Strict Bondage and Heavy Groping

Did You Hide It Here?

Several years ago a charming and attractive model named Angelique Kithos contacted me about possible shooting. At the time work and other things did not allow much time in my schedule, and I am extremely bad about email. If you have ever emailed me and not gotten a response do not feel offended. You have joined the ranks of a hundred relatives, co-workers and models. That is why I have a booking agent now. As for Angelique she was diligent in her correspondence which may have been either very clever or very foolish on her part. She had done a lot of bondage and was smoking hot. After a few emails not getting answered she decided to up the stakes a little bit. Ted Michaels was not going to miss out on this ultra-bindable cutie.

I received an email that almost no rigger or lover of bondage could resist. She went into detail about how she loved bondage and was moving to the area. She was looking for somebody to work with consistently that could really put her through her paces. She told of her submissiveness, her need for tight rope and her ability to escape almost any restraint. She said she would be living mere minutes away. She asked me to imagine the possibilities of having someone so willing to be tied tightly so close. Who can resist that and call themselves a rigger?

I contacted her back and gave her my usual warnings, I mean content list. Phrases like "every rope tight" and "thoroughly immobilizing positions" and "heavy groping" did not deter her. She said the tighter the better. The more I fondled her the more she would fight. If I put her to the test I would get the most adorable expressions from her. She could take anything and would ooze pained damsel in distress the entire time. I said ultra-strict, and she said yes. I said manhandling, and she said go for it. I said I would bundle her into a tight little ball of helplessness and paw every inch, and she said please.

I have a method with new people when I work with them the first time. There is a feeling out process in most cases. How much can she handle? How fast should I ramp up the difficulty. That didn't happen with Angelique though. She talked the talk, and I was going to see if she could walk the walk. We shot some photo sets to get things rolling. Small talk makes things a lot easier for me before you start shooting video. She seems to find me humorous. That is a plus. She has a lot of similar interests. That is a big plus. She can hold her own in a conversation. That is a giant plus. She handled two photo sets of crisp and ultra-tight bondage. That is a plus beyond measure.

I set up the camera and reminded her of her email. She said she was the real deal, and she was all that and more. I groped her from start to finish as I progressively bound her into a tightly folded lotus. I pulled her back by her hair until she was vertical, her ankles were high in the air and her now exposed crotch was in full view ... and fully available. I cupped, groped, rubbed and stroked for a very long time. She never said stop, and it was a heavy groping video after all. She must not have minded because she kept coming back for shoot after shoot. Oh, and she is now my booking agent and my wife! How many people can list getting to second base before your first date with a gal?

Image courtesy of Hooded Hottie Groping Hell with Angelique Kithos.

Rope Bras - They Lift and Separate

Look Ma, no more sagging!

I've been working a lot with uprezzing which is lingo for taking lower resolution footage and converting it to a higher-quality format. Although the clarity isn't what I'm getting from my HDV camera, the results are none-the-less impressive. Interpolation algorithms (filling in pixels that don't exist in the original media) have really come a long way. It used to be that you could do a dozen things and still have a crappy looking result. Now there are fractal plugins and even the resize/sharpen features in newer versions of Premiere and Vegas do a wonderful job.

The image above is from He Made My Tits Bulge with Sammie Sparks. It was shot at a resolution much lower than what is being shown but there is great clarity and detail. The process takes a long time, but I'm consider re-releasing the video at HDV 1080 dimensions. I feel that as new technology becomes available, it's my job as a producer to explore it and try to make it available to the fans through updated material. I have high hopes that I can use these learnings to bring several of my highly popular DV releases up to HDV without it looking like blurry, blown-up bleh.

As for what's on the schedule for today, Angelique made a comment the other day, "you know, I can fit a lot in my mouth." As a male that statement can mean a lot of things, and the response can get you in trouble. I was saved by her quick follow of, "I want to do an extreme mouth-packing video." That means this afternoon will feature her getting her face stuffed with rubber balls, sponges, socks, panties and cloth until her cheeks bulge. I made even find a devilish way to test the effectiveness of the gags with some outside persuasion!

I Don't Know How Pantyhose Work

Is this how these things go on?

