Our friend, (pretty photogenic) tattoo artist Laurent Maina recently got this amazing headpiece by superstar, tattoo-pioneer Xed. Here he is just outside Rinzing’s Sacred Yantra studio in Lausanne.

Photography © Maxime Büchi

If I lived those days, I’d be missing them.

I have to leave my flat (actually, Mauricio’s flat, thank you bro) on Rue st Maur to get to the train station, and I will be blogging more fashion shows tonight. But in the meanwhile, let me introduce you to Nick who is Men’s Fashion Director for Bergdorf Goodman, NY. Hard not to notice the very stylish and colorful Nick outside of a fashion show. His beautiful tattoos (executed by our friend Shinji of NYadorned and Dave Davenport in Los Angeles). I have rarely seen people play that nicely with the colorways of their tats and their outfit. And additionally, he is a warm and friendly person.Great encounter.

words & images ©Maxime Büchi

“In the night of Brahma, nature is inert, and cannot dance till Shiva wills it: He rises from his rapture, and dancing sends through inert matter pulsing waves of awakening sound, and matter also dances appearing as a glory round about him. Dancing, he sustains its manifold phenomena. In the fulness of time, still dancing, he destroys all forms and names by fire and gives new rest. This is poetry; but none the less, science.”

Coomaraswamy, Ananda, “The Dance of Shiva; fourteen Indian Essays”, 1970, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, New Dehli.

Every Wednesday Dasniya Sommer will be teaching an additional and regular Shibari class in Kreuzberg. The focus will lie on the technical aspects of Japanese Rope Bondage and on how to tie, untie and suspend a person. She says “By clearly engaging in the technique we will try to raise our technical levels and see how they can be combined. On a long run, we could think of a staged group situation besides the individual games.”

WEDNESDAYS
20 – 22 pm
10 €
@ Buffet – Queer Art Studio
Schlesische Straße 38
2nd backyard: ‘Mühlengebäude’
First Floor
10997 Berlin Kreuzberg

more infos + contact: http://www.dasniyasommer.de/

Click here to watch it………………………….

http://www.vbs.tv/watch/art-talk/chris-o-donnell

look for an interview with chris in SB 5…………….

TH.

A simple and good documentary like I wish there were more.
Thank you Patrick for the link.