Hey folks! There's nostalgia... and then there's my feelings on Marisa, still one of the most beautiful (and funny) women I've ever had the pleasure to pie and slime.... repeatedly. I always call her SlapstickStuff's original "glam girl" because she really was an established model even before I worked with her.... And quite frankly, WAY out of my league at the time. I remember sweating the cost of the shoot because it was gonna be $800 between her fee and travel costs! [FYI.... I've since shot single clips that have cost more than $800. I believe we did 7 scenes total over 2 days for that price, and the return on investment over the years? Well...]
So imagine the biggest shoot of your life so far.... And you pick the model up at the airport, where she's had a tough flight.... And you launch into the first scene that afternoon... And one of your cameras malfunctions, and the footage simply disappears. (To this day, I still don't know how it happened, and it never happened again!) THAT was how this shoot started.... ....And it wound up being one of the best shoots I ever did.
Suffice to say, things improved from Scene 1. (Which is still solid, even though there's no true Closeup angle in that one, aside from some clean footage we shot the next day.) Marisa was gorgeous, funny, playful, silly, and *incredibly* sexy.... even after taking over 120 pies and 15 buckets of slime! We hit it off immediately, and I do think there's a real sense of intimacy and playfulness as the scenes go along that doesn't happen much anymore. (Including my new stuff, honestly.) I'm pretty sure this was the beginning of me doing lots of BTS interviews before (and sometimes after) scenes, and while there's been some great BTS moments over the years, these are still some of my favorites. (Someone made the comment at the time that it reminded them of the casual bits in the Tommy & Pam video, which... I think is a compliment?) And if you think hanging out with Marisa seems fun in the footage, trust me.... It was 100X better IRL. [I won't get into details, but there's definitely an alternate history where we actually wound up together and... I'm probably living with her in Europe instead of making WAM vids for you guys. Better or worse timeline? Hmm....]
ANYWAY. Thanks for indulging my nostalgia, and in return: All the SS50/51 Marisa clips have been remastered and cleaned up in a few spots (although honestly, most of the footage already looked pretty good for 480p!), and that's all available now in the Vidown and UMD Stores or to stream. But most importantly.... I took down the full-sized photos ages ago, back when Marisa was still a working model and her agent told her that being associated with WAM was hurting her career. (Yeah, even back in 2008, we were the outsiders...) But she exited modeling (and the entire Internet, honestly) more than a decade ago.... So I think it's OK to let you guys see some pics again. And since I lost the original versions, every single one of these is a fresh screen grab from the remastered clips. So enjoy!
Below are the SS50 pics and a goofy little semi-trailer that I threw onto the DVD back in the day. Part 2 with SS51 and some more stories coming tomorrow! https://youtu.be/Etc0RCWhVhI?si=l-TuoyMjrCeJEIUD
Ah, yes! Marisa has always had a place firmly in my heart. She was masterful at taking a pie. The amount of coverage she could wear was a bit scary! I really don't know how she was able to breathe at times considering the amount of mess that would cover her face. And what a lovely face it was, indeed! Thank you for bringing her adventures into our little, messy world back to life!
SlapstickStuff said: We hit it off immediately, and I do think there's a real sense of intimacy and playfulness as the scenes go along that doesn't happen much anymore.
They boned
And if you think hanging out with Marisa seems fun in the footage, trust me.... It was 100X better IRL. [I won't get into details, but there's definitely an alternate history where we actually wound up together and... I'm probably living with her in Europe instead of making WAM vids for you guys. Better or worse timeline? Hmm....]
SlapstickStuff said: And if you think hanging out with Marisa seems fun in the footage, trust me.... It was 100X better IRL. [I won't get into details, but there's definitely an alternate history where we actually wound up together and... I'm probably living with her in Europe instead of making WAM vids for you guys. Better or worse timeline? Hmm....]
You mean in that alternate timeline, you wouldn't create a European Branch Office of The Man and the Wife? Drat.