Okay, I know how pantyhose work. I just refuse to use them for their intended purpose sometimes. Nylon encasement is a new love of mine and Chrissy Daniels got that in full force. We have a really good shooting rapport, so I've been able to pull off some challenging positions with her. This time I decided I'd do something that would break her. I don't mean that in "I'm a tough-guy and an ass" sort of way. I mean that Chrissy has taken all I've dished out so far, so I told her we'd do a tap-out position.

I man-handled her, tied her a bit then started putting the nylon all over her. She was already in a catsuit so it had to be toasty, but she never let on. It was a fight getting all that pantyhose and electrical tape all over her. She fought me the entire time, even biting my arm ... hard .. at one point. I had to drive my arm into the back of her mouth to pry her jaws open and had some nice marks for the rest of the day. She paid for it thought in the form of more electrical tape, a tight gag and a blindfold.

I use the bitgag in situations where someone is being too feisty. It lets the drool out but the nylon keeps the drool from dripping away. Soon your whole face is a sticky, drool-soaked mess. It is not pleasant, and she let me know that the first chance she got ... which was about 15 minutes later unfortunately for her. Once the restraint was complete she struggled non-stop. She tisted, turned, moaned and groaned. She lifted her feet in the air over and over wearing about 15 pounds of boots. She never stopped. After a while of filming I decided to end it by cropping her ass hard. She never cried Uncle. She cried out, but she never cried Uncle. Chrissy is one tough cookie :) Speaking of which she apparently bakes them for people at Fetishcon, so get in your order now!

Image courtesy of Nylon Encasement Nightmares: Chrissy Is Owned with Chrissy Daniels.

Don't Leave Me Hanging

For years before I made Do Not Disturb I'd had this crazy idea of a girl hanging on the back of a door struggling while outside anyone who heard noises would see the sign on the handle and assume it was a couple having a good time. They'd be partially correct. Although the girl was having no fun at all at least her captor would have something to enjoy!

The problem the idea posed is that suspensions aren't just something you throw at a model or even yourself. It takes a firm grasp of what you're doing and a model confident in her abilities to handle the suspension. More than that, suspension with a rig is totally different than using what is available. And that is what my work is about. My heroines face perils that are born of the immediate surroundings and items that will fit in a small bag. Who carries a suspension rig around for crying out loud?

Then I got the chance to work with Maria Shadoes. We did the usual capture sequence, a chair tie, a hogtie and an aggressive mauling scene but I hadn't tested poor Maria enough. I'd seen her work and knew if I didn't do a suspension or put her in a split I was wasting a great opportunity. That's when the door idea started to form. Before you knew it I had created suspension points out of nothing but rope and a closed door. Poor Maria was upside down with her ankles spread, gagged with a 2-7/8 inch ballgag, head-wrapped, elbows crushed and her head pulled back by a hair knot.

The position was everything I strive for in a rigging. Every struggle was agony and effort. At the end she is completely exhausted, and I don't mean tired. I mean she couldn't move and just hung there motionless as she was untied, her gauze hood frothed with her own drool. Even more delicious is that I was her only rescue. The position relied on the door being closed. If anyone opened that door the suspension would fail and she'd fall face-first into the floor. The position tested her to the very edge, the effort totally broke her and the predicament prevented any rescue. In every sense she was totally dependent on her captor and that my friends made her a true damsel in distress.

Hogtied Hottie and Microwave Madness

Ever notice that almost everything in the world uses a different kind of light bulb? I have. Ever notice that the things that you use almost all of the time have the type of bulbs you just can't go to the store and grab? I have. I ran into this with my strobes a bit back. They modeling lamps look like regular bulbs but no, they have a wacky wattage that required me to special order them. I ran into this with my television recently. I couldn't even order the bulb for that. Well I could, but I couldn't get the retailer/repair pricing which doubled the price. As such the television has been sitting at the repair shop for weeks. Now the microwave bulb goes out. How hard can that be to replace? I mean, it's just tiny, 3-way bulb. Hell, that's the worst of the bunch. The bulb needs to be ordered from the manufacturer.

