Makin' Latex

I could not be more excited to post this particular picture…

About 12 or 13 years ago Alexander Horn (pictured above - the one not wearing the hood) did a LOVELY set of fashion/fetish photos involving a vacbed on his website.   That was the very first exposure I had to the concept of the vacbed, and it hit a switch in my head that has (obviously) remained on and in overdrive ever since.

So… in a way, Alexander contributed to the spark that formed Kink Engineering.

It was a particular honour a few weeks ago to have him come to me for some hoods for an event he was planning to attend in a few months, and to find out that a hero of mine in the latex scene actually noticed the design work that I had been doing.

A productivity guru that I follow recently gave advice about writing along the lines of “Decide who it is you want to delight” - and I have kept that in mind in my design work.  I designed as if I had my heros in the field looking over my shoulder (or following my blog) and over time the result has been those people actually taking note, and in some cases becoming co-operative partners in projects, and friends.  (See recent madness at House of Gord for example)

So… that’s some great advice.  In whatever you do that makes you feel most whole, think of who you would most like to delight.  Then work really really hard at that task.  You may never catch the attention of that person you wanted to impress… but you’ll certainly impress a LOT of other people along the way.

~Matt.

Part 3: Our new Kink Engineering Micro-breathe Enclosure Hood : Huge thanks to Alexander Horn of www.l-a-tex.com for the photos! (Pictured next to the model)