The webmaster of ChimeraBondage, knowing how intense I found my shoot with them, has sent me a couple of preview images of me being paddled by the spanking machine:
You can see more of me (and the machine) in this promo video:
I recently saw the sleeve design for my first ever feature-length CP film :) Thomas Cameron and I filmed this last September with Roué Productions, and it's due for release soon in America. (Yes, I've emailled them to point out the typo.) Hopefully it'll become available in the UK as well, but I guess it's dependent on what happens with the new legislation.
Modelling is a slow-winded business in general - it's quite normal to wait months between shooting and seeing the final product online. Although of course it varies between sites - some shoot further in advance than others. It is strange, though, that of the five DVDs I've filmed this year, only one of them is available, and the other four will be in production for months yet. (There's a full filmography in my Spankingart Wiki article.) The four films awaiting release (including the Roue DVD shown above) are the work I'm proudest of in my career so far. The stories are very close to my heart, and I was involved in the writing of all of them. It's in full-length movies that I've been most able to explore the complex depths of my fantasies. I'm impatient to show them to the world :)
After all that, I hope this is worth the wait :)
Many thanks to my two intrepid tops/cameramen for all their hard work and moral support. And, of course, to the seven generous contributors who made this possible - Lofty, Bob76, Hamish31, Cee_Jay, Spike, Al and MarkF. Thanks, guys :) I hope you enjoy the clip.
I've managed to edit the Cane for Life video clip using some downloaded software called Avid Free DV (my budget unfortunately limiting me to free online options). It took a while to figure out - I've never done anything like this before. However, having started with a 78mb .avi file, I can't seem to save the edited version at anything less than 1gb, whatever file format I save as.
This is stupidly huge - cutting it into smaller clips won't make a difference; there must be something wrong with the save process which means it's not being compressed properly. The original .avi file is about 8 minutes long, and before I can put it online I need to trim less than a minute off the beginning and end (any other editing is windowdressing). Can anybody help?
I've been avidly following the recent blog posts by Adele and Niki about their experience filming for Lupus. If you haven't been reading, it's fascinating stuff. (And hot, naturally - I was particularly taken by the leg restraints in this photo...)
I'm still undecided about whether I'm going to brave the wolves myself at some point. Niki just about had me persuaded, but recent relationship turmoil means I'm going to wait until things have resolved themselves, before embarking on that adventure.
Yesterday Adele wrote that her love for Lupus films was more despite the severity of the canings than because of it:
The harshness of the floggings, the marks and the screams tend to be too much for me; the occasional trickle of blood makes me cringe. The action scenes are supposed to be the focal point of any spanking video, and yet - unless I’m writing a review of the film - I usually watch them on fast-forward.
Today, spankee blogger Michelle commented that she'd be much more inclined to bend over for a caning if she could fast-forward it. I imagine that quite a few spankees would agree with her - the most intense parts of a punishment are for many people (myself included) the anticipation and fear beforehand, and the sense of relief, catharsis and achievement afterwards, as well as having pretty marks to admire and to serve as a reminder.
But you know, if I was given the option, I don't think I'd take it. Maybe it's that I'm a masochist - I can enjoy pain sensations on a sexual level (although it depends entirely on context) and given a high enough dose, the endorphines can carry me into a trance state and make me fly. Or maybe it's that, for me, the afterglow is meaningless without having waited and struggled and sobbed through every painful moment of the punishment?
So tell me - am I alone in this? If you could fast-forward a caning, so that everything happened as normal and it hurt just as much, but the caning itself was over quicker, would you do it? Or would it just not be the same?
Sunday was a crazy, busy, dramatic day.
The most important business was the Cane for Life. (We'd all but started the previous day, including me spending quite a long time waiting for the caning and getting myself into the right headspace to accept it, when D. realised that his camera battery was dead. Ho hum. He plugged it in to charge overnight and reconvened the following day. I'm a model, not a filmmaker, but I really didn't expect to face this many difficulties trying to film a single caning!)
I'm not sure that I'd say the logistics of filming it were harder than the caning itself, however. I was right to spend some time working myself up to it - it was hard. But in the end, there was no point waiting any longer. Afterwards, even though I was sore, I felt a real sense of achievement. I was certainly very glad that it was over! 
Unfortunately, I didn't get long to enjoy the afterglow, as I had to deal with another very significant and upsetting event. I'm not sure how much I'll be posting to this blog over the next few weeks, but I'll try to get online now and again.
Before I disappear, however, I have a video to post of the entire caning, which I just need to edit. As soon as I've managed this (I'm having a bit of difficulty with the software) I'll post it online for all to see, free of charge, as a thankyou for being so patient during this unexpectedly difficult month.
Many apologies to those still waiting for the charity caning photos and video; unforeseen circumstances prevented us from carrying it out two Sundays ago (there have been rather too many of those lately). It's taking longer to organise than we'd hoped, but I haven't forgotten. I can't believe it's been four weeks already since the race - I've been rushed off my feet. I did three full day spanking shoots in June (Northern Spanking, Control and Reform, and Spanking Online) and I didn't want to risk being marked for any of them. (As Mr C has pointed out, there have also been other reasons making it harder for the three of us to get together - and of course, the presence of both my lords is essential).
Anyway, enough excuses. It's now scheduled for Saturday, and as far as I know there are no other plans for this weekend which might cause disruption. I'll probably still be marked from my shoot this Thursday, but I'm sure you'd prefer us not to delay on that account.
Many thanks for your patience on this, and I'm sorry for making you wait a little longer. I'm looking forward to a quieter period in which the three of us have more time to play together; I've been missing it.
On the subject of waiting, here's a picture from a shoot earlier this year:
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