Tired.

Okay everyone...I have tonnes to share with you about the 2 shoots today, my new videographer (who is wonderful) and the very cool bondage suspended fuck I had but it will all have to wait! I have 2 more shoots tomorrow that I'm excited about and will then have more to share with you...but for now, what i need is a good nights sleep.

Take care,
Chanta

AGH...Models!

Seriously, I spend so much time chasing after models. I find these stunning new girls that want to enter the industry and are all excited...and then they either no show, or change their minds! The funny thing is, when doing porn is something you are really seriously considering you may chicken out a couple of times (I never did) but eventually you will do it...so I don't get mad or anything but fuck, the inconvenience is huge. I have literally spent my entire day trying to fill a shoot and now I can relax because it's done...but it took me over 10 hours of e-mailling and phoning around to do it...ugh. At least it's replaced though...if I have locations and the videographer on a day rate I need to do 2 scenes to be economical.

Everyone, go take a look at http://www.chantasbitches.com I have thrown up a few pics of the models I've shot so far. It's not much of a splash page but it's a start and it's better than having nothing there...besides, I don't want to give too much too soon!

In other news, my friends site: http://www.agentsm.com also launched, it is a very nice online store that I did all of the photography for and also provided some of the items (the bondage scarves). I am hoping it does well that I can get some of my other kinky ideas manufactured and sold there.

Tomorrow is a big day; 2 shoots and a new videographer...I'm feeling good about it though...one of the job requirements of shooting my stuff is that you have to do a lot of "research" first (ie. watch a lot of porn) so he's been doing that the last couple of days...how funny!

Lastly, I am now on MySpace! Check me out at http://www.myspace.com/chantarose

Take care,
Chanta

This can't be for real:

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/02/25/national/a002521S97.DTL

Great, lets have abortions be abolished (even in cases of rape and incest) so that we can all go back to sticking clotheshangers up our cunts as women did decades ago. I'm fine with people choosing to be pro-life, and I'm fine with people choosing to be pro-choice but this is one issue where I feel that church, government, etc should have no power whatsoever and people should just mind there own business. Abortion is a womans/mans/couples/individuals choice...and it has nothing to do with anyone else and whatever their beliefs may be.

How evil am I!

I'm actually kind of disappointed in this reult...I thought I was a lot more evil...yes, I enjoy seeing other in pain, etc BUT I've never done drugs...or spat in someone's drink, etc so I guess that means I'm okay! How bizarre!

You Are 38% Evil

A bit of evil lurks in your heart, but you hide it well. In some ways, you are the most dangerous kind of evil.

How Evil Are You?

"FlightPlan" Woohoo!

I'm just about to sit down with a nice cup of tea to enjoy one of my favortite movies: Flightplan! Ths tory is not so greta but the way the film is shot is so elegant and I just adore Jodie Foster. Anyway, why am I posting this here? Because I received this and 2 other DVD's from my amazon wishlist as a gift from a fan that I also adore! Thank you Dixie, you had me smiling from ear to ear!

The low down!

Doesn't it suck when you have something good and then it's gone?

As you all know, I have been shooting for CB's. My videographer took quite some tracking down...see I don't have a means to audition new videographers so i wanted someone I knew could do the job and ober 18 months ago at CNE we were hiring. It came down to 2 guys; Jesse (aka JLo) or Ben. Peter had seen Jesse's audition and liked his work ethic so Jesse got the job and was my videographer at CNE for waterbondage. Anyway...Ben was also very good and I never forgot his name. When I decided to start CB's I just had to hunt him down and when I found him was when I started shooting. Admittedly, it takes a little time to shoot porn perfectly but he's such a nice, great guy, fabulous to have on set and all in all shoots some good porn...with a little fine tuning he would be the best ever and he seems to really like shooting this stuff too! Anyway, long story short, I knew he was looking for a "real" job with regular income and I'm happy for him that he has found one...a really good one but that leaves me without a videographer AGH! The ad's out on craigslist and have had some interesting responses so far...porn will not stop...but I am disappointed as I felt that myself, Ben, Rick and Larry were quite the fabulous porn crew!

