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Entrevista con Cyd Black ***
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| Hoy
es escribo una entrevista impresionante. Maravillosa.
Es la entreista con Cyd Black.
Cyd tiene un currículum de bondage impresionante.
Es un excelente artista de bondage, y tiene muchos años
de experiencia. Cyd Black es, y ha sido, director y productor
de portales como Infernalrestraints.com
y Hardtied.conm. Fue el creador de la página web
DeviceBondage.com para Kink. También fue director
de Intersec
Interactive, y participó en la mítica página
Insex.com. Da muy buenos consejos para las modelos de
bondage, para las personas que quieren practicar bondage,
y para todo el mundo en general que aman el bondage. |
| Además
de bondage, ambién nos explica sus preferencias
por el budismo, el zen, y nos explica cómo usarlo
para las enseñanzas en los juegos eróticos
de bondage. Nos explica dónde aprendió el
lenguaje japonés, y también muchas más
cosas que hacen una entrevista increíble, fascinante
y muy interesante. |
| La
entrevista original es en inglés, y si sabéis
inglés os recomiendo que leáis la entrevista
en inglés. Si no sabéis inglés, podéis
ver la traducción en español clickeando
sobre la foto de bandera que hay debajo de este texto.
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Entrevista con Cyd
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Interview
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Christie
Biel |
| You
are the director and producer of Infernalrestraints.com
and Hardtied.com. It's necessary a lot of time to produce
these websites?. |
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| I
throw myself into projects and let them consume my life.
In that sense, it takes all the time in the world. I have
a habit of vanishing for days or weeks when developing
a new project. This tends to annoy my wife, friends and
pets. I am fortunate as they periodically hunt me down,
insist that I interact with them in a lifelike manner,
make me sleep, feed them or feed me or put me in cars
and take me places. |
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| You
were the director of contents and developments of websites
as DeviceBondage, for Kink. How was it difficult to start?. |
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Cyd
Black |
| DeviceBondage
was far easier to start than I had anticipated. Here is
an entirely fictionalized instant messenger dramatization
loosely based on true events: |
| Cyd
Black (Me): Hi I like to tie up girls and wear black and
I wrote this site proposal plan. Would you care to look
at it?. |
| KINK:
Hello. Yes, we will look at it. In the meantime, please
fly out and do a shoot for us. Matt put in a good word
for you. |
| Me:
Wow thank you! If the plan is too big or too expensive
I can rewri... |
| KINK:
No need. We liked your shoot. Your plan is approved and
funded. When can you start? We'll pay for your relocation,
salary, health, 401k, all that stuff. |
| Me:
WHAT?!?!. |
| KINK:
Hmm?. |
| Me:
I mean uhm... yeah...that sounds cool. Would you mind
giving me a minute to ask my wife if she'll move across
the country with me?. |
| KINK:
Yes. We'll pay to relocate your wife too. Upon your arrival,
everything you asked for in your plan will magically appear. |
| Me:
Seriously?. |
| KINK:
Yes. Seriously. Even the two 30 inch monitors, although
we're not quite sure why you need two. |
| Me:
It's kind of difficult to do 3D design, play Warcraft
and review video at the same time if you only have one.
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| KINK:
... |
| Me:
I was just kidding about the Warcraft thing. |
| KINK:
... |
| Me:
I'll only play Warcraft after hours. |
| Me:
Really, I swear. |
| KINK:
Whatever. Just come out here and build us this site already. |
| So,
I went out there and did. |
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| You
were a general manager of Intersec Interactive. Etc. What
are your memories? Can you explain some anecdote to us?. |
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| Intersec
is a raw art studio that looks exactly like what you think
a raw art studio looks like. Exposed brick and cement.
Paint splatter on the floor, plywood over the windows
and props and machinery scattered everywhere. The building
the studio is housed in is a filthy, dilapidated mess
filled with other studios and located right underneath
the loudest trains in New York City as they pass into
Brooklyn. Basically it's perfect, except that it needs
to be on the west coast of the USA, not the east coast
of the USA, because the extremes of weather on the east
coast are terrible for BDSM production. |
| Brent
Scott (aka PD), the founder of the company, is about as
unconventional, eccentric and truly gifted as an artist
can get. The staff is capable but has a dark and twisted
sense of humor and generally prides itself in being entirely
unmanageable. The company is made up of strong creative
personalities who are constantly clashing with each other.
