I spent the larger part of the day emptying out my study so we could get started on making the set for Gills. The smaller part of the day I spent watching Cupcake Wars because I'm on a diet and I'm also a masochist.
So many banana boxes.
We managed to get just a lot of banana boxes from the QFC down the road. I think we only used about 3 of them in the end.
The sun decided to come out and made the apartment hot and uncomfortable so I procrastinated and wandered around while playing with the camera. I was beginning to feel the same brand of stress that comes with moving. I have way too much junk and I don't want to get rid of any of it. Space be damned.
Avoiding work and playing with exposure
My day was made exponentially better when my friend left this sweet little plant on my doorstep. It also gave me a good excuse to take more pictures.
Beautiful new plant friend from beautiful old human friend. (disclaimer: she is not actually old)
We ended up substituting cut up paper bags for most of the cardboard we were planning to use. The banana boxes we got had a series of large holes throughout them which was no bueno. I watched 8 consecutive episodes of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Later that night I had nightmares about banana spiders.
"Jabroni"
This is more or less what the set ended up looking like, minus some more embellishments on the walls. I'm really good at making real messes, so I was surprised by how difficult it was to make naturally looking "fake" messes. I'm still pretty pleased with the way it turned out.
Nearly done
Next up: Actually shooting the thing!