my Italian Vogue video COMING SOON!

mmmmkayyyy?
The video we shot for Italian Vogue entitled NIGHT BLINDNESS will finally be premiering on Vogue.it next week.
This video has EVERYTHING...an exotic woman driving a Lamborghini, a reticulated python, crazy outfits and MORE!!!!!! (human fire hydrants, lizards eating peanut butter sandwiches, easter-island boyzzz, you know, those guyzz whose heads are way too big for their bodies who paint themselves
to look like stone?)

Fellini-esque new ad campaign for The Borgata!

So, we recently shot the new ad campaign for The Borgata ( a really nice hotel & casino in Atlantic City).
The idea for the shoot was basically....freaking CHAOS!!!
This shot was sort of about what would happen if a Suicide King came out of a vortex into a party
with a ten-foot champagne-glass tower, a girl driving a vespa with a pig in the sidecar, a butt-rocker
shredding on a flying-v guitar, an old lady with a swan on her head, a girl riding an albino bull, and
a human disco-ball.  It was all done in-camera, so the set build and light was ridiculous....as was the shoot in general.  It is rare that a commercial client really wants to GO THERE..so I was grateful to
be working with people that weren't all "just do it in post" to save $ and time.
I think that the reality of (such an surreal situation), is what gives it it's life.
The behind-the-scenes clip is pretty funny...it was the last shot of the second day, and I pretty much just told the models to leave their posts and go BUCKWILD. 

a rose by any other name...is just, well..pretentious

 

This is one pics from a shoot we did last week with the lovely Tatyana at Marilyn.  This is pretty atypical of my beauty work (neutral colors, hard lighting).

It was under the very specific direction of the magazine's art director, which is ironic, because the mag ended up hating the story intensely.  I on the other hand, while unimpressed during the shoot, have grown fond of the story, and intend to submit it to other magazines.

 

 

new H20 story for Marie Claire China

english roses

hurtin' for a squirtin'

So, When Marie Claire China asked me if I wanted to go do a watershoot in the Bahamas, I was like...YEAH!!!
But then, when they were like.."ok, please shoot in next four days" I was like..."Huh?!"
Needless to say, we didn't make it to the Bahamas on this one, but my studio in midtown Manhattan had an exotic feel that day...I just imagined that the diesel exhaust wafting into the window was from colorful fiberglass motorboats, and the squealing of the wheels on our tech cart were Dolphins calling my name...
This is just a preview pic, the story will be out next month.

new interview in Taste Magazine (China)