Toronto's severe bipolar weather fits are making me feel high. Humid summers and unbelievably freezing cold winters. Yesterday Val and I were doing a photo shoot down by the beach and we nearly suffered from severe frost bite...after about 5 minutes of being outside. I couldn't feel my toes and as they were defrosting the pain was so unbelievable that I was about to panic and call for help. Anyways, the shots that we did take turned out really awesome.
I'm doing this thing where I'm shooting the people in my life dressed up as their favourite characters. I was doing a modern take of Scarlet O'Hara with Val but it was so cold outside that she ended up looking like a cuban freedom fighter, which ended up looking pretty awesome/hilarious because it was so far away from the original concept. Anyways, in the shoot we were using her dad's vintage rifle and had a bottle of wine to keep ourselves warm. In the beginning (10 minutes before the shoot) we were convinced that if the police were to harass us about the weapon and booze that we'd be able to talk ourselves out of it because we don't look crazy. Fast forward 10 minutes later, the cold LITERALLY made us so crazy for warmth that we were wrapping scarves around our heads, chugging the wine and doing jumping jacks that we ended up looking so absolutely insane we would have ended up in the loony bin no questions asked. We couldn't even walk straight because we had no feeling in our toes.
Well, we got the shots, we're going to re-do them when I get back from cuba AND I'm thinking of starting a new blog just for my photos because I'm really enjoying writing in this one and I don't want to mish mash my photo shoots with my entries. So you'll have to wait a few weeks before you can view the results.
Anyways, not to brag or anything,
BUT I"M OFF TO CUBA BRIGHT AND EARLY TOMORROW BITCHES!