That's why I decided to work on a clip based on the idea of someone getting their just desserts rather than misfortune falling on them. I released a story called Date with Welded Elbows a bit back. It's actually the second part of a series where two Sisters are set to inherit some money. One wants it all though and hires a goon to keep her Sister occupied during the reading of the will, thereby forfeiting her claim to half of a fortune. The sinister scheme backfires though when she has the audacity to question the ability of her hired man to get the job done. He shows her he's up to the task with tight ropes and welded elbows.

It was the first time I'd worked with Victoria and the first time she ended up in a jacked hogtie precariously balanced on a chair. I'll give it to her though. She drooled like hell and never broke character as the strands flew everywhere. See Victoria Ashley's first shoot appearance with me and discover how Date with Welded Elbows came to be in He Crushed My Elbows Because I Wanted Proof.V

Balltie from Hell!

Sometimes I go back through video and think to myself, "how the hell did I get away with that?" It actually happens quite a bit. There's a lot of give and take in making video where you have to feel (no pun intended) you're way through the sequence. You sense when to pull back or just as importantly push a little farther. Before you know it the damsel is in one hell of a bind (pun intended).

I've had the pleasure of working with Sammie Sparks several times. On first glance most people will immediately fixate on her giant breasts. Okay, on first glance all people will fixate on her giant breasts. She paid a lot for them, so I can't fault anyone for that. However, she's the perfect damsel. She's tough as nails, open to a real challenge and pretty much never says cut. That last part is very useful when you do take-downs on video. During photo sets it's very easy for someone to say, "that's a bit tight." During video it's just as easy, but Sammie never seems to do that. She just goes with the flow ... she would say a real damsel has no choice, so she figures neither should she. Don't get me wrong, that's not a free pass to being a jerk ... it just means that if you stay close enough to the line of comfort she'll let you go past it for the sake of the video.

The first time I worked with her I focused a lot on breast bondage and a capture. I mean, I'd be stupid not to. On our next shoot I wanted to focus more on some nice rope bondage with on-screen tying but also more predicament bondage. We started out with a complete tie on camera. I can't mention this enough but on-screen tying is far tighter than off-camera. When the girl is struggling you have to cinch it more to keep it from falling off, and you get a much tighter tie. Soon she was completely helpless, her tits were tied hella-tight and she was ballgagged with a gauze cover and blindfold. Believe it or not, that was the easy part. We moved into a balltie on a chair where she was hooded with a trainer gag over that and her head was tied back. Add spanking and it wasn't much fun for Ms. Sparks. Finally, we hogtied her, balanced her on an end table and tied her head back again.

Sammie was as they say spent. She mentioned something about a hot bath and a glass of wine which means I did a great job of bending her without breaking her. If you like giant tied tits, a hot bod, tons of man-handling and three great sequences, check out Sammie Sparks in He Made My Tits Bulge.

Take-downs!

I love on-screen tying, and I love take-down scenarios even more. There is nothing more raw and dramatic than grabbing a gal, physically restraining her and then tying her from start to finish while she struggles. I've hidden around corners, popped out of closets and even been cut and bruised more times than a prize fighter. It's always worth it though because it makes for the best-looking video.

I used to work with Sammie Sparks a while back. She'd come through the area and we'd get in 4-6 hours. I almost cried when she moved to California, but the several shoots we had were some of the best for active video. She struggled like a hellcat, always said the best damsel lines and her husband was great with a camera. That meant I was free to grab, grope and rope without stopping to reset camera angles. There's something a bit primal about that method of shooting. The two actors can really get into the role. She's really struggling against me, and I'm really fighting to get her under control. And the bondage is ALWAYS tighter than normal.

The first sequence we ever shot was a short film about Sammie coming home from work. I always liked shooting outdoor sequences because the neighbor across the street had a thing for high heels, and I'd always film the models going up the steps. He'd see me raking the lawn or something on odd days and ask when the next shoot was lol. Anyway, Sammie pops in, is grabbed and then it's non-stop footage of her and I and a crap-load of electrical tape. Poor Sammie is eventually balltied and going nowhere while her captor rifles through her purse and gropes the hell out of her trying to get her to talk.

Sammie Sparks in He Just Kept Adding Electrical Tape is up now!

