hello Scotty! how are you? i got this idea, if you like, you told me you want to shoot something exotic? i could be your model, lets try something different, would you like to do spiritual pictures? i am sure a lot of people is into that! or maybe facial shoots, what do you think?  i am very near from you! this is my phone number xxx xxx xxxx, let me know what do you think!

And what am I to do with this? I have no choice but to say yes.

Alright, I’m officially killing myself trying to get this site launched. I’m driving myself absolutely batty and for no reason that’s worth anything.

However, I just came to the realization a few minutes ago that… “Fuck it. I’m not a porn site.” I’m not. It wasn’t my intention to be a porn site, so why do I need to run this like a porn site?  Why do I need to say, “There’s going to be this and that and blah, blah, blah.  And yippee, porn, porn for everyone!  And updates like this and that and so on and so forth”

When I was working with other girls as their photographer, there was a mad rush to get the photos and video done in a certain time frame. And understandably so, because their sites operated on fixed schedules. I was shooting porn for them. I’m not shooting porn for Headless. And this is all mine. This isn’t for someone else. This is me presenting erotica the way that I want. So why do I need to do x number of photos a week, x number of videos a week? Why do I need to kill myself for this launch? I’ve started feeling like I’m letting things suffer because of it. And I’m not happy about it. So why am I doing this this way, I ask?

I’ve got (literally) tens of thousands of photos. I’ve already got more than enough footage. So then… what?

I would so much rather take my time with each photo and present each one the way that I feel comfortable. I would rather re-edit a video five times than throw something together that I’m not 100% happy with. Even on ipanemic, I re-edit videos like mad just to put up 90 seconds of nothingness.  I don’t have to run any aspect of this site like a porn site.  And in fact, doing so… I’m losing what this is.

So how to approach this then. (Obviously, I’m typing this note rather freely and will hope that you’ll provide your feedback.) My original thought was that I would do one solid update a week, with photos, video, and behind-the-scenes footage. Maybe that’s really NOT unreasonable, but I have so much to go through right now, it seems that way. For example, there’s a set I’m working on right now where there are roughly 400 photos that I would happily release, once edited to my liking. However, I don’t like the release-all-at-once methodology.  I can spend hours on a photo.  On one photo.  Or the more likely scenario is that I do one in five minutes.  Video?  When I’m doing them my way?  Forget it.  Video takes me a while to edit.  I like things to be a certain way.  I’ll keyframe individual frames when the end result is only noticeable to me.

Maybe I’ve been spoiled by Flickr and the like, where I can release photos whenever. I like to release photos when I do them.  I don’t like to release en masse.  I think what I would prefer to do with the launch is release a base set of photos from shoots, behind-the-scenes footage, and then the edited video after. As time goes on, simply update the sets with photos that I work on from those sets. As they hit me. As I can see the photo. If I were to simply release five photos a day, I have enough content right now to last a year. Maybe ten.  I don’t know.  I know that I DON’T want to release rushed crapola (to borrow from my 8th grade social studies teacher).

What I would like to do is release this site with the thousand or so photos I’m sitting on now, the footage I’m sitting on now, and then just take my time and put everything out in due time. With every day or every other day (or even every third or fourth day), putting up new work. Putting up new photos, new video, or behind the scenes footage. Or whatever. Whatever I think would go well that day. As I finish them. Like I do now on ipanemic and with flickr. Only, with this being my work, I can be a little more aggressive in posting since I’m really limited with what I post elsewhere. But the main thing is… NOT have a fixed schedule.

And really… it makes sense. In the parlance of 1970s speak, it jives more with the buddha. The headless one.

But I need your input. And I’m asking for your input. So please. Give your input. Your opinion matters.

I’ve been really, really surprised by the number of people wanting to know when the site is going to launch; I figured that I might have three or four friends sign up and then maybe a few random people. I really didn’t expect this many to be interested. I kinda wish I had used another system for collecting emails so it won’t be so cumbersome to gather the addresses for the notification. (Basically, I just get an email with your address in it; now, I’m going to spend an hour or two just copying and pasting addresses into the email before I send out the notification. Which should be within a week. Hopefully.)

Anyway, all of that being said, if you haven’t signed up and would like to receive a one-time notification to let you know when the site launches, just enter your email address below.

Well hello there.

Yeah. So, I’m close. Really close to launch now. The site is pretty much complete. I’m working behind the scenes on content all the every day. But let’s not talk about that right now. Let’s talk about the site.

Site Layout:

So you can see from the handy menu up top that there are some neato things. The Home page (woohoo!) is there.

The second link in the menu is the Members area. The members area will be where all of the video, all of the photos, all of the behind-the-scenes footage, all of the everything, and all of the god-knows-what-else will be. Everything will be there (and downloadable) and a portion of that everything will be here. In the non-members area. Which brings us to the other links in the menu.

This blog will simply run on the front page of the site. There will be one of those very porn-like “You must be 18 to enter this site” pages when you come to Headless. Once you get past that annoyance, you’ll be right here, reading gripping updates like this! But more than that, the blog will be the updates of my life in erotica (the phone calls, the planning, the upcoming models, shoot details, goofy moments, serious moments, anything that crosses my mind, Nabokov might make an appearance, Buddha might stop by, etc). There will be notifications of updates and so on and so forth. Who knows, maybe I’ll even write fictitional tales. With made-up words. (Actuallly, I heard Eminem use “fictitional” once in an interview and it’s just such an awesome on-the-spot made-up word that I’ve adopted it for my own.) I’ll publish trailers here. And so on.

In a very porny manner, the Tour link will take you to a nifty tour of what’s available in the members area.

The Updates link will showcase all of the updates to the very latest as they’re online. I’m planning one update per week including photos/video and/or behind-the-scenes; at the time of launch, there should be about 10 photo sets available, 6 films, and a pretty sizable amount of behind-the-scenes footage.

Freebies will be large-size (1200-1440px) downloadbable photos, downloadable trailers, and hm… haven’t really decided what else I want to give away.

Prints will feature select prints that may be ordered online. (Not sure yet if I’m going to allow direct online ordering for smaller prints or whether I’m going to handle it the same as I do ipanemic.com.)

And then, of course, the About link will take you to a section that will answer the who’s, why’s, and where’s about HeadlessBuddha.com.

Content:
The trailer for HeadlessBuddha.com kind of gives you a good feel for the content behind the curtain. And the curtain will SOOOOON be lifted!

So there you have it. It’s coming. It’s a lot of content I’m having to work through. But I have to say… it’s nice pulling it all together. I think you’re going to like what you find here. This isn’t a porn site. I mean, I guess it is. But it’s more than that. With Headless Buddha, I show you the world in my eyes. I hope you like what you see.