Getting the L.A.Phil/Hollywood Bowl ad campaign from
Wong Doody Crandall Wiener was a great way to end this summer. I got to go to many shows (for work of course) including Stevie Wonder, a Serge Gainsbourg tribute, 80's night with Berlin/B-52's/etc, and the L.A.Phil playing Tchaikovsky's "Black Swan". We were dying not to do the Natalie Portman swan dance in the aisles, but those classical audience is a very serious and quiet bunch. It was fun hanging out back stage with the amazing musicians and backstage crew. By the end of the season the security people knew us and would just wave us thru security areas, that made me feel like one of the musicians, even thought I don't play any musical instruments (or maybe it was the big "Press Pass" badge we had to wear both around our necks and wrists?). The Bowl scored me some extra tickets so I brought my parents to see the
Rodrigo Y Gabriela for my mom's birthday.
It's not often I get hired to shoot arty, blurry, flare-y pictures (which, if you know my "personal work", its full of them), so I had a ton of fun with this assignment. The new campaign will be all over on buses, bus stops, street signs, and billboards next year, and I'll be driving all over the city looking for them.
