Avalanche of shoots part 3..”Mile High Club” and “Money Shot”

This summer (and now autumn) has been pretty rough on me.  I actually got so busy with cranking out shoots and posting them while at the same time moving out of my studio, that I sort of forgot about this blog entirely.  I’m not sure whether I should just dump samples of the five shoots I did between mid August and mid September, or if I should dole out samples in 5 different blog posts.

Actually, does anyone read this blog much?  I’m having a terrible time finding places to post samples of my newest work.  Tumblr is no longer x-rated, and it’s a pain to get things shuttled over to instagram and all that.  Sucks if you make your art on a desktop computer and now you have to like get it onto a tablet or iphone just to let people know what you’re up to.

I guess I’ll just go in order, and make this a few posts.  I’ll probably do a separate post about losing my studio, which is something I haven’t quite come to terms with yet.

First things first.  “Money Shot” and “Mile High Club”.

So I suppose a tiny bit of context is in order.  I was renting a large warehouse building that was a separate parcel to the lot that my house is on.  When I moved into the house and warehouse property, the real estate market was pretty optimistically hot.   However, I was doing well enough in my income that maybe I could have bought the two pieces of land as one.  Of course, I’ll never know because that’s that not the way things unfolded.

I think the two pieces of land treated as one would have been zoned as “commercial” and it was important for me to keep my house as “residential” or something like that.  So when an opportunity came to split the two parcels into two (well, rather than combine them as one) I took it.  In 2013 I bought the house lot with the intention that I would keep renting the warehouse lot until some later date when I’d buy it.

As the years went on, my plans kept changing and maybe the space was always too much room.  I did some amazing things in that space.  Everything from building 40 foot long sci-fi robot base hallways to well, all the sets that I ever built for all my shoots.   It was a great, huge open space with no supporting columns in the way, and I want to do a proper retrospective on everything I accomplished there, but not quite yet.  The loss of my workspace is still a little too new.

Long story short, once it came time to try to  buy the studio, a few things conspired against me.  A: I couldn’t quite afford it.  B:  Being zoned as commercial meant having to put something like 25% down.  C:  The fact that it was on a visible numbered route meant that it was a good place to have a business if you needed some curbside visibility, but to me this wasn’t a feature I wanted.  That also probably put it out of my price range.   In any event, the sellers and I tried to come up with a price that would work, but mainly the banks told me it wasn’t a good idea, and I agreed.  Once you factored in the fact that the  studio was impossible to heat in the winter, and difficult to cool in the hottest days of summer, I then decided I was better off just building my own building instead of having an additional mortgage to deal with.

Of course in the meantime I had fallen into the trap of “hey, got a huge space?  Just full it full of projects you may or may not ever get to one day!”  Project cars, unrealized photo shoot props, old lingering props from shoots that are too cool to get rid of?  Well, that studio, which got nicknamed Wonderland, was a magical place that also ended up being a pretty hip play party space, so long as said party wasn’t in the middle of February.

But I’m getting ahead of myself.  This isn’t supposed to be my “Requiem for Wonderland”, this is supposed to be about what I did manage to get done, once I got a hard deadline for when I needed to be out of there.

So December 2018 my attempts to buy the space failed, and I decided I’d start to withdraw from the space.  I had built two freestanding rooms, which were my dressing room and a partition to make it easier to heat the larger area.  I decided to disassemble those rooms, and salvage that building material for ongoing house renovations.
The building went up on the market around January ’19 and I just sorta kept plugging away at taking things apart, while doing shoots and camshows and all the while, my poor house was absorbing the massive amount of stuff that I had to find new homes for.  I think I actually calculated how many couches or couch-like pieces of furniture I had, and came up with a number like 11 or 12.  I gave two away, brought two to the dump, and disassembled that giant red fainting couch that was really based on a 4×8 sheet of plywood.   And even then, I was left with just slightly too many couches for my house, so I had to rearrange things in house to accept some of the ones I intended to keep.  I did a little game of select a few crappy pieces of furniture from the house to sacrifice, so I could keep the nicer ones that lived out in the studio.

Anyway, this was essentially my entire spring and summer.  I managed to bang out some good shoots like “Cumbo” and “Saccharine Stupid” and “”Cheshire Candy”, but that hard deadline to be out of the studio always seems like a can getting kicked down the road.  The sellers had a few interested buyers, but the building wasn’t a fast moving property.

