Hi Everyone! Sorry it's been a few days since I've posted on the old blog, but I promise it'll be worth the wait! As you know, I'm from Portland, and so it's no surprise that Portlandia is one of my favorite shows. Fred and Carrie are both geniuses and I practically pee my pants laughing at every episode, so you can imagine how thrilled I was when my agent told me that I had been chosen to take part in a Portlandia-themed photo shoot. You're probably thinking "what the heck is a Portlandia-themed photo shoot?", so I'll tell you. Portlandia is all about showing all the different extreme characters that make up the city of Portland, and we recreated some of those characters and shot them in locations all over Portland. That's right, they flew me out to Portland a couple weekends ago - what a blast! All right, enough talk, here are the pics, starting with the outdoorsy hiker archetype:
We shot that up in Forest Park, which, by the way is the largest naturally forested area within a city in the United States. Just a little trivia for ya. Pretty gorgeous, huh? Notice my Keens shoes too - very popular in Portland!
The next character is the hipster, and you can see that we did some gender bending here, just like Fred and Carrie do on the show:
The next character is the hipster, and you can see that we did some gender bending here, just like Fred and Carrie do on the show:
We did the hipster shoot in a hipster-type bar because, well, hipsters love to drink I guess. That beard was very itchy, by the way, I don't know how these hipster dudes do it!
The next character is the fanatical Portland bike rider. This one we based pretty closely on the Portlandia character Spike, right down to his ear plugs. But don't worry, those and the nose piercings were fake, I'm not that dedicated to my art.
The next character is the fanatical Portland bike rider. This one we based pretty closely on the Portlandia character Spike, right down to his ear plugs. But don't worry, those and the nose piercings were fake, I'm not that dedicated to my art.
I love this next one, it's the hippie, Earthy woman archetype, based on the bookstore ladies, Candace and Toni. Those ladies might be my favorites of all the Portlandia characters and I have to say that this outfit was definitely the most comfortable. Those Earthy hippie ladies know what it's all about when it comes to comfort! And special thanks to the Knutson family in SE Portland for letting us shoot in their backyard. What a beautiful garden, wouldn't you say?
And in contrast to the loose layers of the hippie lady, this final character had some pretty binding and uncomfortable clothes. It's the punk:
We shot this outside the Ash Street Saloon in downtown Portland. It's a popular dive bar which has live music seven nights a week. I got a lot of attention for this one, definitely the most of all the looks. I'm not so sure about the piercings but I'm thinking of keeping the red mohawk, do you think I can pull it off? Just kidding - hahahahaha!
Anyway, thank you so much to the team at Blasted Glass Magazine for picking me to participate in this shoot and the amazing photographer Jerrica Smouthers for being so great to work with. Look for the photos to appear in the May issue of Blasted Glass, found at independent magazine shops and bookstores across the country. Have a good weekend everyone and catch y'all next week!
Anyway, thank you so much to the team at Blasted Glass Magazine for picking me to participate in this shoot and the amazing photographer Jerrica Smouthers for being so great to work with. Look for the photos to appear in the May issue of Blasted Glass, found at independent magazine shops and bookstores across the country. Have a good weekend everyone and catch y'all next week!
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