"Catalina's Penthouse Bondage", Rigging and Photography by Ms. Nikki Nefarious
This week’s Good Things List is packed full of as many good things as I could find for you. Some are free, some are not. Everything on here I hand-picked myself and I recommend. It’s not bullshit, it’s not clever advertising, it’s just that I’m an opinionated person and I think that people should know about the good things that I find. That’s all.
A Good Blog To Read
Naughty Secretary writes a very hot blog. She is a natural born writer, it just pours out of her and what she ends up with is eloquent and perfect every single time. She caught my attention and now we are close. I consider her my Naughty Secretary, as she has taken on the position willingly. I’m not just sending you there because NS is fucking hot, nor am I sending you there just because she wrote this post about me, but it certainly didn’t hurt her case either!
A Good Dildo
I’m way into glass / pyrex dildos these days. I talked before about the Cyberglass Felicity. This time I’m recommending the Pleasure Bump. They are a really nice quality for a really nice price. I was going on and on about the Cyberglass Felicity with a friend of mine who said, ” I love that glass dildo. Most glass products are so expensive, but this one is inexpensive, yet feels like some of the higher end glass dildos.” So there you have it, two kinky women agree these dildos are the way to go!
A Good Quickie
Mz Berlin is a friend of mine, as you know. She’s sexy, she’s intelligent, she’s dorky, she’s funny, she loves Lolcats, and sensory deprivation with her Dom, The Mad Scientist. She also has a little clips store that is well worth your time. Of course you can see porn for free, duh. I’m not stupid. I know this. You can also eat for free if you want to dumpster dive. This is the equivalent of eating in the restaurant rather than digging through the scraps. Take your pick and give a click. It’s a mixture of content from her younger days and also current content that she creates herself. And as she says, “I made it just for you.”
A Good Calling Card
I really need to have new calling cards made. Badly. So does everybody I know. Lately it’s been the topic of conversation amongst my friends. When Thursday’s Child suggested Moo Cards, I instantly knew I had to pass that site along in the Good Things List this week. It is definitely where I am going to order my cards from (payday… payday…) Oh, by the way - I get nothing from them for saying this - I just think their site is very cool.
A Good Deed
Now you can do a good deed and get off at the same time! It doesn’t really get better than that. Seriously. Take a look at “Adopt a Child” by Sinless Touch. I’m not affiliated with them, but I saw a press release on AVN (Adult Video Network) recently and looked into it and it’s the real deal. It says on their site:
During checkout, you have the option to round up your purchases and donate electronic “spare change” to a charitable cause. One of the reasons that people don’t donate is because they don’t have enough time, so we have tired to make it easy for you. During your checkout you decide how much to round up your total, and the donation is included in your payment.
With your generous donations, we have committed to adopting children worldwide. We will maintain a profile of each child and their life for all to follow and see how we are all making a difference.
A Good Rigger
A rigger is a bondage artist. S/he ties knots intricately for BDSM scenes using Nawa Shibari as well as other bondage art techniques. Professional riggers are employed by companies like Kink.com and often are themselves players in the scene (take Claire Adams, for example). Some are just there to tie up the willing victim. Some are there to create bondage art for bondage art photography. Ms. Nikki Nefarious was voted the #3 Rigger in the 2008 Bondage Awards. That’s right, my Nikki, the genius behind Altered Aperture, the award winning rigger ties up Catalina all the time. How fucking lucky am I?!?! Nikki’s recent separation from Social Kink has made her more available for freelance work. Now’s your chance!
A Good Way To Distract Yourself
I might be the last one alive to have signed up already for Twitter, my profile is CatalinaLoves, but I’m now officially addicted. I even have the little Twitterfox plug in for Firefox and now I can play with all my blogger friends and fellow kinksters and perverts all day long while I’m supposed to be working! If I could figure it out, I would add a little Twitter widget to Catalina Loves, but I haven’t figured it out yet. I could also, apparently, get updates on my cell phone, but again, not quite that cool. Funny, I can tell you how to write code, but I can’t get Twitter technology to work.
Well, that’s about it - anything more and I’ll just be looking for good things. These are all good things that I’ve found, stumbled upon, or was pointed to. I’d rather have a short list of good things that are really good than a big long list of crap I hunted for on Friday night at 9:33 pm (the current time here in Charlotte, NC).
Just a little shameless self-promotion — I’d like to think that my blogs are all good things, so just a little reminder to take a peek. I also just started writing at Trufetish.com and I will contribute on the blog at Into The Attic as well. Soon all of the best sex bloggers and erotic photographers will collaborate on a very big project I am managing - so keep an ear out for news about that! And now, it’s time for my date with MDS.
