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Margot said:
Cool. BTW, by linking images I don't take space in this forum's server. The images are stored outside. That's one good thing, right?
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that's right Margot -
we ask members in general to upload images as thumbnails, not full-size,
because of the cost to our site-owner,
but if you embed images linked to your site,
you aren't costing us anything - thanks!
 
Margot, if you save the images as Jpeg to your hard drive then as you add text to your post click 'upload a file' then select the images you want. They will appear at the bottom of what you have typed (or in my case a copied word doc.). Click on your pending post where you want the to be then click on 'thumbnail'.

Believe me if I figured it out anyone can!!!:p

PM me if you run into problems. My explanation will be every bit as simple as I am...

Tree
 
thehangingtree said:
Margot, if you save the images as Jpeg to your hard drive then as you add text to your post click 'upload a file' then select the images you want. They will appear at the bottom of what you have typed (or in my case a copied word doc.). Click on your pending post where you want the to be then click on 'thumbnail'.

Believe me if I figured it out anyone can!!!:p

PM me if you run into problems. My explanation will be every bit as simple as I am...

Tree
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I've been doing that for a while but for some reason this is the message I get when trying to upload:

The following error occurred
There was a problem uploading your file.
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And it's not the first time. It happened three times already.
 
Margot said:
I've been doing that for a while but for some reason this is the message I get when trying to upload:

The following error occurred
There was a problem uploading your file.
OlaInFangoria340p01.jpg

And it's not the first time. It happened three times already.
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when I upload I resize the image to less than 500 kb. Might seem small but unless someone has a professional computer graphics monition (none here do, I would bet) they look fine.

One other thought the jpeg image must be in 'RGB' even if it is a black and white halftone!!!!

Tree
 
All Margot's settings are fine so the problem may be that a browser Add-on is causing a problem. Trying a different browser may work.
 
Eulalia said:
that's right Margot -
we ask members in general to upload images as thumbnails, not full-size,
because of the cost to our site-owner,
but if you embed images linked to your site,
you aren't costing us anything - thanks!
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Ok then, I think it will be better for all if I post with links to our images, that way the cost of storing said images is on us. And it's better for me too, I can pre-design the posts, which look pretty that way. Excelent! :)
 
Margot said:
Ok then, I think it will be better for all if I post with links to our images, that way the cost of storing said images is on us. And it's better for me too, I can pre-design the posts, which look pretty that way. Excelent! :)
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That's fine but it still doesn't solve the problem of why you were unable to upload pics. I'd like to solve this as it may happen to other members.
 
melissa said:
That's fine but it still doesn't solve the problem of why you were unable to upload pics. I'd like to solve this as it may happen to other members.
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I will try with a different browser. For a while I was working with Chrome, but I recently switched to Firefox and that might be the problem.
 
Good luck! You should have a video for contributors
which gives Amy 1 whiplash for every $10 they give,
a touch of the branding iron for every $100! :devil:
 
We aim to raise 20,000 to add to our budget for the best adaptation ever of JUSTINE the famous novel by none other than the Marquis De Sade

We have great perks and some interesting goals to meet.

So far, in 4 days, we reached 16% of our target.

The three special perks have already one contributor of 500 each:
The Wheel
The Rack
The Cross​

Each of those three perks have a goal of 2,000 each. Those funds are needed to make those scenes as grandiose as they are in the mind of the director, Jac Avila.

There are other perks as well, of course. You can be an Associate Producer for 1,000 or more So far we have One such contributor.

Or you can simply contribute 25 dollars and you'll get a download when the film comes out. We estimate that the film will be ready at the end of December of this year.

Check the perks, make up your mind about contributing and get involved.

The Cross perk involves a great sequence in the movie where three women will suffer what can be described as a Full Roman Crucifixion. You may ask, what does a Roman Crucifixion has to do with the times prior to the French Revolution? Well... in Jac's version of the events, the two most perverted characters in the novel, Rodin and Rombeau, have a plan. Actually, Rodin has the plan. He wants to stage a Passion Play with his only daughter, Rosalie in the role of a Martyred Female Christ, and to accomplish this, he needs two thieves, Justine the Virtuous, and the murderous thief Dubois.

He will stage this bizarre Passion Play after he has spent a good deal of time torturing them in his dungeon. What he does to them will depend... oh so much, on how the perks work.

If The Wheel meets its goal... there will be a feast of wheel tortures for the poor unfortunate ladies.

