suck my monkey
so i now hate 'the beatles' (music) too
i blame all the places in liverpool that play beatles musak all day every day.
liverpool is full of beautiful buildings
but some of the shops have unusual names
this reminds me of THIS
DOWN SALE
somebody with an eastern european accent came out of this shop and told me i couldn't take pictures of it.
red rag to a bull.
especially after a shoot with 'pamela anderson' (object d'art of my teenage fantasies)
SPAM
got up early and hired mother and father christmas outfits from a costume place.
for some 'bad santa' inspired pictures
caught a cab to the theatre where 'pamela anderson' is doing panto at christmas and started setting up.
i was told i could only use ringflash to light pamela.
which is not my favourite retro bulb.
so we brought a rental one with us from london.
just as we were being told that pamela wouldn't do anything christmas themed (which was the whole idea as i was shooting a christmas cover for a magazine)
and
that pamela was feeling tired, so she wouldn't do any shots where she was looking to camera (which is almost obligatory for cover shots)
we discovered that the rental ringflash was not working, at all.
and i was told 'no ringflash no shoot'.
:(
i have NEVER come away with nothing.
behind the scenes then followed much urgent, highly stressful chasing of ringflashes across liverpool.
i was close to apoplectic with clara and my agents and calm (as usual) in front of pam's people.
we found out all the photographers shooting pamela on today's press photocall had been using ringflashes.
and that there was a photographer in the building with a ringflash who's shoot had been postponed till much later.
although calumet liverpool (photo rental) wouldn't give us his number, they passed on mine to him with a begging plead to hook us up and loan us his rental ringflash.
i was pretty sure this was a solution and started calming down.
but the muppet refused!
so 'fuck you very much' mate.
just because you don't believe in karma doesn't mean it won't come back to bite you.
very luckily, at the same time, calumet called to say another photographer had returned their ringflash and clara sped over in a cab to pick it up.
pamela arrived shortly after clara and the ringflash and was complaining about being tired.
'we'll just do a couple of shots', she said
'i'm so pleased to be photographing you pamela, i'm a huge fan', i said.
'i'm an air conditioning unit', she said.
i did not go into detail on how much i enjoyed the extra footage at the end of 'barbed wire'.
but maybe should have.
shot 34 frames of cruel ringflash and 1 frame of beautiful soft daylight in 7 minutes, when ms.anderson stopped the shoot.
after the shoot pamela and her makeup 'artist' went through the shots and slaughtered deleted what they didn't like.
and i let them.
before later retrieving them from the trash: picture approval had NOT been granted.
i have a baad headache now.
returned the costumes, returned the ringflash and caught the train back to london.
i got pictures.
but it was a struggle.
haven't been so under-respected and abused in a long while.
ur...yes?
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