Any Advice for Hosting or Streaming a Video File?

July 26, 2013

Well Monday, and the release of Decisive Results, is just a weekend away! At the moment I’m uploading the file to various file sharing sites so everyone can download it but I would really love to have a streaming version available to post here on the site. Unfortunately, just uploading the file to my web host isn’t really an option. Hosting the file myself would push me over my bandwidth allowance and shut my site down…or require me to pay hundreds of dollars in overage fees.

I suppose what I’m looking for is an adult-friendly alternative to YouTube that will allow embedding. I’ve looked into a few of the porn tube sites but the quality is so hideous that I don’t think its a viable option (there’s on-screen text during the vid that needs to be readable). So far the best option I found was dailymotion but they only allow nudity (not graphic sex) and they cap the vid length to 20 min (our vid is around 23).

Alternatively, I’ve looked to see if there are any hosting sites, such as NearlyFreeSpeech, where I could upload a single file and then stream it to my site from there. If I multiply the file size of the video by the number of visitors my site had last month that still ends up costing me several hundred dollars.

I don’t know if there is a free way to solve this problem but I wanted to ask you all if there were any options I haven’t thought of.

Thanks in advance if anyone has a suggestion.

Counting Down to the Premiere of Decisive Results

July 22, 2013

Welcome back faithful reader. Just checking in with a brief note to announce that my latest video, Decisive Results, will be premiering online next Monday, July 29th!

I also wanted to take a moment and thank all of the readers from the beta test group who helped out Tabico and myself with their great comments and feedback. I was really surprised by the volume of response to the post calling for testers and while we couldn’t include everyone, I’m happy to announce that you’ll all be able to check it out soon enough.

Tabico and I are both really anxious to share this with you all, Decisive Results has been in-development for a long time its really exciting to finally be this close to unveiling it. We’ll see you here next Monday!

I Need a Volunteer…or Twelve

June 18, 2013

Greetings intrepid reader and welcome back! Well its been a busy year for me, but I’m here today to deliver some exciting news. I will soon be releasing a new video manip! Tabico and I have been hard at work on this creation and, I’m happy to report, its nearly ready to be released to the world-at-large.

Before that happens, however, we would like to do a little focus-testing, a beta-test if you will. We’d like to screen it for a small group of fellow-fetishists to get their feedback before it goes out to the general public.

So, to that end, I’m asking for volunteers. If you would like to get a sneak-peak at this new video project, use the Contact link to send me an email expressing your interest. The only caveat is that you must agree to provide your honest opinion on the film once you’ve had a chance to watch it.

It will be first-come-first-served to the first twelve people who get in touch. If you miss out on the beta-test group, don’t worry…you’ll get a chance to see it for yourself soon enough.

Thanks in advance and we look forward to hearing from you!

Memories: New Manip

March 18, 2013

So, as I was putting this update together, it dawned on me that I haven’t done a regular-non-animation update in a long time. I don’t remember how long exactly, but as I was putting this update together, I realized I’d almost completely forgotten how to do regular image posts! Fortunately, I overcame that particular bout of ineptitude and have, for my efforts, a new manip to share with you all: Memories.

This particular image, I came across earlier tonight and it was just so spectacular that, in a rare moment of spontaneity, I downloaded it, immediately fired up Photoshop and set to writing. Given that writing is almost all I did to this picture, I sit here a short while later with a fresh new image. I can only hope the caption is a fraction as hot as I find the image itself to be. If you don’t find that to be the case, I invite you to ignore the caption completely and just soak up the erotic perfection that is this source photo.

The inspiration for this, oddly, comes from a vanilla-life friend who is absolutely breast-obsessed. Though she maintains she’s only sexually interested in men, and has the long-term relationships to corroborate that assertion, she professes large breasts are an intense turn-on for her.

I harbor a suspicion that she also has an interest in mind-control. There are a handful of truly awful B-vampire flicks that she loves, which seem out-of-place given her normal taste in movies. Having eventually gotten around to watching all of them myself, I was struck by the fact that each of the shlock-fests in question feature at least one scene of vampire-hypnosis/mind control.

I’ve never asked her about it directly, though my wife has offered to broach the subject since they are close friends. Anyway, if she’s out there, and if she ever stumbles into my neck of the tubes…I want her to know that this one is for her.

As always, your comments, questions and suggestions are welcome.

Traditional Education: New Animation

February 19, 2013

Another week, another update! I wish it were this way all the time, I really do. So, while I’ve managed to escape vanilla-life for a few moments, let me invite you to explore the benefits afforded by a Traditional Education. Then, read on for my director’s commentary.

As I discussed last time, I’ve amassed quite a collection of one-off images from Tumblr over the last year and I’m beginning to produce finished pieces from all that raw material. The biggest negative to the pics I’ve located on Tumblr is the fact that they tend to be relatively low resolution. I often plug pictures into various image search engines to try and locate the originals, but very often I cannot. So, while working with low-res material does present some challenges, its well-worth the effort when the source image is as good as this one.