Okay, gotta go and read more resume's...it amazes me...in my ad I clearly state the equipment the hired person will be using and then people just send me e-mails that are supposed to be resume's but rather just list the equipment they have...um, I already have the gear guys...I just need to know if you can use it.

Take care,
Chanta

I'm on IMDb

I had no idea porn stars were listed on this site...bizarre but very cool at the same time! http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1321093/

Fabulous Lighting!

Now, I don;t want to pat myself on the back too much...but I just love the effect created by the back light through the chains on to Hollie's lovely skin, I think it's really sexy!

Fucking Hollie Hard!

Just editing the Hollie pics on this dreary Sunday morning and came across this great image!

Every girl is different when you dominate her and I wish I had have known sooner that Hollie really comes alove for the strap on fucking...because I would have fucked her more! I'll have to have her back for round 2, next time she says I can slap her face!

Ugh, my feet LOL!!!!

Seriously, I need to get some flat shoes! I wear heels, all day, every day with my very sexy pair of leather knee high boots that I literally live out of. I love them and they are super comfortable for the most part...just not when I'm on my feet rigging for 5 hours straight...I need to get some comfotable sneakers or something...I don;t even own a pair of flat shoes and then I wonder why my feet hurt!

Today was my 3rd Bondage Photography workshop. It started off a little rocky with one of the models running signifigantly late (over 30 minutes) and me stressing out thinking she was going to no show. Anyway, she arrived and all was fine. Everyone seemed to have a good time and as usual, I was frantically busy tying and untying for the entire afternoon LOL! I love rigging but by the 5th hour I start to lag a little and worry that my models are getting too tired or that the photographers are getting sick of shooting bondage...of course everyone is happy, but I worry that they are not!

I was supposed to shoot Shana tomorrow but just feel too tired so we have rescheduled. I'm looking forward to this shoot for 2 reasons; 1) She is a virgin to this stuff, and I love breaking in sweet, innicent little virgins...oh, and she's ticklish, 2) My hubby is going to shoot it for me...and no one lights or shoots better than my hubby so I know teh quality of the video will rock. It's importnat to have a kick ass videograoher when breaking in a virgin...those first time reactions only happen once and you don't want to miss them!

Time to relax, watch a movie, take a bath...and maybe edit the pics from my shoot with Hollie last week.

Take care,
Chanta

This is hard...

I don't want to sound like a broken record...but this is hard. Launching a high quality site (bear in mind most sites are crap) with practically no help. Always shooting on location...without a car to take you there, hiring models...that then flake after all of the planning and cost you $$$$, etc, etc, etc.

I have had no income for 10 months. Due to the 2257 amendments I couldn't even go back to modeling as US ID would be required and I don't have any. Sure, I've had some teaching gigs...but trust me, no one gets rich teaching. It's been a few hundred dollars here and there which has then gone immediately to pay a model for a shoot, or a location, or my videographer. I am shooting on a shoe-string and have high hopes of doing lots of sites down the line, if I can just get this one started and successful.

Interestingly enough, my goals (for the moment) is not to have enough income to pay me LOL! I guess I'll just keep working for free...but my goals are 1) to be able to afford a full time assistant and 2) to be able to afford a space in SF/Oakland to rent as a permanent studio where I can store my lights, build sets, have an office, etc. I'm probably jumping ahead but those 2 things would make my life so much easier.

Okay, I have to go edit video of Hollie Steven's licking my ass...so not is all bad!

Chanta!

Just me...being me!!!

This is one of the shot's from my Chanta's Bitches shoot with Penney a few weeks ago!

Here's a shot from today's shoot!

Kat is clamped, gagged, drooling and electrified at the evil hands of DragonLily....yum!

Shooting Kat with DragonLily Today...

and all I can say is WOOHOO!!!!! This is going to be a good one!

Disrespect.

