I’ve been fantasizing about my last weighted bondage sink since I shot it. Yesterday I had a chance to go back out and take another shot at it. My video camera got some of it, but the one I used stops recording at 20 minutes, so it didn’t get the entire scene. I had a pretty good time. Conditions were nearly perfect. I have an 18 second, high quality teaser … 2011-06-15_teaser540p … and a bunch of still photos. Here are a few of them …
June 13 movie release
Today is the official release date of the May 24 Clay pit Follies movie. You can now purchase the clip in my Clips4Sale store.
I did go out to the swamp on June 11, and I recorded the following clip. It was supposed to be longer, but I failed to start the camera recording for the second segment.
Later in the day, I played in the clay pit and drank too much beer. I didn’t do anything exciting on Sunday.
Free clip from June 5 mudding
2011-06-05 Quickmud Hijinks (requires Quicktime 7 or higher)
— sorry about the wind noise, it was a “quick and dirty” shoot —
Mudding on June 5, 2011
I didn’t plan to go mudding when I ventured out in my kayak on that fateful Sunday afternoon. I just had to get out and stretch. I’d been working around the yard too much, and my back had been nagging me.
I set out just after 3pm. The tide had crested and was just beginning to go out. I rediscovered that I suck at wildlife photography, but my search for a good alligator photo led me to some very treacherous mud. The photo I used here is from my first stop. Later on, I found a really deep spot where I stopped to shoot some video. I wasn’t even planning to do any mudding, much less shoot video. So, the video was more or less an afterthought with very poor audio. I plan on giving the video to my loyal fans, as soon as I can figure out how. The video is, essentially, a 7-8 minute struggle that ends in total submersion. The mud was thick, but it was pretty easy to sink into. As I sank pretty quickly up to my shoulders, I wondered for a minute if I’d even be able to get out. Now, that’s some great mud!
Tarzan Escapes on Pet Elephant!
So there I was, tormenting my Tarzan, when out of nowhere, this freaking ELEPHANT comes along, unties him, and takes off with him!!! Ugh!
I’ve heard elephant soup is pretty tasty…
😉
Andy’s movie
Heather Blake and I set out to shoot a movie clip for Andy, today. As with most swamp adventures, it was a bit grueling. Before we went out, Heather and I were both moaning about how hot it was, but I don’t remember being hot while we were out. That could have been because I was wet or immersed in mud most of the time.
I hope I got the details for Andy’s movie right. The story is one of a dude in a white t-shirt and jeans (I added the shackles for effect), trying to escape from the prison warden who is chasing him. He takes to the creek to throw the dogs off his scent, and eventually he emerges to trek through the woods, but he gets caught in thick mud that sucks him down. With his feet shackled together, he is no match for the sucking mud. The movie does not end in total submersion because the mud was just too thick. I was seriously stuck, though.
The movie will be available for instant download in a few days. It looks like it’s going to be another busy week. I can’t believe we’re almost into June, already. The year is nearly half over!
Claypit bondage
I ventured out to the clay again tonight. I took a couple of pictures before I got messy. I tried some bondage. It was interesting. I’ll let you know how the video turned out, once I have a chance to review it. This has been a crazy busy weekend, so far. I’m glad I get an extra day.
Memorial Day weekend
Today was the first official day of the long weekend. It was kind of a lazy day for me.
I picked blueberries and worked on a seat for my 15′ canoe. I took an afternoon nap, watered the garden, and took a walk in the woods at dusk. I managed to edit and compress a movie clip I shot yesterday of Heather Blake, mushing around in some shallow swamp mud. We had gone out to shoot a serious mud scene, but we were thwarted by a south wind pushing water up into the estuary and some fishermen blocking my alternate spot (where I can go when the tide isn’t as low as it needs to be for some of my other spots).
Claypit revisited
I went for a short romp in the claypit Wednesday. Heather Blake took photos …
- Rinsing off in the rinse pond
- Cleanup closeup
- Preparing for the rinse
- The rinse pond
Late night in the clay pit
I worked my tail off, all weekend. I had a major construction project that I’ve been putting off forever. I started working on it on Thursday, played catch up in the office on Friday, and tore into it Saturday morning, working all day Saturday, starting again on Sunday morning, and finishing just before dark, Sunday night. I kind of wanted to go out and celebrate, but I decided, instead, to take a dip in the clay pit. By the time I got out to the claypit, the sun had gone down, so I had my little romp as the twilight faded. The clay felt very nice. I would have stayed out there all night, if I could have. I did a couple of head stands and I got completely covered in clay. A video is worth 1,000,000 words. Sorry it’s kind of dark and bluish, it was getting dark (remember?).
Still frames/May 13 clip
These still frames were taken from the original video that I shot while working on the claypit. The video was shot on my JVC GZ-HM1 at 1920×1080 (60 fields/second).





































