hi!
2 sets with the oddest stories attached to them just went up, so i figured i would do the waltz while the details are still fresh...first of all...the wendy set is my 100th live set...holy shit! have i really been that busy? thanks to all the sg's, members and everyone else who helped, advised, loaned stuff and locations, held things, drank beer with, ate food with...y'all really do make my sets look great - i just show up and point the camera in the right direction and try not to suck. i would like to personally thank the staff for letting me shoot and all the sg photogs - lithium_picnic, cherry, albertine, london, lorelei, dearly departed idjiit and oryx as well as sawa and cymgen for putting up with my questions, offering advice and inspiring me every day with bad-ass sets...and a huge hug to twwly and now alexis for being my photoshop elves and making my sets look amazing!
dang, enough ass-kissing...let's drink!
ok..ready?
Wendy - Rumbler
- so my friend molly hatchet skates for the LA derby dolls and is a former location scout for dawson's creek. she and i have known each other for the last 20 years from north carolina. i knew i was coming to LA and called her and asked if a) i could borrow her car and b) find me a bad-ass location to shoot wendy and her car.
- she found vasquez rocks...you have seen this location before, trust me. anytime capt. kirk from star trek was chased by a stunt man in a green alien suit over rocks...it was here at vasquez rocks. plans were made and i flew out.
- i pick up wendy and helena at 7am, we grab coffee and meet up with molly to drive out to the desert. as we are driving out, molly calls me and says, "it's pretty clear here on the freeway and i haven't really had her (the camaro ss) out on the highway....mind if i drop the hammer and blow out the carbon?" sure!, i said, i have a map...have a blast! next thing i know, the ass of that sexy ss squats down, the exhaust screams and that car was GOOOOONNNNNE! i had a huge grin on my face as it faded in the distance.
- so we get to the location - which is still closed (the park opens at 8:30am) and we sit around waiting.
"so, rockstar...how fast were you going?"
"like 130! remind me to do that more often!"
"rightious, baby, rightious"
- so we go in and drive as far into the park as possible...park the camaro and start to shoot. we look around as this is going on...there is a film crew setting up just over the gully, old ladies are wallking their dogs by us...and wendy is getting naked.
"i bet they are shooting for that myspace place" says one old lady as they walk by with their yorkies and prada warmup suits
- there is no articial lighting in this set, only a reflector held by helena and not well....after awhile she started screaming, "bitch! you are fuckin' HAWT!" at the top of her lungs and kinda forgot about the reflector
- so we are in nakedness now and pretty much done. molly goes, "hey wendy! you should drive it off", so we get shots of the car being pulled around, driven by a very naked wendy. suddenly, a park ranger comes over and asked "who are you shooting for?"
"well, for our portfoliosl. m'am" "and myspace" pipes up Helena.
the ranger then explains (all while wendy is still in the car, naked about 5 ft away) that we need a permit and to pay $250 and if the cops had come, all our gear could have been impounded. molly steps up into location scout mode and gets all the info, apologizes for not knowing and offers to follow her back to the park office for the paperwork for next time. she takes the truck and folllows her away.
- we gather the gear, get wendy dressed and get out of the park...giggling the whole time.
- as we are about to drive back to LA, molly pulls us aside to show us the printed rules of the park:
#7 - no nudity or scanty clothing
#9 - no profanity
needless to say...i almost burst a blood vessel laughing after reading that.
- the fact....we broke more laws before 9am than most people do all day - speeding, shooting without a permit on private property, public nudity, public profanity...yay! go larceny!
eep! i have written a novel...i'll do the details of the sid set in a bit:
Sid-Ode to Lizzie
2 sets with the oddest stories attached to them just went up, so i figured i would do the waltz while the details are still fresh...first of all...the wendy set is my 100th live set...holy shit! have i really been that busy? thanks to all the sg's, members and everyone else who helped, advised, loaned stuff and locations, held things, drank beer with, ate food with...y'all really do make my sets look great - i just show up and point the camera in the right direction and try not to suck. i would like to personally thank the staff for letting me shoot and all the sg photogs - lithium_picnic, cherry, albertine, london, lorelei, dearly departed idjiit and oryx as well as sawa and cymgen for putting up with my questions, offering advice and inspiring me every day with bad-ass sets...and a huge hug to twwly and now alexis for being my photoshop elves and making my sets look amazing!
dang, enough ass-kissing...let's drink!
ok..ready?
Wendy - Rumbler
- so my friend molly hatchet skates for the LA derby dolls and is a former location scout for dawson's creek. she and i have known each other for the last 20 years from north carolina. i knew i was coming to LA and called her and asked if a) i could borrow her car and b) find me a bad-ass location to shoot wendy and her car.
- she found vasquez rocks...you have seen this location before, trust me. anytime capt. kirk from star trek was chased by a stunt man in a green alien suit over rocks...it was here at vasquez rocks. plans were made and i flew out.
- i pick up wendy and helena at 7am, we grab coffee and meet up with molly to drive out to the desert. as we are driving out, molly calls me and says, "it's pretty clear here on the freeway and i haven't really had her (the camaro ss) out on the highway....mind if i drop the hammer and blow out the carbon?" sure!, i said, i have a map...have a blast! next thing i know, the ass of that sexy ss squats down, the exhaust screams and that car was GOOOOONNNNNE! i had a huge grin on my face as it faded in the distance.
- so we get to the location - which is still closed (the park opens at 8:30am) and we sit around waiting.
"so, rockstar...how fast were you going?"
"like 130! remind me to do that more often!"
"rightious, baby, rightious"
- so we go in and drive as far into the park as possible...park the camaro and start to shoot. we look around as this is going on...there is a film crew setting up just over the gully, old ladies are wallking their dogs by us...and wendy is getting naked.
"i bet they are shooting for that myspace place" says one old lady as they walk by with their yorkies and prada warmup suits
- there is no articial lighting in this set, only a reflector held by helena and not well....after awhile she started screaming, "bitch! you are fuckin' HAWT!" at the top of her lungs and kinda forgot about the reflector
- so we are in nakedness now and pretty much done. molly goes, "hey wendy! you should drive it off", so we get shots of the car being pulled around, driven by a very naked wendy. suddenly, a park ranger comes over and asked "who are you shooting for?"
"well, for our portfoliosl. m'am" "and myspace" pipes up Helena.
the ranger then explains (all while wendy is still in the car, naked about 5 ft away) that we need a permit and to pay $250 and if the cops had come, all our gear could have been impounded. molly steps up into location scout mode and gets all the info, apologizes for not knowing and offers to follow her back to the park office for the paperwork for next time. she takes the truck and folllows her away.
- we gather the gear, get wendy dressed and get out of the park...giggling the whole time.
- as we are about to drive back to LA, molly pulls us aside to show us the printed rules of the park:
#7 - no nudity or scanty clothing
#9 - no profanity
needless to say...i almost burst a blood vessel laughing after reading that.
- the fact....we broke more laws before 9am than most people do all day - speeding, shooting without a permit on private property, public nudity, public profanity...yay! go larceny!
eep! i have written a novel...i'll do the details of the sid set in a bit:
Sid-Ode to Lizzie
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Of course my "hope will die" and what I actually put my money on are sadly two different things.
Thank you for the compliment on my photo. It means a lot, it was my first time not having someone who has a degree in this with me to adjust settings and tell me what I'm doing wrong. I put a huge obvious watermark on it because I used it in my journal a couple days ago and wanted it to be obvious that the photo wasn't of me, but by me
Here's crossing my fingers for Federline.