I love mushrooms. I love eating the kind you can eat, and I love photographing the kind you can’t eat. I mean, just look at how cute these things are! Some of them are more scary-gross than cute, but no less visually interesting Cute, creepy, or just fascinating. I want to make a mushroom inspired dress. But one that doesn’t look like a cartoon.
At the end of the first day of filming the White Zombie inspired PorcelainToy music video I asked Elizabeth if she would do a quick photoshoot with me against the greenscreen. These are the result. As a result, I am madly in love with the dress, and madly envious of how gorgeous Elizabeth is.
Being on set for White Zombie was fascinating. I have tons of theatre experience: I’ve costume and dressing for ballets and operas and plays and other live performances, but this was the first film I’ve worked on. It was pretty much what I expected in most cases, but fabulous. I expected that there would be moments of rushed panic (“can you just take in the lapels 3/4″ before the next shot?”) and lots of time sitting around waiting to be needed. I gathered that unlike a stage play, there wouldn’t be an absolute schedule – the order in which scenes were shot got rearranged a little to suit makeup and hair, and if we ran ahead or behind schedule we just did the next thing, or tried to prep for the next. With a play you have to start at a certain time! What I didn’t really realise was how much time lighting would take. That was really the most time consuming thing of the whole day – more time was spent on it than …