There is a lot of screaming. Mostly the staff screaming
at each other. The models are usually gagged and can't
scream at all. |
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had people of all races, body types, religions and genders
come through the studio including people who were surgically
in between genders or had fully switched from one to another.
No subject was off limits or too personal, rude or inappropriate.
So the Jew would make fun of the Buddhist, the women would
sexually harass the men, the white guy would make fun
of the transgender, the transgender would mock the hippie
chick and the black dude would crack white jokes and round
and round it went. If you're not down with the vicious
banter and scathing invectives...you're in the wrong place.
Happily, though, I was in the right place. Some of the
cut downs, retorts, and one liners that shot back and
forth out of those peoples mouths were so psychologically
vicious (and funny, really really funny...) that they
were worthy to be spit out by Hannibal Lecter, Lenny Bruce
or Lou Reed. |
| It
was fun to watch the relentless drama like a TV show in
the background. I try to avoid politics. I've been told
I am hopelessly socially unaware. I believe that's probably
true. That kind of sucks for me because as it turns out
what you don't know actually can hurt you, and what I
don't know likes to routinely stab me in the face. |
| During
the insex period, it was pure insanity without the help
of any LSD, partying or addition of any hangers on. This
made the situation even weirder, because you'd really
suspect hard drugs were an absolute pre-requisite in order
to reach and appreciate the sheer quality and level of
strange shit going on. Maybe it was just that everyone,
myself included, was so weird already that no extra help
was required when we were all let loose in a studio together. |
| I
recommend watching the DVD documentary Graphic Sexual
Horror (info at graphicsexualhorror.com
). It could have just as easily been titled "the making
of insex" or something like that as it covers the subject
quite well. The film is good in it's own right for entertainment,
enlightenment and amazing visuals alone, even if you don't
like bondage. It has been out for a few years now and
there is a new special edition DVD with bonus footage
as well. It captivates groups of totally normal people
all the time. I never lie with movie recommendations and
I give them out on twitter (@cydblack). Follow me if you
want more. |
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| First,
allow me to clarify that I am not the full time director
of all these sites you listed above. |
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Intersec, the sites InfernalRestraints, HardTied and RealTimeBondage
are on-going collective projects that have rotating director
roles. Whoever is handling a model during a particular
shoot is usually also going to be the director on that
project. Although I did act in a producer role for Intersec
as a whole, I only actually directed the individual shoots
I appeared in. Sister Dee, pd, Claire Adams or Damon Pierce
have also appeared as directors on these sites. |
| I've
seen Intersec employ anywhere from 5 to as many as 25
people at a time, scaling up and down to meet production
requirements of a given project, but usually it's a small
core crew of people who have dedicated their lives to
BDSM and do all the work. |
| As
for my own sites, I never work work on them. I really
should put a portfolio up. I used to be the lead programmer
for small interactive media and web development team for
a Fortune 500 defense contracting company. Truth. Then
I watched Fight Club and from then on I mentally checked
out of corporate life. You'd think I'd actually get around
to whipping out a web site for myself, but I'm always
too busy working on projects for companies. |
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now I'm in the middle of putting together a business plan
to build yet another production company and I just can't
seem to generate enough motivation to switch gears to
work on my ego or image. I also have a mental block against
it I suppose. Self promotion has always been difficult
for me. I know I need to do it for business reasons, but
I really, really hate it. I'm all into Zen and Buddhism
and Art and stuff and it seems to go totally against all
of their principles. But isn't BDSM against some of those
principles? Turns out no. I know because I watched a documentary
on Netflix and it looked very official and produced by
the History Channel. |
| The
documentary told me the Buddha is said to have practiced
forms of self bondage and self flagellation during his
such for a guru before he realized everyone eventually
had to become their own. Apparently the experience helped
him find himself. So if you knock consensual BDSM, you're
basically trying to argue to me that the path the Buddha
took to self discovery was flawed, which I'm just plain
not going to buy from you. I simply can't, especially
considering what I've learned about life and human nature
through BDSM, which essentially validates his methodology
to me. |
| I
never take anyone's word for it. Not even fucking Buddha.
(Yes you can say "fucking Buddha" without it being offensive.
Zen and Buddhism are all neat and contradictory like that.
Q: What is Zen? A: Shit on a stick. Stuff like that.)