If The Rack meets its goal... then we shall see a rack torture scene to end all rack scenes.

To make a story short, as you probably know, Justine falls in the hands of Rodin after escaping a certain death in the hands of evil Count Bressaic.

She falls in the hands of Bressaic after Saint-Florent, the young aristocrat she saved from getting killed by Dubois and her gang of murderous thieves, rapes her, beats her and leaves her for dead.

Well, I'm getting too far in my description.

We already have one contributor to each of the special perks, so we know they are happening, but how much happens to our unfortunate heroins and how elaborate their tortures become, depends on how much of our target we reach.

We also have a great sequence that is fully funded by ONE amazing Associate Producer, where Justine is sentenced to receive 50 lashes! and then to be put on The Stocks for public humiliation. While there, she's publicly raped while the mob of hateful citizens pelt her with garbage and rotten vegetables. Still, while suffering the indignities of her very public punishment, she manages to tell the story of her woes to the woman who seems to be most concerned about her fate but... Am I telling you too much?

There's also one big contributor who will make possible for Rodin to string up Rosalie and Justine by their ankles for some upside down torture. Someone suggested a water torture while they are upside down... we'll see.

This is the link to the campaign:

[URL]https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/marquis-de-sade-s-justine/x/4977291#/story[/URL]

See the great video, learn more about our perks and be part of this. It's going to be a lot of FUN to make this film and a lot more fun to watch it. Be a part of it, however small!

Let's see if we can reach the 20% before the end of the week!

BTW, we're shooting a new movie now, Pygmalion, yes, the one I mentioned before, the Bernard Shaw play, however, this version is what Shaw only suggested in his work. An S&M erotic version. It's working out very well indeed.

I'll have pictures and more news in the near future.

Cheers

Margot

Another way you can contribute is going to our site and get one or more of our amazing movies:
http://dvds.redfeline.com
http://movies.redfeline.com
http://vermeerworks.com
 
Pygmalion and Justine ​

We're in a path of new discoveries. Some of them amazing, some not at all great, some kind of sad. It has to do with what we are doing presently. There's a saying in the US, Time is Money. It's a philosophy that it's not shared all over the world, but it does mean something in our case these times of excitement, living on the edge of our economic conditions, using our time in ways that make us extremely happy and anxious, but spending all the money. This is no longer a One Man Crew/Torturer One Woman Cast/Victim style of production. Not anymore, those times are long gone. We have a big team now, and it's a team of real professionals in all areas of production.
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We're completing the production of Pygmalion. Not a CRUX movie, not at all. It's erotic, it has S&M elements, like most of Jac's and Amy's work. Some may say is very subdued in its portrayal of sadomasochistic relationships, but some may find it more engaging to a larger audience. Pygmalion has its own life now. Something happened on the road from the script to the production. Jac wrote the script, Amy is directing it and from the written word to the actual image there's a transformation. It's a funny, erotic movie. It looks very pretty too.
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So, Amy has a fifth feature film under her garter belt and we have a new production in our editing suite. These are exciting times. I think. And we have JUSTINE ahead of us. Before we embark in this new feature film, Amy has a request. One week vacation, full vacation. She just finished directing one movie, acting in it, and she was directing, producing and running around the salty lands of UYUNI with a music video. Obviously, she will need a vacation.
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Jac's intention is to shoot JUSTINE in September, but things are not always they way he wants them to be. So, the most likely scenario is that he'll start shooting in October. And the one week vacation that Amy wants, may happen in Mexico, where she will be heading the first week of October to a very important festival with her film OLALLA. She was invited to participate of this festival. The official announcement is coming out August 17th, so I can't mention which festival it is at this point, but it's happening. Amy is going to have her vacation in Mexico after all.
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The pre-production of JUSTINE is underway, of course. It started long ago, when Amy built The Stocks. And as you all know we have our IndieGoGo campaign which is advancing very slowly to its big goal and I think that's what I'm going to talk about now.

