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Are you afraid of rain?
No.
Okay, lets go.

Our way home from the mall involved revolving out of the Eaton Center, into a cold blowy mist of rain. Wind whining, heads down, a bell tower strikes 9 as we hurry towards Yonge. Laughing at the 'dark and stormy night', we whirl towards the starbucks on King for chai lattes before we catch the street car home. We pass halloween window displays lit up with loud tim burton music filling the street...in the dark, in the rain, hair blowing, bell tower still gonging...I'm glad we walked.

The Project
Welcome to the all singing, all dancing advertising mind of an artist.

Purpose:
1) To complete the assignment.
2) To capture who you are as a collage of "selves", characterizing personal aspects.
3) To drench said "selves" in this life experience like a cold shower.

Hypothesis:
Your guess is as good as mine. The poster tells us so.

Apparatus:
camara, digital, one of.
clothing, various-with accessories.
subject- five aspects of.
photographers-two of.
light source.
itunes.
chinese take out.

Procedure:
First layer on eccentric clothing for character.
Then capture a jasmin-esque interpretation of each of the following characters:

DIANNE
since this was the most difficult and "glamourous" we got this shot out of the way first.jasmine in her flowy 70s print top, hair down and curled in, doe eyes wide with liner, lip gloss popped. gorgeous dahling. now stop flopping forward and what is THAT face...you're supposed to play sexy, not undead. I guess Lou Reed just wasn't doing if for us. in modeling you learn alot about yourself and your posture, especially when you can't see what you're doing. The first shots, by far the most difficult (and funny) , but a little bit of letting go and some I Love Rock and Roll later, min-o had it. Put another dime in the juke box, baby- we ain't done yet.


SICKBOY
Who wants a girl in a short skirt and a loooOOong jacket? na na na na we do.
a white shirt and a striped tie later we were aiming gunshot hands and broody eyes at the camera, working on a bazarre perspective that we actually did ok with...nice work, we're getting the hang of this...


BEGBIE
These shots were my favourite. this is confidence, this is attitude. this is jasmine with a strung out - half clipped - up-do, a sexy zip down fitted knit hoodie in a vintage fall leafy brown to match the smoking spliff resting on soft lips. glared eyes give you the finger as her toussled hair falls across her shoulders. fuckin great. portishead was all over these ones.

SPUD
okay, after that we needed to regroup. BREAK! ryan ordered some food and we let the smoke clear the room. Approaching our two hour time limit, we lay out the leather jacket and tie the hair back. This one was meant to illustrate humour. In a red White Stripes baby tee and goofy red lensed sunglasses, we try to get a natural shot. It takes deleting pictures, and Tom Petty to bring out what naturally makes min-o laugh, not to mention the rest of us. after trying to flail around and release the stiffness of what she refers to as a poser outfit, she just starts busting out these arm swinging torso bending break dancing moves. i almost fell off my photographer platform shoes laughing. i'm surprised the jacket didn't bust at the seams with her "uber" cool moves. needless to say, humour was captured. Four down, one to go.

RENTON
Last one. the hardest shot to psychologically prep for, easiest one to take. a soaking wet jasmine is supposed to pose for the camera. a white tank top and cropped cargos inhale into a self inflicted COLD shower to get the full effect. so, of course, while she's being rained on for the second time this evening, the camera is full. fuck. now she's cold, wet AND pissed. perfect! we get the camera set, background set. drag her into the other room for four final shots...and that's a wrap! we're done. its not so hard to give off cold wet and bitter when you're bleedin' cold, wet and bitter, mate.


Conclusion:
I completely admire our sweet min-o for splitting herself into selves and finding her own version of those characters. although it was hilarious, it was humbling, challenging and she still has to present it to her peers. This will be a portfolio piece, once she's done with it and I can't wait to see it!

with perfect timing, ryan returned with chinese food and we sat down to watch a pre recorded sit com about karma, starring jason lee. interesting. also interesting?
we watched a short episode of a series called Rabbits. a david lynch production. maybe min-o will fill you in, if you haven't already heard.