Posted 6 days ago

What do you do when the road to your desert destination for a nude photo shoot is jammed with hordes of insane tourists?

Let’s be sensible here. There is only one thing you can do and that’s exactly what we did. I drove Tabitha home, handed her a bottle of wine and said, “I think your idea of sloppy wine tasting in a shower is fantastic!”

Earlier in the day we planned a shoot along some railroad tracks in a forgotten corner of the Mojave Desert, but to get to the dirt road and ultimately our destination, we’d have to travel Southbound on Interstate 15 heading towards Los Angeles from Las Vegas and it was Sunday afternoon. Foolish on my part since this stretch of desolate Interstate becomes a parking lot of hungover, Las Vegas losers and hordes of tacky tourists and slaughtered party animals all dashing for home, or in this case crawling along at about 3.5 miles per hour, jammed in with the 45,000 other cars desperate to leave Las Vegas before all is lost!

“Shit”, I exclaimed as our excited illusion of a sublime desert photo session came crashing to a dead stop on the highway. Tabitha was in makeup and her all but nude wardrobe was ready for the reveal as we’d planned to film her along the railroad tracks with a suitcase in a topless party gown. But it wasn’t to be. 

We made a u-turn raced back to Vegas and this is what we shot instead. I wasn’t particularly excited at the idea but it came to life when Tabitha started spitting up the wine. Moral of the story- Don’t give up just adapt!

The entire series is viewable for subscribers at www.TabithaStevens.com

Visit: www.TabithaTV.com for Tabitha’s official Podcast.

Posted 1 week ago

Can’t find a pigeon hole for my work… good. So for now; Adventure Exotic Erotic Nude Landscapes Glamour Travel Pin-Ups ?

www.GaryOrona.com 

Posted 1 week ago
Windy Bitchfest- Bitchy Girls, Crabs, Killing Your Crew, Man Boobs discussed while sheltered behind a Landrover PODCAST.
Tabitha and Gary are blown away by heavy winds on a remote desert dry lake location during a photo/video shoot in which it was planned that Tabitha would walk around basically naked. Unable to continue in the high winds, they record a podcast while sheltered behind their Landrover and discuss topics such as; bitches that fake injuries for attention, white crab spiders crawling on Tabitha’s skin, Man Boobs and crappy Porn Producers that starve their talent and literally kill their crew with 18 hour days!
Don’t miss this episode!
www.TabithaTV.com

Windy Bitchfest- Bitchy Girls, Crabs, Killing Your Crew, Man Boobs discussed while sheltered behind a Landrover PODCAST.

Tabitha and Gary are blown away by heavy winds on a remote desert dry lake location during a photo/video shoot in which it was planned that Tabitha would walk around basically naked. Unable to continue in the high winds, they record a podcast while sheltered behind their Landrover and discuss topics such as; bitches that fake injuries for attention, white crab spiders crawling on Tabitha’s skin, Man Boobs and crappy Porn Producers that starve their talent and literally kill their crew with 18 hour days!

Don’t miss this episode!

www.TabithaTV.com

Posted 2 weeks ago

Tabitha Doesn’t Need a Canon 5D mkIII

And why are so many photo enthusiasts fixated on gear when the real spirit is in the craft? I posted this shot of Tabitha not long ago and surprised a few when I shared that it was shot with an ancient folding camera (Voigtlander Bessa). I’m getting increasingly irritated at the camera manufacturers and the upgrade insanity. 

This photo was shot with an 80 YEAR OLD CAMERA! 

So… I’ve decided to broadcast a Podcast which will often include a Video Version in which I’m going to share my 30 years of experience with just about every conceivable still camera, motion picture camera and broadcast video camera. I’m calling it “CameraSlayer with Gary Orona”. 

I’ve shot produced, directed and photographed over 600 projects ranging from HBO Network TV Series and Movies, TV Pilots, International Award Winning Independent Movies, Music Videos, and yes even Adult Movies. I’ve lost count of my published photos related to these filmed projects as well…

CameraSlayer is going to be absolutely HONEST. So hide your children.

I’m going to share insight on how I get things done technically AND I’m going to “Tell All” with respect to some of the most wild filming adventure stories I’ve experienced, both joyous and tragic!

It’ll all be outside-the-box, sometimes off-the-grid and even downright notorious but in the end I hope it will inspire visual artists to shed this techno-geek madness and go out and jump into an adventure! 

I once shot an entire music video with a wind-up Bell and Howell Filmo Model 70-E 16mm film camera and it turned out great. Like the photo above shot with the Voigtlander, it’s the ability to use ANY camera because you’re grounded in a basic understanding of photography that counts. You don’t need the most recent camera to make great work!

This is going to be fun.

Gary Orona

www.GaryOrona.com

BTW Tabitha’s Podcast is at www.TabithaTV.com

Posted 2 weeks ago
Movie Theater Hell- Polygamists, Mob Mentality and Caffeine-Jacked Kids at the Movie Theater!
Insanity at the Movies- Tabitha Stevens and Gary Orona talk about their weekend experience at the local movie theater, gone gonzo when; the line turned into a frenzied mob as the doors opened, they seated themselves in the same row as a group of known TV Polygamists, and Gary sat next to a kid amped up on 50 ounces of soda! And it’s all absolutely true! If you ever wondered how wild Tabitha and Gary’s lives really are, listen in as a simple outing becomes completely ridiculous!
You won’t want to miss this episode as Tabitha and Gary recount their bizarre Mother’s Day outing to a movie theater at the Red Rocks Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada!
Don’t miss this episode!
www.TabithaTV.com

Movie Theater Hell- Polygamists, Mob Mentality and Caffeine-Jacked Kids at the Movie Theater!

