Now that is a hogtie!

Should I have used clean pantyhose?

I've often spoken of my respect for a gal that pushes herself for content. Angelique Kithos is the pinnacle of that work mantra. From the first shoot with her I was able to attempt things that I'd never consider with other people. I've been fortunate to come across several other people that fit this mold, but Angelique is still the the example I'd present to anyone.

She has been busy finishing up her second college degree, yes second, and hasn't been doing as much bondage during that time. We've done some nice sets including some latex bondage and a hemp rope hogtie that I'm very proud of. I kind of make this assumption though that when someone doesn't do something as much you need to put on the kid gloves and work them back up to the old standards. As the saying goes though I definitely make an ass out of myself with that assumption.

She wanted to do a set for me to fill some updates while she's on a shooting trip and she said she wanted a hogtie, she wanted a mouth-packing and she wanted it tight. I pull out a pair of pantyhose, some tape and some rope. She tells me to get more pantyhose and more rope. She then proceeds to say that she wants her back arched. This isn't my suggestion, she tell me. She wants her tits off the floor, her face totally packed with two pairs of pantyhose and a tape wrap so tight her face will sweat.

Who am I to argue? We do a full struggle sequence where I tie her up on camera. The ropes are tight and neat and dig in deeply. I cinch every rope and pull every knot tight. As more and more rope goes on I notice she's not slowing down. She's struggling like hell and if I'm not careful she'll put a high heel brand on me somewhere. I get to the gag and push in one pair of pantyhose and then the second. I'm wrapping her face with medical tape with both of them in there and wrapping it tightly.

The truly special point came when I put the hogtie in place. Girls make this grunting noise when you've pulled it far enough. If you pull it too far you get, "Unn Uhh, Unn Uh!!" She made no noise. She folded into an arch and I cinched the hogtie tight. There she lay on her stomach. Her face was filled with two pairs of queen-size pantyhose and her body is arched like crazy. She struggles like hell, rocking back and forth and arching her body to the sky. I don't know where she got the energy. I patiently film waiting for her to give the "done" sign. It never happens. I filmed the time I wanted and then we finished up the set.

I untied her so we could film her pulling all of that wadding out of her mouth. This is the point where a model says, "Did you get what you needed? Good, because that's not happening again any time soon." The camera stopped rolling and she says, "Next time we need to tighten up that arch. I can go way higher!" Holy crap!

Image courtesy of Packed Mouth and a Jacked Hogtie with Angelique Kithos.

Bitgags make for great drooling!

When I was working with Natalie Minx I heard her on the phone say something like, "mostly ballgags." This was soon followed by, "I guess nobody buys clips with bitgags." The very next set I decided to use a bitgag because I don't find that to be true. I use a healthy mix of gags focusing on ballgags, layered gags and bitgags. I don't find a huge difference between the three which leads me to believe there are fans of all of them.

For me the gag should compliment the strengths of the damsel as well as be a challenge. Ballgags are an obvious challenge because they fill up the mouth and distort the lips. They look like a pain to deal with. Layered gags are a challenge just because they are. They compress your face, make you hot and soak you in your own drool. They're just not comfortable and make for a great damsel feel.

The reason I think a bitgag is just as challenging is that my bitgags are pliable like a ball but cylindrical instead of spherical. They sit in the mouth and can curve to allow them to be strapped in just as tightly as a ballgag. This lets them pinch deeply into the cheeks. Even better there is no way the damsel can stop from drooling. Natalie has a wonderful face, beautiful lips and drools like crazy. Why would I not bitgag her?

Courtesty of Ravishing Redhead Ready for Rope!

Respect your co-workers!

It should be obvious by now that I have great respect and admiration for the models I collaborate with during shoots. Too many people treat them like meat that they can just abuse for a couple hours, and that really pisses me off. Everyone has different comfort levels that need to be respected. Failing to understand those levels or even worse purposefully pushing past the limits is reprehensible. The ability to understand limits and stay within them is what makes us humans. Violating those comfort levels makes us no better than monkeys.

