A little promotional note. Our friends of Swallows and Daggers have just launched a new line of T shirts. Check out the website, it is one of the rare tattoo-related sites I actually like!

http://swallowsndaggers.net/

says Ariana Reines.

SensualObjects from Chris Timms on Vimeo.

Hailed as one of the most notorious erotic novels of all times, Story of O follows the beautiful young Parisian woman as she falls into the fateful clutches of her lover’s sadomasochistic urges. She submits to the life of a slave and surrenders herself completely to the terrifying bonds of desire. The book was written in 1954 by the French author Anne Desclos under the nom de plume of Pauline Réage and in 2000 it was illustrated by the Italian comics artist Guido Crepax.

‘Keep me rather in this cage, and feed me sparingly, if you dare. Anything that brings me closer to illness and the edge of death makes me more faithful. It is only when you make me suffer that I feel safe and secure. You should never have agreed to be a god for me if you were afraid to assume the duties of a god, and we all know that they are not as tender as all that. You have already seen me cry. Now you must learn to relish my tears.’

Extracts from New and Curious School of Theatrical Dancing by Gregorio Lambranzi.
Published in 1928 by The Imperial society of Teachers of Dancing.

Aza Shade is exhibiting some drawings at Indo in Whitechapel. They’re good. I’m proud to say I bought one. The one with the green sticker. Start at £150. Good deal. She also sings in a band called ManFlu. They’re playing at The Macbeth in Hoxton on the 7th December.

Heino Engel’s Tragsysteme (ISBN: 9783775718769)
Has everything someone like me needs. Rigorous modernist design, letraset hand-style fonts and retro-futuristic, hand-drawn wireframe stuctures.
http://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/tragsysteme/author/heino-engel/sortby/3/