Sneak Peek of AUSTIN MUSIC LIVE Photo Shoot!
Twice a year we gather up a small hardworking crew, from all corners of Texas, to descend upon our catalog shoot location for 2 to 3 days of controlled chaos and lots of hairspray. . For our 2013 Spring collection, AUSTIN MUSIC LIVE, we figured where better to shoot the bright festival attire than the namesake itself.
AUSTIN!
So from dawn until dusk on a crisp November day, our crew blasted off our Spring Collection: AUSTIN MUSIC LIVE at The Continental Club on South Congress, or SoCo if you're 'in the know'. We worked our tails off shooting models onstage, near aging original murals and walls covered in vintage band stickers from years past. If only those walls could talk....
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With Day 1 of our 'Austin Music Live' catalog shoot in the can, we were beat! But as they say,
the show must go on!
So for Day 2 of shooting, we hit the road for Round Top, Texas the next morning....EARLY....to meet the Junk Gypsies!
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Amie and Jolie are the Junk Gypsies. They are some of the most down-to-earth creative souls you could ever meet and they've got a wonderful warehouse full of junk and fabulous props, perfect for shooting. They were kind enough to open their doors and pasture gates so we could continue our AUSTIN MUSIC LIVE shoot, with a little Rockabilly
Retro vibe.
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Sometimes these shoots can be a little stressful. Time constraints, light fading, hunger setting in, loss of power, boots not fitting. You can see how many things can go wrong! So it's always nice to have some positive energy and dessert! Our time at the Junk Gypsy Headquarters had both! Here's Jolie's wonderfully lovable pup who was a little apprehensive of a strange group carrying giant boxes while we set up, but soon opened up and was more than willing to let us rub his tummy!
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As if we needed more positive energy, Amie's mini-her daughter, Indie, kept us on our toes with her Turtle Scooter and astonished all with her colorful crayon drawings.
Shooting our Rockabilly Retro group at the Junk Gypsy's warehouse was the perfect backdrop. They had just the right amount of 'stuff' to fill our images with color and vintage texture.
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While the Junk Gypsies did provide us with a good bit of clutter, we did call in the professionals when it came to vintage guitars and microphones. It was quite a set-up and pretty cool to just walk over to the wall of beautiful guitars brought in for propping and pick one up. You should have heard our art director's impromptu, on-set finger-pickin tunes!

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