So moving right along. I won’t trouble you all with the backstory, just read the previous posts. The last 10 days of August were crazy. I got two fairly ambitious shoots done, but also had a few more ideas I wanted to try, while I still had my studio space available to use.
This one, “Fru Fru Nekopet” was just some weird outfit that developed out of bits and pieces that I put together. This concept was sort of the opposite of “Mile High Club” and “Money Shot” where in those the costumes were done, and I had to build ambitious sets. For “Fru Fru” and “Bimbocchio”, the sets were easy to put together, and the outfits themselves didn’t exist.
So the set for “Fru Fru” was just (oh hey, yet another) couch/setee/chaise lounge I picked up somewhere. Yeah, I know I said I had like 11 couches. I should have not bought another one, but this one? $11.99 at a thrift store. YES TWELVE DOLLARS. Can’t say no to that, and it’s in such good shape. Shit, I’ll toss two others to make room for this very very nice piece of very fru-fru furniture.
I think I scored this piece it back in June and though I was like I need another goddamn couch like I need a hole in my head, I figured I’d build an outfit to match it, and just keep the rest of everything simple.The outfit turned into something a bit more ambitious and though it was full on compromises, the final result came out pretty good, and not bad for a B-shoot (if something like “Mile High Club” is an A-shoot)
So that shoot happened August 26th or so. And while that was going on, there was one more shoot that I was still working on…. “Bimbocchio”
So in my studio, I had a pretty cluttered but visually interesting woodshop area. And as I was emptying the building, I thought with a little effort, I could turn it into a “Gepetto’s workshop” area. This idea to do “Bimbocchio” was heavily influenced by this piece of erotic comic book art I’ve seen here and there (though I don’t own the book itself)
So, I tried to remove all the clearly brand names of whatever (I didn’t want my shoot to become an advertisement for Rust-O-Leum) I managed to make the set work pretty well.
The outfit was a little bit of a letdown, but worked well enough considering how much work I was cramming into the last 3 or 4 days of August. The shoot itself happened on August 28th or so.
I could have tried a bit harder to make the outfit a little better, but it was a matter of working with what I had. There was no time to change my mind on one little detail and have to wait for something to arrive in the mail or whatever. As it stood, there was also no opportunity to shoot video of this shoot (or for “Money Shot” either). Alas, I can’t get video of every shoot, as I usually need a person physically there to shoot the video. And no, shooting on a tripod ends up looking like crap. Yeah, it can be done, but it’s an awful compromise, as I’m spending too much effort trying to keep myself in the frame and distractions like that.
So yeah, I banged out 4 shoots in 10 days, AND got all my stuff out of there. But wait, there’s actually MORE that I did, which yes, I’ll post in the next blog update…
-Tara
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