2011-06-05 Quickmud Hijinks (requires Quicktime 7 or higher)
— sorry about the wind noise, it was a “quick and dirty” shoot —
Free clip from June 5 mudding
Categories: Deep Mud Adventures, Inversion, Total immersion
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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!
Categories: Deep Mud Adventures, Total immersion
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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…
😉
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Andy’s movie
Photo by H.B.
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.
Photo by H.B.
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.
Photo by H.B.
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!
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Claypit bondage
Just before the action
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.
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Memorial Day weekend
Setting up a shot
Today was the first official day of the long weekend. It was kind of a lazy day for me.
Doug in his kayak
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).
Returning to civilization
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Claypit revisited
I went for a short romp in the claypit Wednesday. Heather Blake took photos …
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- Rinsing off in the rinse pond
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- Cleanup closeup
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- Preparing for the rinse
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- The rinse pond
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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?).
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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).
Categories: Clay Pit, The Back Yard
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Claypit maintenance
In preparation for an upcoming shoot, I have been working to make the claypit a bit smaller and deeper, and to work in some sand, to take away some of the clay’s “gloopiness”. I don’t know how else to describe it. The clay coats everything and seems to repel water so that it is always very thick. I experimented with adding sand and I liked the results. The sand adds some grittiness to the clay, but it stays suspended in the clay and makes the clay less impervious to water. The texture of the mix is more like mortar (concrete with no rock). The goal now is to get the clay and sand evenly mixed together. I’m mixing the sand and clay in about a 50-50 mixture and adding it to the pure clay, so in the end, the clay will still be 90% or more of the total volume of the pit. Check out this video of the process …
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April 17 movie
Categories: Inversion, Total immersion
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Official Start to Heather’s Mud Season
YAY!!
I got into the mud a few days ago, when Mudbondage and I were out in the swamp hoping for a good low-tide to use his favorite spot. I wasn’t really prepared to get muddy, so I didn’t go in very deep… although it was deeper than I expected! I got stuck!! Luckily, he was there to throw me a board so I could get un-stuck. (Then I tried to push him in as he walked past me, but it didn’t work. He’s just too quick!) I hope you like the movie!
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