Night One, with Sheets

Looking forward already to knocking off work as soon as possible and heading over to 79 FGP. I packed the largest bag I have with a bunch of top sheets and some food. Should be hopefully moving in for days at a time by the middle of the week.

George and Francesca are going to be getting there early tomorrow, with Jacob, Travis, and then finally me arriving later on. Right now, the main idea that we're going to shoot when I arrive centers around a Sheet Ghost changing his (or her) sheet over and over. Lots of colors, lots of fashion, lots of vamping, and then a frustrated mirror break and the collection of mirror fragments. I'm excited to start in on this idea because it both addresses a lot of questions about identity and sculpting a self, while also providing for a nice jumping off point I think for others, and myself. I can imagine the "ghost" being linked with other ghost forms that have been brought up (ones more creative and conceptual), or with just shy and weird people obscuring themselves. The way the sheet can alternately obliterate and delineate form will be a lot of fun to experiment with.

I had previously wanted to do a film project on a band called Blank Dogs, a one-man bedroom weird-pop project of Mike Sniper that was supposed to be "anonymous." When he started playing out, and on the cover art of an album, he wore a sheet to conceal himself. The idea of a lot of activity on this big flowing mask, as well as creating barriers, is great, plus watching it is really something. Here's some cover art to show you what I mean, and what I'm really thinking about for night one: