Gregory’s Travels
Well, suffice to say, things have been busy here at Image Mechanics. In fact, things have been so busy that I haven’t had time to write a single blog entry in the new year. Let alone the fact that I have been on so many shoots in the last three months that they have all blended together into one big amorphous blob. So, I present to you a small taste of what has been going on.
The year started in Utah, and in fact I spent all of January in Utah and a day or two in Nevada. The first shoot of the year was the longest, 11 days in the desert shooting the new ads for OPEL, with an almost all German crew. It was one of Emir Haveric’s first shoots on digital. The shoot went off without a hitch and was my first shoot experience with the Phase P45. It worked flawlessly except for its battery life, which in the freezing snow of Utah, didn’t last all that long.
The Rig
Polizei (my car is the black wagon)
Craft Services…
Oh ya, we ended the shoot in Vegas, while I’m not sure what the other guys did, I partied it up at AVN/AEE. So I went from 11 days in the desert freezing my arse off, to a full day at the Venetian hanging out with all my porn star friends =)
My neighbor at the Bellagio… cough cough
This pretty much sums up the entire AEE convention
Follow up that amazing experience with an equally odd adventure with a 10 day job in Park City, UT at the Sundance Film Festival. Take what seems like a hundred thousand of the most wheeling and dealing Hollywood people and drop them in a small mountain sking town for two weeks. Then, build a photo studio in a store front and take pictures of said people for 10 days. The oddest thing was not that it was 10 days of celebrities, but that it was 10 days of “Normal” celebrities, without the attitude, just trying to have a good time. It was great. Check out this month’s InStyle for the photos( it also has the Chris Rock photos we did last year)
We wrapped out January with Danish photographer Erwin Olaf. We shot the new campaign for Ball Park Franks, and while I am not allowed to really talk about it, you can see some of what was going on in the two photos below. The first is $11,000 of prop “Hero” hot dogs, the 2nd is our toast to a shoot well done =)
Well, the rest is pretty much all a blur, so enjoy the randomness.
Foam Dogs
Screwdriver Bottle Opener
Welcome Mat
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