I had a "model" flake on me today for a Chanta's Bitches shoot. No call, no e-mail, no nothing...it was my first no-show since I started shooting. No-show's happen, model's can be flakes but this really sucked. I was shooting at a great location (which was expensive) and had crew there, etc and then the girl doesn't show. She confirmed 3 days ago and then nothing...so where does this leave me? Out of $$$$. Yes, the videographer was a on a day rate, so was the location. For 1 shoot I would have negotiated a half day rate but as there was supposed to be 2 I had everything booked for an entire day. This cost me $$$. The annoying thing is, I left her a message this morning just to confirm again and said in my v-mail to her that if she couldn;t make it to please let me know (I wouldn;t be mad, etc) so that I wouldn;t lose $$$. It would have given me time to find a replacement model...even shooting a model I have shot before would have been fine but sitting around and paying for my crew's lunch because we should have been shooting 2 scenes is just annoying...more annoying is the fact that I think we did the best light set up for the shoot and then we don't get to shoot at all. I even took all the steps to ensure this girl would not flake by making her come to a casting (she didn;t have any pics) and confirming a few days before, etc. I'm pissed. She said she was so happy to be working with a female director, etc AND I had 3 other shoots lined up for her with other producers so now she has lost all of those too and they will know she is a flake...it's just so short sighted of her (and models in general)...just a quick phonecall, that's all it would have taken but no, some people don't even have that amount of courtesy.

Ugh, I'm pissed off.

I'm on the Menu!

At http://www.mukiskitchen.com

It's rare to see me in a submissive role these days (and Adrianna in a dominat one) but this shoot was a lot of fun!

Tentative Chanta's Bitches Launch Date!

April 1st is when I had in mind. It's later than I thought but with losing so many shoots from having the flu AND planning on being in Australia for at least 3 weeks of March it simply is the earliest I can manage. Lots to do before then of course but with photos from 7 shoots all edited and 5 videos all done too I'm pretty on top of it all...I just wish the flu hadn't have taken over a week of editing and shooting away from me. My goal is April 1st!

This flu officially sucks!

I have so much to do...and I can't do any of it...it hurts to look at the screen of my mac. I'm so sensitive to everything; light, heat, noise of any kind, and yes, I am impatient. I want to be better now. I had to cancel and reschedule so much and now it looks as if things I have rescheduled may have to be koved again because I don't know if I'll be better by Saturday (at this monet that seems unlikely). For the first time ecver I will day that nyquil and dayquil SUCK! Usually I swear by them but nyquil has not been putting me to sleep and dayquil has not made me feel any better. All they have done is dry me out. I have now switched to sudafed because I "think" I have sinus pain? I've never had it before; pressure around the eyes and nose, a headache,, pain in my ears, etc....that has to be a sinus thing right? What sxcares me the most is the shooting pain I get when I swallow, it is from my left ear down to my throat/glands...why does that scare me? Because it was the same pain I felt almost 3 years ago and when I grabbed my neck there was a lump the size of a golfball sticking out of it...that pain was how I found the cancer. Of course, this isn't cancer but I feel that pain is very similar to smell in the way it reminds you of things.

Okay, enough pathetic complaining, I'm going back to bed.

A house of sickness!

LOL, I'm sure anyone that just came to my blog with a hard on, and then read that title has lost it! Yep, the flu has won...I wasn;t able to keep it away but damn did I try; I have been drinking OJ and chicken broth, taking multi vitamins, etc but I guess going out last night to do the class in berkeley is what gave the flu the edge and by the time I got home I was unwell! Sucks, because I was supposed to do 2 shoots today for Chanta's Bitches and I had to cancel the location, videographer and the models...thankfully they were all very understanding and no one asked for a kill fee despite the last minute cancellation (ie; 7:30am). Oh well, I really am too sick and if I had have shot I would have just spent a lot of time, money and energy to get bad shoots...not to mention that I would have passed it on to the models and my crew. I have rescheduled everything for Wednesday next week and hope that is enough of a recovery time!

The class at Good Vibes, Berkeley was full. I really like the store and everyone is really nice there but I don't feel it was my best class to date. I just feel as if I didn't explain things as clearly as I normally do and that some people got lost along the way. I also didn't take enough rope. I would usually bring about 1200 ft to a class so if anyone doesn;t have rope there is enough to go around but damnb, rope is heavy...so I only took 500ft to this class and it really wasn't enough. People were trying to do chest harnesses with inch thick rope and it just doesn't work. Anyway, I hope that I am just being paranoid and that people did really enjoy it...and that Good Vibes will have me back again!

