I can resist anything except...

...temptation.

Actually, I have a nagging concern that she may be more dom than sub but sometimes you just have to take your chances - if the dice don't fall the way you'd prefer, well you just have to take the consequences I suppose.

Unlucky thirteen (Movie Bloopers)

The people making spanko movies don't work to high profit margins so they need to get things right first time.  Often scenes are shot in a single take.  A few are quite good at giving girls a break on request and then checking the continuity to make it appear seamless in the end result (Northern Spanking for example.)  However, many want to make a virtue of the viewer watching the subjects' bottoms turn from pale creamy colour, to a pink blush and then to crimson red (and in some cases, beyond).  If, after shooting it, you notice something got in the way you can't wait for the girl's bottoms to return to original colour and start again.  Consequently, quite a few scenes that would become outtakes in conventional movies get to stay in.  Here are some examples...

1.  Often, as here, the problem is using one fixed camera and one moving camera and in the excitement of it all, the moving camera moves into shot.  If the shot you need at that point comes from the fixed camera, you just have to include it and hope nobody notices (or cares).

2.  Same again with this one.

3.  This second camera seems totally carried away - not only has he allowed his camera to wander in to the main shot, it looks as if he's about to join in.

4.  This time the second camera has just managed to keep out of shot, but not out of line of the bright studio lighting, casting a shadow on the wall alongside him.

5.  Similar to the last one; you have to think that sitting in front of the head getting a telling off and knowing you're probably going to get paddled very soon is bad enough without having a large camera lens moving in on your bottom as well.

6.  If I'd just seen this as a still, I'd assume it was one of those "behind the scenes" shots that studios sometimes put out. But no, the guy who appears to be rather distractedly checking his still camera was in the final film.

7.  Back to the same film as in (1) above.  You can make excuses where the second cameraman is on the wander, but really you do need to make sure your lighting rig isn't visible for your main static camera...

 8.  Because everyone just happens to keep a tripod and microphone in their living room...

9.  I don't know if the sudden and unexpected reaction of the model to her pain was a factor, but someone appears very keen to get up close and personal with the microphone here.

10.  Someone just didn't quite get out of shot in time.

11.  Sometimes what seemed like a good hiding place is just not quite good enough.  Unless that's a naughty schoolboy who's sneaked into the girl's gym to see what he can see and who's got more than he bargained for.  Couldn't really blame him because it's a great little scene and well worth the risk of getting caught!

12. Rather unusually in this scene, it doesn't appear that the 'extra' is just getting carried away with what he's seeing and forgetting to keep off-camera.  In fact, he doesn't seem too aware of what's happening at all...

13.  And finally someone who really is engrossed.  As a result he's as clear as any of the actors taking part and just as identifiable.  Hope he hadn't ticked the box requesting anonymity...

Very frustratingly, I have seen what I have think was one of the greatest ever spanko bloopers, but can't find it now.  I'm pretty sure the model was the lovely Catherine Corbet and it was probably from Spanking Online or another one of the Xerotics labels.  She was bent over being punished on her lovely bottom when a mouse ran across the floor.  Where did that clip go?

(credits to Broadband Spanking (1, 7, 13), AEG (2, 5, 8, 10), Xerotics (4, 11, 12),  Ravenhill (3, 9) - not sure about number 6)

Favourite for September

Once a naughty girl was required to bend over in the headmistress's office to be given a formal caning. the fact they all chose to wear very short skirts must have made the temptation to deliver the caning on her panties too much to resist.

Retro Vintage Spanking

I've only recently come across the blog Retro Vintage Spanking (now added to the Blogroll) - some interesting material including this shot, which I've never seen before, depicting a 'behind-the-scenes' view of the filming of the Janus classic The St Winifred's Trilogy.

A Touch Of Tradition

As people find ever more extreme way to celebrate birthdays, doing such things as jumping out of planes, I think it's important not to overlook more traditional means of celebration.

Favourite for August

There are millions of pictures on the Internet of ordinary girls flashing their tits or mooning for the camera.  This one just instantly made me imagine a scenario where a couple of Brit girls were having a wild time on holiday somewhere exotic and, probably a bit intoxicated, decided to moon for their friend to photograph.  Unfortunately, they were unaware of strict local laws about nudity in public places - an offence punishable by caning...