Of course, I will admit, I was a sneaky devil here and there.  The roof leaked, and required a few pans in strategic places to catch the drips. I may have – ahem-  exaggerated the extent of the leaks by replacing the little pans of water with 5 gallon buckets of waters.  Heck, anything to slow the sale, why not?  Ain’t I a stinker?

Anyway, so the first week of August rolls around, and apparently they have a solid buyer, and then they give me a deadline.  I gotta  be out by September 1st!  Can you be out by September 1st?  Uhhhh… I think so.  Now it would simply have been enough to have gotten all my shit out of there on time, and it really came down to a matter of “well, if you can’t figure out what you’re going to do with it, all you need to do is drag whatever it is up the  hill 20 feet to my lot, and throw a tarp over it.   And then deal with it later”

That sort of thing.  And then somehow I got inspired to actually finish up some of those unfinished projects.  Did I have time to do that?  3 weeks left?  Could I bang out like 4 or 5 shoots, and ambitious shoots at that- in 3 weeks?  Why not try.  If they end up looking half assed, it’ll be better than if they didn’t exist.

So I had this slot machine tucked away in the corner, which always had been intended for a new Vegas showgirl shoot.

The idea had always been to make some new artwork to be on some frosted plexiglass (or polycarbonite or whatever they call that stuff).  The artwork itself had been 80% finished like, 5 years ago, but like everything, I had been a stupid perfectionist about it so I hadn’t made it all happen.  And though I didn’t plan on throwing the slot machine away, I knew if I didn’t make this shoot happen NOW, it probably wouldn’t happen anywhere any time soon.  And the outfit itself was pretty much done, having been used years ago in
“Showgirl”.  So I quickly wrapped up the artwork in photoshop, and my intention was to print it on waterslide decal paper used for temporary tattoos.  That was basically a disaster.  I actually shot a series of videos of me going through that process, but I don’t think I’m going to edit them together, because I look like total shit in those videos.  I basically look like a person who hasn’t slept in days and have 3 weeks to do 3 months worth of projects.  I dunno, maybe I’ll take a look at the videos and I can make something out of them and toss them on youtube.  They’re a little too close to a “how the sausage is made” moments for me though.

Oh, and did I mention at the same time all this happened, I was in the middle of house renovations?  Yeah.. if you didn’t hear from me much on social media it was because of too much shit going on in my life.

So I did manage to make a workable, though simple set out of what I have here.  And those two huge dice?  Would you believe those are the boxes that my Power Mac g4 and CRT monitor came in, that I bought back in 2001?  Those boxes have been turned into huge baby blocks and christmas presents for many many photoshoots over the years.

So yeah, August 20th, I got “Money Shot” done, with what, 10 days left to do whatever needed to be done.  Hmmm.. fresh off my success of that shoot I looked around and wondered what other  unrealized shoot might also see the light of day…

Well, enter “Mile High Club”.

I made this flight attendant outfit back in 2008, and had all that tacky blue and brown patterned material sitting in a bin, as well as matching carpet and foam, and even the LED running lights.    With 10 days left to Get Shit Done, I looked around at my pile of ideas and realized that I had all the elements ready to go, and best of all, I didn’t have to waste time making a new costume or anything.  Since I was like you need to spend every available minute out in that studio because it’s going away, this seemed like a good choice for a new shoot.

Could I bang out that shoot as well?
So I managed to get this shoot done on August 30th, and though I didn’t get as much detail as I wanted from like the upholstered seats, what else could I have done?  Rented a 747 and then hoped the color scheme would match?  Yeah, that wasn’t going to happen.

Now I admit here on this blog post I’m skipping over a few other shoots I hammered out, but I’ll talk about those in the next blog update.  There was a fair amount of overlap in building one shoot while preparing to shoot on another, and things like oh, I have this set ready to go, but the outfit isn’t ready,  so I’ll switch gears and work on this other set, and oh, I’m too exhausted today to get the shoot done, I’ll roll that over into tomorrow, and since I’m already using the drill, maybe I’ll just finish this set instead.  Stuff like that.

And at the same time all this happened, I was still working on my house/ moving stuff/throwing stuff away and just freaking the fuck out.  Basically 17 hour work days, but trying my best not to overwork myself to the point where no makeup in the world can hide my stress and lack of sleep.  The fact that the pictures came out as good as they did (and the video not half bad either), is a miracle in itself.

To be continued in next blog post…

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Avalanche of Shoots Part 2: Cumbo The Clown and Smoky Circuit

As I said, there’s more!

