Yesterday hauled the equipment to Selfridges and started to assemble the odd bit, today we are finishing off and shooting some staff and then Olivia comes in, she will come w. her daughter and get pampered for the afternoon and write about it for The Times.
Saturday we buy a few bits for the diy stuff to do, and on Sunday I manage to put some decent shelving up in our storage room underneath the stairs. We later on meet Russel “Love Muscle” chipping and Matt and his g/f for a bite to eat in the Daniel Defoe on Church St., our reactions are mixed.
Love Muscle aint too happy. ………… then again when is he ever…….. :-0
Yesterday had an induction at Selfridges which took a good three hours, and after that I get a new mob. phone as 3 Mobile have been pissing me off just a tad too much, after 5 calls to them I am still in a rutt, so poke yer contract then, I am off to the competion………and a new nokia 9300 richer. This is a machine to me liking, simply coz it synchronises with my pc and I can install applications on it as well, oh joiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Today meetings inside Selfridges as Jackie (styling) and Guy (hair) have chats with Claudia.
Some old mates here: Cheryl in Amsterdam, me and Harry in Den Bosch and Boudie in Almelo, all in 1992
I am doing a few bits such as playing arround with the graphic of crystal suite and making a small flash website. Problem is, the logo is of poor quality, and will need the proper design in a finished bit of work…..
Also looking into and scanning some of my old metal negs.
I am trying to put together a story for a magazine whose next issue has the “music” theme. I am looking into stuff from 1982 to 1988, some of them have been posted in the mths before….
Also should be shooting some flowers downstairs, that Terri’s mom brought arround……will post some later
Stomach has sorted itself, and feel lots better.
Been working on pc for Crystal Suite making docs/emails and working on pix
Managed to shoot the moon last Tuesday eve which came out nice.
Feel rough, had a bad sleep, and have a bad stomach. I am trying to get the computer kit together, I was gonna go with building a pc, but the G5 looks a better option.
Working on the display as well, hope to be done with this later on today.
Friday I take some shots of the uncles, and mom of Claudia. They run a company which supplies to 300 hundred Italian restaurants. Altho some of them make themselves look tough as nails they know, and I know who is in charge, MOM!!!!!
Saturday I spend all day sanding away on the stairs, it is never ending (at this point I am still not finished with the damn thing), and I spend some time retouching some pix and on a slide show.
Sunday, we clean up again as we have Terri’s parents come over and drop some of our things off, like frames and plants. Terri cooked a mean roast, it was excellent.
Meetings and DIY, the past few days and the coming ones……
I have been asked to quote three campaigns for skin health spa, it involves a lot of nudity but all rather tastefully. Today I am searching for models.
Besides that I have had a sit down with Claudia on Monday, and ended up yacking for almost 4 hrs.
Painting, it is more or less done, the walls that is, both bedrooms are finished, the bathroom has the ceiling left to do, and then patches here and there.
The glossing can wait till spring it is way to wet/cold for it to dry. On Thursday I hope to finish off the stairs as well, and then think about a little shelving unit in the store cupboard underneath the stairs and then that is it for now till the big jobs (bathroom/kitchedn etc.) will happen, which is not till the new year…..
Here are some headshots I did in 1997/’98
Meet Brian in the morning and he is not in a great mood, his hands are sore, his signs have been messed with, “was it the wind” I ask, I get a look like “wtf you mean wind……”……………………………..he is in no mood at all.
He tells me that I am not listening, as I told him what I saw on tv a few days ago, he does not see any tv at all but claims it was all different.
I tell him I am in no mood to bicker so if he wants it then lets get it on, otherwise keep quiet…he does the latter.
Five mins later he starts talking and talking and his mood gets slightly better, I have brought him some bacci, I think coffee is what is needed, he also wants something with meatballs, but I can not find anything of the like….so I just get him coffee, and get this he wants ten sugars in it, I look at him whether he is having me on, but he asks me to tear the packets and bang ‘em all in and stir them, as his hands are soo sore and he simply can not do it.
Some punters arrive and the attention from them lifts his mood considerably, after two hours of magical light, coz it is drop dead gorgeous sunlight I call it a day………..I love the results.
My meeting with the ad ag. was delayed till next Monday so I go back home and continue with scanning. Something I have done today as well and trying to study to optimize the images, something that is rather tricky….and time consuming.
In between the hallway gets painted.
Wednesday morning left early (way too early for my liking) to end up on a completely mobbed Finsbury Park tube station….rush hour traffic…..ugh…….. meet Jason Dorley Brown in Camberwell to go and see Davide that does some decent frames.
Like what I see, and schlep a whole bag with samples with me, to show Claudia who likes them too….
See Claudia and the girlzzzz at Selfridges where our names are taken down and where we have to fill in a questionaire….all in relation to customer service etc etc. Then have a sit down with Claudia and discuss loads.
I end up walking to Piccadilly and then on to Parliament Sq. to shoot Brian. He has become a bit of a celebrity, coz I can not even see him at first as he is hidden behind his placards under two umbrellas doing an interview. He looks positive and smiles a lot, I take a few and leave it at that.
Yesterday been scanning studio type shots that will be used inside Selfridges to promote me, this is 2 days work to say the least, damn………….
I am meeting the ad studio, Baby that do the promo stuff for Skin Health spa. today as I am supposed to shoot some shots for the brochure.
I will shoot Brian after that and then it is back to scanning/photoshopping.
The time with Venture got mucked up, and therefor we did not go, it will be rescheduled today.
Meeting a frame maker in Camberwell, then it is off for two hrs @ Selfridges for an induction, the dos and don’ts……then the Flash center checking up on the kit that was ordered. And maybe I should take some shots of Brian so I am going to drag the cam. along……
Painted the 2nd bedroom/office yesterday and still going through all the stuff what to keep and what to throw away……nice little time consumer….
Meeting the Crystal Suite posse, later this afternoon as we are off to Venture to see the results…
It also seems that we will have some heavy promotion going on over the next few weeks, and Selfridges itself is landing their support big time……c00l
I am trying to get an application off to the arts council for the-b3nch, and it is a 28 page questionaire I am amazed they are not asking for a letter from my mom, but it needs doing as I intend to exhibit in Southend and in London at some point in the next year.
Saw a piece on the BBC yesterday about Brian and it was more focused on the physical and social effects it has on a one man protestor, thought it was the first decent piece I have seen on him. The other docus, some of them you can see online, are just lotta rubbish and just blabber on.
Here are two oldies, Mariette shot at Harry’s studio in 1993, and Natascha shot in 1991 or (’92), shortly after we ended up having a bad accident, literally 5 mins after we left the beach…….tragic.
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