Anyway, I always learn the hard (read: fun) way. Buddha
said to question him anyway and experiment with your own
ideas so I'm hoping I'm at least karma neutral by now.
I'm trying pretty damn hard anyway. I try not to hurt
people unless they specifically ask me to be hurt, in
which case I assume they are on a journey of self discovery
of their own like Buddha and then who the hell am I to
judge them or stand in their way? Who the hell is anyone
to judge them? In fact, why not help them instead?. |
| So
yeah PR...it makes me want to vomit. I think I could stomach
it if I hired someone else to do it and never had to see
my own. |
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| How
would you define bondage?. |
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| This
is going to sound all sorts of academic, pretentious and
sterile but changing writing styles is fun so here goes: |
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cooking, I conceive of bondage as a very useful skill
that can be elevated to an art for with enough effort
and practice. It grants the practitioner the ability to
heighten and prolong sexual pleasure as well as extend
the duration of intimate encounters. Who doesn't want
to know how to do that? I don't know anyone who wouldn't
want to know how to do that. I do know a lot of people
that don't know that there is probably some facet of bondage
or BDSM that they would actually enjoy if they tried it,
even if it was just dressing in latex once in a while
or seeing what wearing a cock ring feels like. |
| I
would be upset to find out I went through life not knowing
what kind of pleasure my body was able to feel naturally,
without any drugs or hangovers or anything (ok maybe a
few not too noticeable scars and burns here and there...)
I mean look -- for those who don't know, it can feel better
than heroin or ecstasy. Does that make an impression on
you? And don't get the idea I'm a junkie either cause
I said that - I'm not. I'm fanatical about safety. I'd
really feel terrible if I injured a model due to negligence
on my part. Suffice to say, I decided to put some time
and energy into checking out the the extents of my mind,
and at some point, got around to doing so, then decided
to come back to reality (most of the time anyway) in order
to actually get stuff done. |
| I
think the goal of bondage play to slowly build up as much
pleasurable sexual tension in your subject as possible
for as long as possible so that the resulting orgasmic
releases will feel like intense explosions of pure sexual
ecstasy, far more intense than normally possible during
conventional sex. The build of of sexual tension can be
psychological, not just physical. In fact, that is what
most people don't grasp. Bondage is often not about physical
sensations but about creating and prolonging intensely
pleasurable psychological states. People see whips and
go - I dont wan't to be whipped by that! Hell no! But
I doubt they are considering what the resulting rush of
adrenaline and endorphins combined with some pleasurable
sexual activity would feel like. Cause if they did, I
bet they'd be doing it. |
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elements of restraint, pain and discomfort can be viewed
as tools that the practitioner uses to manage the level
of sexual excitement in the subject, effectively deepening
and intensifying the feelings at the same time without
providing relief. |
| The
bondage is simply necessary, as at a certain level of
pleasure or pain or desperation for sexual release, most
people lose control of themselves and will involuntarily
convulse or thrash around. Without being restrained, there's
no way to keep them put in order to deliver the level
of pleasure they are seeking. Sometimes people try for
heights of pleasure that literally require metal or full
body encasement restraints to keep them in place because
the pleasure and sexual tension is so immense that they
would literally injure themselves or others otherwise.
And they fucking get there. Naturally. No side effects,
except losing some friends and family that you didn't
really need since if they don't want to accept you for
who you are, then they are no friends of yours. |
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Biel |
| Why
did you decide to dedicate professionally to bondage?. |
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It was a combination of factors. I've always had a lifelong
fascination with art, artists, psychology, philosophy,
sexuality, music, literature, women and film, so the seed
was planted at an early age. Almost all the people I looked
up to as role models as a child were unconventional types
who took the path less traveled, and I wanted to be just
like them. I wanted to experience life from many different
perspectives - do a lot of travel, meet a lot of creative
people, sleep wherever I happen to be...that kind of thing.
What probably pushed me into making the leap was getting
an apprenticeship with Brent Scott (aka PD) at insex. |
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is a former Carnegie Mellon University art professor who
successfully turned into sort of an anti-establishment
sexual activist artist. I was fascinated by him...and
still am in many ways. I had found a mentor who could
not only help me advance my bondage skills, but also provide
me with training on everything from photography to woodworking
to artistic composition to how to judge the contents of
a persons character. I simply could not resist the chance
to learn from him. I would have been an idiot to pass
up the opportunity, and I have absolutely no regrets to
this day about that decision. I feel like I got the equivalent
of several additional college courses from working along
side him. At the time, insex was also generating several
million dollars of revenue a year and had had like 35,000
members, so the studio could offer to pay me a full time
salary on top of all that. I get paid. To learn all that.