That rant over, I find it creatively inspiring to have limits to work within. I used to work with about 100 artists. Some of them would bitch and complain because they didn't have what was necessary to be creative. Some of them however could take whatever you gave them and make magic happen. True creativity requires limits to make you work around perceived obstacles. Total freedom in my opinion leads to paralysis whereas limits make you inspired.

The image today is from a shoot I did with a girl named Lola. You'd think by looking at it she had no limits but she did. You just don't walk up to someone, jack their elbows, tie their breasts and throw clamps on their nipples. You discuss a list of options and make it very clear where the lines are. And you respect those lines! Just because you see a picture of someone like that doesn't mean they'll do anything and it doesn't mean that they'll do it with you. Comfort is often something that's earned. Holding up money and expecting nipple clamps and breast bondage in return is easy. Establishing a rapport through conversation and honest exchange of ideas however is inspiring. I'll take inspiring any day.

The short version is that the work I do comes out well because I work with talented and motivated people. We communicate well and we respect each other as creative professionals. Because of that mutual respect the material comes out well. People work better for you when they can get along with you. They get along with you when you treat them with respect.

Orgasm Hell with Lola courtesy of Ted Michaels. Enjoy!

Heels, hose and helpless!

I consider myself a bit classical in nature when it comes to bondage. I was around during the days when pretty gals wore the bare essentials and got tied up tight. Images of ladies wearing nothing but high heels, hosiery and panties (and a lot of rope) were everywhere. I've always focused heavily on that but until I started going back into my video archives I never realized just how much. It seems like every model I've worked with at some point has been down to nothing but heels and hose. There's just something about the tease of being almost nude and the embarrassment of being helpless in your scandalous hose and heels. It takes the elements that a woman uses to tease men when fully dressed and making that her only bit of coverage. Amazingly those elements still hold just as much allure when that is all a girl can hold onto for dignity.

The above image is from Black, White and Helpless All Over with Lyric. If features what I consider the number one outfit for a damsel: black heels, black thigh highs and black panties. To be honest that probably ties with a garter instead of panties, but both rank well above anything else for my tastes!

Time Out

I get into these periods where I feel ultra-creative. That sounds like a good thing, but it's usually a nightmare. I'm the type of person that isn't a bull in a china shop. When ideas pop into my head I get a lot of them. That's generally disruptive to moving forward on any idea. That's why I try to write down everything. It can take 30 seconds for something cool to be forgotten forever.

I'm in that period right now. I have a great idea for a photo campaign. I'm working on some interesting ideas for new videos. I've gotten back to 3D modeling and drawing again. On top of that I've been programming. You know what they say about trying to be a jack of all trades ... you end up being a master of nothing.

That means the goal is to simplify. I still want to do everything, I just can't do everything to the scale I'd like. That's the key to pulling off being a jack of all trades. I don't want to be the best comic artist in the world. I'd just like to have a comic. That means doing pages at a level I would consider terrible for a commissioned work but totally exceptionable for a comic page. Being a perfectionist and a jack of all trades never works.

I will not however accept sacrifices in my main areas of film and photo. Those are the areas where my ideas are the richest. I have a video series idea that is fresh for me and I feel compelling to fans of the genre. As with everything though my original scripts are technically complicated. That's why this week I'm continue to work on keeping the spirit of the idea but in a form that can actually be accomplished! While I do that, updates have begun again.

The other day was a sampling from a "lost" tape. Every so often I pull out a tape to file it away. Since I suck as cataloging up front I have a process where I run through all 63 minutes to make sure I ripped everything worth showing. Every so often I find some footage as I did the other day. It's of Kerri Taylor in a taught chair tie. We were having trouble with some dialog, so I said the hell with it. We started with her gagged and just showed things getting worse and worse. Finally she's tied with ankles up, elbows together and raised and her neck pulled down. Normally she'd have the chair moving all over the floor but the position made her feel like she'd fall on her face ... it's nice to have a little psychological restraint every so often. She knew she was in trouble, she was facing a corner ... she was in Time Out.

