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The day of Harper’s Bazaar and Ladybugs.

by Elke on 19/06/06 at 7:13pm
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Friday was the big Harper’s Bazaar beauty shoot, but let’s not start there.
Because Thursday was another shoot, for another magazine. And boy, what a difference a day makes.

Thursday came with the idea to do 2 beauty stories, which are the close up beauty shots you might see in a fashion magazine, detailing and showing the latest makeup looks for the season. As a makeup artist, these are hard to get. Why? In every magazine, there will be maybe 3-4 fashion stories, but only 1, if any, beauty makeup story. Shots that show detailed up close images showcasing your work. To get that one, is a gold mine.

So Thursday’s shoot started with two models that were beautiful, makeup applied, and then shot, to only get, so so shots. As in, what the camera sees is not always what the eye sees. Your eye sees beautiful faces, the camera sees bug eyes, closed eyes, deer caught in headlights eyes. Not too good. Lighting kept getting changed around, and nothing really worked out. No matter how hard you tried. It didn’t have that ‘magic’, that wow factor. The shot that makes your heart light up and go, ‘wow, did I do that?’ So with heavy heart, 2 beauty stories got shrunk down to 1, if any at all. And I went home, already exhausted, but ready to face the next day. The big day. The Harper’s Bazaar photo shoot, hoping and praying the same wasn’t going to happen again.

Friday, the day. Woke up bright and early (thank god!), with a happy heart, thanks to a glorious phone call from my folks the night before. You see, I believe in signs, signals, little things from the universe that tell you you’re on the right path, or maybe not! ;) And the night before I got a sign.

You see, in my family, my parents taught us to believe that whenever you see a ladybug, it’s good luck. And if you make a wish on a ladybug, it will come true. It started with my mom in her early years and she passed it on to us. It’s quite a story, with it’s own happy ending (let’s just say a ladybug brought my parents back together, after they had broken up for 6 months in post war WWII in Germany.. a wonderful romantic story I hope to write about one day as a fiction novel.) So to make a long story short, whenever my dad finds a ladybug in the garden, he’ll bring it in so my mom can make a wish, and on every anniversary, he’ll bring chocolate ladybugs he buys at the German market as a romantic remembrance of years gone by. And yes, on their 52nd wedding anniversary, there were 52 chocolate ladybugs for my mom. (sigh, doesn’t that just make your heart sing?) So back to phone call. From my dad, to tell me, that yesterday, as he was moving my car (which is at their place while I’m gone), he found a ladybug crawling on the roof. And he felt it was a sign from the universe, telling me good luck for my big shoot that he had to call me and let me know. I was in tears. Thank you little ladybug!

And yes, it was a sign.

The shoot was
un
be
lieve
able.

They say the energy of the photographer rubs off on their team. It’s true. And our photographer was calm, precise and very trusting. After going through many model cancellations (apparently Chinese Harper’s Bazaar is not a big enough deal to the modeling agencies) we got two new girls that, well, I had to wonder how’d they’d do. After makeup, hair, lights, camera, action, it was wow. This photographer knows how to light. They looked amazing. Giving us the chance to peek at her digital camera viewfinder, you could tell immediately, this was a great shot. This was it. She made them look fantastic. So 10 hours later, and two magazine beauty stories shot, and countless makeup looks put on and taken off (thanks to my hardworking makeup assistant that day..) I went home. Exhausted, happy, tired, with both feet killing me from standing on hard cement floors all day. I don’t think it will hit me until the magazine comes out. Because it was another shoot, another day. But I have to keep telling myself. No, this was Harper’s Bazaar.

This was the big time.

And I’m ready for whatever road it will lead me on.

I can’t wait.

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How Many Pages Per Diem?

by MaryAn Batchellor on 19/06/06 at 5:49pm
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As a followup to How Good is Good and How Many is Too Many, I now tackle “How Many Pages Per Diem?” And, I have no answer.

Many screenwriters post comments on boards and blogs about the number of pages they write each day and measure their progress that way. That’s great. But, I can’t do it.

I just read a post where the writer says he tries to write at least five pages each day. This is a difficult concept for me to grasp as opposed to “I try to write two hours every day” or “I try to write one scene each day”. How do you dictate quantity in screenwriting each day in terms of pages? How DO writers put a page number goal on their writing day when five pages could be one scene, half a scene or five scenes?

I’ve been known to spend hours, HOURS, working on a single line.

Seriously.

I once needed a line by a teenage boy. One line! He had to be a pot-head (which I’ve since learned is NOT what they are called) and have a general dislike for the police. I researched arrest statements, searched notes I’d taken, got advice from my own teenager, and looked up conversational blogs by teenage boys who appeared smoked dope and were the same age, race and (if I was able to discern it) similar living conditions as my character. When that didn’t work, I asked my son to recommend a place to eavesdrop on dopeheads. He informed me that they are “stoners” and knew where to send me but said I’d stick out unless he came along. So we went to a store where stoners and goth kids buy a lot of their clothing, piercing apparatus, fishnets, chains and weird paraphenalia.

Yikes. They weren’t all stoners, but I still got my line. It cost me an AFI t-shirt, SouthPark shoe laces, an AC/DC patch and a very interesting belt buckle with a quote on it, but at least I got my line. There was probably a better place to get it, but my boy being the clever teen he is… well, the belt buckle he bought with my money said it all — “carpe diem“.

Turn Your iPod Mini Purple!

by Meg-pie Sees Shiny! on 19/06/06 at 2:17pm
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I don’t know what I love more now, my iPod Mini in Pink, the one I’ve loved dearly for years, or this newly found purple skin for it. Uh-oh!
The iSkin Mini is a slim silicone cover for the iPod Mini. And it’s currently on sale for $22.99 at the iStore (no Apple relation). It doesn’t just come in purple, but also protective pink, lime green, dark blue, black ...

Now we’re up to Friday. On Friday

by Ave Robinson on 19/06/06 at 1:15pm
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Now we’re up to Friday.

On Friday night, Chris joined me for a night of movies, candy and burgers (in that order).

First, we saw a special sneak preview of the Strangers With Candy Movie hosted by the Museum of the Moving Image. It was at the ImaginAsian theater and after the movie was a Q&A with director Paul Dinello and star Amy Sedaris (both of whom along with Stephen Colbert are co-creators

Countdown to daily porking and nightly snuggling

by Ave Robinson on 19/06/06 at 1:04pm
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I have yet to receive an official offer, but Prospective Employer was kind enough to follow up with me today and let me know they are pushing through some delays. They said to stay tuned for a monetary communication either this afternoon or tomorrow.

Today I finalized my end date at Old Employer, and I will work here until the end of June. Considering that I’ll work from home Thursday and then head to DC Friday, that means I won’t be here all that much.

At the moment, I’m feeling sort of exhausted. I gave myself a bright pink sunburn this weekend, so I’m debating whether I should go home and go to yoga, or simply go home and collapse.

I’m leaning toward collapse.

I’ve emailed a cancellation on my lease, and I’m about to FedEx the letter to make it official. I’ve also called the movers to get an estimate.

Red Beard says, “That means you only have two more weeks of work!! WOOO-HOOOO!!! And then … daily porking. And nightly snuggling.”

CLOSE DEFENCE ART

by Selahattin BIYIKLI on 19/06/06 at 11:54am
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