Are you kidding? The universe seemed to be setting me
up and telling me it wanted me to do this thing and when
the universe is involved I tend to go with it's flow as
I've found arguing with it is generally a bad idea. |
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| How
to search your models and what requirements must your
models?. |
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| I
find it to be a good idea to let models find me instead
of the other way around. There is a much higher probability
that a model really enjoys bondage if she goes to lengths
to hunt you down and then spends 10 or 20 minutes completing
a job application form on your rather extreme and artsy
looking BDSM web site. That kind of behavior indicates
she might enjoy bondage for real. It's not foolproof,
but it helps. If the model is enjoying the bondage, the
camera and the viewer will pick up on it from her involuntary
body language. It's just about impossible without the
help of special effects for a model to fake her way through
a bondage shoot and pretend to enjoy it so convincingly
that the staff and members don't notice. |
| I
don't know why in the world a model would do extreme bondage
it if they weren't personally into it...if it's about
money, there are lots of easier ways to make money by
having sex with people on comfortable beds and sofas rather
than getting fucked outside in the freezing rain with
your ass in the air and your head locked in a cage underground.
Seriously, if you're contemplating something like this,
it should turn you on. Like precisely what the fuck would
you have to be thinking or smoking to do this otherwise?. |
| The
ideal bondage model should be healthy, thin, flexible
and should be both conventionally beautiful while at the
same time having a memorable and dramatic look about her.
We are not talking private play now - we are talking about
making a living and whatever is considered conventionally
beautiful within a particular culture sells. Ugly does
not sell erotic videos. When people watch erotic videos,
generally they want to see hot people and get annoyed
when they see ugly people. I dont know why ugly people
don't notice this?. |
| I
even try to keep my own face off camera so I don't annoy
viewers. Now I didn't design human nature or our economy
or the way the Internet works so I don't want to hear
any clap trap from plain looking non-conventionally beautiful
or ugly people. Ugly isn't an insult by the way, it's
a descriptive term when you are casting for a production.
Ugly and overweight people shouldn't be touchy about getting
rejected from roles in erotic productions. They should
go to the casting calls for ugly and fat people, and there
are plenty of them for goofy roommate, coworker and the
unlikely buddy in police buddy comedies and crap. Either
play the hand you're dealt, work your ass off (literally)
and/or cheat and get dealt a new hand with plastic surgery. |
| A
strong, lean dancer body type is perfect as it gives a
model and crew several practical advantages during a shoot.
The majority of models do not understand how physically
demanding and exhausting a day of professional bondage
modeling can get. Someone who does not regularly stretch
and exercise will likely have sore muscles, tendons and
joints the next day, perhaps to the point where she is
too tired to complete the next day of shooting, whereas
a model who is an active swimmer or runner will barely
notice anything and be able to work several days in a
row. |
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bondage modeling is kind of an extreme sport of sorts
and your body needs to be prepared for it. For example,
even models who smoke cigarettes anything more than lightly
can find the work challenging. The models who smoke pot,
on the other hand, seem to be so physically relaxed that
it somehow evens out or maybe they just smoke less overall,
or are on uber healthy organic hippie diets or something.
I dont know. |
| The
ability to endure positions for extended periods of time
is very important. A model who has to constantly be untied
and given breaks can make a shoot last several hours longer
than it needs to. Sexually, a model should be mature enough
to articulate her desires and limitations and be completely
comfortable with being entirely naked and prepared to
engage in oral, anal and vaginal penetration while in
bondage. Genuine bi-sexuality puts it through the roof
but isn't necessary, but it just makes you a whole lot
more versatile so there are more opportunities for you
to get work. |
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| Is
it difficult to find good models? Are there many girls
interested?. |
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| In
general, it is quite difficult to find qualified models.
