If you are familiar with our production you probably know a lot of people appearing in our movies more than once. Some of them have been our friends long time before any shooting, other ones have become friends after their first appearence in our movies. It is always more about relationship than business contracts. And even if they retired from „scene“ they are still our good friends - hello Niki and Pavel.
Sometimes it is just small cameo appearence, other times main character but always it is work with friend.
We are happy to announce there will be first appearance of our long time friends from Hell.cz in our upcoming movie. More details and pictures are posted at RGE-films news blog. This time it will be more cameo appearence but even in this case the scene will be probably unforgettable.
You can enjoy three pictures from upcoming movie and two more from Hell.cz shows:
If you are worried Hell.cz shows are more about different – and more extreme - kind of BDSM than spanking do not afraid. This movie will be nice Lupus style spanking movie with girls in school uniforms, strict schoolmistress and headmaster. Everything you adore in Lupus movies. Even these freaks can share interest for more traditional and old fashioned fun.
This our first collaboration, there will be more common work in future. We have several ideas and it would be a pity not to realize them.
And if you would be sharp and patient and you would browse all galleries at hell.cz you will find several well-known faces (and sometimes bottoms too). So this is not maybe the first collaboration at all...
As you maybe know from one of my previous posts (A Gift for Adele), I collect whips, especially the riding whips. Maybe it’s a odd hobby for a horse, but if you think about it a little, it makes sense ;-)
Recently I acquired three new vintage riding whips. If the top two don’t look like that on first sight, it’s because they don’t have the lea
Two of them are interesting by being foldable. The whip consists of several parts, each being about 30 cm (12”) long. They can be screwed together in any combination to make desired length and to allow easier transport.
The idea is interesting and the craftmanship impressive, but these whips are generally not useable for a spanking. They are pretty rigid and the connecting mechanism isn’t in a top shape now, after some 90 years. Remember, when riding, you are generally not expected to actually whip the horse. Although unruly horse can of course earn a swift lash sometimes, whip is generally meant more as a tool of signalling and communication.
Modern exploration of the pocket-size whip idea can be seen in a another whip from my collection. This one is made from plastic and is retractable, like telescopic antennas. I’ve got it from a friend of mine as a present and I keep it handy most of the time, as it permanently resides in my laptop bag (causing amusing scenes at various security checkpoints, which is of course another story). It can be used as a nice surprise when someone keeps teasing you while expecting that you don’t have any suitable argument of physical nature nearby.
Although this whip looks quite fragile, it can be used for spanking with surprisingly positive results. Of course, it’s not intended to give full-force lashes (it tends to fall apart when you hit hard). But the end of the whip is surprisingly flexible and the rubber slapper is pretty heavy. So it could render impressive sting, when properly used on naked skin.
In case of some iron-butt spankees, you may be required to use more substantial tool or be more imaginative in choosing the body part being coaxed. But generally I can recommend this tool as good for mobile percussive attitude adjustment scenarios.
Current mood: chatty; Current music: Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills (album: Edward The Great).
In my other life, I was tagged by the “Seven deadly sins” meme. To protect the innocent, I will withold who tagged me, because I want to transfer this meme to the spanking world. I think that the idea of sins, even the seven deadly ones, correlates pretty well with the BDSM topic.
In this meme you are supposed to answer seven questions in each of seven topics related to seven biblical deadly sins of anger, sloth, gluttony, lust, greed, pride and envy. Then you tag three more bloggers, who are supposed to answer next round.
So, my answers are as follows:
Anger
- With whom did you last get angry?
Really angry? I don't remember, I do not get really angry often. It's more fun to pretend it! - What is your weapon of choice?
Sharp words and irony. - Would you hit a member of the opposite sex?
Of course, I have an equal opportunities policy in this area. - How about of the same sex?
Equal means equal. - Who was the last person who got really angry at you?
I suppose it was my girlfriend around the time she decided to became my ex-girlfriend. - What is your pet peeve?
Bureaucracy and stupidity in any form. - Do you keep grudges, or can you let them go easily?
I let them out as soon as possible, usually with a pretty loud sound effects.
Sloth
- What is one thing you're supposed to do daily that you haven't done in a long time?
Umm, lots of things. But cleaning will probably keep on top of the list. - What is the latest you've ever woken up?
It's hard to tell, I live pretty chaotic life. But there are numerous cases when I'm waking up and others are going to sleep. - Name a person you've been meaning to contact, but haven't?
