Wed 18 Feb 2009
keeping your rooftops safe, Long Beach
Posted by Batgirl Amidala under Photoshoots
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Today, early in the morning, Catwoman and I had a photoshoot in downtown Long Beach. I’ll probably be a hot mess in all the pictures, but I have a good excuse: I have a new nephew! Not that there was anything wrong with the old one, but now I have one for each arm. I watched my older nephew overnight Monday, after getting the call at 2 am, and then did double duty by being a coach in the delivery room for the other kid Tuesday. So yes, I’m really wiped out and look like shit on a stick. I’m counting on the awesome skills of Photoshop to salvage this. 😉
Seriously, though, the shoot went great and the photographer and his ceramic coffee mug-toting assistant were great. We all had fun wandering around on foot (I recognized one of our locations as a place I’d passed when lost, because I always tend to get lost in the same area of LB), crawling around freeway underpasses and dreaming up surprises you will thoroughly enjoy. It was great, and we actually ran out of time before ideas. We may work with this guy again — and maybe sneak on the Queen Mary? I love that old boat. What’s even cooler is that while we were shooting at our last location, some guy who lived across the street ran out and offered to buy the pictures for $50. Cool! We also slowed traffic when we weren’t covered in coats, and a lot of guys slowed down to whistle and yell at us. *sigh* Welcome to Long Beach.
There’s something to look forward to for ya, since the Oscars wrecked this weekend for us. 🙂
P.S. If you’re a photographer and would like to snap us around your fair city, contact us. We’d love to cover as many as possible.
> … some guy who lived across the street ran out and offered to buy the pictures for $50 …
I knew you two could make some serious money at this but I didn’t suspect guys would be running out of their homes to give you the money before you had even posted the material to the net.
I hope you weren’t joking about giving me that lifetime pass because I can see where I might not be able to afford to pay your market value. 🙂
Yes, it was a very pleasant surprise! I’m just glad we didn’t cause any wrecks, because a lot of people were slowing down or stopping, and there were some cell phone pics taken. I guess Long Beach isn’t as used to surrealism as Hollywood. 😉
And as far as I’m concerned, the life pass is good. If it wasn’t for your bright ideas we’d still just be focusing on the boulevard instead of expanding horizons, and that’s a way of thanking you. If you like looking at pictures of us, that is. 😉
Why, I could look at pictures of you all day! Mind you, it was the writing that got me interested in the first place and I wouldn’t want you to neglect that either. When you’re old and gray and the costumes no longer fit, there’s a potentially interesting book (or books) to be written about all this, so I hope you’re carefully saving all your blog posts for that rainy day. Besides, your nephews (congrats on the new arrival, BTW) may want to read about how Auntie was stopping traffic in her Lost Youth. 🙂
Aw, thanks! I’ve always loved writing, and I’m definitely saving all of my memories for publication. If worst comes to worst and no one likes my fiction, at least my real life is stranger than fiction. 🙂