This week’s Good Things List is brought to you by the letter V (for valium) and the number 10 (for the dose)… and readers like you! (PS: JOIN FETLIFE!)
A Good Blog To Read
Narration by D is this week’s blog pick. D is the counterpart of another of my favorite blogs Thursday’s Child. It says in his profile: “From the male perspective, the exploration of a young married couple beyond vanilla sex.” D is in my BILF list. His wife is also in my BILF list. They as a couple are in my BILF list. Now we just have to figure out how to get into the same state and city!
A Good Toy
I have just gotten my new shipment of toys to review for Vibe Review and I haven’t even formally reviewed it yet on my blog, but so far I can tell you that I adore the Cyberglass Felicity. I have just recently gotten into glass/pyrex dildos and this one is a perfect starter because of the low price. You can warm it under some hot water in the sink or you can cool it in the refrigerator for a while (it comes in a nice case, by the way!). You can use either end, you can play with it vaginally or anally. I just love it! Vibe Review happens to be a great company to do business with - a classy online toy company that has a good reputation. That matters!
A Good Photographer
Erocrush. Melvin Moten, Jr. is Erocrush. His work is special to me. He is special to me. I consider him a very good friend. He allows me to use his images all the time on my blogs. I know that you have enjoyed them. Like Lochai, who I’m in love with, Melvin isn’t shooting for the porn content market. He shoots fetish and erotic art that he enjoys. With real women, that he enjoys. With real couples. One thing I noticed about Melvin’s work is that his models obviously feel so natural with him that they forget he’s even there. It’s as though you’re actually there, in the scene, a voyeur. I love Melvin. I want Melvin to shoot me. With any luck at all, this fall, he will. Then I will have my way with him! If you click on the (perfect) image in this post (by Erocrush) it will magically take you to his site. Fear not! It will open in a new window and you won’t lose the Good Things List!
A Good Pay Site
Inescapable Bondage is January Seraph’s new content site. She has been shooting their own content like crazy. She and her hotter than hell partner-in-crime, Smutty, have been violating all kinds of men and women. This is Brand Spanking New! January isn’t, of course. She’s got a great reputation as a top model and actress already, but this site is so new that you’re probably the first one you know to see it!
A Good Blogger Resource
The Week In Kink. Duh. I sat here and tried to think about this one for a while and then I realized, if you’re a good blogger and you have good posts, then you should send me a little note. Each week I go through blogs that I like and pick the hottest posts and then publish them on TheWeekInKink.Com. I just want to be clear that I’m not trying to compete with Sugasm. It’s not a democracy - it’s just a list of my top favoritest, hottest, made me want to masturbate posts. :)
A Good Group
It’s widely known that I love FetLife. I’m an official greeter there now, which makes me feel extra special. What makes me feel super, duper special, though, is starting a new Charlotte Kinksters group (it’s called Charlotte, NC - The Queen of Kink, since we are the Queen City!) If you join FetLife you can join the Charlotte Kinky group. The idea is that we could all get together for informal gatherings and have a little community here that isn’t quite as formal as CAPEX.
A Good Alternative Education Resource/CommUNITY Source
This is the place to go to find professional alternative educators, presenters, event planners, vendors, dm/security/medical, legal, volunteers, and more. Everybody claims to be a sex educator, but this group is truly respected within the commUNITY as the leaders in their fields. Now, you can learn from them. Oh, it’s no coincidence you’ll find Lochai there. Wouldn’t you die to take a bondage class with Lochai? Oh my… You can also take classes with people like Claire Adams. OMG. I’m in heaven.
Even January Seraph puts on her Martha Stewart look for this week’s Good Things List.
A Good Blog To Read
Emerging On The Other Side is the blog written by an overeducated skank (former slut) who is proud of it.
A Good Toy
The Black Label Liberator Wedge/Ramp Combo is the best! It seems like a just a pretty little strategically cut out piece of foam with a cover, but it’s sooooo much more! It’s great for people (like me) who have back problems and can’t tolerate a traditional hands and knees position for longer than three minutes. I never ever feel pain (except for the good kind!) when we get out our Liberator set.
A Good Great Photographer
Lochai is not only a good photographer, but he is a great artist! He is the photographer responsible for the image at the top of this post! I recently did an interview with Lochai on Catalina Loves. This bit is From his bio on his website Kirinawa.com:
Lochai is an award winning photographer who’s work appears on gallery walls as well in fine art publications & coffee table books. He “shoots for the walls & not the computer screen”. Presently he has his work on display at the Leather Archive & Museum in Chicago, for sale in brick & mortar galleries from Key West Florida to Cyber fine art galleries based out of London as well on many private collectors walls. His images, rope art & interviews have been published in The British Journal of Photography, Secret, Skin Two, Bizarre, Prometheus, Cherry, A Magazine, Fetish Anthology, Extreme Anthology, New Times and in his own fine art books. His work can also be found on numerous websites from around the world. He is one of the founding directors of PAG, the Photo Artisans Guild, in West Palm Beach Florida. He as also the co-founder & co-curator of the Traveling Erotic Art Show which spent 2 years touring the US.
He feels that the best stories to tell come from the heart and everyone has something hidden that is bursting to come out. “I feel I can touch something inside the heart & head of each person who views my work. For me, I see the real person when I create my images. The real person comes out thru their alter ego.” Starting in Mid June he will be teaching along side David Lawrence & Bobby Knight 3 day intensive workshops on the art of fine art fetish photography. For more information go to http://prophototours.com/
Being an educator & student of bdsm and fetish, Lochai knows how to bring out the look of hidden desires in his models & shows “real” emotions to his audience. He is considered an advanced rope artist who tours the country teaching rope bondage to kinksters from all walks of life & both rigs his own models for his photography as well as for some of the top photographers in the world. “The Art of The Art” is how he looks at his bondage images & he loves to share his knowledge.
On the Bondage side… Lochai has been a student of Japanese inspired rope bondage since a very early age. He has been educating the rope bondage minded in South Florida for the past 8 years as well as across the country for the past 12. He is one of the founding members of the Traveling Rope Troupe comprised of riggers and bottoms who perform theater style aspects of their bondage art as a lead into a series of hands on classes. He can be found on occasion binding beauties and creating living art at local fetish events as well as major exhibitions. “I use the body as a canvas & rope as the medium in creating my art”
A Good Band
I’m partial to this band because it’s my very good friend’s band. Your Dirty Habit is club/dance music and it never leaves my playlist. On their site at Myspace.com/YourDirtyHabit, you can grab the Live Summer 2007 Live Mix - DO IT! I love it!
A Good Pay Site
Backdoor Bondage is the site that belongs to Sgt. Major. His scenes are some of the hottest I’ve seen, ever. Maybe it’s because I’m such a fan of Claire Adams and I’ve seen two scenes with her it them - one where she was being punched in the ass and another where she’s completely suspended upside down being erotically choked. Either way, yum yum.
A Good Webmaster Resource
Kinky Dollars is Kink.com’s affiliate program. We have had great success monetizing our blogs with Kink.com. Click on the little link and you can sign up for your own account.
A Good Non-Sex Science Tattoo Blog
My friend, Zetar, passed this blog along to me and I just have to share it with everyone else. I normally don’t like tattoos, but these tattoos are right up my alley. Nerds meet Ink - Ink meet Nerds. It’s Carl Zimmer’s Science Tattoo Emporium. Frequently when graduate students finish their doctorate (or even Masters) they get a commemorative tattoo. No, not an “I love Betty” tattoo, but cooler. Take a lookee.
A Good Corsetry Site
By now everybody knows that I love corsets. love Love LOVE them! My dream is to have a corset custom made by Isabella Corsetry. Here is some information from her about page:
Isabella Corsetry makes corsets for women, men, and even children (no waist reduction of course), as well as custom bridal gowns, vintage inspired dresses, costumes, and undergarments.
Each corset made by Isabella Costumiere is individually patterned to each customers own measurements . Since no two bodies are exactly the same this means you will get a corset that fits YOUR body. I use a rather long list of measurements and double check each pattern to insure the perfect fit. For long distance customers I can construct a muslin mock up of your corset and mail it to you to try on in the comfort of your own home to make certain your corset is just right. These are inlcuded with every overbust corset.
Well, there you have it - a few new Good Things for you to check out. I’m getting such a backlist that I’m considering doing The Good Things List twice a week instead of just on Saturdays. What do you think?
It’s time for The Kinky Week In Review! You’ll see a few new blogs in the list this week. That’s because I’ve added my new site (ColdplayLiveArchive.com) and a couple of friends’ blogs to the The Week In Kink.
I was really busy this week — Nikki and I shot together again for the Liberator review, as well as some fetish video. We started doing some behind the scenes clips, as well, during our shoots. Last night we shot a strap-on scene with a subbie boy. This week I also dug up my version of the framed dollar bill, my first blog post, and reposted it. As it turns out, it’s a good thing I did, since my Myspace was deleted yesterday. Fuck Myspace. It’s the equivalent of having your hard drive crash. Over a year’s worth of blogs and comments and it’s all just gone… forever… without warning. Here’s my new profile.