Family members, all the time. - What is the last lame excuse you made?
“I had some problems with my computer…” - Have you ever watched an infomercial all the way through (one of the long ones)?
Yes, I like to watch them (once each), they're funny! - When was the last time you got a good workout in?
Umm, I don't remember when exactly, but I remember the whip marks I had afterwards! - How many times did you hit the snooze button on your alarm clock today?
I don’t usually wake to alarm. And when this case arises, it’s something really important not to miss, so I don’t use snooze at all. I’m not even sure that my PDA has the snooze function.
Gluttony
- What is your overpriced yuppie beverage of choice?
Pepsi isn't overpriced! - Meat eaters: white meat or dark meat?
Depends on mood, but generally white, chicken if possible. - What is the greatest amount of alcohol you've had in one sitting/outing/event?
About half of glass of mead. I prefer to have more elaborate sins than simple alcohol. - Have you ever used a professional diet company?
No. - Do you have an issue with your weight?
No, although some other peope have ;-) - Do you prefer sweets, salty foods, or spicy foods?
Sweets. And spicy foods if I'm in that mood. - Have you ever looked at a small housepet or child and thought, LUNCH?
No, I'm afraid of children and regarding of small animals, my wolfdog is in charge when comes to eatimg them.
Lust
- How many people have you seen naked (not counting movies/family)?
Around hundered. - How many people have seen YOU naked (not counting physicians/family)?
Does harness count as naked? If yes, then whole Internet :) About ten, otherwise. - What is your favorite body part on a person of your gender of choice?
Shoulders, back and where the back loses its good name. - Have you ever caught yourself staring at the chest/crotch of a member of your gender of choice during a normal conversation?
No, I don’t care much about chest and crotch and the parts I'm interested in aren't usually evident during a normal conversation. - Have you done it?
Yeah. Although I was technically virgin until some 21 years of age. - Have you ever been propositioned by a prostitute?
Don't know, I usually do not notice unknown people around me. - Have you ever had to get tested for an STD or pregnancy?
No.
Greed
- How many credit cards do you own?
Three. - What's your guilty pleasure store?
Any bookshop. - If you had $1 million, what would you do with it?
Paid my taxes ;-) - Would you rather be rich, or famous?
Rich. Being famous is easy then, if one wishes so. - Would you accept a boring job if it meant you would make megabucks?
Yes, but I would be unable to perform it for longer time. - Have you ever stolen anything?
Yes. - How many MP3s are on your hard drive?
About 100 gigabytes of them.
Pride
- What one thing have you done that you're most proud of?
I became one of top industry experts in my country and several surrounding states. Without having any formal training or certification, I teach those who give formal training and certification. - What one thing have you done that your parents are most proud of?
My parents do not know about one third of things I do, do not understand the second third and do not want to know anything about the third one. But they were very proud when they saw my first articles being published in print. - What thing would you like to accomplish in your life?
Mormons think that man's soul lives as long as his name isn't forgotten. I would like to live in memories of people, after I'll pass away physically. - Do you get annoyed by coming in second place?
It depends, I usually do not enter anything of competitive nature. - Have you ever entered a contest of skill, knowing you were of much higher skill than all the other competitors? Yes, that's the only case when I willingly enter any contest of skill.
- Have you ever cheated on something to get a higher score?
Yes. Cheating is part of the game. - What did you do today that you're proud of?
It's 2 AM, no time to save the world today.
Envy
- What item (or person) of your friends would you most want to have for your own?
Beautiful friesian horse. - Who would you want to go on Trading Spaces with?
An ticket inspector in Prague underground. - If you could be anyone else in the world, who would you be?
A tough one. I'm actually pretty satisfied with who I am. - Have you ever been cheated on?
Don't know, don't care. - Have you ever wished you had a physical feature different from your own?
Yes, to weight less to be able to ride horses more easily. But not to such extent to actually do something about it. - What inborn trait do you see in others that you wish you had for yourself?
Stronger will and endurance to do what is needed, but is boring or laboured. - Finally, what is your favorite deadly sin?
Sloth and lust. Or, it's greed if I want two of them?
I’m tagging my friends Niky Flynn, Thomas from Punished Butts and Ludwig the German Brat to answer next round.
Current music: Man on a Mission (by Gamma Ray).
Have you ever dreamed about how sweet is life of a spanking movies producer? You can film the movie exactly how you like it. Cast only the pretty girls, make plot which excites you… Well, think again.