I love when inspiration does the heavy-lifting for me. For this picture, I just started writing and had the entire story finished in probably ten or fifteen minutes. Now, given that what I write is quite brief compared to short fiction, that might not seem noteworthy. But, its rare that a narrative that I actually like comes out that quickly. Often I write a first draft that quickly, but then spend hours re-writing it until I’m happy.

Various little details of the image always play on my imagination and work their way into the story. Sometimes those story-bits serve the function of explaining away some piece of the image that might fall outside of the tale I’m weaving. Here, I wanted to address the lovely fishnet stockings the model is wearing and establish that as being part of her uniform rather than inferring someone put those on her.

Sometimes the inspiration is less-transparent. In this case, that circular rug beneath the chair is what inspired the moment where our heroine succumbs to a cup of drugged tea. When I looked at the pattern on that rug, my mind jumped to a moment where she was seeing the close up detail of a rug as she passed out. I didn’t end up writing that moment exactly that way, as I didn’t want to infer that her programming was taking place in the same office she was drugged in. But, it is interesting to look back and see how seemingly unconnected things led to moments of inspiration that completed the puzzle.

I hope you enjoyed and, as always, your comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome.

Cheap Room: New Animation

February 12, 2013

Greetings all. It has been a while, but between the holidays and a little piece of news I’ll discuss more later, I have had a busy 2013 so far. But enough of that, you’re here for the animation. This is actually a piece I’d created and written last year but I wasn’t happy with the story. So, I shelved it for a while and took another pass at it later and was much happier with the results. I’ll discuss it a bit more below, but why don’t you go ahead and check out Cheap Room.

Some time last year, I started perusing Tumblr and quickly discovered an enormous amount of material that was just waiting for me to get my hands on it. In my own searches for new material, I very often just hop between online freebie galleries. Looking for new images on Tumblr is beneficial in the sense that some person has already hand-picked a collection of images, usually of a similar theme. This makes my job much, much easier. I come across an image I like and I can browse through that user’s other images and perhaps find other material thats just as good.

I’ve already upload several new pieces of work that originated there, but I mention it because this image was the very first one that I snagged from Tumblr. So it seemed a timely story to tell.

As for the image itself, I just love everything about it. The room, the pose, the facial expression…I just couldn’t be happier with what’s going on in the photo. Subsequently, I didn’t change very much at all…only made additions. In the end, the thing I really focused on was writing a story that really conveyed some of the sense of emotion that I had the first time I laid eyes on it.

Hope you enjoyed it and, as always, your comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome.

Scoop: New Animation

November 27, 2012

I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling downright spoiled about having so much new material to post. A few weekends ago I had a rare combination of free time and mass-quantities of inspiration. From that, these last few updates were born.

Today’s animation is an entry into a time-tested EMC convention: the intrepid reporter nosing around where she shouldn’t be. Click here to check out Scoop, then read on for my director’s commentary.

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Thief: New Animation

November 19, 2012

Its strange how what I do is both incredibly freeing as well as confining. Freeing in the sense that I can take otherwise unrelated photos and, with a bit of Photoshop and a bit of writing, transform them into erotic mind control art. Feeling like I could take just about any decent photo (within reason) and turn it into an expression of my EMC fetish is the part that’s so freeing.

The bit that’s constricting is that, lately, I have ideas that I don’t have material to bring to life. I am limited by what I can find to turn into pictures and animations. Sometimes the inspiration goes places that I don’t know how to capitalize on. As empowering as the former scenario is, the latter is equally frustrating.

However, tonight’s new animation is, happily, an example of just how satisfying it can be when the idea is born from the material. I’ll prattle on all about it in a moment. For now, indulge yourself with my latest creation and find out some of the more erotic perils faced by a high-society burglar in Thief.

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Guided Therapy: New Animation

November 9, 2012

Welcome back dear reader! I hope you’ll excuse the lack of updates over the past month, but October was an especially busy month in vanilla-life. As fun as that’s been, I’ve been anxious lately and eager to post something new. While work on the new video-manip continues, I decided to take a break this evening and whip up some new material.

In Guided Therapy, a wife in marriage counseling is surprised at how effective her young therapist’s treatment is. Check out the animation, then read on for my director’s commentary.

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Playboy Took My Job

October 11, 2012

Now, if you’re a South Park fan, you’re probably already saying “They tikk ur jerb!” If you’re not a South Park fan, that joke goes a little something like this.

Now that we’ve got that out of the way…

So this past week I came across a few photos from a Playboy shoot of a model named Sydney Barlette wearing a set of VR goggles and looking…well looking like she was being programmed with some sort of sexiness. I grabbed the images in question, thinking it would make for a quick manipping session. Lets face it, if I don’t have to add the brainwashing goggles myself, there’s not much left to do other than write.

So, having saved the images, I was closing the browser tab and my eyes just happened to glance over a bit of the text description informing me that I should join Playboy Plus to view the full res images…

…along with the video.

I literally, not figuratively, did a double take and scrambled to reopen the page I’d just closed. Some photog at Playboy put a woman in a brainwashing contraption (c’mon, no one’s buying this as a vr-themed shoot), took some pictures, and then shot video of it. I had to see it. I could not stand the idea of such a video existing and not seeing it.

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