Tatyana's Only Bondage Appearance

I like to push boundaries. I guess it's good that I'm into bondage! One thing I'll always say to a model is that I'll bend you but I won't break you. Everyone has their own physical and mental limitations. I love to find those and see if I can get the model to exceed them.

No, this doesn't mean tying someone up until they can't take it anymore and then leaving them there for 5 more minutes. Forcing someone to endure a predicament past their comfort level has nothing to do with the model pushing themselves. There is a huge difference between having a choice and having no choice. When a model knows they can bail and still agrees to go that extra five minutes that is a self-discovery. That is also trust.

It takes a lot of trust for someone to allow themselves to be tied up by another. Trust is a huge element for me. You establish a dialog, work someone up to a certain level and then hopefully have a chance to work with them again and push things further. I've worked with many a model several times and by the second or third shoot the trust level is high. They know I'm not a maniac. They know I untie quickly. They know that if they push it right to the edge I can get them out in 30 seconds. The trust level allows them to do things they never would have thought themselves capable of and the results are exquisite. The highest compliment I receive is when seasoned fetish models tell me I tie quickly but comfortably for something strict and I release them quickly but gently.

There is another level of this though that I really enjoy. The level of trust and bravery that someone has to undergo to allow themselves to be tied up the first time. Imaging never being tied up and your experience with the subject being the mild ties seen on television. Now imaging a giant rubber ball in your mouth, your elbows welded and your back arched into a severe hogtie. What goes through your mind? How to you know you should continue? It takes a dialog between photographer and model. Just like any shoot, if you know how to talk to someone they will be more comfortable and push themselves past limits.

That happened when I worked with Tatyana. When I first contacted her about bondage she was unsure. I didn't push. I just left it open, offered her references, allowed her the option of an escort and was honest that it would be a challenge. She contacted me a couple weeks later and we did a test shoot. She came in a bondage virgin and struggled her way through two sequences that left her sore and exhausted. She could have bailed at any time, but she gutted out two video sequences and 4 photo sets. Bondage wasn't for her, but she still tested her own limits to see what she could get onto film.

No story, no plot, just two sequences of her with her elbows jacked and showing off a wonderful arch that those oh-so-flexible Russian gals can achieve. See her only appearance in bondage in Russian Beauty Rushin' Nowhere.

Auburn Arachnid

I've dabbled in comics for as long as I can remember. I drew a lot before photography kicked into gear and did a number of bondage portraits, a ton of bondage drawings and a fair number of bondage comics. I even did a portrait of Ashley Renee she had hanging at her home for a bit. I'll post that up at some point if I can dig out the scan!

During the comic days I had a number of staple characters I created and one of them was the Auburn Arachnid. Unfortunately my naming conventions dated back to when I was eight when ham-fisted monicers ripe with alliteration seemed oh so awesome. This heroine was a reporter by day and a red-haired fighter of crime at night. She did a story on a meteorite impact and found out the thing gave her enhanced strength and balance. Her room-mate was a scientist and harnessed the power of the stone with the electronics in wrist bands. Yes, the room-mate got tied up a lot :)

Anyhow, the character has been around for decades. She started tied up in burning warehouses, to bombs and to other manners of diabolical devices. By the time I was in my late teens and early 20s she usually ended up gagged with her panties and tied with her ankles up by her ears. Funny how things like that change.

Flash forward to today. Now keep in mind that I enjoy developing bondage material. I have no plans on developing super-heroine material, but when Kendra James came to visit I couldn't resist. She was doing material for a friend that has a super-heroine site, and I've always loved Kendra's super-heroine work. After a bit of my usual material I decided the opportunity to have Kendra and a trunk full of costumes would never come again. To my surprise, all the components were in place and with Kendra being a redhead the Auburn Arachnid came to life ... an then got tied up, groped and yes, had her ankles tied up by her ears.

