Testing Tenaya

Porn Stars Debuts — Tenaya

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As a “rule” you have to be registered to see the sample (example) stories that we’ve put out here in the free area, but on occasion we will include bits and pieces on the front page here. OK. So it’s not very often, but we’ve done it before, and we’re doing it again, so that sounds like “on occasion” to us. (We’re fairly easy to satisfy when it comes to our own rationalization. Go figure.)

Well, registration has always been free, and we don’t sell or otherwise distribute any emails we collect, even though we keep planning to have a monthly newsletter that we’ll put together to send out to everyone registered. You should know, however, that this plan got put in the queue, well, sometime in mid 2001, and we haven’t quite gotten to it yet. You’re probably safe feeling that we’re not going to barrage you with emails, even if we ever do get to that once a month plan. Let’s just call it a hunch, shall we?

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Stars:Tenaya

Location:Los Angeles

Setting:Freestyle

Technique:Amateur, BTS

Tempering Tenaya

The Tempering of Tenaya

by Benevolent Leader

So the trek continues as we’re plodding through all of the various big projects we have sitting in the queue, but considering our subject matter, we really don’t mind the work all that much, as it turns out.

However, not all the “work” seems “equal” to the various members of our team here, you probably won’t be surprised to learn. So when we uploaded a few gigabytes of data for Maverick over in London to think about while wearing his Video Editing Magic Hat, I wasn’t all that surprised to get a rather brief email from him that said something to the effect of, “Did you forget some files? Tenaya has her clothes on in all of this footage.”

Wanting to be both understanding and clear in my response, I typed something to the effect of, “Nope. Yep.”

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Stars:Asia Carrera, Tenaya

Location:Los Angeles

Setting:Freestyle

Technique:BTS, Professional

Tenaya’s Debut

Tenayas First Interview and Photo Shoot
Or It’s Just Like Riding a Bike!
[Or We Really Need to have Shorter Titles]

by D.Minion

Wow. It had been a long time since I’d been on set. And I really missed it. Capturing tape, dealing with compliance, pulling photos, etc., are all fine jobs, but the face to face connection with performers and crew are what make my job worthwhile! [Right. D.Minion is all about the “face to” … something or other.]

It had been a year and a half since the Spearmint Rhino decided they didn’t want us to cover their shoots. [Once we decided not to move to Norco and keep working with the michaelninn.com site, they sort of became rather pissy about things. They said they were “uncomfortable” with us being on set, which was pretty darned insulting. We’ve been doing this web thing for more than ten years. We ought to be able to do a lot better than merely “uncomfortable” …. The despondent dog in the photograph has no actual connection to the Spearmint Rhino, by the way, but it did seem an appropriate illustration.] So when Lucky told me that our buddy Tommy was managing a new girl and would like us to meet her and take some photos, I jumped at the chance! [… and drooled. It was a little embarrassing, actually.]

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Stars:Tenaya

Location:Los Angeles

Setting:Freestyle

Technique:BTS

Nymphetamine Ninn — On Set

Same Singer, Different Tune

by Nobody Special

I have been on a lot of sets with Michael Ninn. Over the last 15 years, I have not been on every Ninn set, but since the earliest days at that upstart VCA, I have been on the vast majority of them. If you need to put a number on it, call it “well over 100, probably closer to 150, Michael Ninn sets,” and that will do for now.

Predictably, over the years I have been fortunate to witness some very grand Michael Ninn sets. I have seen him shoot with world-famous rock stars and legendary porn stars. (I have also seen Michael be instrumental in building a few of those legends, truth be told.) I watched him drop a baby grand piano into the middle of twenty square miles of California desert, and I have seen him set up in shots so tight that just placing the cameras became a substantial physical challenge. We’ve shot in miserable heat, howling winds, horizontal rains, and cold so severe that all of us not on camera could only thank the Fates that we never decided to try and be porn stars (all the while looking for more layers of clothing to wear and wondering why we don’t own mittens anymore).

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