Behind-the-scenes footage? Yup. Come behind-the-scenes and on location. Watch photos and films as they’re being produced. Hear and see the models candidly. The clip below is a sample of behind-the-scenes footage from the shoot with Anastasia, A Good Morning.

About Last Night…

The official trailer for a short film in a series of episodes, this is the trailer for Episode I.

About Last Night…

     In the hall outside her room is some doctor, a woman in a white coat holding a clipboard. She has, it looks like, long dark hair twisted into the shape of a little black brain on the back of her head. She’s not wearing makeup so her face just looks like skin. A pair of black-framed glasses are folded and sticking out of her chest pocket.
     Is she in charge of Mrs. Mancini, I ask.
     The doctor looks at the clipboard. She unfolds the glasses and slips them on and looks again, the whole time saying, “Mrs. Mancini, Mrs. Mancini, Mrs. Mancini…”
     She keeps clicking and unclicking a ballpoint pen in one hand.
     I ask, “Why is she still losing weight?”
     The skin along the parts in her hair, the skin above and behind the doctor’s ears, is as clear and white as the skin inside her other tan lines must look. If women knew how their ears come across, the firm fleshy edge, the little dark hood at the top, all the smooth contours, coiled and channeling you to the tight darkness inside, well, more women would wear their hair down.

- from Choke by Chuck Palahniuk (on Amazon)

Fantastic novel on every front.

But regarding the topic at hand…. Agreed? or No? I find there is something supremely sensual about a woman’s ear. Photographically speaking, ears can make or break a photo. I’ve taken photos that, in reviewing them, they were near to complete perfection but they’ll never be posted because the ears weren’t sensuous enough for a certain image or they were diametrically opposed to what that particular image was trying to convey. Most often in what I shoot, though, the ear is neatly just out of view or… right there.

I’ve been working over the past few days to get things tidied up on the site to have it completely and 100% done. None of the changes are visible yet as I’m waiting to wrap up the billing.

I’m building out sizable galleries in the public area which is taking some time as well. Also, I’m going to throw up some trailers as well.

In any event, this is what’s going on here. Also…. there will be a rather nice update coming this week in the members area. Stay tuned.

I’ve been spending the past couple of days reviewing content management systems for an adult site that I’m building out for another model (not Delila in the photo, by the way). This is actually something I’m really enjoying. HeadlessBuddha.com is built on a very simple system and customized entirely by me. And it makes it easy that way; I don’t have to fool with much.

This other site (or family of sites) is going to have a bast structure that’s entirely different. Rather impressed with some of the offerings out there for adult content management systems. Some of them are kind of crappy, but then there are a couple that throw every possible option at you. Waiting on a walkthrough right now with one company…

I’m pleased to show you the trailer for a new short film in the member’s area, Scene at a Parking Garage featuring Anastasia. In addition to the video being up, all of the photos from the shoot (120 total) are also up. The photos and video were shot simultaneously; I was literally holding one camera in each hand during a lot of the shoot.

Here’s the trailer. I’m really, really happy with this.

Anastasia in Girl at a Parking Garage

That most excellent groove is me.

There’s something that I really want to do with Headless Buddha but I’m not quite sure how to handle the details of it. It’s been part of the concept of the buddha from the outset but I haven’t implemented it yet and you’ll understand why in a second.

One of the things I want to do with Headless is make it a site that’s very worthwhile for the models that appear on it. I want to give the models a percentage of any revenue that they generate. And I’d see this happening in two ways:

1) Generate money via a subscription service. I’d like for people to sign up to join HeadlessBuddha.com and I’d like to give the models a percentage of that. My initial thought was to have people who are signing up for the subscription service specify their favorite model (or the model that inspired them to signup) and then split 50% of the net with the model. Granted, for a $7.95 subscription, it would take a number of subscriptions to make the model any money. But if they buy into it, and people buy into it…

2) The other method is generating money via sales of prints. Say that someone decides to buy a print of a certain model: I’d like for her to have 50% of the net for the sale.

I realllllllllly want this to work. But I need to figure out some things about it. For example, tracking sales, figuring out disbursement schedules, trying to figure out who a whole mess of crap, what the relation is to the model when money is disbursed (by way of model release, typically any monetary arrangement for any shoot is executed one-time and paid at the time of the shoot with no further guarantee of any monies), and so on and so forth.

Then there’s the issue of approaching the models I’ve already shot (some aren’t aware of my concept, some are) and saying, “Hey, you have the option of da-da-da-da-da. Would you like a percentage?” And what kind of contract or any (if maybe these are simply donations?) I would need to draw up for older models and newer models?

It’s a lot to consider but I really, really want this to be part of the site. I want models to feel that it’s worth their while. Apart from the photos and videos being something other than porn… apart from them getting quality shoots… I want them to get something else out of it (beyond being paid up front, if that’s our agreement).

So your feedback on this would be appreciated. How can I make this work? Is there a better idea that’s conceptually the same or some reasonable way to make this happen. Any legal feedback in the bunch would be greatly appreciated.

Because of what I do, I get a variety of different emails from time to time. From time to time, I get emails from a local porn talent producer. I’m on his list so he’ll send out very standard shots of girls available for work. There’s usually a handful of photos in the set: one nude front shot, one nude back shot, one nude profile, and then maybe a nude upperbody shot. Included with the photos is the model stats and the type of work they do. On occasion, I’ll get photos of couples and their included stats. The photo below is from such an email.

When I saw this, my SECOND thought was, “Well, looks like someone has a little captain in him!”
The first thought was, “Couldn’t we have moved like four feet over to take this photo or at LEAST unplugged the Glade Air Freshener? Because I’m looking at this image and thinking it must not smell all that fresh right about there.”

I’m wrapping up layout on the inside now. I have the menu worked out in my mind of what I want, I just need to create the pages for it. Also, menu items on the front end will change as well although I haven’t given them as much thought.

Would like to have the site layout complete no later than Wednesday of this week and then I’ll be all done with the Buddha in terms of layout and design. I’m pleased with the content (both the quality and quantity) that I’ve been putting up in the members area. I’ve been able to complete sets here and there and get a lot of video up over the past few days. I’ll continue working in that vein for the remainder of this week and then will start to fall into a more regular schedule, I believe. Or, that’s the way I see it going anyway.

Feedback has been really positive and I appreciate everyone’s response. Lots of good feedback on the way the videos tie into the photos and so that’s been good.

Anyway, just wanted to mention where things are at and say, once more, thanks for your support. I wouldn’t be here without you.

Should be shooting Christie L’amour today. We were supposed to have our first shoot in about six months this last Thursday but it got rescheduled for today. (Ended up doing a shoot with Salome for The Model Shoots on ipanemic instead.)

I’ll be working with Christie (and friends!) regularly which makes me really happy. She’s just great, great people and shoots beautifully. Really excited to be working with her. Anyway, look for updates coming soon of Christie in the members area, from solo shoots, to girl/girl shoots, and a couple of surprises.