Monday, December 18, 2006

New Pics!

I just got some new photos back and am so excited to share!!!









Sunday, December 17, 2006

Jessica is my savior!

I am always early for shoots. I would rather be way early than 3 minutes late. When I have a shoot outside of NYC that I am driving to, I usually allow myself an extra hour for travel time. I have had people ask why I allow so much extra time. Well....that extra time saved me this week.
On Wed. I had a shoot in upstate NYC and allowed myself an extra hour and a half to get there. Good thing.
I woke up bright and early and headed to my car AND it wouldn't start. No apparent reason. The ticking sound lead me to believe it was either my battery or my starter or a combo of both (which is odd as I just had a new battery put in back in November.) So there I was sitting in my car on that cold morning wondering what I would do.
I called my friend Jessica, one of the few people that I know that also has a car here in the city. She actually answered the phone at that horrible hour and very graciously agreed to let me borrow her car. I grabbed my stuff and called a car service and headed to Queens to meet her.
Her car got me to the shoot with 20 minutes to spare! I had called the agent right away to let her know what what happening and I kept updating her during the drive, I thought I would be 15 minutes late.
and (ha ha) no I was not speeding.
Jessica - you are a life saver. Thank you so much for trusting me with your vehicle. I really appreciate it and hope you found the present I left for you.

The shoot went great and the clients never knew the panic I felt that morning.

Saturday, December 09, 2006

coming to a mailbox near you!!

I just got the mailer for Appearex!! That was fun to find in my mailbox when I got home tonight all bundled up against the nYc freeze.
HELLO WINTER!!!! :)

I cannot say enough wonderful things about the appearex supplements. They are fantastic and I am so proud to be a part of their campaign.
you may find me smiling from your mailbox soon..

Sunday, December 03, 2006

Axe Bodyspray & Entity Beauty

I had a delectable audition for Axe Bodyspray earlier in the week. The studio just smelled so inviting, the appeal of the scent. I walked in and started wondering why I was finding myself looking around for my best friend when I know he is down in VA. He seemed to be everywhere and then I stepped onset and realized with the first spray of the can that he must be an Axe man.
The audition was fairly easy...simply spray the bottle with the left hand. Sounds easy enough, doesn't it. Well, it wasn't. It was so hard that I got a text later in the day from another hand model asking if I had as much trouble as she did. And I did. It was hard to do. Odd how small daily things that we do without even thinking about it can be so difficult to do for film. It had to be a smooth action with no shaking or looking like there was any strain.
I wasn't completely pleased with my performance but I smiled and laughed and kept on going with what the director wanted me to do. and then I went home and got ready for the shoot that I had the next day.
Tuesday I shot the new campaign for Entity Beauty. It was a great challenging shoot. The art director wasn't sure what the final layouts would look like so they just wanted to capture a lot of different hand positions. and we did 700 different shots. One hand, two hand, this way and that. It was fun to be given the freedom to be creative instead of just pointing to the on/off switch or holding the coffee cup.


The client for Entity Beauty is also a very famous manicurist and nail art specialist. He has won the World's Nail Art Championships 8 times. & he is an incredibly hyterical and wonderful person. I really enjoyed his company and loved the interaction between the photographer, myself & him. He would say wonderful things like 'grrr baby be the lion' to inspire a position or suddenly - 'delicate, delicate, catch the waterdrops'
It was fantastic AND the nails. oh yes. I loved them.
Silver tips on a clear french.


I was sad that I would have to take these off to replace with the natural color that I always wear. Then I got booked on the Axe commercial halfway through the shoot and stopped caring about having to remove the cool polish.
I was a little nervous heading to the commercial shoot on Thursday, remembering how hard it had been to push the spray button down. I was in luck as they had one of my favorite prop riggers on set. Peter makes things so manageable and doable. I am always more relaxed when I see him. The shot would be me twisting the top of the bottle and spraying with my left hand while holding the bottem of the can with my right. And we would be doing that with 12 different types of the bodyspray.
12!!!! 12!!!!! 12 different commercials.
I went to set thinking I was only shooting one commercial. I called my agent to confirm and yes it was 12 different spots. and the new spots for the Axe Bodyspray products are hilarious. I got a sneak peek before we started filming. I can't wait till they are on the air.

Saturday, December 02, 2006

NEW PICS!!!

a peek at some photos that were shot last month.
I love this series... I call it the 'don't Mess with ME boy' series