Tale of the Tape

Everyone has their strengths when it comes to bondage. There are girls who can wear ballgags and girls who can wear huge ballgags. There are girls who can drool and girls who have strands dripping off their chin like somebody left a faucet on. There are girls who can wiggle and girls who flop around like a fish on the deck of a boat. There are girls who moan pitifully and girls who sound so distressed you have to stop shooting for a moment just to be sure everything is okay. There are girls that do well with rope, girls who do well with straps and girls who do will with stockings; then there are the girls that can really handle tape.

Ultra-strict restraint is a challenge in itself both mentally and physically, but nothing really compared to ultra-strict tape restraint. Rope has several qualities that tape can never have. First, rope is fairly rigid; we call that a low coefficient of restitution. Second, rope isn't sticky as hell. Finally, rope breaths! Why does that make tape so challenging?

Skin gets uncomfortable when it can't breath. Rope, even tight rope, lets some amount of air in and increases the comfort level. Tape blocks air out completely. Your skin can't breath and you sweat like hell which is doubly discomforting. It is uncomfortable to be pinched. Rope shifts a little as you move but tape is welded fast. When you move the tape pinches and pulls. Last, and in my opinion the worst, some tape like electrical tape stretches and then compresses with a rubbery quality. This is called a high coefficient of restitution. Electrical tape wound tightly is like a huge rubber band. Let's combine all those now. Imagine a huge rubber band that squeezes into your flesh tighter than any rope could be pulled. Image that rubber band sticks to your skin like glue; every movement pulls, pinches and hurts. Finally, imagine that on top of this your skin starts itching from lack of contact with the air. It's not fun.

The easiest way to put it is that I've tied up a dozen gals that could have their elbows welded and be put in a back-arched hogtie and make it through a video set under hot lights. I've taken some of those same gals and done a tight tape restraint and they don't last 1/3 of the time. Tape wears you out and separates the tough from the down-right indestructible damsel.

That brings us to Elita. I have a TON of video of her. We worked together for about 14 months, and we ALWAYS used tape at least once. She loved take down sequences and for a quick tie-em-up, electrical tape is always a great choice. The picture speaks for itself really. Her elbows are smashed, there are no gaps at her knees or anywhere between her legs, her ankles are so close her shoes are flared out and the tape cuts in deeply. She never went away bruised. She never went away hurt. She just had the body and skin that could deal with that sort of thing, and I'm not talking about a couple minutes; she could deal with it for a long time. Need proof? Check out Elita in She Knew Too much ... apparently snooping around in the wrong files gets you taped up, roped up and far worse!

Old treasures shine just as much!

Yesterday I spoke of going through the archives of material from a decade of shooting. The best decision I made ten years ago was to drop a grand on a DV camera. When everyone was shooting VHS and Hi-8 I was shooting material that holds up to a lot of the cameras today. If you can show me a VHS or Hi-8 that can be published as a 720x480 clip with no downgrade in resolution, then you can convince me otherwise.

Glamour models that discovered they liked bondage, a porn model that decided that rough oral was easier to do than my rigging, countless girls-next-door that never knew their elbows touched, models nobody has footage of but yours truly, capture sequences, vibrator sequences and full mini-movies going years back. I thought what I'd shot the last couple of years was a gold mine, but the mountain under that is just as shiny!

And so it is that I give you Ivy. She had done some mild bondage, had refused to work with some other producers and agreed to work with me because she was close and needed a content trade. I remember vividly that she changed when the ropes started going on and became very submissive. I had her elbows crunched, and she didn't care. By the time we shot a second time, I had her breasts bound and a vibrator in her crotchrope ... she progressed quickly! I'll hold onto that one for a little while though to see how her first clip, Ivy in Roped and Groped Glamor Gal, does.

Just Hanging Around

I absolutely love a video I shot with Maria Shadoes some years back. I had a little different formula back then since I was working mostly on a tripod for the camera work. Sure, I had a DV camcorder but it still produced somewhat shaky results when the footage was hand-held. I even went so far as to make a steady cam, but it was useless for shooting in tight spaces. Where was I? Oh yeah, I shot mostly on a tripod. The problem with shooting on a tripod is my style has always been about drama and the best way to get drama with static angles is a lot of camera cuts. The change in scene tells the brain that something is happening and makes it get "re-interested" in what is going on.

