quarta-feira, 18 de junho de 2008

Preaching to the Perverted



Qualquer semelhança com a realidade é pura coincidência.... ;)
Acho k so falta alguem rapar o cabelo ... :f




(Relembrando o nosso 1º fds no Reino a Norte...o nosso filme cachorrinho... :D)

sexta-feira, 13 de junho de 2008

Cerimonia das Velas no Reino Lai


Apesar de passados alguns dias não poderia deixar de publicar o compromisso de entrega de coleira e subida de classe de um escravo, o meu escravo e cachorrinho bound, celebrado no Reino Lai.
Cerimonia das velas

O escravo é conduzido até o local da Cerimonia...
Toca-se o sino para marcar o início da Cerimonia...
A Dona ordena que ele se ajoelhe e beije os seus pés em sinal de sua submissão e fala da importância da liturgia...
Os participantes têm seus papéis a representar e determinados comportamentos a seguir. Tons de voz, posicionamento corporal, código de segurança, iluminação, instrumentos, acessórios, nicks tudo colabora para a composição do clima.
A liturgia pode ser entendida de várias maneiras. os seus rituais emocionam, encantam e possibilitam uma melhor e mais profunda imersão nas nossas fantasias.
A Dona fala da importância dos rituais:
"Uma cerimonia é um instrumento de transformação, para que nos tornemos pessoas melhores. Realizar uma cerimonia é fazer uma pausa em nossas vidas, para que possamos refletir e celebrar que somos capazes de aprender, reavaliar e resgatar valores e conceitos importantes sobre o mundo em que vivemos.
É um meio de nos comprometermos e honrarmos as mudanças que ocorrem em nossas vidas. Por isto estamos aqui reunidos para realizar a Cerimonia das Velas, um rito particular, criado no Reino de K@, e usado pela Princesa Lai para o seu Reino, simbolizando a mudança de classe de um escravo."
A Dona ordena que ele leia o seu Compromisso de Entrega SM.
A Dona, pede que ele reafirme o seu Compromisso.
"Estas palavras, ainda encontram um forte significado em seu coração? Diante de nós, três velas. Apagadas. Símbolos de valores que entendo serem importantes a todas as pessoas, mas, nesse momento, em especial para ti."
Acende-se, uma após a outra.
"Mentaliza cada um desses símbolos, de forma a perpetuá-los em nossas vidas."
• Branca: Símbolo da harmonia. Que deve ser conquistada através da paciência, da humildade e da sabedoria, defendendo os interesses e valores de modo a nunca fracassares no teu sonho de ser escravo.
• Amarela: Símbolo da entrega. Que deve ser exercida com muita disciplina e pureza em cada pensamento, palavra e acção, pois só assim conquistarás os níveis mais elevados de ensinamentos.
• Vermelha: Símbolo do amor. Amor: que vai da Dona, passa pelos/as escravos/as que nos acompanharem, pelos amigos e chega aos desconhecidos. Amor que expanda os seus limites.
Princesa Lai, coloca a nova coleira, no sua escravo.
"Curva-te. É hora de trocar o símbolo que te acompanhará na classe de meu escravo;
No aloquete da tua coleira pequenas pedras brilhantes simbolizam a luz que trazemos à vida um do outro;
Espero que a tua nova coleira ilumine os teus passos e te traga crescimento enquanto escravo e homem;
Que te faça caminhar a meu lado de acordo com os valores que sempre nortearam nossa relação; Estende a mão aos que precisarem, sem nada esperar em troca;
Que sejas cúmplice, transparente e sincero com os teus sentimentos."
A Dona, ordena que o escravo estenda a mão esquerda e pinga gotas de cera de cada uma das velas.
"Que estas velas selem este momento, não deixando que as suas chamas se apaguem e a escuridão tome conta do teu coração. Luta para que elas permaneçam a iluminar a tua vida, fazendo deste o teu maior objetivo em servir."
Pede-se a cada um dos presentes que pegue numa pétala de rosa e a guarde.
"Algum dia quando as encontrarem, talvez num livro ou num porta jóias, simbolizará uma testemunha silenciosa do que este momento significou para cada um de nós. "
Toca-se o sino para marcar o fim da Cerimonia...


quarta-feira, 11 de junho de 2008

Torture Garden Summer Ball

Friday 4yh July
Torture Garden Summer Ball
@ Area

TGs fun annual summer themed Ball takes over the 5 zones of Area, featuring Under Water Love Club Arena, Tiki Ballroom, Portside Dungeon, Sailor Boudoir etc. Fully Themed Summer Ball Dress Code and Performances. Music and Visuals.