Here's the teaser:

Kendra James has gotten herself some power bands, a belt, high-heeled boots, a black spandex catsuit and a mask. The redheaded reporter decides it's time to fight crime! Her first foray into the field though breeds disastrous results. She finds hidden files on a phone but not the taser built into it. Shocked into unconsciousness and her power bands fried, she is tied, groped, gagged, stripped, spanked and finally unmasked. It seems someone collects superheroines and naked on your back with your ankles tied to your neck means your going into the collection.

Here's the video: Kendra James in Superheroine: Roped, Groped and Revealed.

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

Hogtied and Hurting

You know that you put a lot of rope on someone when you keep extra rope on hand just in case but you still have to go get even more. The last time I had to do that was when I had about 600 feet on Angelique Kitos for her version of the hogtie challenge! I used 200 feet alone for her arms on that one.

That happened with this hogtie as well. It was supposed to be a 300-foot hogtie challenge for a custom video request, something I've done a number of times. As such, I had 400 feet handy just in case. After I had her arms almost completely encased in rope, I knew I was going to run short so I had to break out 100 feet more to finish the tie!

It sounds like a lot of rope, but that thin cord goes fast. I like a lot of coverage on these ties, so it takes at least twice as much of the cord as it does the nylon rope I normally use. Thirty bucks in cotton cord doesn't sound like much but for one position that's a lot of rope! I can get 1000 feet of nylon rope for that much. It's worth it though. The challenges are fun ... correction, fun for me. They also seem to be popular with people.

So, what's notable about this sequence. Oh yeah, 500 feet of rope and a jacked hogtie! Kerri Taylor did a wonderful job on this one aptly dubbed 500 Feet Equals Hogtied and Hurting.

Pretzel

Everyone has positions that they do regularly. Hogties, frog ties, chair ties and such become part of a rigger's palette of ties. Some positions get more play, but everyone has a certain way that they execute them. Crisp coils, raw wrapping, nylon rope, cotton cord, strict, playful, ballgags, wadding, tape and cloth all become parts of the signature that brands a person's work.

Just as importantly how people do the ties is just as telling. I've always viewed rigging as sculpture where I mold the damsel. It is just as artistic in some cases as putting pencil to paper or paint to canvas. Even further, there are customizations folks do with positions that make them unique. I have names for a lot of my "takes" on the standard positions. I have a suspension I call the "Do Not Disturb" and a chair tie called "Furniture on Furniture." They differ with each model but contain some overlapping key elements.

One of the tougher ones I have is called the "Pretzel." It starts as a lotus tie and although it gives you plenty of time to meditate you're probably going to be thinking about how much you want out. I worked with a gal called Spiral a couple times. We did a nice struggle and grope sequence in a black catsuit and a fun spanking sequence in a sport dress. Each time her elbows were crushed. The position that made the shoot though we only got 2 minutes of video because it just pushed her to the max. That was the Pretzel.

See her tap out of the Pretzel, get spanked, get groped, wiggle like hell and rock a killer catsuit in Crushed Elbows and Catsuits!

Sometimes losing a bet is a win

I shot again with Kerri Taylor recently and have to say again that I'm amazed at the material I get out of her. We were chatting about some crazy stuff people had tried to get her to do, and I quipped that I'd better cross that off the list for today. She responded with I can try what I want because she knows I'll get her out fast if she needs relief.

In the middle of shooting I was explaining a position, and she started teasing me about it. Granted it was a chicken wing hogtie and frogtie, but she really thought it sounded silly. I told her that it's a no-joke position, the kind that is agony from the start and hell near the finish. She told me that she could take anything, so we made a little bet. If she could hold out for 6 minutes from the time I finished tying, I'd make the last set an easier one. If she had to bail, she owed me one more short set at the end of the day.

The banter was playful until we got to the chicken wing. Her elbows were already smashed together and when those wrists went up to her shoulders she knew it was going to be a challenge. By the time I did that extra pull on the hogtied to get things tight she was already making noises of strain. We got the gag on and away we went. My job was to move the camera around her and get the right panning. She really couldn't do much. The position basically made her furniture. She wiggled her fingers and a foot, but she mostly made pained grunts.

Her face showed the strain and as minutes ticked by she was really gutting things out. I gave her the option to bail multiple times, but she wouldn't let me. After 6 minutes I lifted her head up and told her to say, "I win, you suck!" She didn't sound happy. I ungagged her and she begged me to be quick. I could hear in her voice she was just about to lose it, so I cut her elbows. I filmed the complete untying so people would know just how hard models have to work for these positions. She could have tapped out at any time and basically put herself through hell to one-up me. And she did. She won! Of course, I won too because the video made a killer clip of what happens when a rigger and a model decide to go toe-to-toe.

Check out Kerri Taylor in Tied to the Point of Tears if you want to see a great position, some real agony and how far Ms. Taylor will push herself to make me lose!

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.

No escape

I've always been a huge fan of predicament bondage, but that sort of thing is up to interpretation. That makes it important for me to explain my personal view of predicament bondage. Yes, it includes the damsel in distress scenarios of "will she get loose in time" and "will they arrive to save her in time." My interpretation though has grown through the years as I've experienced more and more ties.

I have a personally philosophy of pushing people's limits. No, that does not mean I tie them up until they cry and then I let them go. That's not pushing a limit, it's exceeding a limit and then pulling back from it. There's a market for that and some folks that produce great material around it. I'll leave that to them. To me pushing a limit is taking somebody up to the edge of what they thought they were capable of and then letting them decide to go past that edge. I love when someone is exhausted at 10 minutes but decides to keep rolling for 15.

That's not the only example though. When someone is tied up the endorphins and adrenaline kick in and they became somewhat like super women. You have a period where you can responsibly get great material out of them if they allow it. Okay, so what does this mean. When you tie someone up there's a give and take of layering on restraint and making sure that the model is cool with things. However if you talk to them in the right way and put things on at the right pace they start feeling more flexible and resilient. They'll let you amp it up a bit more. That's when you get the best results. You're bending them but not breaking them ... and the results are wonderful. They struggle like hell until the adrenaline wears off and then realize, "holy shit he made me into a Russian gymnast."

I had a recent experience like that with Stacie Snow. Her elbows touch because she's tough and flexible, but I never really weld her elbows because she's a wiggler and a little space lets her do her thing. We were doing a scene with layers and I taped over the rope to cover the knots. A cool thing about electrical tape is it's somewhat elastic. That means even though I left a little room with the rope that tape squeezed her elbows together, no crushed them together. And she lasted forever. She went from couch to floor, struggled, rolled and even lied on those welded elbows without even saying ouch. And then the adrenaline wore off and she was done.

That's predicament bondage. We bent the limits without breaking them and got a scene where at the end she was totally spent and totally at her captor's mercy. Luckily I'm a nice guy, so I let her go! Check out Stacie Snow in Stuff My Mouth and Cinch My Body so the I Can't Call the Cops if a mile of rope and tape with a full hooding is your cup of tea!

Test complete!

I did it! When I started publishing material I made note of several things that were live or die indicators for any portal. One of the things I noted was a minimum amount of content. Another thing was video dimensions. You get the point. What would I need to do to actually get seen and get purchased.

Another list that I made was the "fan" list ... and by this I mean the bleep hits the fan list. Having made a ton of websites in the past, I know that the #1 reason people tank is lack of content and the #2 reason is lack of ability to update. With the holidays coming up and a trip to Vegas, I had a choice. Should I set up a number of updates for the time I'd be gone or should I do a little test.