Insanity at the Movies- Tabitha Stevens and Gary Orona talk about their weekend experience at the local movie theater, gone gonzo when; the line turned into a frenzied mob as the doors opened, they seated themselves in the same row as a group of known TV Polygamists, and Gary sat next to a kid amped up on 50 ounces of soda! And it’s all absolutely true! If you ever wondered how wild Tabitha and Gary’s lives really are, listen in as a simple outing becomes completely ridiculous!

You won’t want to miss this episode as Tabitha and Gary recount their bizarre Mother’s Day outing to a movie theater at the Red Rocks Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada!

Don’t miss this episode!

www.TabithaTV.com

Posted 3 weeks ago
Tabitha Stevens Performs a Suicide Suspension-
We just posted a detailed PODCAST which talks about the Suicide Suspension that Tabitha did when we were producing the movie “SANATORIUM”. If you’re interested in hearing what it’s like to hang from your own flesh this is the podcast for you!
http://TabithaTV.com
Click on the “listen to Podcast” button and you’ll find it there.
Good Thoughts,
Gary Orona

Tabitha Stevens Performs a Suicide Suspension-

We just posted a detailed PODCAST which talks about the Suicide Suspension that Tabitha did when we were producing the movie “SANATORIUM”. If you’re interested in hearing what it’s like to hang from your own flesh this is the podcast for you!

http://TabithaTV.com

Click on the “listen to Podcast” button and you’ll find it there.

Good Thoughts,

Gary Orona

Posted 1 month ago

This is the final artwork for Tabitha’s new Podcast.

The first episode should show up on iTunes search in a few days. 

In the meantime the first one is up at:

http://tabithastevens.libsyn.com

Tabitha has a huge list of celebrities, rock stars, TV personalities, comedians, artists and extraordinary people lined up so this will be fun and compelling ‘out-of-the-box’ entertainment as only the Legendary Tabitha Stevens can deliver!

Posted 1 month ago

“Notorious” by Gary Orona

There’s nothing wrong with a little nipple peak-a-boo right?

Now that the wormy little bastard Santorum is out of our lives we can all breath a little better and women can once again be women. Ladies you are liberated (Tabitha calls her breasts ‘Ladies’). No more concern over women being tossed back into the Dark Ages as preached on TV by that fucking numbskull. 

But wait, oh crap… now Romney has a clear path… and he’s a Mormon… and I know exactly how Mormon’s treat their women… oh SHIT! Hide your women, hide your women… he’ll have them in Prairie Clothes and frigid as hell in no time!

Now relax all you far right Republicans, I’m just having some fun and besides I shot this image of Tabitha and I like it so if you don’t agree go somewhere else. Life is way too short for uptight fucking Mormons, I mean Morons, I mean Mormons… ah to hell with it.

Good Thoughts- Gary Orona ;)

www.GaryOrona.com

Posted 1 month ago

“A Bloody Girl and a Pissed Off Vampire” by Gary Orona

Those meat hooks had to hurt. A production still I took while filming one of our movies. Tabitha and I produced the Vampire Sex Diaries together and we got a whole lot of AVN nominations for it. Not to be arrogant, but it’s really cool for an adult movie and given what it was up aganist and that it didn’t even win 1 award made me laugh. They shouldn’t even have an adult movie awards since it’s complete bullshit.

Happy, happy times.

Good Thoughts- Gary Orona

www.GaryOrona.com

Posted 1 month ago

“Queen of the Sanatorium” by Gary Orona (Photo)

The Queen never wears any clothes AND puking isn’t so bad…

Back in the day, before the digital enlightenment we’d have just moved the building out here for this shot. Sure it may have cost $200,000 to move an entire building but it would have been fun and we liked it that way! What’s the fun in hitting a few buttons and having Photoshop do it for you?

Long ago before the 1’s and 0’s stole our adventures we’d haul 80 pound Arriflex cameras to the top of 700 foot sand dunes for an epic shot, but now we build a little pile of dirt in the backyard and do a composite in After Effects to make it look like it’s on top of a mountain… where’s the fun in that?

We’d spend weeks coordinating crew, gear, Landrovers and Jeeps, and spend countless drunken nights at the bar conjuring our anticipation of the adventure which lay ahead. Now, we just look out into that same old backyard, scratch our balls then bitch the next morning when we have to use a shovel for an hour to make a little dirt pile.

I miss the heavy stuff. Everything back in the day had mass, it was heavy, and it took genuine muscle to get anything done. It beat the shit out of us and we liked it that way!

I’m thinking about building a rig for my Canon 5Dmk III that weighs at least 50 pounds. I’m really going to max that fucker out and haul it everywhere I go. My gluts and abs and quads and everything else will scream out, “what the fuck are you doing? I thought we were past this shit. Didn’t they start using plastic on all the gear?” Sure those muscles will scream, but in the end they’ll love me again.

Okay that’s my rant for the day. Now I’m headed for the Red Rocks outside Las Vegas. I’m gonna scale a fucking rock mountain. I’ll probably puke at the top but that’s okay… we like it that way!

Good Thoughts- Gary Orona

www.GaryOrona.com