Archive for 2007
The “Bad Girl” Collection
Here are the finished photos from the Bad Girl Collection:
Start Your Engines…
American Graffiti
Dirty, Dirty Car
Drag Strip Racer
She’s Bad News
Inspiration for the next retro photo shoot.
At the RedBubble Christmas get together recently, held at Big Mouth, St Kilda (photos here & here) - Jo and I planned for our next photo shoot ideas!
To be held during the month of February (we don’t waste time do we!?), we will be doing a “Pirate Pin-Up” theme (ahoy thar me matey!) and some sort of 50s airline hostess / pin-up theme, involving a pop-riveted, polished aluminum DC3, kindly organised by a guy I met at a Christmas break up at the Bower Boutique, Seddon (thanks Mark!).
So I’ve been looking at pirate themed images on the net, particularly pin-ups and costumes. Here’s just some of my gorgeous findings:
RedBubble Xmas meet at Big Mouth, St Kilda
What an awesome night, meeting a load of RedBubblers for the first time! It was a horribly rainy night, roads flooded and fallen trees blocking streets. If it wasn’t for my weather chart savvy husband who said “the worst is over” - I was going to stay home instead of going out.
The theme was “Christmas, wear something tacky and silly”. So I put on my black + white polka dot dress, frilly petticoat complete with huge red bow on the back. I knew at least Jo would have worn something tacky too.
Did anyone else look Christmassy? Did anyone else look remotely tacky?
NO!
Oh for heaven’s sake. Well, can’t say I didn’t make an entrance!
Photos by Mark German:
A very wet night in Melbourne.
Yours Truly, looking very cheesy.
Photos by Hien Nguyen and his bloody D3 (I want one!):
Chatting away with Adrian (Spacey) Carmody.
Getting the diaries out and organising the next photo shoots with Jo.
Mark German showing me a photo he just took of me.
Retro photo shoot #4
The day had finally arrived! The photo shoot with the ‘57 Cadillac Coupe DeVille!!! This is our “Bad Girl” theme - denim capri pants, 50’s sunglasses, cigarettes, spray paint, vandalized locations, checkered racing flags and of course, the Cadillac.
Jo an I had so much fun and Paul Vanzella, the car’s owner, had a ball too. Why wouldn’t he? He got to drive us ladies around ;o)
Here’s a few “behind the scenes” photos that Paul took for us (click to enlarge):
Me polishing the car and Paul taking the photo from the inside…
Me taking a photo of Jo - Finished photo titled “American Graffiti”.
John’s Hot Rod Show - Rain, rain and more rain…
Yes, we went to the Hot Rod show on the weekend…
No, I didn’t take any photos…
Yes, the rockabilly bands were fantastic…
No, there weren’t over 2,500 cars there that day…
Yes, we got saturated…
No, it wasn’t as packed with people as I had imagined…
Yes, I can’t wait for next year’s event so that I CAN take photos…
On a better note, my Christmas cards have been selling well!