The most ambitious one something I wanted to do for a long time.  Years ago, I did a clown shoot called “Big Top Tara”, but though the outfit and set were pretty good, I thought the makeup and everything else wasn’t as good as it could have been.  Looking back now, I really did need to rearrange the molecules of this outfit to really sluttify it better.
So the hat stayed the same.  The corset got repurposed for a different outfit, but the skirt ruff became the new neck ruff.  Then the old neck ruff became an ankle ruff, and I made a second ankle ruff to match it.

Lastly, I did the makeup much, much better.  And yes, I swear, after this shoot and
Saccharine Stupid” I will try to retire the pink puffs wig for a while. I may  have overused this look a  bit.

Anyway, the end result is way better, and like I said, there will be a “lewd” pre release for my patroen supporters first.

And now, finally a change of pace.  Actually, a whole new look for me, but it looks like it’s straight from the 80s.  This was an “easy” shoot, but then again, it’s a breath of fresh air.  Here’s “Smoky Circuit”

Hot glue some obsolete motherboards to a corset and gloves,and pair it with some authentic 80s silver leather thigh high boots, and well, it works, doesn’t it?


So who knows which one of these three (as of today, July 10th) unreleased shoots will hit the internet first, but both “Cumbo” and “Smoky” are basically ready to hit my Patreon pretty much right now.

And then it’s back into the studio to bang out some more new content.  Maybe they’ll be all new shoots, maybe they’ll be re-imagining of some old classic Tara Emory chestnuts!  You never know what you’re going to get!

-Tara

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Avalanche of Shoots Part 1: Cheshire Candy and Saccharine Stupid

Hey all, I’ve actually had a flurry of activity here, though I’ve been posting so little about it on social media, all of you probably have little idea that things are going on behind the scenes.

First up, and one that’s already hit the site, is “Cheshire Candy” a nice playful purple and pink striped outfit.
This set went up mid-June, clocking in at a full 209 pictures on my members page.  But a week or so before, my Patreon members got a sneak peek of the lewd (non-bottom nudity) portion of the shoot.  And usually in that case, there are roughly 20-40 pictures in that pre-release.

I guess that’s sort of my business model going forward.  Every shoot I do, I’ll take about 50 lewd non-bottom-nudity shots, and get them out to my Patreon members.  This way, people can also support me without really jumping into the deep end of porn.  I hope this is something that will work?  Seems like many successful Patreon models keep it “lewd” on that site while offering the full nudes somewhere else.  I do know, however, that I can’t technically post bottom nudity shots on their server.

This business model might change.  Also, I may figure out a way to offer free tara-ts.com website memberships to upper Patroen tiers.  If you’re a Patreon supporter, please bear with me while I try to figure out the magic formula.  Some people also feel they want to support me by being a Patreon supporter AND a tara-ts.com member, and I won’t say no to that.

Anyway, here’s a taste of “Cheshire Candy” as seen on my member’s site:

Moving forward, here’s another shoot I did at the same time as “Cheshire Candy”, which is a much anticipated redux of “Artificially Flavored”, which I’m calling “Saccharine Stupid”, because well, you just come up with silly names for shoots and they end up sticking.

Again, there will be a pre-release selection of “lewds” on Patreon, then later on (weeks later), there will be a more leisurely release of the full set on www.tara-ts.com

So a LOT of what I’m doing now is really banging out as much content as possible while I still have my studio space.  This is just the tip of the iceberg, as there’s 2 more in the pipeline that are nearly ready to hit Patreon, and likely will before “Saccharine Stupid”.

-Tara

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“The Horny Forest” and “Rococo Virtuoso”

So I know the last few months there hasn’t been a heck of a lot of activity.  The situation with my studio is still.. in flux.  The building is currently up for sale and occasionally the realtor shows it to someone.  There have been a few interested buyers but no one has jumped at it yet.

The way things are going, it could sell next week or a year from now.  If it sold next week, I’d still have a month before closing to get the rest of my stuff out of there, so right now, I’m trying to bang out as many shoots as I can, and my latest two (and ones to come) are perfect examples of making do with the space while I still have it.

Got bark?  Well, I did have some, and I whipped up a set out of nothing to make a horny scary tree, for “The Horny Forest”, which is my Snow White costume revisited.

Here’s a little time lapse video of the set going up.  If you’ve noticed I’ve been a little quiet on social media with the behind the scenes stuff, it’s because I’ve been holding them  back as perks for my Patreon patrons.  I’ll tell you more about my Patreon later, and how I’m tweaking my business model going forward.

I’m currently editing video for “The Horny Forest” (often times the video isn’t shot until later that week or the next week), and in the meantime,  I actually got a second shoot done, which ended up actually being  a far more ambitious outfit than planned.