You are not alone
First of all, every movie is collaborative effort.
The screenwriter writes the basic story line and brings it to the producer. Producer tears off the core of the story, wishes to emphasize some marginal detail he’s focused on, so the screenwriter must painfully tie all the loose ends together and the result is not as much satisfactory for him as the first draft was. But that’s life.
Then comes the director’s turn. He takes the finished screenplay and does artistic projection of the story into reality (he says) or deliberately screws the story due to personal hate (screenwriter says).
Now the actors and cameraman come. They also have their own view of the story, the characters. Their intentions and acting skills (of lack of the aforementioned) also influence the final result.
Next in line is editor. On the verge of madness from some ten hours of raw, poorly indexed material, which only very loosely resembles the original script. So he is here to use all his skill and raw computing power to make some movie, without too much obvious discrepancies. Being former editor myself I can tell that fortunately, you can get away with nearly anything. I once from sheer necessity used the same shot twice in the same movie, once mirrored, slowed-down and digitally zoomed and nobody noticed :-)
Then the music arrives. Especially when you have original composed score for a movie, the music can change the mood and final feeling more than it seems.
And now you have the result of collective effort and likewise collective frustration. We tried to capture the feeling a little in several movies for you:
- The Deep Imact
Sometimes screenwriter's and director's imaginations differ and this divergence can have deep impact on poor girls, executor, his assistants and even willow birches... Movie about difficult life of famous spanking screenwriter. - The Great Role
Being a beginning actress, what would you do for getting a first role in a big movie? Before you say "anything", we recommend you to watch this movie!
Be careful what you wish for
Usually you can project your preferences into the final movie somehow. And here comes the second problem. Wanna get rid of your perversions? Make them your full-time job. Ever wanted to have enough of nice big pictures to enjoy them? How about several thousands of them, in raw camera resolution, taking impressive stack of DVDs when burned, and when you’re required to sort them?
And there is one further potential problem: you can become prisoner of your dreams. Shoot the same scenes and movies repeatedly and start to be boring. Shooting something else than your customers want to see (and what they’re willing to pay for).
We want to hear your voice!
We want to hear your voice now. Imagine that you are in charge. That you want to shoot the best spanking movie ever – at least according to your personal opinion, taste and kink. I have prepared survey for you, regarding your spanking movie preferences. In twenty simple (at least I hope) questions you can tell us what and how you would like to see in a Lupus Pictures spaning movies.
You will find the survey at the following URL:
http://snipurl.com/lupus-survey
You are free to spread the URL as you like, send it to your kinky friends, put it to your blog, as you like.
Several notes:
- We value your opinions. All the results will be read and acted accordingly.
- We value your privacy. No personal data will be required or recorded. The survey software is running on third party service, so we don’t even have access to your IP address and such.
- We reward your help. If you enter your e-mail address (which is optional), we will send you 5 € discount coupon for our web shop. And one lucky recipient will receive ticket for free download of movie of his choice.
- The survey will run for two weeks. I wil close it on October 8th, 2008 (midnight of local time and I don’t know where I’ll be then, so don’t wait).
- The discount coupons and free movies will be sent in a week after closing.
By the way, if you want to know more about how the life of spanking movie executive producer is like, you can read the interwiew with me, made by Thomas and published some time ago on Punished Butts web site.
It’s funny, that statistically speaking, the most comments on this blog is about music. I intentionally put the graphic representation of my Last.fm music profile to the left column, interested it it’ll bring some reaction. It seems that the spankers worldwide have pretty compatible music taste.
Well, not all of them. My Lupus colleague, Honza Žáček, told me, that even pure sight of my playlist constitutes sheer torture for him ;-)
I think that musical portion of movies is very important. In our movies we have used numerous original soudtracks, composed by Johan Bruner. One day I’ll probably make a compilation of the best tracks and publish it.
One of cases when he was able to unleash his creative genius was the Stalin series, or in more general, all the Czechoslovak 50’s series.
I generally like the revolutionary and political songs. Being them communistic, Nazi, whatever. They are strong. They must be, if they can force people to fight and die for ideas expressed within. I experienced that power myself, some ten years ago, when I organized a demonstration and we energized the crowd by music…
There is a song with very eventful history. It was used as anthem by almost anyone – socialists, anarchists, communists, the Soviet Union as well as a rally song by students at the Tianmen Square. The Internationale. The song is 120 years old and of French origin. The original lyrics were written by Eugène Pottier in 1870 and set to music of Pierre De Geyter in 1888. I have found French and Russian version for you.
