I want everyone to know about my Friends' new on-line presence and work at Sting Pictures.
In 2011, I had the opportunity to stay with them in Prague for the permitted 3-months. I had been in the United Kingdom (England, Wales and a side trip to southern Ireland) for the permitted 6-months, then was looking to extend my European Adventure with a permitted 3-month stay in "Europe" (Schengen Territory).
Our wonderful Friend John from CP4Men.net here, who I met in person in Cardiff, Wales, referred me to Sting Pictures. After a few e-mails, I boarded a British Airways jet at LHR and 2 hours later, landed at PRG. They sent a driver to pick me up (a licensed Taxi Driver, who was also a model with them), and I rented a room from them, in their studio complex, for 3 months- Sept, Oct and Nov, 2011! Which is like NOW, 3 years ago!! It is as meaningful now as it was then.
I have followed their work continuously, and recently have Followed them as well on Twitter @StingPictures.
Sting Pictures has been a long-standing spanking site, featuring well crafted stories about naughty university guys at boarding schools, getting red bottoms. Rich and Rob come from England, and relocated to Prague some time ago. So between the three of us, English was British English, and the handful of regular Czech Republic models had a good grasp of English words. Although they pronounced vowels like in Latin, so it took a second to figure out that MOO-ze-um, was Museum - long "U" vs short "u", and often emphasis on the "wrong" syllable compared to American or British English. (It's not that I go to Museums, "Muzeum" is an important Subway train stop)
They were in a production lull, so they rented to me one room in a 5-room Flat that was their main shooting studio, in a large Apartment Building, of a couple dozen Flats. They themselves lived in 2 other Flats. I shot 4 of my own videos in "my room," and they let me shoot in another of their rooms as well. They referred 4 models to me to shoot with: 2 regulars, 1 that they also knew, and the Taxi driver who had previously been a regular. They had another friend who was a producer and recruiter, who shot a number of solos for the previous incarnation of BadPuppy's DigGone Video, but at about the same time that he was going to send some models my way, he got the DGV work.
I helped Sting once or twice on one of their own productions that they were shooting, because they asked. They also shot for a couple of other studios from England and Netherlands (I believe), but they told me at the outset that when they shot for others, that I should stay in my room. After all, movies are Intellectual Property, and movie productions, as with finished videos or DVDs, are other people's creative work and property. I had plenty of my own work to do. Although, as with their own catalog, I still would like to have the retail site URLs to the work they shot for other sites while I was there.
When I arrived, we had a great connection with each other. Rich is my age, Rob almost a generation younger. Rich edits in Premiere, I edit in Final Cut Pro (after a 6-month headache-ridden dalliance with PP). Rich and Rob act in their movies, I star in mine. Rich has worked in TV and the top-level of production companies shooting in the US. It was great having Friends closer to my own age, after years of shooting with mid-20s models in Hollywood, that were only models.
Fast Forward to current times: in addition to their website http://www.stingpictures.tv/. they now have a great blog at:
http://stingpictures.blogspot.co.uk/...0074ff97f20fc5 which has a promotion right now for a new hard-core title, featuring famed European porn star Johan Volny, who I met in Berlin before he started appearing on the Sting label.
This current feature is VERY hardcore, compared to previous softcore spanking, and perhaps some infrequent oral and solo jackoff. Maybe a new direction? The screen caps on the blog sure look like they were shot in "my room"!! :)
I haven't found an Affiliate opportunity for Sting Pictures. Maybe I haven't looked hard enough, or maybe something has changed, and you will find such. I helped them open the door at CCBill to get their Client Account, but am not sure they are using it.
Nonetheless, they are a long-term production company, they do amazing work for being basically a 1-man shop, with full-time support from 2 men! I am a 1-man shop, and appreciate how much Rich does, and how much full-time support the gets from Rob and an assistant Translator and logistics person.
Follow them, if you find an Affiliate link, promote them. I just think they are great!