Geez, these were supposed to be easy shoots, right?  In “Rococo Virtuoso”, the idea was to reupholster this nice fancy purple couch I started working on years ago but never finished.  The upholstering job went relatively easy, but then I decided “why not make the outfit out of the same purple velvet?”  and so I did, accenting it with purple and pink stripes and flowers, lots of  flowers.  And I used a pale pink powdered wig I had for years but also never shot with (though I have the same one in lavender that I used on “Revolutionary Whore”)

The result came out pretty damn nice, and went along with a cute little violin I found for something like $20 at a thrift store (really!). The whole outfit took longer than I anticipated because I incorporated so much detail into it, including multiple trips to the fabric store when twice I decided NEEDS MORE PINK FRILLY TRIM and in the end I bought out the entire selection of that trim.  Oh, and that purple velvet  has been following me around for like 13 years, as it was first used as a backdrop for photoshoots such as “Bubblegum Broadway Redux” from 2006 (!). I guess it’s like they say, use the whole cow, right?
Well, I got a lot of use out of it as a backdrop, it’s been remade into couch upholstery and a matching outfit.


I think the phrase “buttplug bouquet” is appropriate. All in all, this set came out fantastic and though may or may not be the last time we see this damask back wall, it’s a good mix of colors and textures and I hope fans agree that it’s worth the wait.


Like “The Horny Forest” I also shot some video for this, and of this writing, it’s all edited and will be up on my sites (clips4sale, manyvids and taraemory.com) in a few days when I have both of them ready to go.  And then it’s off to make another batch of shoots, this time maybe a bit simpler as I really do need to behave like I might be losing my studio in the near future.  Ideally I want to get ahead of the game and get a backlog of shoots done, even if I don’t edit or release them until later.

The truth is is often takes a lot longer to edit the pictures than it does to take them.  A shoot will last an evening and the editing process can last for several days.  In the case of both of these shoots, the final tally for each shoot was well over 200 released pictures, which are on the large side for taraemory.com.

So what was all this I was talking about Patreon, and how I’m tweaking my shoots to fit that format better?  Well, yes, I  have a patreon, and it’s at https://www.patreon.com/taraemory

On my patreon I have been saving a lot of the behind the scenes and selfies for that,and though the interface is rather clunky, I have also released pg-13(?) “lewd” sets for early release.  Actually, the way it works is this.   You can’t publish porn on Patreon, but you can do topless and risque.  There are lots of models out there who are very successful doing that sort of stuff, without ever having to do actual porn.  Which I have to say, is a business model that did not exist when I started in this business.  The only way back then that your content could  be marketable is if it was essentially porn.

So, I’m trying to branch out into something maybe a bit more accessible, and what I’m doing is that for every new shoot, roughly half the shoot will be a bit of a tease and not as nude and dirty as the second half.  That way, I have some content to release on Patreon, and then the full uncensored set will appear  on taraemory.com,usually 3 or 4 days later.  So the dirtest picture the patron folks will get might be something like this:

This does not diminish anything that’s on my members site, it just hopefully makes my content and projects more appealing to a wider, non-porn audience.  I don’t have a lot of patrons yet, but the income from them is very valuable and coming in very useful and hopefully it will take off.

I haven’t figured out quite yet what to offer for the higher-tier patrons, though I can probably offer passes to my members site if people want that.  I’m still sort of… figuring things out…  There is also talk on the patreon site about my “youtube show” which is something I really do want to work on but I’m so busy with a bunch of house construction projects that hopefully will be done at the end of May.

So what’s next?  Well, there’s the video update.  And then I can probably release a bunch more of those “iphone selfie motherload” photosets, which really aren’t A-level shoots, but they’re something.  And then, there’s whatever shoots I’ll be working on, and I’m excited when I get to release one or two pictures of them a good month or two before the actual shoots come out.  I’m thinking that “Artificially Flavored” was a shoot that didn’t come out as well as I’d hoped the first time, so it could use a re-do already. I’m also going to throw together some quick, simple cuffs-and-collar-y shoots using some of the pink and bows theme, as simple, yet effective shoots.  If I’m going to crank out content quickly, I can’t be spending weeks and weeks making corsets…

-Tara

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“Blooming Harlot”, “Floral Bonnet”, and other news.

So I have gotten a few shoots done lately.  The second one “Floral Bonnet” was a new outfit made for the Fetish Fleamarket event in February, but I was waiting for matching shoes to arrive before taking the pictures.  In the meantime, I whipped up a variation of an old outfit and came up with this one, which I named “Blooming Harlot”.

