This question has been asked before to somewhat silence the critics, but now I'm seriously asking it. I mean, angry replies to threads get entertaining after a while, but isn't it about time to shut up and put your money where your mouth is? Or will these people always be long on complaints and short on answers?
My reason for not making tickle videos is simple: I'm in south Louisiana. Utterly surrounded by conservative christians and every other close minded "moral" racist klansman and bigot you can imagine. Starting a video company for me would mean saying "Bye bye" to my whole family and most of my friends. Is it worth it? Just to maybe break even? No. But I wouldn't get that far, of course. I can imagine when I walk into the tax assessors office for a business license for a tickle video comapny. If they don't arrest me right there, they'll tell me get the hell out of there. And if I did get a license, they're would be a constant stream of protesters and wannabe politicians after me for indecency. I doubt I'd get many applicants with all that, either.
That is why tickling will always be a secret for me. These people are too stupid to open their hate filled minds a crack. I ain't about to try and help them.
But that's me. From what I've read here, I'm just unlucky. Guys always write up about this girl or that girl they met who they got to tie and tickle, how their friends and family know they are into tickling and don't care or totally accept it, or are into tickling themselves. So, there's no need for worry in that department.
Now, the criticisms are basically, RealTickling sucks, Magic Touch sucks, everyone sucks, but them. But they won't start their own company. Dan2001 just started a thread earlier about what it takes to create a video, and a company, and Francois and Oblesklk and others replied, in great detail:
http://www.ticklingforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24519
So, there's a lot of information for you. Look, how many people out there, little poor ass young and old alike filmmakers make their own independant movies? Maybe that's what all you guys really want, a sort of "independant tickle movie," with a lot of cuts and story and plot and outfits. Well if these little nobodies can make feature length movies with a LOT more going on than just a guy on the bed tickling a girl, I mean, COME ON!
I know what you'll say: "Uhh, huh! I can't afford to start one, so there!"
Computers and camcorders are getting better and better and cheaper and cheaper. FM Concepts and Harmony Concepts shot all their earlier stuff on S-VHS. You can get Digital qality camcorders, far better than that and at or higher than the level that Jeff and Kathy used, for under a thousand dollars. A few lights can be bought at WalMart, or real studio lights off the internet and Ebay for cheap. A computer to edit it with, like, a Sony VAIO, can be purchased for around $1,000. Many now come with VHS output AND DVD writable drives already installed. A DVD writing drive alone is under $200.
"Huh, I don't have an money...so there."
Well, if you have many, many tickle videos (which you say suck anyway) sell them. Sell them on Ebay. (If you could afford to buy all those in the first palce....well, you should have enough money...) And besides, once you get the computer and camcorder, that's that. You buy one, once, and unless you need a two camera shoot, you never have to spend all that money again. You can find rolling dolly instructions and camera boom designs all over the internet, at many independant film sites, and these, which ae not being used in videos in the tickle world, cost less than $20 or $30 to make. And once they're made, again, you never have to make them again. Outfits, hell, every girl I know has twenty or thirty outfits. Goodwill has cheap clothes. Want a pantyhose video - $4 for nice ones, a few dollars for the everyday ones.
"I don't have anywhere to shoot, huh!"
Uhh, the guys who make independant films sure do find locations! Do what they do. You have a house? An apartment? Use that. A hotel room, an office after hours, there's a thousand more ideas.
You rent a hotel, you got a hallway, a desk, a chair, a bed. Paradise Vision sure finds a lot of locations, and supposedly they suck too, so there you go.
"I don't have any models..."
Uhh, since RealTickling is soon to be gone, ask their's. You have a pool of over 20 girls with them alone. Then there are Jeff's models, girls from colleges, ones who answer newspaper ads, friends, on and on. Look at ALL those models on teh net, who have their own webpage, like Jennifer Sinn, Amateur model Megan, Paula from Mrs. Mom, one and on (times about a thousand) Most do custom shoots. Lorelei was on here saying how Elise di Medici WANTED TO DO A TICKLING VIDEO! It seems no oe has even taken her up on the offer! With all the bragging about real life tickling I hear all the time, that shouldn't be a problem. Yes, many will say they'll help, but won't follow through. But come on, every low budget film director has that problem. If you get 59 "no's" and 7 "yes's" that's 7 videos. If the girls come back, like they did for RealTickling and Jeff, well, then that doubles or triples your video numbers.
And with Real Tickling gone, the biggest competitor, where's your competition? Yaqi? (What happened to that thread about him, where he insulted us all again? It was up a few days ago, but now it's gone! All he does is throw a girl, in a bikini, on a bed and tickles her. If he is right about himself, and he is the best of the best out there in the tickle world, well, huh, I have no doubt the critics can make better videos that that!) You can count the major tickling producers on one hand. And many of the companies that will be your competition only put a video out every year or so.
So, there you have it. Hopefully I've solved every excuse the people who criticize tickle companies, but are unable to produce their own videos, have made over the years. Now, one of two things will happen. Either there will be a flurry of new companies popping up, creating works of art and laughter not yet seen in the world of tickling, and this will be the golden age of tickling for all of us here.....or we'll hear more bitching and hollow excuses, and see that the complainers are all talk and no action.