We have used the Internationale two times in our movies. First it was in The Anarchy, story from The Headmaster’s Study. The left-wing anarchist student’s spirit is unbroken by the birching she endured and at the end of the movie she’s humming the tune in protest, being joined by the Headmaster, who catches the tune saying that’s a nice song.
The darker version is in the Stalin series. Johan rearranged The Internationale so that the energetic song becomes terrifying and implies the dreads induced by the communistic regime who accepted the song as its anthem. He also similarly rearranged various other songs made popular by Czech Communists, with the same result.
I’m now offering you the two soundtracks as free download:
More about roles of music in spanking movies next time.
Current mood: sweaty; Current music: Within Temptation - Caged (album: Within Temptation - Live Tilburg 13-03-02).
I speak three languages: Czech, English and Very-Loud-Czech. The last one is used in Pratchett’s way to communicate with aliens; if they don’t understand, repeat the sentence again in your primary language and more loudly. By the way, according to my experience across the world, it works surprisingly well, especially in Spain!
They tried to force-learn me German in school for some seven years. That’s why I know only “Guten Tag” and “donnerwetterkrucifixhimmelherrgotthimbajselement”. Actually, the second phrase I use as a curse word and is probably not proper German anyway. But it basically resonates with my feeling that German language is well-suited only for orders and cursing. Maybe, if Ms.Honalová, my German teacher in elementary school, would use another teaching methods than pained expressions on her face, the results would be different ;-)
It seems that Ludwig’s caning method worked pretty well for teaching Niki Flynn German numerals! He describes the event in his recent blog post. In a vain attempt to divert attention of international spanking community from his own well-earned punishment, he published video recording of the above mentioned session.
Lupus Pictures helped him with hosting the video on our download servers, so you may enjoy it for free:
By the way: I should probably expand the list of good uses of German by ancient incantations and metal music lyrics. For example in songs of German band In Extremo. They use traditional medieval lyrics in various strange languages like Occitan, Gaelic, Icelandic, Old Swedish, Old French, Middle High German, Old High German, and Latin. And they mix traditional medieval instruments and arrangement with modern metal and rock, which seems strange at first, but the outcome is surprisingly great.
In the video above you may see their live performance of “Ai vis a lo lop”. It’s the right song for a spanking werewolf, because it’s name means “I saw a wolf” in Occitan language.
But I still don’t understand, what the singer says in the video ;-)
Current mood: musical; Current music: Kivimetsän Druidi - Pohjoinen Mahti
I just processed photos from shooting of our latest movie this weekend. I’ll not go into much detail, the movie hasn’t got even a final name yet, but I’ll share several carefully selected photos with you. Then you’ll discover why we love our photographer so much!
It was hot weekend here. Outside temperature was 304 K (and I’ll give one free movie download to person who will post in comments how much it’s in degrees both Celsius and Fahrenheit). The inside temperature was outside the scope of our thermometers. The studio must be soundproof, and that unfortunately means also that’s well thermo-insulated. Add some big studio lights and lots of persons on set and you’re done.
But even in such heat, we didn’t failed in bringing you the most beautiful actors and actresses in spanking movie business. And in case of any medical emergencies, our faithful nurse was prepared to give first aid:
Several other memorable moments from our latest shooting:
Current mood: sweaty; Current music: Disturbed – Land of Confusion
Here in Lupus Pictures, we strongly believe in that you should be careful what you wish for, lest it come true. We are well known for fulfilling the requests of spanking models.
For example, when Niki Flynn wanted to explore her darkest fantasies, we wrote Stalin II for her. And when she expressed wish for a spanking movie set in madhouse, well, we wrote its sequel, Stalin III. Of course, the movie is set in state-sanctioned madhouse, so we gave Niki the most bizarre of gifts, as she called it afterwards.
We’re preparing a shoot for late summer, which will feature a maid, portrayed by Adele Haze. Poor Adele suggested, that the maid should be properly tormented, humiliated and punished, as much as possible.
What we wouldn’t do for a friend. So I was browsing the local flea markets to find a unique spanking tool, perfectly suitable for stern punishment of maids.
It’s almost hundred years old whip, made by sewing two strips of strong leather together with a wooden handle.