The big lead-in is basically to say that a lot of cuts means a lot of editing! I've wanted to put up this video for a while, but it's been a real bear to edit into something I am comfortable releasing. I could just throw up 35 minutes of Maria wiggling with her elbows welded the entire time, but I demand drama. My post-production motto is the same as my restraint motto. The editing has to be quality; if it's not tight it's not right. My editing software isn't helping either because it keeps choking on empty frames I forgot to fill (technical blah blah).

Regardless, I will figure it all out and get a clip up soon. It's going to be called Maria Shadoes in Do Not Disturb and will feature a tight chair tie, callous man-handling, jacked hogtie and a door suspension in a hotel. The entire time poor Ms. Shadoes wears my fattest ballgag and a tight wrapping of gauze over her entire face. Wish me luck ... this edit has been fighting back harder than Maria did during the takedown at the beginning of the video!

Tomiko in Tight Trouble

When you have so much backlog of material, the process of coming up a new clips to put up can be an interesting process. Do I put up something from this year or do I dig into the archives and go back eight years? Do I want on-screen tying, abduction fantasy or just a really tight position with fervent struggling? Sometimes though it is just random.

I was tweeting yesterday and it was suggested I might want to follow Tomiko. I knew I had footage of her from last year, but I couldn't remember all the details. After reviewing it I felt like a fool for not having put it up already. Tomiko is a great model and a superb actress, and the clip had it all; there was tight restraint, forced stripping, groping, on-screen gagging, on-screen tying and a ton of struggling. It's difficult to get so many elements into a clip sometimes. Either I forget something or the model gets tired or there is an equipment issue. This shoot though we got it all, so I'm putting it up today.

As for other news, the super-heroine custom is still on for this week, Angelique had the coolest idea for a shoot I've heard in a long time (you'll have to wait, I'm not giving it away) and I'll be putting together not one but two DVD videos with all footage shot in smoking hi-res HDV. As for DVDs, I have a story I've wanted to shoot for a while and I'm going to work on Angelique to help me out with it when time allows.

Finally, what a difference a day makes. Two days ago I was doing back flips because I got a web site up and going. Yesterday I was crest-fallen because a couple serious issues with the site popped up, that I did not think could be resoled; however yesterday a solution presented itself, and I am happy with how things are working now. That doesn't mean I'm done though, not by a long shot. Everything is a work in progress!

Chop saws and powerdrills

Custom videos get done on weekends around these parts. Since yesterday was date night (Barbecue following Paranormal Activity 2) that makes Sunday get 'er done day. Angelique is dealing with mutant activity in Fallout while I'm prepping for a super-heroine request that came our way.

I've already ordered the missing materials for the outfit but still need to hit the party store for a harlequin mask. Earlier I had the fun of bringing out the miter saw and the drill press to put together a post rig. Now I don't know about most of you but I like to keep my home, well, a home. As such I don't bolt poles into the floor for the sake of cinching damsels up to them. That requires making rigs. The new place has the perfect door way that only required making a brace for the top of the door jamb, a brace for the bottom and a pole to go between them. The sawdust flew, the whir of the drill driver echoed in the garage and 20 minutes later we have a post for a tasty pole tie that is rock-solid and damages nothing in the house. Even better I got to use some old two-by-fours that came on a shipping pallet for our treadmill ... I hate wasting good wood (pun intended) and was glad to get the entire rig done for free!

With permission from the requester I'll put up some peeks at how things went later. Until then I'll put up something from a clip that went up last night. It stars the wonderful Kendra James. It's notable in that it is the very first clip I ever shot of her and that it contains more dialog from myself than any clip I've ever done. I'm the strong, silent type when it comes to "bad guys" but it was necessary to be a loud-mouth to make this clip work. All the rigging was done on-screen which is always a bit tighter than when it's done before the camera rolls, and Kendra had to deal with a gag consisting of a large ball, duct tape, a gauze head wrap and then electrical tape over that. Again, those in-the-moment gags tend to end up with a full stretch on the gauze, so she really had to deal with some discomfort. Notable as well for the longest title I've ever used, Kendra James in I Can't Get Away If You Tie Me Up Tight! is available now.