making AMNESIA RED, the first spot, (starring INGRID SOPHIE SCHRAM AND GABRIEL CHYTRY)

today, we drop into a conversation already in progress,
between some models,
a director,
and their intrepid adventures in commercial making:

hey, ingrid. you look hot.
what say we go find you a playmate?
and maybe make a spot for my reel
about . . . lipstick.


oh, hey. it's gabriel.


maybe we can convince him to join us

in our endeavor.

to make a commercial. about lipstick.

let me try first.

(what? i'm just standing here.)


(my kids were about to film their big scene.
and SO relaxed it kind of made me proud.)


i, on the other hand?
sweatin for 'em both . . .


but they were pros,
exquisite,
wallowing in paul cameron's lighting:




the opening in the can,
we moved to the "flashback".



(ok, that one above is gratuitous. you can thank me with cash.)

ari got the enviable job of applying the lip marks on everything from can to dog to . . .
gabe.



i had obviously not thought that through so well.

oh well.




it was still hot enough
to make us all sweat a little.

this is a centerpiece of my reel.

this is a hint of things to come . . .

Landis Smithers, the DIRECTOR, is the newest member of Supply and Demand productions-

technically,
have been for awhile,
member of the guild and all . . .

but have signed with an amazing production company in los angeles,
supply and demand.

i love these guys. worked with them for the past few years on and off,
and between their executive producer,
kira carstensen (read about her in other posts)
and the owner,
tim case,
(the man is hella sexy, hella crazy, and such a spitfire, we kind of feed off each other)
i feel like i'm in good hands.

no,
great hands.

i'm heading deep into landis 3.0

and i couldn't
OFFICIALLY
be happier.

there. no more cryptic stuff. it's out in the open. . .

well, most of it.

;)

the recipe for a happy life (as i see it) -

i think if you put these two together,
you have the recipe for a happy life.

you have to believe that every day/moment
good or bad
is a once in a lifetime thing. 

no day but today, to quote "rent".

and the decision to live that day, or that life, or that second,
with joy and with glee,
for even the hard stuff adds up to something,
adds up to change,
adds up to a new life.

we are what we experience, what we are made of.

and this week,
i'll tell you why i am happier, each day, than a bird with a french fried
worm.

it's in the air, on the ground. change is everywhere i look these days -

life is starting 2 hum.

i like the tune.

jaune means yellow, the poetry of a color, a first fall day of memories -

walking out in the early fall weather, feeling the advent of color beyond the san francisco green,
my girls, who pose so effortlessly for their papa,
and the smell of change in the air.

i love fall.

i love the transition it seems to demand.

it's time for a change.  soon. 

jaune means yellow. 
yellow means caution. 
caution means the light is about to turn.

the six chicest things about october (so far) -

as usual, in no particular order,
our monthly roundup of the chic,
the impractical,
and the gorgeous
curated by your dictator,
the landis.

1. dahlias

my mother planted these in her yard (yard being a euphemistic phrase for "backyard acreage on a mountainside")

when she moved to north carolina.  i had never seen them, and they seemed like explosions of architecture

and scent and vivid color, as they came in every single color you could imagine.

these, suddenly blooming, brought out a flood of both memory

and joy.

 2. the new chanel lookbook

because karl knows how to work a look.

and a leather logo shopping bag.

  3.  lunch at dolores park cafe, at the counter

every thursday, for a month.  join me and see.  i'll be at the counter.

  4.  vintage shot of marilyn, before "marilyn"

perhaps the advent of celebrity culture.  perhaps the demise of western culture.

lovely, nonetheless.

  

5. the favorite find from the milan furniture fair

it's flashy.  it's intimate.  it's perfect for me.

 

6.  victoria beckham's idea of "travel attire"

love her, loathe her, the woman is flawlessly consistent.  and dedicated.

the shoes alone deserve their own post.

god. she has my life.

 

MOTTO TUESDAY -

i wish you could taste your screen right now -

at perbacco,
after a dinner with our friend patty divela,
after talking about others, ourselves, and then some more about ourselves,
we ordered this.

this, my lovelies is meringue.

it is perhaps the single most amazing substance on the planet,
short of cupcakes.

it is essentially sugar and . . . um . . . air . . . crunchy, soft sugar air.
you know, tim, or whiskeymarie would know how the hell you make it,
but let's just say it's incredible, and when you drizzle honey and huckleberries over it,
well,
patty almost had to hand me a cigarette after.

that's all for today. 

i have to be alone now.