ran ran run

had kbbq tonite.
yum yum

tonyM, victoria hitomi and her boy, um... shit. i forget , girly dom from LA and her friend from berlin. robert i thinks.

then went and hit nero for cafe. and book shop. that one kitty korner from paradiso.

good talks. good food
and as always work prospects.
might be good. future stuff. money stuff.

to bed.

skin two, fetish & bdsm

so my first post today was a big one.
had to edit it, in fact.
actually it was a response in ms_ariel's lj about the changes going on with the magazine.
less girls in latex. more bdsm.


gawd i made typos n stuff
but oh well

the thread is here
http://www.skintwo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=68&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
and ariels post is here (where i write and write and blah blah blah blah)
http://ms-ariel.livejournal.com/25489.html?view=78737#t78737

or keep reading.
my thoughts on skin two's new direction, from fetish fashion to bdsm

i've written to him about it and i am completely against it.
i work doing bondage so it's not that i dont like bdsm at all.
but there are no magazines that put out the type of fetish fashion content out there like skin two.
there are plenty now that cover bondage and other areas of bdsm.

they also show off the best of fetish models and photographers out there while showcasing new designs from few latex creators as well as major companies. there is usually a distinct difference between the model that is featured in skin two and the model that is in marquis - not that one type is necessarily better than the other, but there is a difference. while s2 features more fetish fashion, marquis also covers heavy rubber styled designs too.

in thinking as someone that makes of living in fetish, a professional perhaps, i also wonder what designers will do when they want to showcase their new pieces through purchased pages. will buying ad space in a magazine geared towards bdsm-ers still be profitable if the target audience is no longer are looking at the pages. full page ads and double page spreads, it seems, are usually taken up by the major design houses. unless they start creating bdsm furniture and toys, then it would seem almost pointless to continue to advertise as their once-targeted customer is no longer interested in looking thru the magazine.

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