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JUSTINE is the decisive film for Jac and Amy. One of the discoveries we are making is showing us that having strong CRUX/GIMP scenes in films like Dead But Dreaming and OLALLA does not really help that much. It actually limits the larger potential of those films.
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And what is my point? If Dead But Dreaming and OLALLA had half the CRUX/GIMP content and more drama, they actually may do better in the larger market. These great films are not doing that well in the GIMP/CRUX market and they are limited in larger niche markets. That's my point. There's interest in the vampire community for Dead But Dreaming with good reviews, million plus hits on the trailer, and so on. Vampire lovers want their vampire movies more about the vampires and less about other stuff like loooooong whipping scenes where they have to seat and count as many as 36 lashes in one scene alone. Dead But Dreaming and the possible sequels have the potential of creating a large cult following. But the way to reach that following is through cable tv and other media where long, extended whipping and crucifixion scenes do limit our possibilities. They also take a lot of time and money to set them up properly and a longer time to shoot them, while, a vampire pursuing a victim, biting her neck and then having sex with her is easy to shoot and has more of a cult following.

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That's what I mean by JUSTINE being the decisive film in our path. The IndieGoGo campaign is not exactly contradicting my point. I wonder what would happen if we put all of our efforts in promoting other aspects of our work. Jac likes CRUX/GIMP and he will always manage to sneak a scene or two in his movies, like he did with his first film, a docudrama set in Haiti where he has a crucified woman in a sugar cane field and two brief scenes where women are whipped. The question lingering here is: do we have enough of an audience to keep this work going at the level we want it to go?

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Maleficarum is a success in our book, but in terms of actual income, it does not do better than what Jac would take in a year salary if he worked in some mid level position at a TV station. Right. He does what he does because he loves it. Period. And now he's preparing something so magnificent that he would love to have all the means to do it the best way possible. That's the reason for the IndieGoGo campaign. The hope is that there are enough people out there willing to push this project ahead. So far we are grateful to 42 wonderful supporters who contributed from as little as 1 dollar to over 1,000 per person. No amount is too little, no amount is too big. With their amazing help we only reached 31% of our goal in ONE month. We have 27 days of the IndieGoGo campaign left. Can we make it?

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The film will be made regardless of how much we reach with the IndieGoGo campaign. But since the cash pays for the making of it, the less we have, the less production values the film will have. For instance, instead of four great locations, we might end up with 1 or 2. Instead of a nice crowd of actors and actresses in costumes, we might have just a few. That's how it works. In Dead But Dreaming we had only one financed sequence,The Whipping Scene. For that scene we had a great location, we built the set, we had a nice crowd, great uniforms for the soldiers and so on. And we worked 5 days, torturing Amy, every day, many hours a day, in front of a crowd.
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Later on, Mila had a chance of being tortured but the budget allowed for a very short nailing scene. The great far off location was very expensive and we had a crew and cast there for two days. Jac needed four days to make it work properly, so he had to live with half of his dream scene. We can only imagine what would it have been it Jac had the funding for it.

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For JUSTINE we have a great STOCKS scene fully funded! It calls for a good number of people to be in it. It also calls for a nice location and it specifically calls for Amy to be sentenced to 50 lashes before she's put on the stocks where she's raped and people throw rotten fruit at her. That perk did not come cheap. In fact, that initial support by our very first Associate Producer was the push that started JUSTINE.

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As of this writing JUSTINE has FOUR out of FOUR contributors to put her on The Wheel! It is SOLD OUT. We have the potential of having a great scene.

Two contributors are backing for JUSTINE and others to be put on The Cross. The question is, how grand the crucifixion scene is going to be?. Will it be as grand as it is in Jac's mind? Will it be only half of what it can be? If there's one experience that Jac has in producing is the crucifixion. He has done it so many times that with the proper support he can make something truly grand happen.

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The Rack has one contributor so far.

We met 31% of our IndieGoGo campaign so far. We would like to reach at least 50% or our goal. As in our past campaign. Any contribution to our campaign helps, of course. The more of those small contributions, the better. Are you willing to take that small step for a man, but a giant leap into danger for a Girl to be whipped and crucified... and to be on a rack, and to be suspended by the ankles, and to suffer the wheel...?

So... let's try to push this project ahead.
 
Breaking news - we reached 54%!!!!
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It took one big Associate Producer and two contributors to THE CROSS to make us jump from that 43% I was thinking we got stuck in, to a whopping 54 %!!!

We're in a celebratory mood now. All the big perks: The Wheel, The Rack and The Cross are sold out!

This means that we have the resources to make JUSTINE our best film yet.

We're celebrating because we are past 50% of our goal, which is fantastic news. We have 5 more in the campaign to get a bit more resources to make this new film the more impressive.

We're STILL counting on our fans to make Justine happen in a grand way!