WHAT IS TORTURE GARDEN?

Torture Garden is the worlds largest Fetish / Body Art Club. Events Attract 800 - 2600+ people monthly to various London venues.
TG is also a top Latex Fetish Fashion Label and a Production / Performance Agency.

HISTORY

Alan Pelling and David Wood formed Torture Garden as a Fetish Club in Oct 1990.
Alan's background was as an alternative club promoter & DJ ­ new to London, and David's was a conceptual art & film graduate who had been going to fetish clubs since 1984. Together they were bored with the existing retro alternative clubs and suburban style fetish clubs. They wanted to create a new kind of radical alternative fetish club that combined diverse & progressive music, multiple environments, fashion, performance, visuals, installations, market area and more.
100 people came to the first event at the Opera On The Green venue in a shopping precinct in Shepherds Bush on a Thursday night, but by the 5th there were 500 and it was rammed! By this time TG had developed it's own unique crowd that combined the Alternative post Goth / Industrial, hard-core SM, Fetish Fashion and Gay & Straight scenes, with the totally new Body Art / Piercing scenes.
Early shows included body ritual by Thee Temple ov Psychic Youth, experimental percussion by Zev, music by Death In June & Boyd Rice and performance by Archaos Circus. There was no other club in the world like it!

WHY TORTURE GARDEN & TG?

Torture Garden was named after the turn of the century novel by Octave Mirbeau, which was set in a Chinese Garden of Torture. We chose it more because of the exotic and mysterious images that it evoked, rather than the specific novel itself.
From the beginning we often shortened Torture Garden to TG, because it was shorter and didn't scare the Bank manager! But it was also a reference to an earlier TG - Throbbing Gristle ­ the seminal industrial experimentalists and founders of Psychic TV, Temple Ov Psychic Youth, Coil, Chris n Cosey etc.
TG's circle logo was literally inspired by the back of a lorry! Keep an eye out in France?

EVOLUTION

Following the Opera on the Green, TG found new long-term homes at legendary industrial factory ­ The Electrowerkz and the 4 floor Paradise Club (later changed to Complex) before celebrating it's 4th Birthday at super club ­ Ministry of Sound. As the crowd grew from 700 to 1200+ this was TG's most innovative and original period as there was an explosion of talent and creativity. Fetish was now fashionable to the mainstream, and it never looked back. Other important TG venues included the Leisure Lounge before it found it's most long term home at Mass from the late 90's until the present. In 2002 & 2003 TG celebrated its Birthday event with 2500 people at London's biggest club venue - Brixton Academy, and since then has sold out SeOne to 2600 and established it's Birthday Ball as a international weekender of 4 parties in 3 days!

ACCEPTABLILITY OF FETISH

In the 80's and early 90's Fetish & SM was still taboo and very underground, and even dressing in Rubber and going to a fetish club seemed a dangerous activity. As TG's notoriety grew, so did the `shock & scandal' reports in the tabloids, resulting in the Police frequently forcing venues to close events in 1991 - 1993, and the shadow of the Spanner Case also hung over the scene during the early 90's.
However, as numbers attending grew at prestigious venues such as the Ministry of Sound, and fetish fashion and creativity influenced the mainstream, fetish became trendy and venues actively wanted us at their venues.
As British society opened up to sexuality in general during the late 90's, the media also changed in their attitude to fetish. From tabloid to channel 4, fetish was now generally depicted in a positive light.
In the new millennium it seems that everyone knows someone that's been to a fetish club and it's generally becoming acceptable. However fetish and fetish clubbing is not for everyone, and we don't want just any-body at our events.