Since I knew I needed to test some things I decided to forgo updates for a bit. I needed to know just how long it would take me to trickle out of sight. Slowly I dropped and it was agony not putting up some material, but I mustered forth. I figured this would be a couple days; to my surprise though it took 21 days for me to get pushed off the top 50 sites list on clips4sale. 3 WEEKS! I have to say that I am absolutely overwhelmed by how long that is for people to keep buying enough to keep my store showing up on that list. I am touched and thankful for the support.

With that test done, I now know that my material can weather what I used to call the 10-day storm. What happens if I get sick, or I have a family emergency or need a vacation. What happens if I can't get my updates done ahead of time? Now I know. As long as I keep putting up quality bondage with quality lighting that is TIGHT as a drum, I can outlast periodic small outages.

The good news is that tells me to keep going. The updates, the shooting and the editing are justified because the portal is sustainable. Thank you to all for your purchases and kind words. Thank you to all for bearing with me while I did my little test.

Now we can get back to regular updates :) This one is of Nyxon (who I see recently topped the bondage clips list at #1) in an escape sequence. I tied her up in thin rope, wrapped gauze over her ballgag and then left her to struggle without panties and with scissors in reach. I love escape sequences because the damsel has to work for it. The elbow ropes don't feel so comfy when you have to bend then out of a certain range ... to get loose you have to do just that. Kudos to Nyxon for the #1, Kudos to her on a great clip here. Check out Nyxon in Pantyless and Painful Escape if you like her or wiggling or escape sequences or tied elbows or ballgags or layered gags or vintage or ... okay, I'll stop :)

Stacie wrapped up for the holidays!

I often don't really know where a sequence is going until it happens. I have a girl tied up and struggling in what I call the basic tie. That's the tie where the girl is already tied up, but things can get much worse. Her wrists, elbows, ankles and knees keep her somewhat compliant and her ballgag keeps her somewhat quiet. It's a great way to start because you can do so many things to make it more challenging.

That's where my bad guy mode kicks into gear. I film that first part and that part of me watches how the girl is struggling, and I think, "how can I keep her from getting to the phone, getting scissors or attracting attention?" I jump in with more rope and just go for it. Before you know it the poor thing is just a wiggling pile of flesh and rope on the ground with a look on her face that is half play-acting and half, "holy shit Ted, why?"

That happened with Stacie Snow earlier this year. We decided on a nice blouse and skirt combo and some nifty blue high heels. I put her in the basic tie and told her to struggle until I figured out the next part. She wiggled and grunted and stayed in the chair all the time. The bad guy mode kicked in and whispered that the chair is too comfortable and tied her into a fold tie. Then the bad guy thought it was too hard to see her face and that chair is way too comfy. I dumped her on the ground, and she tried to kick me. Bad move ... soon poor Stacie was cinched into a tight balltie with her face wrapped in tape. She wasn't making much noise and she was moving even less. Every effort just exhausted her to the point where she could barely lift her head.

Some models hate ballties and some love them. Regardless there is one thing that is certain. It offers the most limited movement of almost any tie including the hogtie. It exhausts you quickly and done right there is no escape. Check out Stacie Snow in Roped Readhead Balltied in Blue Shoes and see how poorly she fared :)

She Drooled All Over Herself

One of the things I notice about some models is that they drool .. a lot. Almost every one of them apologize for drooling and say something like, "I can't help it, the gag makes me drool and I try to keep it in but it leaks out." I then says something like, "no, let it flow and the video will be awesome!" They look at me like I'm a weirdo, and I can't blame them; it's an odd request.

Angelique did that the first time we shot. She kept swallowing the drool. A little while back she asked what people liked in clips, and I mentioned big gags as one of those things. She made a comment about not being able to hold back the drool with big gags, and the little guy on my shoulder who twists his mustache while a damsel is on the railroad tracks whispered, "jackpot" into my ear. I whispered back, "no crap!" Angelique said, "who are you talking to?" We have a lot of conversations similar to that.