My reason for not making tickle videos is simple: I'm in south Louisiana. Utterly surrounded by conservative christians and every other close minded "moral" racist klansman and bigot you can imagine. Starting a video company for me would mean saying "Bye bye" to my whole family and most of my friends. Is it worth it? Just to maybe break even? No. But I wouldn't get that far, of course. I can imagine when I walk into the tax assessors office for a business license for a tickle video comapny. If they don't arrest me right there, they'll tell me get the hell out of there. And if I did get a license, they're would be a constant stream of protesters and wannabe politicians after me for indecency. I doubt I'd get many applicants with all that, either.
That is why tickling will always be a secret for me. These people are too stupid to open their hate filled minds a crack. I ain't about to try and help them.
But that's me. From what I've read here, I'm just unlucky. Guys always write up about this girl or that girl they met who they got to tie and tickle, how their friends and family know they are into tickling and don't care or totally accept it, or are into tickling themselves. So, there's no need for worry in that department.
Now, the criticisms are basically, RealTickling sucks, Magic Touch sucks, everyone sucks, but them. But they won't start their own company. Dan2001 just started a thread earlier about what it takes to create a video, and a company, and Francois and Oblesklk and others replied, in great detail:
http://www.ticklingforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24519
So, there's a lot of information for you. Look, how many people out there, little poor ass young and old alike filmmakers make their own independant movies? Maybe that's what all you guys really want, a sort of "independant tickle movie," with a lot of cuts and story and plot and outfits. Well if these little nobodies can make feature length movies with a LOT more going on than just a guy on the bed tickling a girl, I mean, COME ON!
I know what you'll say: "Uhh, huh! I can't afford to start one, so there!"
Computers and camcorders are getting better and better and cheaper and cheaper. FM Concepts and Harmony Concepts shot all their earlier stuff on S-VHS. You can get Digital qality camcorders, far better than that and at or higher than the level that Jeff and Kathy used, for under a thousand dollars. A few lights can be bought at WalMart, or real studio lights off the internet and Ebay for cheap. A computer to edit it with, like, a Sony VAIO, can be purchased for around $1,000. Many now come with VHS output AND DVD writable drives already installed. A DVD writing drive alone is under $200.
"Huh, I don't have an money...so there."
Well, if you have many, many tickle videos (which you say suck anyway) sell them. Sell them on Ebay. (If you could afford to buy all those in the first palce....well, you should have enough money...) And besides, once you get the computer and camcorder, that's that. You buy one, once, and unless you need a two camera shoot, you never have to spend all that money again. You can find rolling dolly instructions and camera boom designs all over the internet, at many independant film sites, and these, which ae not being used in videos in the tickle world, cost less than $20 or $30 to make. And once they're made, again, you never have to make them again. Outfits, hell, every girl I know has twenty or thirty outfits. Goodwill has cheap clothes. Want a pantyhose video - $4 for nice ones, a few dollars for the everyday ones.
"I don't have anywhere to shoot, huh!"
Uhh, the guys who make independant films sure do find locations! Do what they do. You have a house? An apartment? Use that. A hotel room, an office after hours, there's a thousand more ideas.
You rent a hotel, you got a hallway, a desk, a chair, a bed. Paradise Vision sure finds a lot of locations, and supposedly they suck too, so there you go.
"I don't have any models..."
Uhh, since RealTickling is soon to be gone, ask their's. You have a pool of over 20 girls with them alone. Then there are Jeff's models, girls from colleges, ones who answer newspaper ads, friends, on and on. Look at ALL those models on teh net, who have their own webpage, like Jennifer Sinn, Amateur model Megan, Paula from Mrs. Mom, one and on (times about a thousand) Most do custom shoots. Lorelei was on here saying how Elise di Medici WANTED TO DO A TICKLING VIDEO! It seems no oe has even taken her up on the offer! With all the bragging about real life tickling I hear all the time, that shouldn't be a problem. Yes, many will say they'll help, but won't follow through. But come on, every low budget film director has that problem. If you get 59 "no's" and 7 "yes's" that's 7 videos. If the girls come back, like they did for RealTickling and Jeff, well, then that doubles or triples your video numbers.
And with Real Tickling gone, the biggest competitor, where's your competition? Yaqi? (What happened to that thread about him, where he insulted us all again? It was up a few days ago, but now it's gone! All he does is throw a girl, in a bikini, on a bed and tickles her. If he is right about himself, and he is the best of the best out there in the tickle world, well, huh, I have no doubt the critics can make better videos that that!) You can count the major tickling producers on one hand. And many of the companies that will be your competition only put a video out every year or so.
So, there you have it. Hopefully I've solved every excuse the people who criticize tickle companies, but are unable to produce their own videos, have made over the years. Now, one of two things will happen. Either there will be a flurry of new companies popping up, creating works of art and laughter not yet seen in the world of tickling, and this will be the golden age of tickling for all of us here.....or we'll hear more bitching and hollow excuses, and see that the complainers are all talk and no action.