Actually this particular corset goes waaay back, and first appeared in like 2004, but as you can see, my body really has changed.

Its made a few appearances over the years, being called “Polkadots and Cream” and “Bondage Bunny”
But I do think this new variation is a huge improvement. Anyway it goes to show you that I can whip up a shoot out of nothing pretty quickly if I really need to.
Actually the progression of this outfit over the years is quite stunning. I really do fill out this corset much better than I did back in 2004.

So the shoes came, and I cleared off the other side of the same room (my pink room, aka the “sewing room”), which is a room I do my sewing in and lots of my camshows too.  It may be recognizable as the same room, but it’s a different nook in it, so you’d never know if I hadn’t have told you.

I’m happy with this set, though I think the background ended up being a little busy for some of the shoot.  I did change it up a bit and got that nice variety of shots I needed.  I uploaded the first non-bottom-nudity (otherwise just called “lewd shots) early to my Patreon supporters.  I will discuss in more detail what I want to do with Patreon in a later blog post.  It’s a bit tricky because I don’t want Patreon to compete too much with my members site, but it also has the potential to get my body of work to a much much bigger audience.

So yes I’m overall happy with these two sets and the shoes were indeed worth the weight.  However, I may take a break from the pink (or who knows, maybe double down on it) and try to switch it up with some more, shall we say, slinky styles.  I guess it all depends on how the fan reaction is.

-Tara

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Where was I? Part 5: The Central Nexelon…

All right, now I can finally get along with what’s been taking so much time in November/December.  Who knew that even posting a blog post about the big project would end up being such a big project.

Anyway, as I’ve mentioned somewhere else, I’m losing my studio space, a 30,000 square foot warehouse that in a more financially secure universe, I would be buying up in an instant.  I’m not sure how much detail I’ve gone through in describing the situation, but suffice to say, the end of 2018 was a frantic race to “use up” the space as best as I can. The owners of the building are putting it on the market in January, and though I don’t think it will sell any time soon, I have to basically treat every day forward as a bonus, and be prepared to leave in an instant.

So I basically had also fallen into this trap of “Have a big building? Let’s fill it chock full of projects and future projects and things that might be projects…”  In this case, I had at some point in the late 00’s fallen under the spell of Free CRT Televisions!  So I had something like 10 extra TVs which all worked, and the idea was to use them in a scene for my ongoing sci fi trans space porn, “Up Uranus” (once upon a time called “Uranus Needs Shemales”).

Got TVs? Just stack them on top of each other! Heck, I remember my college back in the day made such a big deal about having a “video wall” which was like 16 CRTs stacked in a square. Who knew that 15- 20 years later, everyone could have their own video wall and it wouldn’t cost you a dime! In fact, it will only cost you to get rid of the CRTs! No really, I could go on and on about just how bad electronic waste is, and how probably 90% of what we get rid of is in perfect working condition, but for the purposes of this, I had these TVs that were going to be built into something cool, that’s what.


Add to this all the corrugated /dryer/vacuum cleaner hose that I have (seriously, I need to stick in a line somewhere in this movie that “these aliens have reached a Class 5 Dryer Hose technology level!”) and well, what else can I add to the mix?  Howabout leftover slightly used chromakey green paper and some aluminum pie plates?
Anyway, the set is for a character in the movie that’s some sort of central computer that controls all the sex robots in the distant retro future of 1997.  Call it the “Central Nexelon”, and as you can see, the set kind of grew organically from Whatever I had Laying Around, to make something that had a pretty clear silver/black/green circuit board theme.

I added my old St Andrews cross to the mix (it’s set for getting taken apart, because it’s super janky and further down the road I’ll build a better one) and just decorated the whole thing with whatever I could find.  Old VHS tapes made into sparkly streams of whateverthefuck?  Yeah, throw that in too.
Later on I stumbled across the idea to take all the junk motherboards (old PC’s some Mac Power PCs and G3’s that didn’t work) and make a cool “tunnel” that could be set up as a foreground element to make the whole background look like it was inside a computer.
So this is coming along all in mid-November, keeping in mind that all this stuffs gotta be out of here by the end of the year.  I just needed someone to play this “Central Nexelon” character and then I could shoot it all and basically everything could go away.
So I called upon the talents of an old friend in the Boston scene, Lilith Astaroth.    Actually, I had her specifically in mind for this part years ago when I wrote the script.     Lilith agreed it would be a neat cameo, but we had to make our schedules line up.     We attempted to shoot the scene in mid December but it ended up that I wasn’t ready, and hadn’t worked out all the bugs with whatever exactly was going to appear on the CRTs.

