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Comprehensive virtual Interview and presentation of private historic documents with major French Documentarian Amelie Ravalec for upcoming documentary

Interviewed for feature article in the 2021 Fall issue of the high-art quarterly magazine, Gossamer

Interviewed by creator Chelsea Maker for Domination University podcast with private shoot for accompanying online gallery exhibit Assisted by named students.

Collaborated with French Musician, Iliona Blanc for Goldfinger music video

Collaborated with Honey Lauren on Wives of the Skies, a richly awarded short film with rave reviews and a kinbaku-driven plot Assisted by named students.

Collaborated with Jolene Kim for short film, Together Alone, Assisted by named students

Photography collaborations with Michael Helm and Perry Gallagher included in Hollywood ACCA Gallery, Visions for Himeros, curated exhibit featuring live demonstration by Master K assisted by named students

Collaborated with artist/photographer Melanie Pullen on rope sculptures and body harness costumes for five-day LA Art Show performance assisted by named students

Interviewed for Vice Magazine’s article, A Brief History of Japanese Rope Bondage

Included in UC, Santa Barbara article, Kinbaku: the Liminal and the Liminoid in Ritual Performance  by UC, Santa Barbara's Heather Pennington 

Passing of Master K's legendary sensei, Grandmaster Yukimura Haruki

Collaborated with performance artist (and Lady-Gaga gal-pal), Millie Brown, on the short art film, Pendulum

Images from 2015 fashion shoots featured in the 1500 limited edition retrospective “Michel Comte And Milk: A Collaboration” launched in Milk Gallery in NYC

Penned the (English) preface for world-famous kinbaku illustrator, Miyabi Kyodo's  third art album published by Sanwa in Tokyo, Japan

Interviewed Mrs. (Oniroku) Dan – Aki-sama – for famed Japanese fetish publikation, SM Mania

Included in American Cinematographer Magazine Q&A for  featured story on the making of Neon Demon 

Interviewed by King Kat Publishing on the update of The Beauty of Kinbaku, second edition

Interviewed by King Kat Publishing on the update of The Beauty of Kinbaku, second edition

Interviewed for new national online magazine,  Kink Weekly

Interview Germany magazine collaboration with renowned fashion photographer, Michele Comté at Milk Studios in Hollywood

Vogue Italia magazine collaboration with renowned fashion photographer, Michele Comté at Milk Studios in Hollywood

Collaboration with Cast of Vices Jewelry for national marketing campaign

Collaboration with Benefit Cosmetics for Beverly Hills Storefront

Collaboration with TheBulls for Unwound Music video 

Master K pens introduction to Affection of Kinbaku, photography book with DVD by Yukimura Haruki

Grandmaster Yukimura Haruki Sensei private workshop series hosted by Master K, Los Angeles, CA

Shinjuku Gallery Exhibit Tokyo, Japan for launch of first edition, Social History of Kinbaku

PR press junket, Tokyo, Japan for the First Edition of a Social History of Kinbaku

The Beauty of Kinbaku Japanese, First Edition published as the Social History of Kinbaku

Haru Tora naming ceremony
by Yukimura Haruki Sensei

Instructor First Class designation awarded to Master K by 
Yukimura Haruki Sensei

Taboo Magazine pictorial 
M: Casey Calvert | P: Liquiderotica
Los Angeles, CA

The Beauty of Kinbaku
English, Second Edition
Released with updated gallery

The Art of Shibari and its History
PR video by Master K