Is this thing still on?

Okay, guys. I've been trying to write this for like two weeks, and I keep getting stuck. But there's something I really want to get out there, so I'm just going to cut it short and say what I want to say and publish it. Maybe I'll post more later. Anyway, what I was writing started off with:

To everyone who's been a fan or supporter of lostbets.com.

Over the years, I've tried a number of times on this blog to express the inexpressible gratitude I feel towards you all. I've been taking a trip down Memory Lane lately, and I'm going to try again. Here are the contents of the Shoots folder on my server.

What follows in the current revision is a lengthy recitation of why this list makes me so grateful, but for now I wanted to share something I've been up to lately. By the way, here's another view of my Shoots folder.

24 TB, I can't fucking believe it. Anyway, most of those Shoots folders has a Games subfolder, and each Games folder has a subfolder for each game we shot that day. I've been trying to match each one of those game folders with a published episode number, and here are the results of my work:

LostBets.com catalog of (most) scenes

A few things to note. First, this spreadsheet was mostly generated by an automated script, which attempted to match the scenes with the episodes. It's certainly possible that the script made a mistake, so if you notice an error, please tell me.

Second, one of the main reasons I did this was to find unpublished content, which I knew existed, and it turns out there are about 40 unpublished games. Don't get too excited, though. Many of them had a very good reason for going unpublished. But there are some good ones in there, and I may as well edit and publish them at some point. They're collected in the spreadsheet on a tab labeled Unpublished. Let me know if there any you're particularly excited to see.

(Yes, yes, I know, everybody wants to see Kodak, Bibi, Cody, and Tori. I know.)

And third, after a shoot, I would organize all of the footage from the SD card used in the cameras. All the footage for games I would put in the Games folder, all the footage for POV's I would put in the POV folder, all the footage for promos I would put in the Promos folder, and all of the footage for none of the above went into one of two folders. If it was completely and utterly worthless, it went in the Cutting Room Floor folder. But if it seems like it might possibly have some value, it went in the Outtakes folder. I collected the contents of all of those Outtakes folders on another tab of the spreadsheet. Some of them I didn't even bother to rename from the filenames they had on the camera, so there's no way to tell what's on them without looking at them. Again, let me know if there's anything you're particularly keen on seeing. I'm looking forward to bringing you the best outtakes and BTS footage I can find.

By the way, I've been active on Reddit lately, as u/LostBetsRed. Look me up there; I intend to share some never-seen-before footage, if I can find someplace to host it. (Any recommendations? The various *Tube sites have gotten to be real dicks about letting you upload.)

I won't say that I'm back. I've been gone for too long and broken that promise too frequently in the past to have the credibility to make it again. But at this time, it's my intention to write again, at least if anybody is still listening after so long.

Watch this space. Red has stirred and LostBets is going to rise again. More to follow.

 Johnny said...

Hey guys.

So things have been strange. Red moved to another state and hasn't done any production work to my knowledge. I've offered to do production here in the Seattle area for him to get LB back up and running, but he hasn't taken me up on that. Now I see the website is down as well.

I'll talk with him to see if he intends to start back up again at some point. If he does not I can always pick up the torch and start again. I worked as the primary videographer, editor and (often) recruiter. I still have a lot of contacts in the fetish model community. I want to give Red a chance to carry on since this whole thing was his creation to begin with, but I can always replicate a very similar stripping game production line if he's done for good. I'll try and have an update within a month (life is hectic, but I'll make time).

In the meanwhile, feel free to email me at johnnyniceguyproductions@gmail.com

Wishing you all the best. However it works out, you guys have been an incredible fan base and it has been my honor to work in the production of the videos that you so supported and loved for so many years.

Peace,
Johnny

Is there a whoops?

Is anyone having problems with Episode I001, the collection of clips featuring Anna I published yesterday? It works fine on my computer but I've heard from two customers who can't get it to play. Please let me know if it's not working for you and let me know what operating system and media player you're using. In the meantime, I've removed the clip from the store for now.

UPDATE: Yeah, there's a whoops. The video plays just fine on my computer, or apparently any computer using VLC, but not using Microsoft's video players for Windows. Stupid Windows. Fixing now.

Dylan and Carmen and Nancy are back today in Episode 627. I love Dylan and Carmen and their dynamic, but whenever they're around, I feel nervous. They're so wild and hyperactive, I'm really afraid that somebody will get injured one of these days. But considering the great video I get from these two, it'll probably be worth it.

Next week in Episode 628:

Old favorites Sassy, Julie, and Amber play our balancing game, with the loser's nude body getting rubbed down by oil. Like, a lot of oil. Major glistening.

And then there's Episode 629, to be published July 20, Moon Landing Day.

The same trio from this week is back again, and I figure that since these girls are so wild, they might as well be wild in front of a stranger, so a lucky pizza guy gets an eyeful. And a palmful of ass, but that wasn't planned. It's a simple game since the pizza had already been ordered and was on its way. I wanted to make sure the loser was good and naked by the time he arrived.

Blast from the past (again)

This will just be a quickie. Full blog post tomorrow.

The POV that was supposed to be published yesterday will be published tomorrow. (UPDATE: available now in the POV store.) It's something I've talked about before: the clips I shot that were intended to be used for an interactive game that I never actually made. I'd forgotten about it until A French Guy reminded me of it after seeing a very, very old promo. In fact, here's that incredibly cheesy promo right here:

It features a girl named Anna and it was filmed on the second shoot I ever did. So don't expect great videography; both my equipment and my skills were woefully inadequate. If you want to see the script this was based on, it's available at this link.

And A French Guy, please send me an email at red@lostbets.com. You get a free copy of this. Thanks for the reminder!