I had grand plans of shooting  my own little vignettes of close ups of cocks, boobs and dildos going into holes, but in the end had to settle for making a few VHS mix tapes of some fast-playing media overload of shots from my movies.  Ok, so I do play a character in this film, and it’s a little weird that I’m also the “subliminal sexual suggestions” that the Nexelon is seeing, but we won’t think too hard about the continuity in this universe, will we?

The costume Lilith wore for the shoot was pretty simple.   Essentially circuit board bits hot glued to gloves and  USB cables attached to pieces and parts of colorful car wiring harnesses.  Mostly the costume was going to be body paint and making the costume bits complicated was just going to be asking for trouble, so I kept it simple.

So as it turned out, we weren’t able to actually shoot the footage until the end of December.  Which was a cutting it a bit close with my self-imposed deadline of the end of the year.  The worst situation I wanted to be in would be where I didn’t get to shoot with it and somehow had to take it all down and all that work would go to waste.

So we shot the footage I needed at that time, and yes, the stills look really cool.  And I know exactly what you’re going to say.  Why didn’t I shoot a photo shoot with this?  Well, this set isn’t for a photo shoot for my site.  I didn’t want to steal any thunder from the project it was meant for.  Also,  there’s not a lot of good poses that you can shoot for a porn shoot on a set where you can only stand.  Yep. You get a few standing poses, but unless I like sat on the floor or built something else to sit on, there’s not a lot of variety you can get.  So this cool set wouldn’t have have worked well for that.  Lastly, since casting myself as this character for a photo shoot would have meant that I’d have to cover myself in silver body paint, which means silver body paint on EVERYTHING.

Also, it was getting cold and we really squeaked by doing this project before the deep cold of winter finally set in.  We got our one chance to wrap up this project and the results, well, the results will grace the final movie in like well, 37 seconds of footage in 3 scenes.  That’s how it always works.  You spend a month building something that will be seen for 37 seconds on screen.

So it looked really nice for the shoot, but the evening after the video shoot, it all came down, and then I had that satisfaction of getting rid of stuff.  That in itself is sometimes a greater accomplishment, not having the stuff cluttering up the place.  I found a friend who does video art who took away most of the tvs, and the paper and pie plates went in the recycling.  The mannequins were kept, but most everything else went into the trash

Oh smashy smashy!  But that’s how it goes.

So that’s it for what I did over the fall, and whats going on this winter?  Well, stay tuned.

-Tara

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Where was I? Part 4: Oh No! Tara Emory discovers snap filters and nothing will ever be the same!

Ok, so this isn’t really my next “big project” (leave that for part 5), but it’s worth mentioning.

So I have been trying a few other places to show my pictures, and Onlyfans seems to be a good place to put up some exclusive content.   And yes – I know – my memberships for www.tara-ts.com are currently in the crapper.  Right now membership site business models don’t work very well, and my  site needs, hmm.. how shall we say it… some better mobile/tablet connectivity.

That is all being worked on, once I get some other crap out of my way first.  Oh, you can read all about the other crap in the other 4 or 5 installments of the “Where was I?” series.

But in the meantime, I had some fun uploading some selfies to my OnlyFans page. and oh what selfies they are, because I have finally succumbed to the temptation of using those in-camera filters to -ahem- really add to that distorted hentai reality.Actually these are just shots I banged out as I did Chaturbate shows this autumn, and somehow I love them even more than some of the stuff I produce for my website.
Sure, the filters make me look positively ageless, but that’s part of the appeal.  I’m still tweaking the settings, but it seems that if you start off with a brightly colored, amazing outfit and overdone makeup, what the filters do to it really works better, than if you just applied those filters on someone with  no makeup wearing normal clothes.
A lot of this is just trying “looks” for future shoot, as all the other crap in my life seems to creep up when you least expect it.

Oh crap, how’d that picture sneak in? Is that a pile of fucking car parts I need to sift through while I’m cleaning out my studio?  Oh geez, how’d I end up with all that shit?  Better go back inside and just lose myself in Candyland instead.  Excuse me…

Ah yes, much better, but I think I can go a bit dumber.  What do they call this face again?


So even though these pictures are part of my Onlyfans content, I think a collection of them might hit the members site as some sort of update.


There’s plenty of them, but it’s annoying that they work best on a phone-based website and it’s kind of hard to wrap around my head that there’s quite a few people willing to buy this content separately even though for sheer volume of content, my site has Onlyfans beat.