Catalina Says is more and more evolving into my own personal journal that isn’t necessarily sex related.
This week on TMD there are more of r’s naughty thoughts. They are hot. He talks about wheelchair bondage, enemas, sexual fantasies, submission, and fetishes.
I love doing C&C. It’s fun to pick out pictures and then just write a little something about them. It’s such a non-demanding, easy to administer, blog. It’s the Good Girl of the blog family. This week I customized the CSS code to completely change the layout. I like it. I added a header and made the whole thing black and white. Please drop a comment if you go there and let me know what you think.
Breathplay.info is always interesting because I find new fetishes that interest me as a result of writing the blog. For example, this week I featured a latex nun costume that I thought was really hot.
Our sex is better than ever, due to the new Liberator Sex Shapes and the sweetest love letter ever written from a Husband to his Wife.
It’s no secret that Catalina loves Coldplay. For a while now I’ve owned ColdplayLiveArchive.com and I haven’t done anything with it - so I just started working on it. I won’t post any of my picks from CLA.com because they are all just re-posts at this point, from Catalina Loves. Next week there will be a show for you to download.
Well, I don’t write MDS, but I am including it because it is Marky’s blog.
This is the premiere of Mz. Berlin’s Blog in The Kinky Week In Review. I thought I’d start including some of my friends’ blogs also. Poor Mz. Berlin’s Myspace was deleted this week (fuckers), so please make friends with her at her new Myspace page (Myspace.com/MzBerlin).
I love the Atlanta Bondage Blog because we both have common interests in writing about and promoting fetish models and photographers in a classy way. This is also the first time I’ve included Atlanta Bondage in the Kinky Week in Review. If y’all like it, I’ll keep including my friends.
The Kinky Weekly Update is becoming a tradition. A bunch of people have sent me email saying that they like it. I think I’ll stick with it. What do you think? I hope you’ll keep reading, commenting, and sending me emails so that I know what you want to see more of!
The site had a serious tune-up. I relinked, retagged, and recategorized every single post. I hope there are fewer snaffoos now.
Catalina Says seems to have turned into a personal journal this week.
Just to clarify, TMD is not about age play. This week on TMD there are more of r’s naughty thoughts. I have loved re-reading them. I have a new appreciation for his sexuality. I am even going to do some wheelchair bondage pictures with Altered Aperture for (r) as a reward for his excellent attitude lately.
I gave C&C the same tune-up as Catalina Loves. Corset and Collar didn’t have quite as many posts, but it still took a while. Now you can find your corset models and photographers by name in the category list.
Breathplay got the treatment and so now you can browse through the categories for individual models, photographers, and websites. I think I may still have to change the template though. That one isn’t widget friendly and that makes me grumpy ):
I like the way this is shaping up. We started doing a blast from the past kind of thing once a week because I realized when I was doing blog maintenance this week that I had forgotten about some of the hottest posts about our kinky marriage.
Well, I don’t write MDS, but I am including it because it is Marky’s blog.
[Photo by Melvin Moten, Jr. / Erocrush]
With all the new blogs we’re updating daily, I thought you might like a Week In Review.
The first post of the New Toy Tuesday reviews premiered on Catalina Loves this week. I also finally finished my interview with Satine Phoenix and took some new freckle photos.
Catalina Says has a series I wrote this week on starting your own sex blog, monetizing your sex blog, and increasing traffic to your sex blog.
The Momme Domme blog has more in the series of My Naughty Thoughts. My favorites are r’s naughty thoughts on squirting, r’s naughty thoughts on orgasmic expressions (with a hot pic of January Seraph having an orgasm).
I finally found the photographer of The Corset that Started It All and posted his pictures on Corset and Collar. There’s a nice little story there about how Martin Pelzer impacted my metamorphosis without even knowing it. There is also a lot of eye candy there for people who like sexy women in corsets and/or collars.
My favorite posts this week on Breathplay.info are a gasmask/latex fetish picture by Altered Aperture, a bondage/religion fetish picture, and Anna Rose’s perfect ballet heel fetish picture.
I personally think that Mr. and Mrs. Kink (dot com) is hotter than ever, but I might be a little biased. I wrote about a badly needed night of D/s, a strap-on fantasy, and the possibility of doing Dom/Domme scene with Mr. Kink.
And finally, if you go to Marky D. Sade’s sexy bondage blog, you’ll find a really cool Claire Adams scene, a bondage threesome post, and of course, a Mz. Berlin FemDom scene (HOT!) and January Seraph FemDom scene.
So there are my favorites for the week. I hope you find something you really enjoy! Please leave a comment wherever you go, so that I know what you want to see more of.
