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May. 11th, 2006
Philly & Photoshoot
May. 11th, 2006 04:15 amWe spent the weekend in Philadelphia which was a lot of fun. We crashed out at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nadya_lev's apartment and anachronaut was of course also one of the party.
The weather was gorgeous both days. Nice and sunny and warm, lovely spring weather. We drove out there Saturday and arrived in the early afternoon. One of the first orders of business was a visit to the Mütter Museum, which was eerie and fascinating... and a lot smaller than I had expected. After that, we had crêpes for dinner... savoury first, then sweet. Yummy! After that we stopped by Passional to see if there were any outfits there that we could use for a second look for my photoshoot with Nadya on Sunday, sadly nothing really took our fancy, and that which did was way too small for me, and as such wasn't an option.
A large portion of the time spent at Nadya's apartment was devoted to the fruitless task of trying to find her cell phone, which had gone missing sometime after she'd talked toprez and someone else, and which had also stopped ringing. So on and off during the day searches were mounted, and after many hours we found it. In the washing machine. After the wash cycle. Needless to say, slight panic ensued seeing as she has loads of contacts stored on it. We switched out the sim card into an old phone she had lying around only to find that all the contacts were stored in the phone itself, not on the sim card... so we had no choice but to let her phone dry overnight and hope against hope that it would still work the next day, at least long enough to get all the contacts off it.
After a late night run to Target, where we picked up munchies and various necessities and realised we were too late to go to the art/craft store, we went back to Nadya's place and watched two episodes of Coupling (UK) and the latest episode of Dr. Who while some of us ate ice cream (Häagen Dasz mmm...) and then crashed out in the wee hours.
We woke up way too early for our liking, but had to get a move on to do the chores we wanted to before heading to Nadya's studio for the photoshoot she and I were doing. Breakfast at Ihop which then made us late for everything else, because we spent much longer there than we thought. A quick dash to the craft store for some supplies for the shoot, and then off to meet Nadya's studio mate who was waiting for us to open the door, because Nadya's studio keys had also gone missing ("sadly" they weren't in the washing machine, and still AWOL).
Once inside, Danielle the make-up artist got to work on me, and Kit and PreZ entertained themselves and Dashiell, and Nadya ran around setting up the background and lights with occasional help from Kit. Then the first set was shot, after which Danielle changed my make-up for the second set. We ordered a pizza to nibble on, and then started to test and shoot the second set. We didn't have as much time for that one, but Nadya said she still got some good ones. We had to call it a day reasonably early, because PreZ, Dashiell and I still had a 2.5 hour drive home that night, and PreZ's wake-up call on Monday (and every weekday) is 6.30am.
Dashiell was great the whole time... he slept the entire drive from NY to Philly and most of the drive back, and was happy and good-natured throughout the weekend.
And now I look forward to seeing the results. It's like waiting for Christmas :D
nadya_lev's apartment and anachronaut was of course also one of the party. The weather was gorgeous both days. Nice and sunny and warm, lovely spring weather. We drove out there Saturday and arrived in the early afternoon. One of the first orders of business was a visit to the Mütter Museum, which was eerie and fascinating... and a lot smaller than I had expected. After that, we had crêpes for dinner... savoury first, then sweet. Yummy! After that we stopped by Passional to see if there were any outfits there that we could use for a second look for my photoshoot with Nadya on Sunday, sadly nothing really took our fancy, and that which did was way too small for me, and as such wasn't an option.
A large portion of the time spent at Nadya's apartment was devoted to the fruitless task of trying to find her cell phone, which had gone missing sometime after she'd talked to
prez and someone else, and which had also stopped ringing. So on and off during the day searches were mounted, and after many hours we found it. In the washing machine. After the wash cycle. Needless to say, slight panic ensued seeing as she has loads of contacts stored on it. We switched out the sim card into an old phone she had lying around only to find that all the contacts were stored in the phone itself, not on the sim card... so we had no choice but to let her phone dry overnight and hope against hope that it would still work the next day, at least long enough to get all the contacts off it.After a late night run to Target, where we picked up munchies and various necessities and realised we were too late to go to the art/craft store, we went back to Nadya's place and watched two episodes of Coupling (UK) and the latest episode of Dr. Who while some of us ate ice cream (Häagen Dasz mmm...) and then crashed out in the wee hours.
We woke up way too early for our liking, but had to get a move on to do the chores we wanted to before heading to Nadya's studio for the photoshoot she and I were doing. Breakfast at Ihop which then made us late for everything else, because we spent much longer there than we thought. A quick dash to the craft store for some supplies for the shoot, and then off to meet Nadya's studio mate who was waiting for us to open the door, because Nadya's studio keys had also gone missing ("sadly" they weren't in the washing machine, and still AWOL).
Once inside, Danielle the make-up artist got to work on me, and Kit and PreZ entertained themselves and Dashiell, and Nadya ran around setting up the background and lights with occasional help from Kit. Then the first set was shot, after which Danielle changed my make-up for the second set. We ordered a pizza to nibble on, and then started to test and shoot the second set. We didn't have as much time for that one, but Nadya said she still got some good ones. We had to call it a day reasonably early, because PreZ, Dashiell and I still had a 2.5 hour drive home that night, and PreZ's wake-up call on Monday (and every weekday) is 6.30am.
Dashiell was great the whole time... he slept the entire drive from NY to Philly and most of the drive back, and was happy and good-natured throughout the weekend.
And now I look forward to seeing the results. It's like waiting for Christmas :D
