By Mighty Aphrodite, who put me forward. Thank you!
Well, not ALL that famous, I suppose, but still….
Last year, just before I had an operation to repair an abdominal hernia (as a result, of course, of an art-nude shoot) I was offered a day’s work, filming close-up video shots for possible inclusion in the title sequence of 2010′s behind-the-scenes Pirelli Calendar video. I took the job (naturally, I was awfully flattered to be asked to basically be a body double for models a great deal more famous than me). And then shot the job 5 days after my abdominal surgery.
Ouch. I’d been told I’d have fully recovered by then, and, not having had any kind of surgery before, I believed the doctor. Which was an extremely foolish thing to do. I struggled my way through what would normally have been a very easy, comfortable shoot, and went home feeling rather disheartened, because I wasn’t sure I’d really been agile enough to be much use.
So hooray, I’m so glad to tell you that I am indeed in the title sequence. Here it is!
See if you can spot me. And then, please, acknowledge that I am now, very, VERY famous.
Hello everybody – as always, I’m sorry that I’m so excessively poor at blogging; I really like doing it but struggle to find time. Anyway, here is the reason I wanted to blog today:_
The very excellent Bill Mundy ( www.billmundy.blogspot.com/ ) has just finished this lovely miniature of me, and I’m awfully proud of it. Not only because it’s beautifully done, and very flattering (check out the slightly enhanced boobies!) but because somehow, a painting feels less transient than a photograph. This is probably partly novelty value for me – I don’t pose for many artists so I see a lot more photographs of myself than I see paintings. But the feeling of timelessness of a painting (especially a nude one) makes me hope it’ll be around long after I’m not.
Actually, I hope my photographs will be too. But this painting makes me feel a little bit immortal. And makes me want to read the Harry Potter books again to get some tips on immortality.
Hope you like it too! I’m off to work with Bill again today, and I’m excited about producing some portraits in the bluebells, although the weather seems to be trying to warn me off….