I remember when this was my all time favorite model of yours, might still be. I always wondered why no close ups. Back in the day I used my video enhancing software to make my own close ups version. Now with whats available with video enhancement and AI enhancements, you can probably do a much better job(not really probably, definatly)
ACE PIE said: I remember when this was my all time favorite model of yours, might still be. I always wondered why no close ups. Back in the day I used my video enhancing software to make my own close ups version. Now with whats available with video enhancement and AI enhancements, you can probably do a much better job(not really probably, definatly)
Just to be clear, it's only SS50 Scene 1 with no true closeups. Every other scene has the full closeup angle! I did some zooms back in the day for the edit of Scene 1, but they look a bit grainy. I've messed around with AI recently but it doesn't do a great job of zooming/enhancing, honestly. Maybe in a few years I'll revisit these SD scenes again, but TBH the pic quality overall is quite good! (Just don't expect 1080p HD.)
Round 2 of pics! These are the ones from SS51. I love that I was trying out early pratfalls even back then.... The "Bowl of Glop" was just runny shaving cream, but the idea was already in place. Honestly, the best part of that baker scene is how adorable Marisa looks when clean (and the tidal wave of chocolate that hits her later on).
The coed scene remains one of my most popular coed clips even now.... Again, very fun/playful vibe. Marisa was a GREAT antagonist (and sexy).... Yes, in hindsight, we could've started a Man & Wife version of SS in that timeline. (Sigh.) This was also the first time I had a nip slip, and I remember spending a long time trying to figure out how to "animate" that little smiley face as she moved around. (Marisa never had any nudity or slips in ANY of her published work, FTR, aside from a few asshole photogs who violated her contract.)
Oh, and Scene 3 might be my favorite of all of them. It's certainly Marisa at her best.... Really sending up her "supermodel" image and just getting DECKED with those pies at the end. Also, 5 truly great slimings in a row, back when I still did that. Love how she dumps the "wine" on her face at the end, unprompted. (Also, there's a joke about Leo DeCaprio that hasn't aged at ALL in 17 years.... just like Leo's girlfriends!)
And finally.... Here's the original "sizzle reel" I made for Marisa to help promote her site. Kinda primitive now, but at the time I was really proud of it.... It was purposely NOT messy and NOT connected to SlapstickStuff, but merely edited to show how fun & gorgeous this woman was.
So I posted it on YouTube, sent her the link, and she loved it. And then a few days later, she asked me to take it down.... Because she had a promo deal with Ducati, and they'd "discovered" it and didn't want their new model to be associated with anything as "horrible" as WAM. (Even though the clip has zero WAM, or zero connection to WAM.... but it came from my account, and that's all that mattered....)
Anyway. I was gutted, but of course I honored her wishes. (This also started the realization that any attempt to "mainstream" this niche interest was gonna be met with hostility, and within a couple years I'd basically given up on that idea. Still! It was fun while it lasted!) But I'm pretty sure no one cares anymore... So it's just a nice time capsule now. No actual WAM, but enjoy regardless!
Extremely funny (in the first scene the whispering bit and the BTS how excited she is to do the "you wouldn't I would" joke are both class) and utterly gorgeous. I hope she's enjoying Europe more than the rest of us living here. If she's in.... errmmm... Benidorm then I'm sure she is!
NorthernWAM said: Extremely funny (in the first scene the whispering bit and the BTS how excited she is to do the "you wouldn't I would" joke are both class) and utterly gorgeous. I hope she's enjoying Europe more than the rest of us living here. If she's in.... errmmm... Benidorm then I'm sure she is!
I actually don't know where she is anymore.... She used to travel to Spain to model, but when she left Florida, she was considering moving to my area... but wound up going to TX instead.
Anyway, that was a loooong time ago and she's completely off the grid now. I really do hope she's happy whenever she is, I suspect she's probably aging beautifully too.
3/17/24, 7:10pm: This post won't bump the thread to the top.
Nice one, thanks Rich. I'm usually more for big brown eyes and dark hair but her and Kelli (who also shot with Ken and took a TON of slimings between you two) are tops for your blond models in my mind.
Just gorgeous and she had a very natural energy that found its way through the lens, I can only imagine how cool she'd have been to hang with in real life.
Didn't she have some strange backstory that brought her to WAM in the first place? Or am I confusing her with someone else? I ask because the premise of the story was that her manager pushed her to do the shoots as some kind of payoff, which makes it confusing that that manager would then worry about her being connected to WAM after the fact.
Maybe I'm confusing her with someone else though. Or maybe that story was fabricated by someone else to sell videos, who knows.
Either way thanks for putting these out, Scene 3 is one of my top 3 slime scenes of all time.