THE CROWD

TG's multi-dimensional events cater equally for a huge range of open-minded individuals from young fashionable clubber to alternative arty weirdo and burlesque cabaret fan to sophisticated SM regular. Providing something for every-body from any age group (18-60+), sexual orientation and gender. Creating an environment that accepts and encourages individualism, diversity and free self-expression.
Ultimately it is the crowd above all that generates the energy and atmosphere of an event, and the TG crowd is the most diverse, radically dressed up and cutting edge crowd in the world wide scene. It is they who have made TG what it is.

At TG the crowd are the stars and everyone is a celebrity, but famous visitors have included Marilyn Manson, Dita Von Tease, Jean Paul Gaultier, Boy George, Courtney Love & Marc Almond. Unfortunately Adam Ant was turned away for not dressing up enough!

SHOWS / PERFORMANCE / ART

More than anything else TG has become world renowned for its incredible & theatrical performances and fashion shows. As well as staging extreme artists that no one else would put on, or discovering future big names when they were unknown. Dita Von Tease made her UK performance debut at TG in 1999, and all the scenes biggest names have appeared. Including:
Fashion: Torture Garden Clothing, E Garbs, DeMask, House of Harlot, Conflicto, Inner Sanctum, Murray & Vern, Manuel Albarran, So Hip It Hurts, HW Designs, Northbound Leather & Puimond.
Music: Tiger Lillies, Avenue D, Death In June, Boyd Rice, Genitorturers, Test Dept, Minty, Lab 4, Flesh Fetish, Von Magnet, Discordinated, Noblesse Oblige & Dynamo's Rhythm Aces.
Performance: Dita Von Tease, Archaos, Ron Athey, Franko B, Divine David, Lukas Zpira, Midori, Kumi, Marissa Carnesky, Masuimi Max, Porcelain Twinz, Suka Off, Psycho Cyborgs, Ryan Styles, Paloma, Scottee, Gawkagogo, Lucifire and Empress Stah.
Art Exhibition / Installation: Franko B, Trevor Brown, Araki, Romain Slocombe, Diane Harris. Legendary pioneer of the Modern Primitive movement - Fakir Musafer is scheduled to perform at TG in 2007.

MUSIC

TG is a progressive clubbing concept, it's never been tied to one style of music or fashion. As our tastes changed with the times, so TG evolved, fusing fetish with whatever clubbing sub-culture we were into. From the very beginning TG always wanted to be more than just a one room - one music club, and it's established club lands most diverse music policy, with 3 to 6 rooms currently ranging from Hard-on Dance & Electro House to Dirty Breaks & Drum n Bass; Glamour Trash & Disco Punk to Electro Clash & Booty Slut-core; Vegas Beats & Neo Swing to Lounge Exotica & Sleazy Rock n Roll; and Eastern & Ritual to Experimental & Film Soundtracks & almost anything atmospheric in the Dungeon room.
Many have described their first experience of entering a TG event as like stepping into another world. Like a scene from a film, a fantasy, it can be anything that you want it to be. TG events are about fantasy and role-play, and fully themed events can create a complete experience, including themed dresscode, club décor, visuals, music, performances and installations. Themes have included: Crash, Animal Love, War, Circus Side-show, Turning Japanese, Mid-Summer Nights Dream, Arabian Nights, Medical, Uniform, James Bond, Summer Beach Party, Halloween, Masque Ball, Heaven & Hell, Sci-fi, Jungle, Moulin Rouge, Carnival and Sex!

DRESS CODE

The TG dress code strives to avoid narrow limitations and encourage individual imagination and diversity. A modern fetish club is like an adult fancy dress party and is more about fantasy and transformation than just rubber and leather. Also, many of the best outfits seen at TG are made by those wearing them or assembled from various second hand articles (i.e.: theatrical costume or uniforms). So if you can't afford expensive rubber or leather costumes then explore personal fantasies and use your imagination, or even try body paint! Please always remember that if your outfit wouldn't turn heads in the street - don't bother to wear it to Torture Garden. Also, many of those attending bring their outfit in a bag and get changed within the club.

segunda-feira, 2 de junho de 2008

My angel....

Obrigada meu cachorrinho pela fantástica tarde de ontem,
sou a Dona mais feliz do mundo por te ter (oficialmente meu ;)*).
Luv u my angel (aka cachorrinho bound)