Even excellent ones may only want to model for a short
while before moving on no matter how much money you offer
them because they were never in it for the money in the
first place, just for the experience. Also, there is only
so many times you can shoot the same model without becoming
repetitive. Many models are interested but afraid they
won't be able to have a stable relationship with anyone
if they continue to perform erotic work or fear what will
happen if a future lover finds out what they did in their
past. That makes me sad. |
| It's
quite possible to find good people to fall in love with
who are able to control their feelings of jealousy, insecurity
and possessiveness, or who lack those traits entirely.
Especially since we're assuming you're a super hot bondage
model or porn star already, you've got a major tactical
advantage when hunting for a partner, cause you're like
super hot and everyone on Earth wants you. Given that,
maybe pick someone who, I don't know...respects you as
a person and your decisions and likes who you really are?
Just a thought. |
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| Hyper-professionalism.
That's because everyone assumes, by default, that an adult
model is an ADHD party machine who isn't going to have
her shit together and totally screw up the schedule and
cost the company extra money. I didn't make the stereotype...and
unfortunately, a lot of models do all sorts of crap like
miss plane flights, show up hung over and cancel at the
last minute after you've spent a ton of time and money
promoting them and such. So responsible models, I'm afraid
some of your cohorts are giving you a bad name and my
best advice is that you need to overcompensate for them
so you don't get stuck with their bad karma. |
| It's
just good business - that's how you get follow on work
and make friends anyway. You'll earn lots and LOTS more
money and have steady work if you are friendly, polite
and professional. Major bonus points for being incredibly
laid back and low maintenance. Professional, reliable,
hot and low maintenance all at once and you'll skyrocket
to the top of the industry. If you already have the hot,
lean and flexible thing down naturally, the rest is just
developing a few essential business habits like reading
and responding to correspondence from producers who are
in the process of booking you in a timely fashion, giving
plenty of notice if you have to cancel a shoot unless
it's an actual emergency or you really, really, really
did wake up feeling too sick to work that day. Even then
I'd get a doctor's note if you want them to actually believe
you. Just being honest. |
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reliable models are so hard to find they are like unicorns
so if you find one talk her into marrying you right away.
Models who behave professionally on set also get referrals
to other producers and even more work and MORE money.
It's not like it's going to cramp their style much. No
one expects models to behave in their private lives, and
in fact, everyone generally likes it a whole lot more
it when they misbehave, hit the sauce and dance on tables
with their clothing all wet and half falling off. You
can even rock it Courtney Love style and just sober up
to do gigs here and there like she records studio albums
sober once in a while. I think she was sober for those
albums anyway. Honestly, I don't know. I haven't recently
checked her current sobriety status recently. |
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Biel |
| What
advice would you give for the girls interested in working
as models of bondage?. |
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Black |
| Easy.
Find some established bondage models who are actively
working with multiple producers. Hit them up on Facebook
or FetLife or Twitter or whatever and ask them who they
would recommend. Get at least a few references before
you decide to work for an individual. Not because they
might be a serial killer or any such nonsense, but mostly
because there's a lot of ways to get injured in bondage
-- even seemingly simple rope ties can cause semi-permanent
or even permanent nerve damage if done wrong. That's a
fact. I've seen an alarmingly high number of models come
across my sets with pre-existing injuries that could easily
have been avoided. Some models seem to think sustaining
injuries is just an unavoidable occupational hazard. Sadly,
that isn't true at all. Injuries are almost entirely avoidable
if the rigger knows what he or she is doing and has practiced
enough, random freak accidents aside. |
| I
fear insex may have been a bad influence as many viewers
do not realize the care that has to go into a BDSM shoot
to avoid injury. We tried not to fake anything, but we
did stunts with safety mechanisms and procedures and training
and smoke and mirror video editing from time to time.
People copy what they saw in insex and other Intersec
produced videos all the time...but Intersec is mostly
producing fantasy erotic entertainment, not instructional
how-to videos, so just mimicking what appears on screen
doesn't explain the technique we used to make it look
so extreme while actually being pretty safe about it at
the same tim. |
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reason to ask for and check references is that different
bondage riggers have different styles and personalities.
