Really? My Flander's Bench is being copied in art now?
https://fetlife.com/users/358024/pictures/36295440
I guess imitation is the sincerest form of flattery?
With all due respect to the various posters who simply are unaware-- this is not 'something new from FP' as suggested... nor did someone see Kujman do 'something' like that years ago. We did exactly this. The real bench. Utilizing it's intense bondage that the drawing somehow missed out on. It's my original scene being used too. Not yours, FP- sorry.. and not whoever told you the story. I first unveiled the full size device in "Kidnapped" by HOM decades ago, and in hundreds of demos since. You can't un-write TK history.
So please- I've received a bazillion emails about this drawing and how
you're getting kudos for
my devices. This is just silly. You're wonderful with pen and ink! You don't need to lay claim to my devices.
No doubt this'll start a fight on TMF too- it always dopes, as if I have no right to what I create.. but I'm asking nice, please don't steal my contraptions and the names I give them (do you even know why it's called such?) and claim them as your own and accept other's accolades for other's hard work. I mean, after all if I took your work and claimed it as my own how would you feel?
I totally support your artistic ability. However.. true artists come in all varieties and you have to respect
their work as well. Not everyone works with colored pens and ink. Some of us deal in artistic reality and in making fantasy come off the pages. That takes it's own absolutely unique ability. It takes more work and creativity to invent and then fully create and implement these things in reality. They begin life as a drawing on a notepad or napkin, yes-- but then come to full life.
You're a very fine artist, again, and personally I love your work a great deal. I'm not being mean.. I'm assuming you weren't aware there's six versions of the Flander's Bench now.. That we've done hundreds of demos and magazine layouts with m, f, and couples in side-by-side versions (including our Palace Theme Events).. And have made numerable videos using my various devices?... the Bench itself dating back to 1981?? It's been so well known for decades. Whoever fed you that story mislead you horribly.
A few weeks ago another person took a photo of one of my real-life tickling animatronics from a 2013 demo (a series of robotic ticklers) and used the name I've given them for 30 years, colorized the photo to look like a drawing, and then took credit for that. Everyone went on and on about what a great idea it was and how it's too bad no one can create such things in real life.. DUH!!! It was TAKEN from real life. OUR real life.
Ticklegal, long since having stepped out of this community, called me to tell me someone had sent it to
her -- why? Why take real life and turn it back into fantasy on paper.. and then wish it was...
um... actually in real life? Something's fucked up there.
If people here suddenly want our creations
why not just get in touch with .. the originators? Me? We're still breathing and more active than ever. There's no need to copy.
The Flander's Bench is a very personal device of mine, one that has never been topped to this day FP. Why? Well- you just have to see it and experience it in person, either in private, or in a group setting, to really 'get it'. It's way more than just 'tickling' or what you draw on paper, and I don't like it lessened in that manner, even innocently so. I'm not saying it can't just sometimes be "fun time" as you depicted--variety is our spice. But this community seems to only have one speed these days-- and in this drawing you're feeding into that mold. Tickling's just first gear on a car. How long can you run in first gear?? If you really want to move you gotta shift higher. If you don't- you're wasting it.
If you're going to depict what 'we' do... then you need to know there's a whole side to our (self named) SMTK playstyle you're missing in the drawing. If you go to my Fetlife bio you'll read about it and see many more realtime photos of devices and how they all capture the true essence of atmosphere and headspace-- it's in their eyes. Just look in their faces.
Why draw the device incorrectly, use my name, and then leave the best parts out? You're missing the immobility, the tightness, the desperation, the erotic panic, the over-the-edge headspace!-- you're missing the CNC, the P&P, the 'being taken'.. how your soul is being pulled out through your soles.. everything that draws your psyche out... that intimacy reaching inside of you... that loss of control that makes you disappear into your own private soles.. when they become your entire world and nothing else exists but those soles staring back at you.. taunting you.. betraying you!
There is a passion to SMTK that is
almost always lost on ticklers who can't get past that first gear. You're missing the passion that makes it so special-- and you're an artist- so I know you have passion. So please respect mine?