Nickelodeon: New Animation

December 15, 2011

I’m mad productive when I’m procrastinating.

That’s the only conclusion I can arrive at as I really should be working on the big collaboration project I’ve teased a few times now, but I just keep coming across great material and getting inspired and…well, you know how these things go.

So, lets get to the goodies and then you may read-on at your leisure for the director’s commentary on this new animation. Step right up, ladies and gentlemen and witness the newest miracle born of technology and artistry! Experience, for yourself, the wonders of the Nickelodeon!

In the second installment of Manip Musings, I outlined my keen interest in the turn of the 20th century as an era full of posibilites for mind control erotica. I think the vestiges of the Victorian age and the slow transition of the superstitious old world into the reasoned age of industry provides a fascinating backdrop for our fetish.

Apparently someone else thinks so too; or else they wouldn’t have released such an amazing photo series out into the wilderness of the intertubes for me to find.

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Starting With Dessert: New Animation

November 26, 2011

I hope everyone is enjoying the holiday weekend. I myself am stealing time away to bring you a new manip I created this week and just couldn’t wait to share with you all. Though its a slight breach of holiday etiquette lets start today’s feast with Dessert, then you can read on to find out more about how this new animation came about.

I recently downloaded a large archive of pics featuring the lovely Justine Joli. I’d seen a little of her photo work and wanted to find out if she’d done any sets that would lend themselves to some hypno-kink. While quickly speeding through a dozen or so folders I came across a set of her with Aria Giovanni, who I’ve featured several times now.

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Really Quite Honored

November 21, 2011

I’ve been pretty up-front about the fact that what really got me interested in doing mc photo manips was actually mind control erotica. Don’t get me wrong, I was an avid visitor of PrivatePages and loved the work there, but it was the writings from The Archive that really inspired me to want to do something creative with my fetish.

So, it was with a great sense of ironic delight that I received an email recently from an mc author who told me that they had written a story based on one of my images!

VoyerThe pic in question was from a speed-manipping session back in 2009. At the time, I had an idea of a storyline for a caption, but wasn’t really inspired enough to write anything. So I posted the image, along with my thoughts, and that was that.

Until an email dropped into my inbox from Mampang informing me that this manip, in particular, had really struck a chord. So much so, that they had written an entire story and would I be interested in having a look?

Now, I’m not one to shy away from long-captions, but I must tell you that reading this story really illustrated for me the difference between what I do and what an author does. Far from just laying out the scene from the image, Mampang breathed life into three wonderful characters and a delicious bit of drama along with some oh-so-spicy erotic flare!

Mampang pays off on the erotic promise of that image and then some; living in the character’s head moment-by-moment, exploring the struggle within as one part of the mind wants to give into the part that’s already given up…its the sort of stuff that I love in mc erotica. And, for the record, there’s a bit of business in there that, if I can find a suitable image, I will be ripping off paying homage to just as soon as I can!

So, enough teasing. Voyer was recently posted to The EMCSA and is available now! Please give it a read, as it is an excellent tale, and pass along your thoughts to its very-talented author!

Lastly, I’d like to thank Mampang and just say what a great feeling it is to think that something I created, in turn, inspired someone else’s art.

It really made my day.

COMICS!!!

October 10, 2011

In the wake of my recent hack-attack, life got busy and I haven’t had a chance to post (which I was doing with some regularity there for a few weeks) and that makes me all grumpy-face, so I thought tonight I’d take action and rectify that situation right up.

I’m an avid comic reader. Got into them when I was a kid and have just grown to love the medium more and more as I’ve ‘grown up.’ Ironically, or inexorably, the very first comic I ever bought (Uncanny X-Men #226) featured a bit of business which, at the time, fascinated me for reasons I could not articulate. Looking back, I think it was tweaking my still-dormant mind-control fetish. Regardless something kept pulling me back to this page over and over.

Something about the idea of that mask fixed to her face, unable to remove it. The thought of what it might be doing to her… I don’t know…but it definitely did something for me.

Fast forward to 2011 and I’m currently reading the excellent revisionary old west series The Sixth Gun. I’ll try not to spoil anything in the hopes that you’ll pick up an issue and read it for yourself, but the long and short of it is that there are six guns that are sought after by all manner of deviant person.

The series protagonist, Becky, has recently been enjoying the attentions of a handsome gunfighter who comes to her aid when she and her colleagues come under a series of supernatural attacks. He spirits her away to save her from further harm… or perhaps because he’s got plans of his own and a shiny crystal hanging around his neck that helps him get his way.

The following issue opens with Becky still under his control, immobilized in an anonymous hotel room. However, she has a developing mental connection with her revolver, the titular sixth gun, which allows her to break free and go after Kirby.