If there is one huge drawback to taking these selfies, it’s that I’m limited by how far away I can reach, unless I get some sort of selfie-stick.  These are sort of a quickie way to let people know that I’m going live on cam.  However, with demise of tumblr as an adult platform (more on that later), I’m not sure where else you will see these pictures, except onlyfans and my site…

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Where was I? Part 3: Renovation Hell.

Yeah, most of my energy this autumn was sucked up by my renovation projects.  I think I probably stated it in a previous post that I had changed homeowners insurance companies and my new company had an impossible litany of things they required to have done, in order to, I guess, keep me on as a customer.  Ha! I thought, I’ll just take my business somewhere else, right?  Alas, no.  Even when I tried that, any new prospective companies asked if the work had been done, ( I guess it was on my permanent file or something).

As it turned out, this was terrible timing.  I own my fixer upper 250 year old house and its nearby garage and shed, but I rent out my studio, which belongs to the same folks I bought the house lot from.   Those people, in turn, wanted me to put in an offer on the studio.  But because of zoning and the economic downturn in general, what they wanted for the studio was just too much, and I came to the conclusion that for whatever a downpayment on it would be, just that in itself would make a halfway decent, brand new studio in my own yard.  And as it turned, out, I was being railroaded into doing thousands of dollars of work on my own property, so I wouldn’t have ever afforded it anyway.

Plus, the banks all laughed at me.  Even they told me it would be a stupid idea to buy the studio.  So I was left with this plan.  Make my repairs to my outbuildings, and then use that for storage for whatever crap I had accumulated in the studio.  And oh, what crap that was!

You see, I fell into the trap of having a big studio space and just filling it full of stuff for future projects.  So now the race was on, as I had to not only clean and throw away tons of stuff, I had to let go of projects, try to “use up” everything I wanted to do something with, and at the same time, spend every goddamn penny on my own buildings, hoping to fuck that it would shut up the insurance company.  Anyway, I think I did ok, but I’m still not really out of the studio yet (more on that later)

So first off, I have a little shed, and it needed to be finished up a bit at least so I can store stuff in it.  Here’s some photos.  Not very exciting stuff, but anyway..

Don’t worry, between that stage where it looks like something from the architectural firm of Sanford And Sons with that hodgepodge of plywood bits, to the finished shingles, there’s like Tyvek and all that.   The insurance company wasn’t really making me finish my shed, but I was sorta looking for some instant gratification, and well, it does make a cute little Tiny House.

But truth was, I was kicking the can down the road with what truly needed to happen on the garage.  This year was very rough on it, and the roof hadn’t been redone in 40 years and was so rotted, it leaked badly and you couldn’t walk on it.

And yes, this is a 150 year old carriage house that sits on loose fieldstones.  Nothing about it is “up to code” whatsoever.  It is what it is. It also turns out that one wall of it is also the border between me and the neighbors, which means its seriously  grandfathered in regards to the whole you-can’t-do-new-construction-16-feet-from-the-property-line.

Suffice to say, most contractors wouldn’t touch this thing, period, and all the advice I was given said this:  If you knock it down, you can’t put another garage there.  As this is at the end of my driveway, I don’t not want a garage there.  Also, if you did hire someone to repair it, the costs would be somewhere in the untold tens of thousands of dollars to fix it, so the best option was to slowly repair what I could, and just work on it a little bit at a time.

So there was rip off the roof little by little and add in new rafters and planks.  This was where I learned all about a wonderful place called a sawmill, where you can buy 2x6s that are actually 2 x 6!
A rotted corner was knocked out, and replaced with some salvage wood.
Once that whole side was solid (and it’s like stupid solid now-, 2×6 studs but then the outer wall is an inch thick on top of that), the whole wall was sheathed with that OSB stuff, adding another 1/2 inch or so to it.
Then a zillion cedar shingles later  the end result looks pretty sweet.
The roof was a LOT of work to get it super solid, and I replaced about half the wood and added extra rafters and its about as good as it can possibly get.
And yeah, I know, there are professionals who do this, but I know this whole thing would’ve cost me like $30,000 if I had to hire a band of bozos to do it, and no, you couldn’t just do the roof without doing the walls.  the walls needed to be solid enough to have  a solid enough floor above so that you could stand on something to work on the roof.   Instead of spending $30k (which I don’t have, and I doubt any bank would have given me anyway), I only maxed out my credit cards which only really had hundreds of dollars of room left on them.

