Tuesday May 4, 2010

As it turns out, I had nothing to worry about because it all came back to me! It was a long ass day and I am tired because I couldn’t fall asleep last night til like 2am, but all in all, it was a success. The clothing designer seemed to like me and told me that she was impressed that I was getting what they needed so quickly and without having to overshoot. They were able to watch the images on my laptop as I shot them, so really, unless I fucked something up in a huge way that we weren’t able to see on the screen, it was a great day and the client was pleased. PHEW! (when they relaunch the site in a week or two I will explain how this all came about and who the designer is)

 The day consisted of mostly mix and match of the clothes on a seamless backdrop…pretty boring and tedious…but then we were able to get some outdoor stuff in just the last 15 minutes we had the model. I literally ran around the building looking for any bit of color or greenery so I could take the model outside and get some candids for their fall catalogue. I had to move quickly and work extremely efficiently and I think I did a pretty good job. THAT is the fun part.

A little bit of editing and that ugly cement picnic table goes away…voila! That doesn’t appear to be an industrial parking lot at all… why it looks just like Julian doesn’t it?

Tomorrow we are hoping to finish the studio shots earlier and take the model to some of my favorite spots to shoot in downtown San Diego. I gotta tell ya… this sure beats sitting in an office and pushing papers around. AND I get to wear flip flops and shorts!

It was Rich’s birthday and he and Dusty had been bar hopping all afternoon so I was going to meet them for a quick drink at #1 on Fifth but when I was looking for parking I got a text saying that he relocated to another place. I love both of them but in their condition I can only imagine how very quickly it would be that I wanted to punch both of them in their stupid annoying drunk faces. Besides, I had to get home by 7:30 to see the birds fly into that chimney again!

I arrived at 7:00 and Beth said that she hadn’t seen them yet today so I was pretty upset that this whole thing might be over. We chatted for a minute and then about 7 of them showed up! So I ran to my place, dropped my stuff off, put on a sweatshirt, called Joe and Vanessa and told them to walk over, and ran back to meet Beth with a fully charged Nikon. Only about 30 birds came tonight, so I think last night was my lucky break. I guess they had been at this for about 2 weeks already and had been thinning out over the last few days. Last night was so creepy to me and I cannot even imagine what it was like when they were at their peak.

Anyways, here is Kali jumping up begging for carrots.

I apologized to Joe and Vanessa for dragging them out of the house and hosting a sucky bird party

Sunday 12.20.09

As I was walking outside to go to breakfast with Tommy and 818 I noticed a lovely note on my door. Typed up on paper with 3 holes. I am so pissed that I got frazzled and threw it away… but it was something about my disdain and utter lack of respect for the neighborhood. I had sent my neighbors that live right next to me away for the night to a fancy hotel down the street. I even gave them some spending money at the hotel bar. (Not even a thank you… guess that is the last time I try to be so kind. Next time they can suffer through the noise) Anyways, after I kicked everyone out I guess someone must have thought they were doing me a favor and brought out a bag of trash when the party was over…. and then a bum must have dragged the stuff all over the sidewalk looking for some good shit. There were also about 50 cigarette butts out there and I did feel really bad. I mean I have only lived here for a month and I am already throwing loud parties and my guests aren’t even polite enough to dispose of their butts. It is pretty gross. We cleaned the mess up and when we went to the trash area a few feet away we saw this:

I should have grabbed these and stuck them in a jar and kept them. I mean who throws that away!? WTF? So bizarre! If you had that wouldn’t you destroy it and smash it into bits before throwing it in the trash? It seems like a very personal thing to be tossing away in the trash. Much like a credit card statement.

Anyways we ate at Cafe Chloe and drank $10 mimosas flavored with pomegranate and lavender lemon. Once we realized that we had spent enough money to buy a bottle of Dom, we headed to my favorite downtown establishment, the Tivoli! 4 pm crept up quickly and we went back home to gather the leftover desserts and head to #1 on Fifth to meet up with a bunch of people to hop on a bus and search for the best Christmas lights in SD. It turned into the 3 hour tour and we were fucking tired and over it, but it was a lot of fun.

Check out this scary moving robot called the Electric Giraffe … it’s very Burning-Man-esque but very cool. A bunch of kids were riding up top on a platform and it played cool music and hobbled around the streets.

I wanted to kidnap the baby Jesus from this lawn but I chickened out… probably better that way. Getting arrested for stealing lawn ornaments would not have been very smart. If I ever get arrested it better be for something good.

As you can see Tommy was sporting a very sexy Davy Crockett hat and is half in the bag at this point. I believe he began drinking heavily when the 11 year old would not leave his side.

And this nice old lady is about to celebrate her 100th birthday.

Do you think you will live to be 100? Do you even want to? I hope I live to be at least 80, but 100? Not so much. That is just too old. What kind of dementia will I have then if I can’t even remember what I ate for dinner yesterday? How many inches will I shrink? At that point I will be smaller than the elf I hired the other night.  Who knows though, I might just outlive all of my nieces and nephews and be full of energy. Sometimes people mistake me for being younger than I am and I often tell them that I made a deal with the devil. I tell them that he promised me that as long as I was producing porn he would make sure that I had a young looking appearance. Maybe I really did make that deal…. like I said I have a bad memory.