The big problem, of course, with mind control is that once you’ve been put under, its a cinch to pull you back down; especially when your hypnotist is of the hunky, rogue variety. Kirby reveals he’s after the guns for a payday and that if Becky comes with him, he’ll cut her in for the profits. Becky wants to believe it, even though she knows better, then she finds out that what she really wants is another look at Kirby’s pretty crystal necklace…

Mind-control themes aside, its an excellent series and if you happen to be a comics reader, I emphatically recommend it you give it a read.

That’s all for now, new stuff is still in the works and I’ve got a television recommendation for next time, but that will have to wait till later in the week.

See you then.

I Were Haxzord!

September 12, 2011

Well, if you happened to stop by the blog last week, you may have seen an ominous message from my uninvited guests. Yes, my site was hacked by nefarious ruffians with poor taste in music. Fortunately, they didn’t do anything too malicious and I do regular backups so restoring the site was no problem.

If anything, the experience lit the proverbial fire under me and got me to do some security-related research, which I should have done a long time ago. In any case, I’ve closed some loopholes, shored up the outer wall, and implemented some other tricks to help ensure this doesn’t happen again.

So, thanks for your continued patronage and rest assured normal updating will resume this week. More stuff on the way and more stuff in the works. I look forward to sharing it with you all.

Women On Top – Three Animated Manips

August 31, 2011

I suppose if my work is known for anything, its probably for being extremely biased weighted in favor of women-on-women material. What can I say, I’m a creature of habit. However, a fortunate bit of synchronicity recently provided the perfect opportunity to break from the norm and finally give fans of Female-on-male hypno kink a reason to visit my corner of the woods.

So, the story goes something like this. An email correspondent recently confessed that, while they enjoyed my work, Fem/fem material just wasn’t their cup of tea. So, this saucy scribe challenged me to apply my normal mind-control kink sensibilities to some images of dominant ladies turning men into their thralls. I responded that the images are what inspire me. If I found good material depicting women on top, I’d love to work up something a bit different. Fate, as it turns out, was listening.

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Email Subscription is Changing!

August 23, 2011

A quick note to those of you who are subscribed to the blog via email subscription. The Feedburner address for the site is changing (new address is here by the way) and, as a result, you will need to re-subscribe to the new feed address in order to keep getting mind-control manip morsels (three times fast) delivered to your inbox. So, if you’re a current subscriber, please open the url below in a browser window to subscribe to the new feed address and keep getting up-to-date deliveries of my latest posts and manip updates.

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Thank you all for your readership and sorry for the hiccup; its a one-time deal that I don’t plan to repeat.

Welcome To Fright Night

August 23, 2011

As I’ve blogged previously, I’m looking forward to the forthcoming remake of The Thing. However, there is another remake I’ve also been curious about. A film of the same name, based on Tom Holland’s 1985 cult classic Fright Night.

Now, for those who aren’t familiar with this high-watermark of cinema, the essentials of the plot are that Charlie Brewster discovers a vampire has moved in next door to him and must convince Peter Vincent, a vampire-slaying hero of late-night cinema (very much in the vein of Peter Cushing’s numerous turns as Van Helsing in Hammer Films) to aid him in destroying the unholy creature.

I’ve been watching the original this evening and rediscovering some vampire-mind-control moments that I had forgotten about. If you’re familiar enough with the story (or don’t care and just want to skip straight to the blank-eyed-yes-master-I-will-obey naughtiness), the film’s vampire mc scenes are located at the beginning of the following two clips:

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Too Little Too Late

August 15, 2011

I’m fond of saying that good manips start with good source material. One thing I’ve always been very diligent about with my work was to find the best source material I could. Quite often, when I find images ripe for manipulation, I’ll snag a few pics from a series and then spend days trying to hunt down the full gallery. Experience has taught me that where there’s smoke there’s fire and getting my hands on all the source material for a given series often pays dividends in the final manip.

As I wrote about previously one of my more extensive animated manips, Alpha, would probably not have come about had I not stumbled across a few, key image galleries that gave me the source material to completely flesh out both the main plot and sub-plot of that story. One of the hurdles I had to leap was finding a suitable model to portray the titular character. This ended up being a far greater challenge than I’d anticipated simply because I needed to find a series of pictures depicting a woman in a corner in order to match up with my storyline. The long and short of it is I did find a series of suitable images and finished the project.

And then I came across this series of images a week or so ago.

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New Manip: Latex and Chains and Webcams, Oh My

August 10, 2011

So, I was sitting around this evening and feeling stumped on what to write about today. I really wanted to get an update out, but I just didn’t feel like writing at all. And then it suddenly dawned on me: why write when I can manip?

Since helping Tabico complete Lieder, I’ve had a manipping fever that I just can’t kick. I’ve already dove head-first into a new animated series, I just posted a quick trio of manips, and the muse shows no sign of letting up.

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