potholes & pitstops

Thursday, September 06, 2007

The condos are coming... everything must go!

Bimbo's Bitchin' Burrito Kitchen
Seattle, WA

Friday, June 15, 2007

Riff's favorite new band

They played in seattle while i was there. We're going to see them @ the knitting factory next week.

Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Sunday, May 27, 2007

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Friday, May 04, 2007

Thursday, May 03, 2007

Film fest!

Lainy is here from seattle to work for the festival. Hopefully i'll get to a few movies before it's over.

Ikea shoot

Clearance sale ad. I got 2 chairs as a perk, sat on one of them on the subway ride home.

Monday, April 09, 2007

Your sweet, innocent daughter in her pretty pink dress and white, sensible shoes - could she be in DANGER at work???

I worked on this job recently and (yes, robyn) we basically simulated a candy store. Actually an ice cream parlor. At the end of the day, I took home a tub of Coldstone strawberry ice cream and two bags of Callebaut milk chocolate chips.

Technical details: there is also a ring flash on the camera and a light behind the counter that is flagged off the side wall and diffused quite a bit.

A fun shoot. The male models in these shoots are always way more effeminate than the role requires, but at least it's for print not film/video. We did about a trillion takes of him pulling on her apron strings from behind.

NYC Subway Map

Personalized! (Not by me, though!)

Saturday, March 17, 2007

Somebody had a birthday!

27 tugs for Riff's 27th birthday plus one to grow on.

Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Cats-n-boggle

Two of my favorite things... and snacks, too!

This is Lorelei's shy girl, Pickle:

I don't remember this cutie's name, but s/he tried to fit into my boggle box at our most recent game. I love cats in boxes!

Monday, February 19, 2007

Major Catch Up Time

Yes, folks it's been a while. I am way behind on posting so I'm just going for a quick recap of the last few months and hopefully I can get back into a regular schedule.

It's been very busy around these parts, mostly with work and holiday time. I've been getting a lot busier with assisting jobs, some of them really cool. I've done a few jobs with a photographer who shoots for Real Simple. She shoots their paper sculptures for the section title pages. Here's the artist who makes them, with the photographer working on the champagne bottle:

I've also been assisting a home/interiors/still life guy who I found in Real Simple. I've worked with him on jobs for Glamour, In Style and Natural Health so far. Here are a few pics from these jobs.

Caitlin (the other assistant) looks bored. She was fun to work with.

Before!

After!

The kitchen in the amazing huge loft that rich people live in where we were shooting for Glamour.

The rich person's view uptown.

Do you like my gourds? Of course you do:

On a temp job in a pinkish mood:

Just a walk in the park on a cold, wintery day.

These are from a shoot at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia studios in Chelsea, the site of my very first assisting gig in new york. This time I felt more prepared, more confident and relaxed. Then I found out that the photographer shoots a roll of film in about 15 seconds! Luckily there was another assistant so we were able to keep up with him, but barely! He shot over a hundred rolls of film of two set ups. Of course, when you are working with animals it can be difficult. We shot a blue eyed white dwarf rabbit and some geese. I didn't realize how loud geese are...

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Puerto Rico!

We just got back from a quick trip to Puerto Rico. The tickets were just over $200 on jet blue and we stayed for four nights in a vacation rental with friends. There was surf, sand, pina coladas, late night dips in the pool, early morning walks on the beach, coqui (singing frogs,) and lots of time in the ocean. Here are a few pics. More to come when I get the the 3 rolls of actual film developed that I took.