The other day she got all dolled up and looked unbelievable. She asked for the big, blue ballgag purposely, and the second the camera rolled she started drooling. In the video you can see it streaming out of her face, glistening on her bosom and strewn across her thighs. It was everywhere, and it looked sweet. That gag is going to make plenty of appearances from now on, and poor Angelique is going to be drooling ... a lot!

Oh, and if you care to see proof check out Angelique in She Drooled All Over Herself.

Nyxon Double-Take

You might read this post and go, "hey, didn't we just see Nyxon on the last post?" Yeah, that's exactly what I'm doing. I do a lot of things that go beyond standard convention, most notably tying up pretty girls. I also tend to start sentences with "yeah." And I'm not afraid to post about the same gal twice. Now that I think of it I'm also not afraid to start a sentence with "and" even though I know it's proper to end the previous sentence with a semicolon. The moral is that I don't care. I just thought that Nyxon was cliptastic, so I went for it. There's another thing. I'm not afraid to invent words :)

There's a method to the madness though. I put up my first clip of Nyxon, and the response wasn't what I expected. Did I do something wrong? Do folks not like Nyxon? I know the second question isn't true. I've seen clips of Nyxon explode the second they go up. This might let you understand my conundrum a little more:

• Nyxon is hot and pulls off a vintage look like nobody else
• The clip had welded elbows, on-screen tying and a jacked hogtie
• The clips had groping and a tight gauze wrap over all ballgag
• Nyxon has eyes that pull you into the scene

After putting up another clip of Nyxon and seeing it do well immediately, I realized quickly that I needed to check into the other clip more closely. That's when I had my oh crap moment. The price was wrong. I had somehow put the clip up priced far too high. The fix for that was easy, I'd just jack down the price. Poor Nyxon was buried in the back of my store though, and I'd done that great scene a huge injustice.

The only solution I could think of that gave just to the clip and Nyxon's brilliant effort was to add a preview and bump it to the front of the store. I'll leave it there for the weekend, so it at least gets a second look from people. Nyxon in It Just Gets Tighter and Tighter is available for a second look before it goes back to it's normal spot in the store next week!

Left Elbow, Meet Right Elbow

The first time I saw somebody's elbows together behind their back I couldn't fathom how it was even physically possible. I grew up in a small town. Hell, we didn't even have a gymnastics squad ... sure, some of the cheerleaders could do splits but there was nothing like this in the routines. These were the innocent years before I knew about forward and backward facing shoulders, double-jointed gals and overall flexibility.

As I became exposed to more bondage material though it became obvious that it was possible and that it looked shit hot. The majority of your hand mobility comes from the shoulders and the elbows. When you weld them together that equals a whole lot of helplessness. The first time I ever got elbows to touch on a gal was with Julie Simone about 12 years ago. I looked so young she actually joked about wanting to see my ID. She said she needed some tight stuff for possible work in California, so the floodgates had opened. Over the next two days we shot and her elbows were welded every which way: strappado, hogtie, chair ties and even taped wrist to elbow. That sold me on the concept, and it's been a staple from then on.

Angelique introduced me to Kerri Taylor a while back and I've loved shooting with her ever since. Tough as nails, her elbows weld without any issue and she can hold it for a long time. That makes for great video. As you can see I seldom miss an opportunity to get into the shot and inspect my handy work. In the clip this screen shot was taken from she struggled so hard that the chair did a complete 360 and moved all the way across the room ... but those elbows stayed glued the entire time. Check out Kerri Taylor in Chesty and Chair-tied to see for yourself ;)

In other areas, last night I managed to get an iPod store up on C4S featuring five of my best sellers. All of them are on my iPhone and the quality is incredible! Check them out at Ted Michaels Damsels - iPod ... or don't,