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A couple of weeks ago I posted a small comment about rigging that was all mysterious so here are some more details.
Got a call out of the blue thanks to a friend who works at Purple passion of a fashion shoot looking for a rigger. After some very quick conversation (They needed somone for the next day) and me sending some of my work to them via email i got the job.
Oh and what a job Indeed! 2 days hanging out at theChelsea Hotel in NYC tying upRaquel Zimmerman for the photographerMario Sorrenti for a photo shoot forV magazine
http://www.raquelzimmermann.com/
I cant wait for the issue that its coming out in the photos were incredible.
Now why theAraki about 6 years ago I did a window for Diesel Denim in SoHo they had hired him to shoot pictures of models in diesel jeans and wanted to have a window and store theme befitting the artists work.
During the initial negotiations and explanations by the people for the store setting this up they keep saying they didn't want it to be erotic but kept showing me hardcore japanese bondage porn as examples of what they wanted, highly confusing to say the least.
All I knew about the Job was that they wanted 2 screens to be hung that they would project images on and I bundle of Denim. It took all morning and a little bit into the afternoon would have been 1-2-3 if they had actually had attachment points all they had was one over head pipe and some wall "peel and stick" hooks and dry wall expanding screw hooks, no this suspension wasn't in anyway OSHA rated.
Now when I finished the window they had not done any of the things they were going to do and were pretty vague about what was going to be done to light the screens I had installed or anything, and since the day they wanted this completed on was the day I was off to Leather retreat so I wouldn't see the window again for over a week.
Coming back and seeing the window I realized what they had meant about when they kept using the word "erotic", what they had meant was they didn't want it "pornographic" but kept misusing the word as they had all these erotic shadow images of japanese bondage all over the store and projected onto the 2 white hanging squares in the front window.
Now the connection to Araki for the shoot at theChelsea Hotel is that both mario and Raquel are major Araki fans (and damn so am I) and a large part of the shoot wasn't to just do japanese bondage style images but to do them as an homage toAraki's influential style.
One of these days i really have to send Mr Araki and nice letter thanking him for getting me jobs tying things up.
Go here for the article on my Washi site and the Gallery of images of the Denim shoot
