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[ceebeegee]

Today I had my iVillage shoot. I had an early call--8:30 at some Starbucks waaay downtown by the Staten Island Ferry. Since I performed the annual pumpkin vivisection last night (pumpkin bread at the party this weekend!) and stayed up watching the game, I got to bed rather late, yet still had a difficult time falling asleep, not least because a horrible kitty insisted on sleeping on my face. She's horrible. The face of pure evil.

Got up this morning around 6:50 and beat my face (that is, did my makeup). I left around 8:00 and had a hell of a time getting to the Starbucks--I would've had to take THREE trains, so around Canal Street I gave up, left the subway system and grabbed a cab. Got there and milled around with the rest of the production staff (there was a producer, a stylist, two camera people, a sound guy, an assistant), sipping Pumpkin Spice Lattes. Mmm. At one point, one of the baristas asked us what was going on. Someone told him we would be shooting outside (thinking he might kick us out or something). Then he asked us if it was a location shoot. It made me laugh--I expected him to whip out a screenplay, or pass us his headshot and resume. So New York.

The project was a multimedia shoot--some video, some straight photos, an interview. It's going to be posted on their website. The theme is "Too Sexy for Work?" I brought a couple of hot lil' outfits and they picked one--[embedded Shallow, Clothes-Oriented Post here]my red-orange mod-patterned mini-skirt, with my orange cardigan that shows off my navel piercing, plus my red and purple patchwork suede boots.[/ESCOP] It was kind of cold out and that wasn't much fun, but it was pretty delicious to be out and about shooting in New York City.

I love being downtown. It's like a completely different city down there--the older feeling is so prevalent, it's almost like slipping back in time. There are a lot of Federalist and Colonial era buildings still down there, like Fraunces Tavern and the White Horse Tavern. I love the twisty streets and the weird, topsy-turvy look of the looming buildings. It's so different from Midtown's rigid grid pattern. And I love the quaint, plain-spoken street names. Pearl. Broad. Stone.

One part of the shoot was on this little closed-off, cobble-stoned street lined with restaurants. There was a Subway there (in an historic building, no less!) and the guys there, and in the other restaurants, started gathering in the doorways watching the shoot. They were all "She looks great!" and "Is this a commercial?" It was lots of fun.

When my part was finished (they were staggering the models), we went back to the Starbucks where some of the other models had started to arrive. This one girl was pretty spectacular--6 feet tall, blonde with a pipe-cleaner body and legs. And she was from Sweden--her name was Annika and I heard her accent, and talking about Stockholm. I can't in all honesty say she was drop-dead gorgeous because she had a few skin problems but she sure caught your eye. I was thinking "Damn, I'm working with an honest-to-goodness model. As in, I'm sure she does Vogue and shit. Cool." She had awesome red leather CFMs with teeny tiny stillettos and this wonderful berry satin shirt with a nubby wool fuschia mini-skirt. I complimented her on them. She was all "I see you like the color too!" I said "I am ALL ABOUT the color."

I got home around 1:00 and eventually fell sleep, waking up around 3:45. Unh.

Go Yankees! Beat that...other team! (In my girly yellow Yankees cap which Doug has sternly informed me is NOT appropriately blood-thirsty enough for a True Fan.)

Comments

[melebeth]

go gorgeous sexy clara lady!!!!! Woohoo!