You should find one who has a style and personality you
think you would like based on the responses you hopefully
get back from these models. Since presumably you're already
a really hot chick, considering you're thinking of a career
in bondage modeling, it shouldn't be that hard to get
other hot chicks to talk to you. Especially since according
to the pictures I see on Facebook and FetLife you all
hang out together, get trashed and have sex with each
other anyway. |
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| What
advice would you give to those who want to practice bondage?. |
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| There
is a limit as to what can be learned from books, online
sources and watching. Especially when it comes to safety
and the seduction/sexuality side of things. You need to
tie up real people all the time and if you want to do
it professionally and get anywhere, you will likely need
a mentor. If possible, find a local BDSM group that has
rope classes. If one doesn't exist, then you might go
to a convention where notable riggers are teaching and
there is time and dungeon space set aside to practice
what you've learned. You'll need a willing and flexible
partner. |
| If
you want to do it professionally, you should find a professional
rigger to apprentice to. You won't be able to evolve your
style and skills past a certain point without the help
and benefit of other professionals in the same field working
around you. You definitely won't be able to anticipate
some of the more obscure safety concerns in certain situations
because it takes many pairs of eyes and combined years
of experience to predict nearly every problem that can
go wrong before it goes wrong, and never, ever fail. Because
failing doesn't just mean you screw up a shoot - failing
means you injure or kill a young woman. |
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Biel |
| What
has been your funniest situation you've lived in bondage?. |
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| We
were in the basement of the Armory - a giant stone WWI
era fortress in downtown San Francisco. My wife, Sarah
Jane Ceylon, was doing a shoot with Damon Pierce as the
rigger on my former Devicebondage set. I was watching
and directing. Damon spent what must have been an hour
affixing what looked like 200 or so clothespins up and
down Sarahs inner thighs and meticulously ran a string
through them to set up a zipper. Whatever he was planning
looked like it was going to be fantastic. |
| Sarah's
legs were spread wide and locked in place with metal restraints
in several spots. Damon grabbed the strings and got ready
to rip off all the clothespins at once. Sarah screwed
up the courage to withstand what was coming. I moved my
camera man into just the right spot. Then all the electricity
in the building went out and the set became so pitch black
that you could not see your hand in front of your face.
There was a long pause as everyone realized we didn't
even have a flashlight or lighter nearby and that Sarah
was going to remain stuck with her legs locked wide apart
for a long, long time (and at that point they had already
been locked apart for a long, long time.). |
| Even
finding the keyholes for all the metal restraints by hand
would have been difficult. This was simultaneously the
cause of hysterical laughter and immediate concern over
Sarah's unexpected ridiculous predicament and how long
she could hold out and just exactly what our next move
should be - but we heard shouts that flashlights were
coming around and Sarah has high endurance so it turned
out all right in the end. |
| See
now I just contradicted myself about the safety thing
because I should have known to have an emergency flashlight
right next to me...but then again that's one of those
things that was pretty much unpredictable. The lights
had never gone out before to my knowledge. This is a textbook
case where having a healthy, flexible, lightweight model
in good shape really saved the day. You should give yourself
every advantage you can get so if an accident does happen
the odds are heavily stacked in your favor that injury
will not result. |
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Christie
Biel |
| What
has been your most exciting meeting to consider?. |
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Black |
| Meeting
my future wife, Sarah Jane Ceylon, for the first time
when I came down to meet her at her car and bring her
bags up to the model apartment as she arrived for a bondage
shoot for insex. I got in her car to help her find a place
to park and I think I probably fell in love with her before
she turned the engine off. In addition to doing erotic
modeling and stripping, she was attending the University
of the Arts in Philadelphia and is a talented artist in
her own right. That was a really exciting meeting. Meeting
pd for the first time was, of course also exciting. Most
recently, I met Michael Manning, who is one of the most
talented and prolific erotic illustrators alive, or in
recorded history, for that matter. He was gracious enough
to show me his studio and his work and I thought that
was very nice of him. |
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Biel |
| Which
is the strangest question that they have asked you, about
bondage?. |
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| One
man asked me if we really roasted a girl alive on a spit
over a fire at the Insex farm and killed her. He really
didn't seem to understand that it was a stunt like when
people get into scary situations in horror movies but
like, it's not really dangerous because it's a fantasy
production and all the actors are just fine. I'm not sure
if he understood. |
| Some
idiot, and I don't go around calling too many people names,
but this one Fucking Idiot asked why I hate women so much
and somehow seemed certain that I did, aside from never
having met me or spoken to any of the women I worked with.
