'd had at the back of my mind for a while when at the end of last year @mia had a dream about being in one. ... http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/324520/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/324520/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:31:19 GMT I came across this striking series of pony girl photos by Razoomovsky tonight. Rather than just go for the glossy latex look or take raw pictures of actual pony play, he's used the post processing to create narrative images of world with working pony girls.