Feb 11 & 12 – Rope Grotto V-Style
Just in time for V-Day, I’m having two back-to-back semi private shows. Each night we will admit 3-4 couples (singles welcome on Sat) to watch 2 beautiful models get tied and tormented inches in front of your eyes.
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/218338
This is Scout. She’ll be serving drinks on Saturday, and getting tied up on Sunday. What a trooper!
This is Katharine. Girls like this come along once in a generation. I mean like Betty Page, Dita von Teese. As someone who knows told me, “This girl is going places”
(c) Ken Marcus
(c) Perry Gallagher
http://www.facebook.com/katharinecane
https://fetlife.com/users/514798
That Sunday – Roxanne
You know that scene in every musical where the guy sings a song telling his buddies about the girl he met last night and how awesome she is? Book by Lilac, lyrics by me, music by Roxanne.
Dec 18 – Black Xmas Returns
It’s begining to smell a lot like…
Yes, it’s that time of year again! Black Xmas is my personal war on Christmas… with naked girls. Watch multiple overlapping scenes as you wander from room to room of a private Residence in Bernal Heights. Enjoy refreshing drinks servers by topless waitresses, and try your hand at fantasy blackjack hosetd by Masters Den. It will blow…. your mind.
Take a night off from the saccarine and bite into something a little more savory.
This party is at a private residence with 4 floors of deviant fun. Performers subject to change but so far we’ve lined up:
Rain Degrey and Juliette Stray
Katherine
Kyin
“Z”
And, retuning from a long time hiatus, the amazing Elizabeth. She’ll be tying and being tied so you don’t want to miss it!
Tickets here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/211906 Special discount $20 Tickets available until Nov 27!
VIP Package include waitress service, and a framed print from the Month of Sundays project for you 2%ers out there.
Another Sunday – Oodie
Photos of Oodie by the amazing Lilac
Want to learn to tie like this? Nov 13 Class in Oakland! http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/207077
More photos after the cut. All photos (c)2011 Tied Out West
Nov 5 – Rope Grotto, a semi private show SOLD OUT
Nov 5, 8PM (7:30 doors)
Live semi-private bondage show in my own home.
2 Scenes, 2 Models
$90 singles tickets at BPT:
SOLD OUT
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/205312
email Mike West at mikewest72@yahoo.com for info on $160 couples’ tickets.
This is not a “sex-positive” event.
This has nothing to do with “community.”
This is not a “gathering place where all can be welcome.”
This is you, and only 5 other people, watching the two most beautiful women I could find being tied, exposed, humiliated, and forced to come right before your eyes.
Join me in my home for Rope Grotto, a very intimate live bondage show. Two scenes with two different models. The future BDSM superstar Katharine.
(c) Ken Marcus
(c) Perry Gallagher
http://www.facebook.com/katharinecane
https://fetlife.com/users/514798
and Rope::Burn veteran Kyin: (photos by Patti B.)
$90 singles tickets at BPT:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/205312
email Mike West at mikewest72@yahoo.com for info on $160 couples’ tickets.
Month of Sundays
After quite a hiatus, I’m back. Lots of stuff going on. Folsom this weekend, a class next month, but most importantly….
I’m starting a new photography project. Tentatively, the title is “A Month of Sundays,” since I was planning to shoot on Sundays, and do about 30 shoots. Anyways things have worked out differently and I am shooting mostly on Mondays and Wednesdays. The general idea is to do something a little different than the typical OMG SUSPENSIONZ photos that now litter Fetlife like Geico Billboards on the freeway. As with Patti B’s best Rope::Burn photos, I want to capture the connection between myself and the subject.
Have I gone soft? Maybe. But I’m liking the results so far, and the end goal is a really special publication in 2-2.5 years. In my mind, this project is professional, but not necessarily commercial. Erotic, but not erotica, pornographic but not pornography, and grotesque in the original sense of the word: primitive, simple, and raw.
Behind the cut are some tastes from the first test shoot with the talented (and beautiful) Lilac Wine as the photographer. Lilla Katt was the model. Lilac and Lilla know eachother well, I’ve worked with Lilla numerous times, and Lilac has both modeled for me and studied from me I think our previous experiences helped make this first shoot a great success.
More photos after the cut. All photos (c)2011 Tied Out West
Fall 2010 – Disappearing, Not Hiding
Every few years, I sort of “drop out” of whatever scene I’m in. I suppose it’s kind of like moving, but without having to go somewhere. I’ve been in the Bay Area since Junior High, so it’s reasonable to assume I’d have to make quantum adjustments to my social life or I’d still be drinking fortified wine in back of the Safeway and watching my friends ride skateboards.
I traded school for punk rock in ’88, punk rock for a career in ’91, a career for entrepreneurship in ’96, entrepreneurship for piece of mind in ’03, and piece of mind for kink/porn in ’06. At each transition, I basically disappeared. Changed my email/phone and sort of walked away. So this is nothing new for me. I don’t regret any of my big life choices, and I’m not ashamed of any of them, but at various points in my life it just gets easier to slip out the back door than keep hanging out while I get sick of the party.
I’ve been kinky for as long as I can remember, and I only plan on getting more perverted with time, but I’m pretty much done with the “Kink Community” for the time being, if not forever. I realize that public dungeons and community groups are important for kinky people, just like all-ages rock clubs are important for artistic youth. That being said, at this point in my life, I have no desire to go to a “play party” or an all-ages punk show in some smelly club. Also, I’ve had a blast doing Rope::Burn, teaching classes, and performing, but the amount of work and/or gladhanding it takes to put on these events has become overwhelming.
So, you’ll probably continue to see less of me out and about. I don’t plan on doing any classes, public shows, or big parties anytime soon. That being said, I still would love to do private lessons or private shows, and I’m open to any and all suggestions of how to have fun being kinky without all the logistics and/or politics. And, if you are someone I know and you want to hang out, just drop me a line.