Summer holiday reading?

If you're the kind of person who takes an ereader, iPad or other tablet device to the beach you need to make sure you've got plenty of reading loaded up first.  Perhaps an opportune moment for me to mention...

Available to download from Amazon or directly from The Library of Spanking Fiction, who publish it.  And still available also...

And while I'm being grumpy...

Why do people edit out the name of people and companies producing spanko images and thus deny them advertising?  Most bloggers freely use images that someone else has paid money and spent their time to produce, and in many cases the subject of the image has also endured some discomfort in that production.  If I use an image taken directly from a producer I try to ensure I only use images that they have given away for free as a sample of their work - that doesn't seem unreasonable as it may drive viewers to look at their site and very occasionally may actually generate income for them.  Of course, if they were to request me to remove one of their images I would still do so (although I've never had such a request yet).  If I use an image which doesn't have the name of the producer on it but I know who the producer is, I try to give credit.  But what do people gain from taking an image bearing the producers name and edit it to try to remove that name?  It doesn't mean you're not infringing their copyright - just depriving them of recognition for the work that went into producing it.  The only time I ever edit out a name on an image is when I know someone is claiming credit for someone else's work - perhaps after cropping the image to hide the name of the actual producer.

Some cases of name editing are also, spectacularly bad!

A very badly edited image from Punished Brats

An attempt to crop out the name but didn't quite managed to remove the top of the capital S from Dreams of Spanking - and even without that error, the face and bottom are fairly easy to identify (perhaps it's the bottom that needs cropping rather than the image...).

Another great image - I wonder where it came from?  Oh look, bottom right corner - looks as if it's from Punished Brats again!

It's not surprising that some producers have taken to putting their credits right across the middle of the image but it's a shame we have to see it spoiled like that.

Tumblr moans

Clearly the majority of blogs I have links for are on Tumblr.  There are also some on Wordpress and some here on Blogger and a small number privately hosted.  I tried Wordpress and found it hard to manage.  Tumblr, 'though, really annoys me.

First most "spanking" blogs have a huge proportion of non-spanking related material.  I notice that Secret Spanko has just returned to blogger for just that reason.  (Note that although I do post mainly on spanking and and many links are for spankings sites, I don't actually title my site as a spanking blog and I do feature some links to BDSM, candid nudity etc).

Second, it seems technically flawed.  Roughly speaking when I click on the blog name in my Blogroll, about a quarter of the time it tells me the blog isn't available right now (not just that it might contain sensitive material - I've got the hang of that one by logging myself into Tumblr first and keeping that open in a separate tab) but if I click on the name of the most recent post it opens perfectly fine and if they've set up an archive option that works fine as well.  So it is available - just unfriendly.

Most of all 'though I dislike to culture that promotes reblogging things all the time.  If you've ever checked out the links in my Blogroll you'll know that there's quite a lot and I do spend some time (too much) browsing them.  If I scan through two or three posts and then spot something that looks familiar I tend to assume I've already seen blogposts on that site prior to that date.  But in fact, the frantic reblogging of anything good often means I then see that same image on several more sites and therefore I don't know if I might have missed something. One day last week I saw three posts on one site and the next blog I looked at had the same three posts in the same order. Of course a lot of the material I post has been on other blogs, but usually it's from some time ago and I think people might not have seen it if they haven't been around for long or they might just like reminding.  Or I repackage it around a particular theme.  I think just filling a blog with the images you've just seen someone else post is causing the blogging community (and in this case specifically, the spanko blogging community) to become very bloated.

Am I just becoming grumpy in my old age?

Favourite for July

Not the sexiest spanking by a long way but very believable.  I love the way she's trying to bend away from the smack she's about to get as if that will somehow make it sting less.  It looks as if he's going to have a bit of a battle on his hands and that long clingy dress is going to be difficult to deal with if he's planning on putting her over his knee for a much deserved spanking.  It will be important to make the punishment harder and longer as a result so that he can stress to her that such clothing is not acceptable in the future.