I wanted to put him in a room with five intelligent and
articulate masochistic women I know and let him deal with
them, except that would either be doing him far too much
of a favor or the women might actually beat the shit out
of him and then that would be all my fault or more likely
the jackass would be so arrogant as to presume the women
don't have free will and a right to follow whatever gives
them bliss and wander home with his head just as firmly
planted up his ass as it was when he arrived. |
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Biel |
| What
do you consider essential in bondage?.. |
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Black |
| Ideally,
the bondage should be restrictive enough that it makes
the model feel that she is totally helpless and under
your complete control. Whenever you're not specifically
using a model's mouth for something else, she should be
tightly gagged. Sensory deprivation can be even more fun,
although I prefer it more in private play than shoots
because it generally obscures the model's face and I like
to see faces. |
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Christie
Biel |
| To
what would you say always "not" in bondage?.. |
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Black |
| Don't
violate karma. Don't do anything to someone in bondage
that violates their trust or hurts them in a way they
don't want to be hurt. Unless the model shows up with
pre-existing body modifications and specifically requests
more, don't add any of your own. Why? Too many models
end up deeply regretting them later on when they are like
moms and such. Tattoos are one thing but seemingly self
inflicted scars can really make it difficult for a model
to make a living down the line and really turn off or
scare off most other people and employers. Personally
I find the little white tell tale scars on the arms of
women who were cutters when growing up to be really, really
hot. My wife has them. They played no small part in instantly
grabbing my attention. The thing is before you mark up
someone with perfect skin, you have to seriously consider
the person's life situation and whether or not that kind
of thing is really appropriate for the long haul and the
risk/reward or cost/value or whatever you know what I
mean ;). |
| Don't
do anything dangerous bondage wise under the influence
of alcohol or drugs. For example, don't attempt a suspension
while either party is drunk or high. Why? Because the
bottom might be too messed up to tell you or notice if
he or she is getting injured and even if you've managed
so far, you will eventually fuck up sooner or later and
cause injury and no one is going to have any sympathy
for you. I'd suggest you avoid rigging in the dark with
loud music playing. Have at least either light OR quiet,
but you should be able to instantly determine, at all
times, if your model is in distress and I've seen many
situations in loud dark clubs where a bottom was in distress
and trying to communicate with the top but the top was
too distracted, couldn't hear or couldn't see. Not hearing
or noticing a safeword or signal and playing through is
a great way to lose a play partner. |
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Biel |
| Have
you had a bad experience?. |
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Black |
| There
was this one time I got chased down a street by a mob
of angry drunk townies after a few friends of mine started
an entire bar fight with a crowd of locals in a town we
were visiting. We narrowly escaped before getting beat
into the pavement in what would have amounted to something
like a 20 on 4 massacre. I assume, though, you meant a
bad experience with bondage?. |
| I've
been very cautious and very lucky up to this point and
so far, my bad experiences are confined to giving the
accidental scrape to a model during a scene where I drag
here by her hair across the studio or something...but
then again I'm not sure if that counts. I mean seriously,
women play field hockey and stuff and beat the crap out
of each other. Some women like it rough and like to play
full contact sports - they get black eyes and broken bones
and huge bruises and spit their bloody mouthguards out
like champs. No one freaks out when they get a broken
rib on field, but somehow if they get a splinter while
thrashing around naked on a porn set in orgasmic pleasure,
it's a national emergency to everyone watching. |
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Christie
Biel |
| Where
have you learned the Japanese language?. |
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Black |
| I
started studying Japanese in preparation for an extended
trip there. I can only read very simple children's books
at the moment. I continue to study it with a combination
of the Rosetta Stone Japanese software series, Kanji cards
that Sarah Jane Ceylon painted me, the Genki series of
textbooks and companion workbooks, about a dozen iPhone
and iPad apps - Human Japanese is a great one. There's
one that does timed flash card tests, tests you interactively
and then scores you. Also a book called Japanese in Manga
Land, which teaches Japanese through anime comics which
is a fun way to learn. Japanese children's books are great.