Actually, I wanted to work on this all year, but the weather this whole summer and fall has been like rain 2 days, sunny one day, and nothing ever dried out.  Everything came to head the 3rd week of December when we actually had a sunny, but cold stretch of days.    By the end, all I could see when I closed my eyes was this:

And all my joints ached and hurt.  People sometimes notice how fit I am and think I go to a gym.  I’m always puzzled by that. Go to a gym?  You’re fucking kidding me. I actually WORK and do things.

So my renovations are mostly done, for now. There were other things on their list but I told them I’m not making holes in my house in the middle of winter.  Plus, I’m really exhausted.  I can only write about it a few weeks later because the fog is lifting now.

Is it perfect? No.  But then again, on an old building like this, it’s like as Kitty Foreman from That 70’s Show said, “Choose Your Battles”  If someone bitches about me not using the proper nails or not having a vapor barrier or proper venting in my roof, well go look at my foundation where you can grab a stone out of it and wiggle it free. It’s not like the whole building is gonna come down.

Yeah…. I know y’all out there think I’m some delicate flower because half of the time, I tend to look like this…

…but yeah…. I’m a bit more hardcore New Englander that you think.    Add to this that I’m barely supporting myself off my art, and well, this was the situation I had to resolve before getting on with whatever the next thing is…

Which is??… Stay tuned for part 4…

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Where was I? Part 2: Video updates

So “Polkadot Perfection” hit the site in November, (October? I don’t recall), and that’s when the proverbial shit hit the proverbial fan with the whole I’m-losing-my-studio-and-have-to-get-tons-of-crap-done situation.   I had lots of video shoots in the can, so between November and well, today, January 6th, I had something like 6 new videos hit the site.  “Scarlet Fever”, “Dripping Latex Doll”, “Flamingo Fuckdoll”, “Bitch Skool”, and “Trophy Blonde” were all videos that are new.  Some of them were shot 8 months ago, and some shot in like September.

Actually, despite “Trophy Blonde:The photoshoot” coming out a year or so ago, the video shoot was a re-mount using all the props I had while I still had them all.

And because I’m lazy and don’t want to drag up pictures from these video shoots, here’s some seizure-inducing gifs instead…

But back to the cleanup.  As my followers may or may not know,  I’m going to lose my studio by the end of the year.  So I needed to get any video work I wanted to do, and that’s why this rather large backlog got built up.  In the process of cleaning, I had to let go of quite a lot of props from past shoot, including this thing, whatever this thing actually is.  It’ not really a bomb or a torpedo, but that didn’t stop it from playing one in a porno.

The idea behind “Bitch Skool” is that I had this nice laminate floor in an office room I built in my studio, so it was nice to use up that area too, and turn it into a school room. Once the shoot and the video were done, the room itself came down, and the desk itself also went into the scrap metal pile

I did however, rescue that yellow 50’s tanker desk, but I had to get it apart to put in storage.  The reason for keeping all the building materials is that I was under something of a deadline to to some work on a garage and a shed at my  house.  As it turns out, the garage and shed needed to be finished anyway so that I’d have storage space for my lots and lots of stuff.  So a lot of November and December was spent doing siding and roofing, and all this climaxed a few weeks before Christmas, and I will say it was exhausting work.  But I will leave those details for Part 3 of this update series.

But now I’m fresh out of videos, and I had hoped to make more before my January 1st deadline.  But as it is, it turns out I pretty much have access to my studio until.. well.. until the owners sell it to someone else, and I can’t imagine that will be any time soon.  That day might come in a week, or in 6 months.  But for now, let’s move along to show you what has really been taking up all my time and energy this fall..

-Tara

 

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Where was I? Part 1: Polkadot Perfection

Hey all.  It’s been a rough couple of months.  I’m not sure where to start, but seeing as I haven’t made a blog post since mid-October, I guess I’ll start with what I have gotten done since then, instead of lamenting about whatever I would have liked to have gotten done  by now.

First off, somehow it escaped my blog that I had a new shoot, “Polkadot Perfection”.

This outfit is rather standard fare for me.  Yadda yadda, we’ve seen this sort of stuff before, but then again, a lot of my fans are like “MORE!” and even if that’s more of the same, well, it is a good shoot.
The set for “Polkadot Perfection” was thrown together with whatever I had, and some red polkdots for the background (which I had to spray paint red too).    So now that I’m done, the red dots can go in the bin, and then someone took back their inversion table (that thingy on the left which ended up too complicated to even use in a shoot, unless I was like getting dominated or something).

The St Andrews cross, however, would live on a little longer for the next big project…

-Tara

 

 

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