Our second journal starts with the tribal beach party. This is a fixture at every Kink in the Caribbean, and includes great acts of erotic beauty and skill, such as this fire spinner.

This years party was especially good for two reasons. First, Lew had his suspension rig set up on the beach, and he tied up a succession of beatiful women, include Dee. Second, the rain held off until after the many entertainers performed their acts.

Dee's outfit for the beach party, leather and steel with thigh high boots and sheer cover. For those who've been requesting photos of Dee in high heels, check out these boots.

Lew wanted a bondage orgy on the beach, but had to settle for a series of wonderful suspensions including Maria, Dee and Livia, teased and accosted by many of the party goers.

Here Dee is captured by Bondage Master Lew Rubens, and suspended. Maria Shadoes takes advantage of Dee's captivity, but they make up at the end. We'll have one gallery featuring Maria and Dee, and the other photos will appear on Lew and Maria's site, BoundNdetermined.com

Thursday was H2O day, and the theme was latex by the pool.

Dee wore two suits, one light blue one piece latex suit, and one two piece black and white latex bikini. We had bought the bikini the day before at the vendor area. The top came from Whiplash and the bottoms from Absolute Danny. Happily Whiplash retails some of Absolute Danny's items, because that way she got the whole outfit.

You can see all of he photots in this first journal in our Kink 5 Part 2 gallery.

In the next journal about Kink 5, we'll have the rest of the festivities from H2O day.

November 17, 2004, Kink 5 Part 1

We're back from , and this is our second gallery from the week (the first shows a variety of Chastity in the Caribbean Photos.

The first photo to the left shows part of the fun of the resort...the tub/shower windows open right out into the pool area. Here, when I went out to shoot a "peeping tom" shot of Dee in the shower, at least half a dozen other guys sitting at the pool bar jumped up and asked to take photos, too.

I did have to stop one guy who wanted to come into the room to take his photo, though.

Once again we took too much stuff, played in the pool a lot, and got some great photos. Here we see Dee wearing her EL Wire Dress in the disco for the first fetish party in the disco. We have a minor panic in the room when the dress started shorting out one of the four ropes. We finally locked the intermittent part of the rope down with tape, and the dressed worked through the whole night.

And of course, a big part of the fun at Kink is bondage play in the pool, so here we see Dee tied to a double-sized floatie getting some sun (and some curious tan lines).

We dressed for dinner and theme nights...on Asian night, we dressed in new yukatas, but Dee featured some genuine Japanese-style shibari ropework, in genuine Japanese hemp rope.

   

For the third year in a row, Dee modeled for Paul C Leather, but oddly, even though she has three corsets from Paul, who is known for his corsets, she was the only girl in her show who didn't wear a corset.

Instead, he decided that her red hair made her the ideal model for the viking warrior outfit, a brown suede harness called Vika.

And she did look great...her wild long hair is just the right coif for storming a castle or being delivered to a barbarian king in a leather arm binder.

   

Of course even though I brought way too much stuff, one thing I brought turned out very well...I got an underwater housing for my Canon PowerShot Digital Elph S500.

That way even though half of the bondage was hidden underwater, I could still photograph it.

   

And of course, it wouldn't be the same if we didn't do a lot of rope suspension by the pool. One thing we did three times was a sideways suspension using the circular railing of the staircase leading up to the sun deck at the pool.

I was fascinated by the huge railings and kept typing Dee curved backwards to these railings, getting her higher and higher each time. The first time, she was in shadow. The second time, it was sunny while I tied her, but a huge cloud came by just as she was tied in place, and hung over us for half an hour. I finally gave up and untied Dee and started recoiling the ropes. Just as I packed up the last coil of rope, the sun came out.

We still managed to shoot a really good photo, the third one on the right.

The last day we were there, we finally got a sunny day...the photos from that shoot will appear later.

We'll be writing a lot more, but it was a long week and it's too much to write about in one sitting.

You can see all of he photots in this first journal in our Kink 5 Part 1 gallery.

November 2, 2004, EL Wire Dress

We've already posted one gallery about our Electric Rope. We took the electric dress to Lew and Maria's party in Seattle in August and Burning Man in September.

It was chilly at Lew and Maria's, but they had a big campfire. The real challenge with this outfit is getting a good photo. The firelight was just about perfect...not so bright that it outshone the EL wire, but bright enough that it made Dee's skin glow orange.

Both shots were taken with a tripod and a half-second exposure.

At ShibariCon Lochai from Digital Kinbaku was able to take a couple of good photos of Dee. That version of the outfit also had a woven collar made of yellow EL Wire rope...

Everywhere the reaction was the same, "Where's the blacklight?" Apparently black light rope bondage is old-hat. But when I reach behind Dee's back and flip the switch on the powerpack, the dress blinks off and on, and then the reaction is "Gee! How does that work?"

Since then, we've gotten more than a handful of requests from people who want details. How do we make the rope?

So here's the short version. We use 3.2mm EL Wire from EL Wire Cheap stuffed inside a hollow nylon rope. To make the hollow rope, we take Lehigh 3/16" braided Nylon (part number #ND6100) from Lowe's, and remove the core (two nylon strings and a rolled cellulose padding). Then we stuff the EL wire end-first into the interior of the rope.

It took me about 2 weeks of 4-6 hour days to make 150 feet of the stuff. The dress itself took a day to tie...the challenge is not to make a regular rope dress, which takes me just an hour or so, but to arrange everything to make all the ends come together in the small of the back where Dee hides the batteries and transformer that make the EL wire glow.

This dress runs off of 8 AAA batteries producing 12 volts, along with an 50-125 foot ultra power inverter.

Maria told me I should patent the stuff, but I haven't applied, yet. Under US Patent Office rules, I have until May 29th, 2005, since I first disclosed the invention here on this website on May 30, 2004.

What I really need to do is to invent a way to make more than 10 feet of the stuff in one day.

See all the photos in our EL Wire Dress Gallery.