I'm just going to keep posting these...

More fun time Hide & Seek action. I love how Lenay looks in this photo. She looks like she's going to turn you down at a high school dance because she's the popular girl who's so out of your league... er something. Funny because she's super bubbly and hopped up on Red Bull because she works for them.


Today's photoshoot with The After Party went really well after we climbed a bunch of mountains disguised as speed bumps. The band got here 30 minutes early, so I wasn't really prepared. Usually if I say 10am the band rolls in at 11 at the earliest, but they were on top of it. They also drove in from Vegas, and were going on zero sleep since yesterday morning. Yippee! Once my new fantastic assistant Kris Ross got to my apartment we loaded up the car and started our caravan out to the super cool location we had picked out. Unfortunately once we hit Hollywood Kris and I noticed our caravan was missing, just as Nico called to inform us that one of their cars had broken down. We backtracked to find the third car stranded off of Hollywood, in a red zone. After about 30 minutes of head scratching, and me looking under the hood pretending like I know anything about cars, we called a tow truck and had the car moved to Pep Boys. We spent some time hanging out in the Pep Boys parking lot while they diagnosed the car, and we all got mildly sunburned. It turned out to be a timing belt, which had potentially destroyed the engine in its mission to ruin the day. We decided to cut our losses and everyone piled into the two cars as we went off in search of the location. What we didn't know was that on the way to Pep Boys we had passed the street we were supposed to turn on. We took a 20 minute detour along Mulholland Drive before we got back into Hollywood and were able to find the street which was disturbingly close to my neighborhood. Finally, three hours behind schedule, we made it to our location... the BAT CAVE from the original Batman series! We didn't waste time in setting up after hiking to the cave, and the whole shoot took about 45 minutes. During the session a group of the worlds laziest tourists rode up on a fleet of Segway scooters. I think the tour leader might have reported us, but either way they didn't make it up there in time to bust us for not having a permit. We bid them farewell after all seven of them piled into the drummer's Jetta for the hour drive to the studio where they are recording. Hopefully they get the other car fixed without too much financial hardship. That must have been a huge bummer.
After going to hell and back it turned out to be a very successful day! Many thanks to Kris for all his help, and to The After Party for being so great to work with. I can't wait to start on their images. The theme is pretty ridiculous, and it's going to be a lot of fun!