How’s it going, Hive? Catching up on comments from last night’s post, there was a lot of Texas Chainsaw Massacre debate and tonight, @guthrie and I just watched Leatherface from 2017. As a nerd for the canon, he lost his mind at how badly the story was altered with a different origin of the characters. Also, it was just a painfully bad movie but when you marathon watch a franchise with eight prequels and sequels, some of them are bound to be bad. The bar was pretty low but it even disappointed me. Tomorrow night, we’re going to watch the most recent Netflix Texas Chainsaw Massacre and that’ll be it. We’re on 3+ weeks of a streak so we have to endure some of these bangers.
Tonight, I’m sharing photography with my friend Vee. She is a brilliantly talented artist and entrepreneur. She has opened multiple successful businesses in the tattoo and beauty industry. We connected during COVID in 2020 and became quick friends as we aligned with many areas of our personal and professional lives. Like many new friends during quarantines, we talked and eventually promised that, “…when this was all over”, […which I say in jest considered there are still mobs of masked people in Minneapolis], we would get together for a photo shoot. I finally had to meet her that fall and then again on a drive to LA which passed through her home city.
When I was with @facingsofficial, I was still doing Dark Pinup NFT releases on the WAX blockchain and working with @felblob, we discussed a set reward for collectors that managed to complete the entire set of Act Two. Vee had mentioned to she’d be in Minneapolis for a tattoo convention and everything began falling into place. We landed on a date and agreement, then booked a room at my favorite hotel in America. Surpassingly, even with all of my travel, tucked away in Stillwater Minnesota. At $500/night, its extravagant but as a photographer that specializes in low key diegetic shooting, you can’t do much better. It’s breathtaking.
The shoot went great and Vee was such an easy model to work with, we spent most of the session laughing between the dramatic photos captured here. We needed up using about 8 of these for set rewards for @mirrorpool’s first release and they’ve become something of a milestone for us and the collection as a whole. Ir really hope that I’ll have the opportunity to see and shoot with Vee again in the near future. She’s one of my favorite people. We’ve lost touch recently with our lives running away over the last year but we have one of those friendships capable of picking up where we left off as soon as we reconnect. Thanks for reading!