anti-beige, but pro-brown
I need help!
So, there are a few upcoming projects I need help with. I know there is a huge pool of talent from people who read this blog, especially those of you who lurk but don’t comment! Right now I am thinking of three things:
1. STAGING. I have a table at a bridal expo in a couple of weeks and I want to have some sort of hip, ethnic-looking draping to hang behind the table (8′ x 8′) as well as a complementary but still funky table covering. Ideally, I’m thinking rich, vibrant, but still somewhat earth-toned/muted colors (can something be vibrant but muted at the same time?). What I mean is that it shouldn’t clash with the look of this website, but I don’t want the colors on this site to be the colors that represent me at the show. I am anti-beige but pro-brown. Does that make sense? Anyway, ideas as to where can I find curtains or other linens to purchase or borrow? Does anyone have access to a prop room, or just really great taste in home decor? I just don’t have very much time between now and then to search out something appropriate.
I would also love to borrow some wooden tabletop or free-standing easels to help display some canvases.
2. GALLERY connections. I have extraordinary images of some fierce and fearless women from the bridal shoots I’ve been doing this summer. I’m looking for Boston-area venues (galleries, cafés, bridal shops, salons, etc.) who would be willing to either host a show or provide wall space for a display.
3. ASSIST at a shoot. These juxtaposition shoots will be featured at the end of the year show and book project – these funky fashion bridal sessions are extremely entertaining and interesting. I always need a pair of extra hands to help with equipment, styling, and logistics. You don’t have to be a photographer to be an assistant, and I guarantee most of you reading this would consider it a fascinating experience to be the official shoot assistant. The thing is, the sessions are always on weekdays (although I do have a shoot next Saturday in Brooklyn if anyone’s around). Sessions are usually in the greater Boston area.
If you can help, send me an email! rachel@mergeweddings.com
August 28th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Saris!! They’re ethnic, gorgeous, and super long so you can get a lot of use out of them. My friend is a musician and decorates his CD table with a gorgeous brown sari. It looks awesome…
August 29th, 2008 at 12:27 am
I’d like to strengthen my videography skills and would love to shoot you in action! I’m free most weekends, maybe something could work out?
August 29th, 2008 at 7:54 am
Krista – good thinking! I’ll have to figure out how to get something like that. I think sarees might have special significance though, so I wouldn’t want to be disrespectful or something.
Jenn – you KNOW I want to have you come out. let’s talk. when are you headed back to NYC?
August 29th, 2008 at 9:54 am
You know I love being a shoot assistant!
August 29th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
if i didn’t live thirteen hours away and have the 8 to 5 job, you KNOW i would be your personal all-around life assistant.
August 29th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
GALLERY suggestions…
the only photography gallery i know of is Gallery Kayafas in the south end. the owner/curator is very nice. give it a try! http://www.gallerykayafas.com/
oh, oh! and the photographic resource center at BU. i saw a great, juried photography exhibition there over the summer. http://www.bu.edu/prc
we have a great cafe in our neighborhood that displays local art (i’m just not sure you’d make a lot of sales there, if that’s what you’re going for…): http://www.303cafe.com
BOOTH staging…
pier 1 is great for affordable decor with an ethnic twist — i would definitely check out their curtains and other fabric items. and maybe this is obvious, but you might do well with some of the textiles that urban outfitters carries, though you’d want to make sure it doesn’t look like a dorm room.
more pricey is ten thousand villages (locations in brookline and cambridge) — they usually have some tabletop textiles and wall hanging art.
hey, why don’t you just head to a Joann’s and get yourself a couple of yards of some great fabric? If you’re not into sewing, you could hem it with some Stitch Witchery!
you could always buy some big IKEA Ribba frames (cheap!) and use them to create wall art by framing some great, ethnic-looking paper from Paper Source (check out the indian prints line), then hang them on the back of your stall. you could even intersperse some of your images among them! apartment therapy tutorial on hanging art in groups here: http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/at-email/how-to-hang-art-in-groups-like-kate-spade-050872
mmkay. getting thoroughly carried away now. stopping.
August 29th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Oh, I would SO love to be an assistant for a shoot, if I only I lived in Boston! But let me know if you’re ever in a two hour radius of Indy and I would do it! Oh, also, I have got to say, after seven years of living in apartments, I totally agree with “anti-beige.” That’s clever – I just may have to use that.
August 30th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
great ideas guys! I discovered pier one yesterday actually (the one in porter square) in between shoots. yay!