Finally, I watch an enormous amount of anime and weird
Japanese movies on Netflix. I really enjoy them and it
helps with listening and comprehension and reading when
you see common signs and characters repeated in similar
situations. Like signs and stuff. |
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Christie
Biel |
| Do
you like the Buddhism and the Zen meditation?. |
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Black |
| Yes,
I'm Buddhist and first started becoming seriously interested
in Zen and meditation somewhere around ten or twelve years
ago. It's how I stay centered with all the crazy constantly
going on around me. |
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Biel |
| Do
you like the animals?. |
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Black |
| I
love most animals, and frequently watch Animal Planet
shows and National Geographic documentaries on everything
from sharks to parrots. I recently watched one called
Wild China that has all these crazy animals in it that
I never knew existed like this ridiculously super cute
snow-panda-fox-badger combination thing and these human
bird fishing teams where the fisherman work with pet ducks
and get them to dive and catch fish and bring them back
up to them. It's so much more efficient than fishing.
The ducks are like fish seeking missiles and smart and
funny too because they steal fish from the fisherman when
they aren't looking and suck them down. It's crazy to
watch. |
| Sarah
and I have two dogs. I have a male Schipperke who looks
just like a little black wolf and she has a female toy
Pomeranian that is the very definition of the word bitch
in personality as well as species and gender. |
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Christie
Biel |
| Do
you like classical mythology?. |
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Cyd
Black |
| I
got a minor in classical mythology and took a Latin course
in college. I really liked it. There was a great book..
it's called Latin Via Ovid and if I recall correctly it
teaches you Latin through mythological stories. They get
harder and harder so if you want to know what happens
you have to learn more Latin and stuff. Same principle
as the Japanese in Manga Land book. Teaches you something
and makes it fun with interesting stories and illustrations
so you don't feel like it's a chore. |
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Christie
Biel |
| What
is your best virtue?. |
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Cyd
Black |
| I
don't really know as I can't easily be objective about
myself but I would like to say it's compassion. I refer
to my previous comments on Buddha and BDSM above for anyone
who can't reconcile the two. |
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Christie
Biel |
| What
is your best weakness?. |
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Black |
| I
don't communicate well (or much at all) in person and
I have no concept of time management. |
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Christie
Biel |
| What
are your hobbies?. |
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Cyd
Black |
| Finding
new and interesting artwork, music and films to enjoy.
Reading...sometimes. I'm kind of tired of it. At one point
I was planning to become an English Professor and read
a huge number of works over the course of two years to
prepare for the graduate entrance exams, but then I got
a job offer to work for this defense contrator and decided
to take it. I read so many damn books that sometimes I
just can't stand them anymore. I like assimilating information
in interactive formats with feedback and such which is
why I like the Rosetta Stone program and annotated software
training sites like lynda.com
that give you lesson files to download and follow along
with as you learn. Right now I'm learning about some of
the Adobe Creative Suite applications beyond Photoshop,
Illustrator, Flash, Final Cut and Dreamweaver and I'm
really amazed at how well done and thorough the courses
are. |
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Christie
Biel |
| How
do you define yourself as a person?. |
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Christie
Biel |
| What
do you value in a person?. |
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Cyd
Black |
| Character.
The ability to remain calm and make quick decisions under
high stress. Ultimately, in order for me to associate
with someone I really need to feel that a person is not
generating any bad karma. I use karma in a completely
secular, non-mystical way. I just mean I don't like it
when I see people stealing, being jealous, spiteful, hateful,
violent or otherwise malicious. |
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Christie
Biel |
| Do
you have a secret you can not confess?. |
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Christie
Biel |
| And
any secret that it can confess?. |
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Cyd
Black |
| I
lied when I answered the previous question. |
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Christie
Biel |
| What
still surprises you?. |
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Cyd
Black |
| How
little effort or care some parents will put into raising
their children and then blame television, the media, the
schools, art, music and video games for their problems. |
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Christie
Biel |
| What
would you consider a place to live, a book to read, and
a dish to eat?.. |
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Cyd
Black |
| Right
now I feel like building a Frank Lloyd Wright house in
some cool Asian fusion style version of Falling Water
and set it into the side of a mountain in Japan and moving
there. Instead of a book, let me recommend another movie
- Exit Through the Gift Shop - an excellent and highly
amusing documentary about street art. It's also on Netflix.
Bonus for watching Graphic Sexual Horror and Exit Through
the Gift Shop back to back. |
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Christie
Biel |
| What
is your website?. |
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Cyd
Black |
| I
dont have one. I just build sites for companies. Im on
Facebook, FetLife and Twitter, all as cydblack. I can
be reached on any of those services and encourage people
to write me if they wish to. I usually take forever to
write back, but I usually always do :). |
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