Any amount helps. You can simply get the DVD or Download of the future film for less that it will be sold when it comes out.
To contribute go here:

http://igg.me/at/justine/x/4977291

Another way you can contribute is going to our site and get one or more of our amazing movies

http://dvds.redfeline.com
http://movies.redfeline.com
http://vermeerworks.com
 
The ride we embarked more than a month ago is reaching its inevitable end, but as one ride ends, another begins. We'll have less than 40 hours left in the campaign by the time I post this. We raised over 12,300 dollars, almost 11,000 of which will come to us as cash for JUSTINE.

With the funds that we already raised, the ultimate adaption of De Sade's famous novella promises to be awesome indeed! We'd like to push it a bit more, to make sure that we DO get 11,000 or more for the film. So, how about it? We've seen an increase number of people from Europe stepping to the plate, we also began to see people from the Crux Foundation contributing. This is very good.


Jac has begun talks with the cast, to make sure that everyone is ok with what's going to happen. He hired the person who is going to build The Wheel and this afternoon he's giving him an advance so he can proceed to build it! This week two of the principal locations will be secured and so the pre-production of JUSTINE enters its biggest face. I expect that my next post will be after the campaign is over. I will have more news then. In the meantime...
Let's do this!

http://igg.me/at/justine/x/4977291

Another way you can contribute is going to our site and get one or more of our amazing movies:

http://dvds.redfeline.com
http://movies.redfeline.com
http://vermeerworks.com

The film is in the hands of its creator now. He knows what he has to work with, so it's up to him from this moment on. He'll be looking over the suggestions coming his way and he'll decide what works and what doesn't. He has the entire script and the final word is his. Since he also plays Rodin in the film, and Rodin sees himself as a god whose whims are the final say, he's in character as he writes the script.
 
The IndieGoGo campaign ended and we managed to reach 62% of our goal with a total of 87 backers who together contributed $12,389 green ones for JUSTINE. 25 of those 87 backers linked directly from the GIMP forum for a total of $5,417. Almost half of all the contributions.
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We are now fully into the pre-production of the film. This part of the project started long ago, with the building of The Pillory and early casting of the main characters. We also got wigs, costumes, guns, from the period, and explored possible locations. The script was already in the works and needed some editing and compressing. We're now fully into completing that process, securing the locations, securing the cast, building the famed props and designing the sets for this most intriguing film. One of the props in the process of being built is the famous Wheel of Misfortune.
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Jac and Amy went to visit the workshop where this wheel is being built according to their design. The skeleton of the wheel is ready.
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The interesting part of this wheel is that it's better than first intended. It has two wheels that put together make a great multi-use wheel.
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One use is the one intended where Rodin's victims are tied to the wheel, where they will be rotated, at an angle, and be tortured on it.
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The unintended use comes because of the design. The wheel will first be set at an angle, but then, the wheel can be put upright and it becomes a torture wheel where the victim is tied to the side and can either be stretched or rotated over whatever possible torture, like spikes, water, coals... lots of possibilities.
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The use of The Wheel as a rack does not mean that we won't have THE RACK. We have a different design for the official rack. It means that our famous wheel can be used in many different ways. It's very cool indeed. THE RACK is relatively easy to build. The famous Wheel, however, is very complex and it needs a long time and effort to put it together. It has to rotate with one person tied to it. It has to be safe for said person, it has to look awesome and, in our case, it has to turn into something else with one push. It is that complicated.
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We're a few days away from securing the location. Once the location is secured, we'll begin decorating the set and bringing all the props to what will become Rodin's fantasy world. Jac and his cast will begin rehearsals. Bea, in particular, wants to make sure she does a great job. She does not have the experience that Amy and Mila have, so she's insisting in having some very intense training sessions as well as rehearsals prior to the shooting of the movie.
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Now that the campaign is over and we're full into the pre-production of JUSTINE, the time has come to explore those suggestions that are coming up. Those who contributed to the Three Main Perks have the option to contribute with their suggestions. Not all contributors are doing that, some are very happy to have contributed to the perk itself and that's that. But some others do have a list of ideas, suggestions, proposals. Jac will carefully evaluate them all, see if they fit in the overall film and will decide whether he'll use them or not. He's the 'decider'.

So, JUSTINE is on the way.

And that's it for today. I will have more news soon. The IndieGoGo campaign is over but you can still contribute to our work by going to our sites and get one or more of our amazing movies with a 25% DISCOUNT!
 
I love that Wheel, Margot - yes, one that can be used horizontally or vertically,
the victim on the face or on the rim, a very versatile piece of equipment! :devil:
 
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