Okay. I’ve finally recovered from my hangover enough to write about yesterday’s photo shoot! This entry might be long cuz I’m writing it for my own personal record, so I won’t be offended if you choose to skip this one. :-)
The shoot took place at Bambuddha Lounge in San Francisco. Gorgeous gorgeous club with a swimming pool and hotel in back, very posh and swanky! We met our models (Kate, Elizabeth and Mark) at 11am but didn’t start shooting till 3pm because hair and makeup takes up most of the day. That band Type-O-Negative were hanging out by the pool where we were doing hair and makeup. Totally random. Anyway, before the shoot, Patrick and I were joking that we were scared to meet the models because they’d just make us feel short, fat and unglamorous. To our pleasant surprise, they were soooo cute and down-to-earth and scrubby in their flip flops and frizzy hair! We got along really well and talked about beer, pick-up lines (”Yo, you got a name?”) and the evils of Friendster. And we were burping in front of each other within hours. Oh wait–I think that was just me.
Being professionals and all, we fed our models KFC for lunch. And they really ate it!
Anyway, for the past two weeks, I was so busy worrying about making the perfect outfits for Kate and Elizabeth that we didn’t really think about what Mark should wear. I don’t know how to make boys’ clothes, and I don’t really pay that much attention to boys so I don’t know how to dress them. So the day before the shoot, Patrick and I ran to Crossroads and grabbed a few shirts off the rack and a pair of pants that were 4 inches too short. Kevin loaned me a pair of his John Fluevogs. The girls loved the outfits I presented them, and everything fit like a glove. But I was red with embarrassment when it came time to show Mark the boring clothes he would be wearing next to the two gorgeous ladies whom I’d stayed up till 3 in the morning sewing for! Surprisingly, when I handed him his plain black Kenneth Cole button-up shirt, he said, “Wow, this is really nice… Can I keep it?” Awesome.
There is no feeling more amazing than seeing someone look so beautiful in something that you worked really hard on! All those sleepless nights were worth it–I was such a proud mama. I brought my own little camera and was snapping pictures like I was on a family vacation or something! I was literally squealing with joy for the first half hour, jumping up and down, pinching the girls, saying, “You guys are SOOOOO cute! Sooooo cute!” I’ve never seen my clothes on anybody besides myself before, and what a thrill that was. Because before that, I only knew what my clothes looked like on my plastic torso or headless photos of myself standing in my kitchen, posing in front of the tripod. Elizabeth and Kate pulled it off so well, made me so proud!!!
We stopped shooting at 5pm. The models took off to go on other assignments, but we (me, Jen, Elaine and Patrick) stuck around and had a few drinks at the bar. We got tipsy and started kissing each others asses hardcore:
“Wow you are like, the BEST makeup artist in the world!”
“No no, it’s Patrick’s photography that makes it all look good!”
“No but without YOUR clothes, we’d be nothing!”
“No way dude, it’s the way you do eyeshadow… you are going to be famous!”
“But it all goes back to Patrick–he has such an EYE for photography!”
Then we met up with our hair dresser Marcie at some art gallery (yawn) with a bunch of pretentious people and had a few more drinks and kissed each others asses some more. Jen and I took off early and headed back to San Jose to go to some show at the Blank Club. I was pretty smashed by then.
Patrick just showed me the photos, and I’m so excited I could scream! They turned out BEAUTIFULLY, and he will have the world in the palm of his hand when this shit gets published. Patrick, enjoy your private little life as it is now, because after October you will be FAMOUS!!!!!!
We’ve all been sworn to secrecy and aren’t allowed to show anyone the pics till they’re published. So remember everybody, BUY THE OCTOBER ISSUE OF VODKA MAGAZINE!!! In the meantime, check out Patrick’s website!
