Some of my crew took behind the scenes photos of yesterday’s incredible Martini Rossi shoot, and I thought I’d share some with you. It threatened to rain all day, but luckily we “weathered the storm” and had a very easy, very fun day on the Universal lot. We shot on European St., and worked hard to create an authentic Italian flower shop, bread shop and cafe.
We had Vespa’s, Italian officers and pigeons roaming the streets. We even built a beautiful interior room at the foot of a great Roman facade in Spartacus Square, where our models sipped bubbly as though at a holiday party. Such is the beauty of creating, but to do it in the heart of such an unreal place is indescribable.
It's all in the details.
Kurt, a member of the camera crew, looked every bit the part of an Italian baker when he stepped up to the plate and served as an extra.
An exterior interior, built and dressed by Eddie Inda and his crew.
This past week Giuliano has been doing some shoots for his upcoming book. I’ll get some images up soon. However, I was going back through some of his past shoots, and I came across these great photos Giuliano shot of Matthew Morrison last year in New York. There were so many great images, I thought it would be fun to show you a few the magazine didn’t print.
Giuliano shot Olivia Munn for the July 2010 issue of FHM Germany. Olivia can be seen in the blockbuster Iron Man II and as the Senior Asian Correspondent (their term, not ours) on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. She’s a gorgeous girl on and off camera.
We shot Peter Facinelli for FHM’s August Issue – hope you all got a copy. The baseball themed photo shoot was inspired by his character, Carlisle Cullen’s “Rainy Baseball” scene in the Twilight movie. Great guy, a lot of fun. Here are some pics you didn’t see:
This weekend Giuliano shot HERO Milo Ventimiglia for Prestige Magazine. Styled and produced by Paris Libby, Milo was able to take on the character of a posh gentlemen at an Italian Villa. Here’s a little taste of the upcoming editorial:
Photos from Day 2 of my shoot. It was 17 hours of total madness. We had Noogie Thai and Judd Minter creating the most insane hair, banging out look after look until past 10pm!
There were tarantulas, scorpions & snakes, and clearly Aussie Buck Palmer had no problem making friends with the little guys..
Today we are shooting the Pt. III – photos to be posted Monday. Regardless, enjoy a few more and have a fabulous weekend.
Victor Ross (L.A. Models)
Happy Birthday Giuliano! Yup, it’s big G’s birthday today and we are shooting some photos for his men’s photo book. Twenty-five models are coming in, Anthony Merante is doing some crazy makeup and Anita Patrickson, our South African-import stylist for the shoot, has put together some amazing costumes. Behind the scenes pics coming soon… but for now check out these pictures from Part I of last week’s shoot.
Benjamin Patterson got to spa as he worked - Anthony painted his full body in a clay face mask to achieve his scaly look
The shoot itself encompassed several different stories, but my two favorites were the Body Painting story (just above) and the Hat Story (below). The body painting involved a LOT of baby oil, glitter and even clay. Anita stayed up with her assistant Jesse until 4am the night before making these hats (Thanks Anita!). Seeing these manly guys sitting so prim & proper in such extravagant hats.. It was really surreal. Check out Carter C. from Wilhelmenia – I love this shot.
Special thanks to Philip Solomon and Adele Satori at Way2Much Entertainment for hooking us up today with some incredible props. I’ll post the pics from today SOON. Get ready – it’s gonna be sick..
Blake Kneisley (Vision Models) let off a little steam after a LONG day of work.
