Day two!
Day two was good. We were shooting for a different company today, a company with a radically different sense of corporate culture. The head honch, CEO, head of it all - was wearing bright green and yellow skateboard shoes with his very cool suit. Houndstooth. Loved him. Wild hair, great looking office that he never uses - prefers to be in the "pit" with all his other staff, feet up on his secondary desk, headphones blaring.
The art director was sweet, a really great concept for this company. Pretty simple to set up, only an hour, and the day was literally one subject after another. People had flown in from four provinces to be photographed together - heads of departments, the ceo. They each were photographed wearing hockey jerseys from their home province... over their suits. This is for their "letter to shareholders" in the annual report - which if you know about business, is a very serious affair. They insisted also on having shots taken with the men representing "bad" teams wearing paper bags on their heads.
And GREAT food. Always a plus.
Got home to some sad news though, Justin's uncle Tom has passed on. He was a lifetime alcoholic and a lifetime smoker - it finally all took a toll, his kidney and liver failed in the hospital, where he was 150 pounds overweight - gained in the last year. Incredible. Justin is pretty upset, his parents are too. He was best man at their wedding. It will be nice to see them while they are here for the funeral, but unfortunately under such sad circumstances.
The art director was sweet, a really great concept for this company. Pretty simple to set up, only an hour, and the day was literally one subject after another. People had flown in from four provinces to be photographed together - heads of departments, the ceo. They each were photographed wearing hockey jerseys from their home province... over their suits. This is for their "letter to shareholders" in the annual report - which if you know about business, is a very serious affair. They insisted also on having shots taken with the men representing "bad" teams wearing paper bags on their heads.
And GREAT food. Always a plus.
Got home to some sad news though, Justin's uncle Tom has passed on. He was a lifetime alcoholic and a lifetime smoker - it finally all took a toll, his kidney and liver failed in the hospital, where he was 150 pounds overweight - gained in the last year. Incredible. Justin is pretty upset, his parents are too. He was best man at their wedding. It will be nice to see them while they are here for the funeral, but unfortunately under such sad circumstances.