Hannah Tests My Homemade Rope

Put Your Best Tit Forward!

 I have this tendency to let myself get stuck on what to put in my blog. No, I have this incredibly annoying tendency to let myself get stuck. I have plenty of stories. Some are funny, some are informative and some are downright boring. Who cares though, I have a folder bulging with images that are never boring! It takes me weeks to sometimes remember that a picture is worth a thousand words. As long as some of those words are, "holy shit Ted, she must have hated you after that!" I think this blog will do just fine. Besides, when a picture says a thousand words the tit-tastic Hannah above pretty much writes everything for me.

Invariably when I focus on the pictures the words come. The image above is from a newer venture of mine called the Prop Testing series. In my old days of shooting I would construct something for every shoot, and I have recently gotten back to that motif. I more manners of platforms, dollies and devices to lift, tote, push, pull and challenge damsels now than I have time to film. The idea came from an old notebook I had sitting in a box believe it or not.I write down all of my ideas, I always have. I have boxes filled with notebooks, tablets and scraps of paper containing rough ideas, full stories and sketches. It may seem a little crazy but then again I am the one that stuffed panties into Ms. Perez's mouth, bound her breasts and forced her to orgasm in my living room. If you have a better way to get that done and make it look so damn good be my guest. No, seriously, go ahead. I will fiddle around on my phone for a little while.

Okay my phone needed to go on the charger, so I made some more homemade rope and roughed up an idea for a suspension. Feel free to keep working on a better way to come up with devilish ideas, but I need to get back to tying girls up. In all seriousness I wrote the idea for the clip down in a notebook about six years ago. At the time I was not working with any models that were capable with the position or the predicament. There is just no way I can keep all the devious ideas I have had in my head, so I write them down. Before a shoot I start going through notebooks if I still need clip ideas. I do not even have to go through ten pages, and I have already come up with four times more ideas than I can shoot in a day.

Everyone has their own system, and mine works for me. I am sure it worked for Hannah as well. Sure her elbows were crushed, her breasts were bound and she was saying next to nothing with those huge panties stuffed into her mouth. Fully erect nipples and a crotch gyrating against a vibrating rope say a lot though. It may not say a thousand words, but it would seem to say that Hannah is in Camp Ted when it comes to the idea notebooks.

Image courtesy of Big Breasted, Rope Tested and Bested with Hannah Perez.

Hemp Rope Hogtie for Angelique

Hemp, hogtie, helpless!

I have never been a frequent user of hemp rope, mainly because nylon is easier to work with and far more comfortable for the model. Oh, when I refer to hemp rope I'm not talking about nylon or polyester or cotton rope that's been died brown so it looks brutal. Fake shit is okay when you're trying to be nice to the model, but saying that it's hemp rope when it's brown nylon kind of makes you a douche. I'm not talking about anyone in particular, I'm just saying hemp is hemp. I'm talking about the real deal, scratchy, stiff and smelling of the oil it's soaked in to keep it from rotting away.

Angelique asked for some art shots of her in a hemp body harness. Everyone knows this will lead to no good as my turn at the scenario involves her in a full shibari-style tie completed with a knotted gag and a fully jacked hogtie. There's something about rolling around on a dirty garage floor bound completely in hemp that makes for a great scene for me. The rope is basic, the setting is basic and the scenario is to-the-point. Movement is tough, struggling is uncomfortable and even being untied isn't for the meek. Oh, that's scratches. No shit, it's hemp. That's why I only use it on the tough gals, the ones that understand that the material sometimes requires a rope hickey here, a scratch there and some rope burns to make for a great clip.

As for rope hickeys that's what I call those tiny bruises that people get on their elbows and behind their knees from the rope being cinched. It always happens during the more intimate part of a tie, the part where the photographer keeps saying excuse me for reaching between a girl's thighs or pinching the skin on their elbows. It's a great telling point for how much empathy the photographer has by how gingerly they apply something that is guaranteed to pinch but still feel bad when it does. If a photographer asks you to suck it up when you say, "Ouch!" ask him how many dead animals he has buried behind his house.

Hemp isn't for the meek. It looks awesome. It makes me want to tie people up totally naked. That's the difference between hemp and nylon or cotton for me. I almost never tie anyone up naked. When the hemp comes out though you will be wearing nothing but your birthday suit. Well, that and a lot of hemp. It will look great though, so thank you for bearing through the rope hickeys, the scratches, the rope burn and my 100 apologies while putting the rope in place.

Image courtesy of 240 Feet of Hemp Rope Hogtie Hell with Angelique Kithos.

We give the studio a test run

The fun thing about having a revamped studio is that when someone says, "let's go shoot some fine art, I'll let you do some shibari after that" you can just go do it. There's no moving couches or setting up backdrops or spending on hour on lights. Almost everything is all set up already. A process that used to take a half day to set up takes minutes.

It's been a blast not only because it's a pain in the ass to destroy the house to shoot and that pain is gone but because we shoot so much more now. If I have a cool idea odds are we'll shoot it. If Angelique needs some updates for her portfolios it's as easy as grabbing my camera. And as with today's scenario she will always let me get a clip in afterwards.

An added benefit is that before everything was in closets, tubs and boxes. If you had a cool idea searching for the components was a nightmare and almost not worth it. Now when shibari came up I had the hemp right there and some spare rope to make a nice gag to go with the position. Folks who do this regularly know what I'm talking about. You can spend 3 hours to shoot 50 shots and a 15-minute clip. We spend 30 minutes shooting all of that. That means more energy, more productivity and the rare opportunity to have a light bulb go off in your head and just go shoot it and see what happens.

The moral: I love the new studio. Angelique does as well but you couldn't tell from this image we shot and put up today. I called it 240 Feet of Hemp Rope Hogtie Hell. It was a tough one, but we're finding those are easy to do now. When you don't have to worry about clean-up you'd be amazed just what a gal will let you put her through!