Saturday, January 23, 2016

...But did you die?

This is way late, I know. Just after New Years, a thing happened. I got together with seven ladies in a pretty chilly basement, six models and one makeup artist. Try to wrap your head around the logistics behind that, matching schedules for eight people, all with one end product in mind. In my opinion, we nailed it.



This image is exactly what I had in my head when my cohort for this, Haven, approached me about a gore shoot. So much perfection. But, along the way we all learned a few important things. I know I did in particular. First, and biggest, corn syrup-based fake blood is a gross, sticky, nasty mess. But very worth it. Another important lesson, this big of an undertaking takes way longer to prepare for than any of us had anticipated. We could have started two hours earlier. The best part of it all, though, is that we did this. As overwhelming as it was. I wish I had the words to describe this amazing experience. The organization it took, both before and during, the sound of all six of these ladies' bodies as they had to tear away from the vinyl sheet they were on... As I said, it was an incredible, sexy, sticky, horrific, but awesome day. And even with all these ladies in just undies for roughly five hours, we only had one wardrobe malfunction, but it was a big one. I know, I have the roughest life.

On that, I'll stop talking. But it would be unfair to all the time and effort (and cleanup) if I didn't share more than just this one image. Although many of these have already appeared on the interwebs (mainly due to my slacking on doing this post), here they are officially. Enjoy.