It certainly has been a crazy summer. Things started off with a bang when I had the opportunity to shoot a doubleheader with Ellen Page for the poster for her new movie “Whip it” and the cover of Bust Magazine with Alia Shawkat (of Arrested Development fame). Then we zipped to Miami to shoot the Police Women of Broward County for TLC. Those broads were really cool!
Back to NY then off to Cape Cod for a week of rest with the family, (more on that later) then to LA 3 times in 3 weeks. The first was to shoot the cast of the sitcom “Brothers” for Fox, which included Michael Strahan of NY Giants fame, Karl Weathers, who is famous for his legendary performance of Apollo in the movie “Rocky” and the ex-rapper Chill from the rap group “Grove B Chill” It dawned on me that I had shot him 19 years earlier so to make the shoot interesting I dug up a beautiful old print of Chill and shocked him silly with it at the start of our shoot. Everyone got a big kick out of his baby face and the silver dollars that lined the edge of his hat. Then LAX to JFK to LAX to shoot Bad Girls for Oxygen and then for the 3rd time in LA in a month I shot a whole special issue of Miranda Cosgrove from the show ICARLY. We are talking around 40 pages of eye candy on this girl. Its actually kind of mindblowing how much we cram into in two days.
Then no sooner than we got back we headed out to Glen Cove. Long Island to work with my old friend GhostFace Killah on his new album cover “Ghostini and the Wizard of Poetry” Now dont get me wrong, I love Ghost, one of the sweetest coolest rappers you’ll ever meet, but his sense of time is a little off. 7 HOURS LATE People!! Unbelievable. Miraculously the shoot came out great and the tradition lives on.
I have to shoot Jay-Z tomorrow. I hope he shows up.
how could you forget Carl’s amazing performance as himself on Arrested Development? sheesh!
Keep on rockin’ Michael