Take care,
Chanta

Not a lot to report

Been an uneventful couple of days. Marty is sick...still after like 5 days and he really, really is sick, can;t stop coughing, etc so I have been looking after him; lots of OJ and chicken broth! I feel a little sick myself but am fighting it off with force...lots of OJ and chicken broth for me too but in an effort to prevent rather than cure!

The rope party at the citadel on Friday night was AWESOME!!!! I did a quick escape proofing class before the party and there was soooo many people...over 80 people at my class which is just a huge amount, needless to say, about 45 minutes in I lost control of the class as the space became a huge mesh of rope and flesh! I think everyone has fun though which I suppose is the main thing! For a class that size the presenter really needs a couple of assistants to help out...little me on my own didn't stand much of a chance! Can't wait to do it again though!

Adrianna as one of my Bitches LOL!

I like this shot a lot. A nice strict strapado to then order her to lick my boots, ass and pussy, mmmmm!

The Book is taking Soooooo Long

I have had so many "release dates" in my mind for "Bondage for Sex" and I have to keep pushing them back....it is so frustrating. I wrote the book in 2 weeks and shot the photos in 2 days and now I have to wait months and months for layout? Really, does it take that long? Maybe I am missing something but I think what I am going to have to do is just say the release of my book isn't until like..July and then it may actually come early...I am certainly not going to hit the March 1st date that I had hoped for if it hasn't even gone to print yet and the layout is only 1/3 done!

It does look pretty fucking amazing though! The first 50 pages that I have seen really do rock and I sure it will be worth the wait...plus this has been a learning experience that I will now have should I choose to do a second book...yes, maybe I can write it fast and shoot it fast, etc but that doesn't mean anything else will be fast about it at all LOL! So here I was thinking this book would be early 2006 and the next early 2007...now I know this will be mid 2006 and the next late 2007...I just wish I had have known that before!

I should be editing video right now...but I'm not. Hubby is home sick and needs me to look after him so I think I'll just do some photo editing instead...that I can do on my laptop sitting next to him.

Ugh, I don't understand US TV

Really I don't. I watch very little television, I have just a couple fo shows at a time that I like...I know when they are on and I look forward to them. Right now, the bog one for me is LOST....I am absolutely addicted to it. What I don;t understand (and what doesn;t happen in the UK or Aus) is that the show can suddenly nbot be on for 3 weeks....and then when it is, it's repeats...I mean fuck, I am hooked on this series...every wednesday I expect to see the next episode and when I don't I just go off the program entirely...bear in mind that I may only turn the TV on twice a week and one of those times will be for this...agh!

Lately, I have also been trying to get into Grey's Anatomy...mainly so I can perve on Patrick Dempsey. I actually know one of the actors on that show and asked him to pass a message on to Patrick that I have been wanting to tie him up since "Can't buy me Love"!!! How funny!

I suppose you've guessed from this post that I have nothing of importance to write! Well I did go back to the SSA and pick up my SSN...I feel so grown up!

Rushing Around...and it's raining, hmmm.

The rain is pouring outside, not very San Francisco like. This city is really not a rainby place...not like London or Seattle where rain becomes a daily part of life. I don't dislike rain, it doesn't bother me much at all...but I really hate umbrellas...so when it rains I don't go out as I know I'll be battling a street full of them and people that are oblivious to the fact they are almost poking people's eyes out with them...I have only one good eye, and I'd like to keep it! I never understood what the problem with getting a little wet was anyway...as I always say to Hubby; it's not acid rain LOL!

But the rain does "curb your enthusiasm". I should be packing up all of my lights, props, etc and be putting them by the door for tomorrow's shoot (which is on location) but no, I only just got out of bed and can't be bothered. My throat hurts a little, but I refuse to get sick until Friday....I cannot be sick on a shoot day. It just takes too much co-ordination to then have to cancel; model, location, videographer, photographer, transport, ugh.

Okay, time to get enthused.

Chanta!