The whip was obviously living in caring home, because is in excellent condition. It’s not damaged, was well cared for. I just imagine the poor person, who is carefully oiling the tool of his or her own punishment, while kneeling naked on a cold floor…
Of course, that damn thing hurts like a hell, as I personally tested, first on myself an then on one volunteer. Well, kind of. Teasing me when I have new addition to my collection of whips and riding crops effectively equals volunteering ;-)
Just for illustration, this is part of the aforementioned collection, within easy reach in my office (the non-Lupus one, I’m software developer in the other life). Having some argument nearby can significantly speed up various kinds of negotiations, as I discovered! Which one would you like to use or be used on you?
Current mood: sadistic; Current music: In Extremo - Merseburger Zaubersprüche
The launch of new website of RGE Films, our movie distribution partner, allowed me to unleash my geek power. So we employed several bleeding-edge technologies for me to play with. So, if you are interested in what technology is powering you favorite web site, you can read here.
The new generation web site we launched before few weeks is codenamed “Shadow” – it’s a nice wolfish name, I think. The main servers running Shadow are running in two-node cluster. Each node server has quad-core processor, eight gigabytes of RAM and almost one terabyte of disk space available.
We are using the HP ProLiant DL 320 G5 servers. I’m not too happy about that, because I have previous bad experience with Hewlett-Packard servers (I’d prefer IBM or Dell servers instead). On the other side, the hardware isn’t my problem and it was chosen by my friend’s company who will take care of it. As a developer, I’m generally not interested in hardware.
The cluster is running on 64-bit Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Edition, which is the highest edition of newest Windows server system available now. Entire infrastructure we have for Shadow (web servers, secure download servers, database etc.) is virtualized using the new Hyper-V technology, which is part of Windows Server 2008.
Virtualization allows us to host several servers (with different operating systems and purpose) on top of single physical machine. This allows us to better utilize computing resources, electricity and space in data center. In virtual servers we are running mixture of different operating systems, but generally we are running on Windows Server 2003 and 2008.
There is a bunch of other less-interesting servers used for support services (like e-mail, name servers, public download servers for static content etc.). In our studio, we have another pack of computers caring about production, video editing, encoding and movie authoring – maybe I’ll tell you more about them next time!
The web application itself was developed in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 using the latest ASP.NET 3.5 and Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0. This new version of IIS is great! Is extendable and can be easily modified to suit our needs. Entire secure download site is built using custom IIS 7 modules and handlers. That means than unlike in the previous version you should be able to use download managers to download movies from our secure servers. For database we are using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 now and we plan to upgrade to SQL Server 2008 as soon as possible.
So, that’s what you are “talking” with when browsing our web sites. Sorry for not having any pictures of cute girls with red butts in todays post. I was unable to sneak any of them into the datacenter ;-) Anyway, I’m probably the only person finding combination of powerful computers and naked girls exciting and blinking lights of rackmounted switches (the computer kind, not the wooden ones) romantic…
Everyone is blogging now. Spanking models, spanking reviewers… So it’s time for spanking movie producers to start blogging as well, I think.
So, let me introduce myself. I’m Michal Altair Valášek and besides other things I’m executive producer at Lupus Pictures, the world’s best spanking movies company! My job is to ensure that the movie will reach the stage that can be distributed on DVDs or online to you, our customers.
Besides that, I’m the man running all the web sites you know and love. So if something ends with the popular “500 Internal Server Error” message, I’m the one who gets the whipping. Well, not quite. Thomas isn’t in M/M and besides I’m much bigger than he is ;-)
For having the sharpest tongue in the company, I’m now supposed to do the PR thing. So I started this blog, to allow me less formal communication with our fans all around the world than the official news like “we have new movie” and “we have 20% off sale”.
Oh, by the way, we have 20% off sale on our online download web site and 30% on DVD site, until Monday, if you’re interested.
So, watch this space. I’m going to gratify you with some unpublished photos, little dose of gossip, some special blog-only discounts and answers to interesting questions I will get from you in comments.
To put a face to name, I’m the “big geeky-looking fellow” (as Adele Haze once described me) on the photo (taken on set of The Deep Impact).
The hairy looking fellow on the other picture is Esta Kanýčo, my Czechoslovak Wolfdog. She’s the “Lupus” from Lupus Pictures (although she has technically only about one quarter of wolf blood).
Now for the aforementioned gossip: The wolves are howling that one of movies now in planning will cast as a special guest star one spanking blogosphere celebrity (other than well-known Niki Flynn and Adele Haze).