Dec 13, 2011
Nov 24, 2011
Remember I said there were frogs at the video shoot? he sat there, quietly in the palm of my hand wondering if the end was nigh or if this was his chance to jump over the moon and leave the lovestruck human female alone and wondering forever in the misty wood....
Sep 4, 2011
I am being a complete vegetable this weekend. Friday we had a 17-hour video shoot, which started with me awake at 4 am, stumbling into the kitchen and turning on the Magic Machine – er, that is the espresso machine. At 5 am on the dot, the make-up artist arrived. At 8 am we were on the set on the Malibu beach. Circa 11 am had me running in a very big and heavy (wet) dress down the beach, occasionally getting side-swept by a wave or stumbling over a dune. Followed by me hanging on to the cliffs for dear life, also in huge dress and an 18-th century up-do. In an Alexander McQueen jacket, no less. Come 1 pm, we were in the canyons, at a ranch. At around 4 PM, I was taking a break, catching little frogs in the grass (and I have a photograph to prove it). While at 6 pm I was bouncing up and down on a trampoline on top of a hill. The day before I found out my mom in Moscow was in the hospital again. So, really, Friday started with me on the phone with her – then the stumbling over to the espresso machine – then the rest of it. She is ok now, undergoing some tests, but it was a bad day when I found out. She didn't want to tell me, so I could focus on what I had to do. And so when I woke up yesterday – Saturday morning – I felt like someone had beaten me up with a rather sizable baseball bat. I...
Aug 26, 2011
We are running around, quite frantically, and getting ready to shoot a music video for Dreamer next week. Oh la la! Later this afternoon, we are headed to the Universal Costume department at the Universal Studios. I am excited like a little kid. Will be taking lots of guerilla photos. We are also done with our Lollapalooza E-Chronicles, to be posted shortly – very analog-meets-digital! I love the final result. A very talented woman is directing and shooting the video for Dreamer and her name is Sarah Renard. Her website http://www.sarahrenard.com/ She is a very tall, striking and skinny Swedish girl. My designer/friend Missy is also on the thin side, and I am the Russian version of skinny. So now there are three skinny, stressed out and determined artistic women running around Los Angeles, getting ready to pull a rabbit out of a very small hat (read: perform a magic trick). By the way – what is going on? Earthquakes, hurricanes… my car overheated yesterday on the way back from the Blue Microphones headquarters, where I did a podcast+ live performance + some random chatting on various topics. Tyler Barth, who is Da Man there is the quintessential California Dreamy ideal male. He also has this perfect speaking voice – he must have had some acting training. He must have also surfed, gone out with models and tried yoga at some point. Or maybe I am completely off course here. Either way, I had a lovely time, and hopefully my acoustic performances – of Odi et Amo and Snow in Venice were up to par. And now, courtesy Blue Mics,...
Mar 21, 2011
We have a lot of cool footage that will go into 'The Making of..' but for now: (it gets REALLY good around 1.40 and onwards) 🙂...
