Watch What Happens Live!!!

Megoon brought me to a taping of Watch What Happens Live on Tuesday night.

When you enter you immediately are greeted in the tiny reception area/bar. And they immediately start getting you DRUNK.

Then you go into the studio, which is tiny.

And they keep getting you DRUNK.

Then the guests come on...and you scream and scream and cheer (DRUNK).

Tonight's guests were Henry Winkler and Andrew Rannells (star of Book of Mormon and The New Normal and Girls)...they were awesome and hilarious.

This is how small the audience is.

Which is why all the drinking and screaming.

It was such fun!

And the guest bartender was Stacey somethingrather...the girl who played Tara Collette's stripper sister on Friday Night Lights!!!

We LOVES Bravo!!!!!!!!

The most famous I've ever been

Was this time last year.

When I made an "appearance" on one of the first episodes of Vanderpump Rules.

Yup, that's me and Steven in the rainbow capes behind Stassi's head.

It was filmed during Pride 2012. Yayyyy.

VOGUE!!!!! (india)

Never ever had my photos published in a major national publication before...

...but today my photos of Zameer are in VOGUE! (India)

We did the photos of him and his stunningly gorgeous client/friend Susheila several months ago and then I completely forgot about it. So to have it pop up again suddenly. Well... it is soyyyy exciting!!!

I feel unstoppable.

ALEC BALDWIN

Fine. Maybe I will start blogging again. MAYBE.

Something exciting happened today. Very exciting. Like epicly exciting. So exciting that I have to return from my monthlong blogging hiatus to brag about it post it here so I will remember it forever.

I had two photoshoots.

The first shoot was for my friend/repeat client Ms. Carolyn.

Carolyn is a beautiful fabulous high-powered lawyer. She comes to me for photo shoots like once every three months sometimes. She is just the best. Today I went to her law firm to take a group shot of her and her partners for an advertisement they are putting in some law magazine.

It was an easy gig. I was in and out in 20 minutes. (Parking uptown is NOT cheap. I paid $23 for 18 minutes of parking. crazy city)

Then I hurried back to my home to meet up with my 1 o' clock client. A young actor named Daniel.

As Daniel was getting his clothes prepped and fixing his hair in my bathroom etc I started my typical getting-to-know-you chit-chat. "How long have you been acting? Who is your agent? Etc. Etc..."

Then I asked him, "sooo....how did you hear about me?"

Usually people respond saying Backstage (I was voted "Favorite Photog" in 2012 brag brag brag) or their agent refers them or they find me on Google or Yelp.

Daniel's answer really caught me off guard.

"Alec Baldwin told me about you."

I laughed. "Haha very funny."

He didn't laugh back... I paused. I was like, "Wait...Alec Baldwin ALEC BALDWIN?"

And he was like, "yeah". LIKE THAT'S A TOTALLY NORMAL THING TO SAY.

I tried to play it cool, as if Sir Alec Baldwin sends me peeps all the time, whatever.

This is the information I got out of him over the next half hour or so:

Apparently Alec Baldwin, out of the goodness of his big beautiful heart, gives back once a year or so by teaching young actors in an intensive 2 or 3-day acting class at some school or acting camp or something somewhere.

So this kid was one of the lucky few to take his class and Alec actually sat him down and SHOWED HIM MY WEBSITE. And told him to come to me for headshots.

"...because he thought you were the best."

WHAT. THE. F!?!?!??!?!??!?!?

I have no idea how I came onto Alec Baldwin's radar. But however it happened. This made my day. This made my YEAR. Several years.

I literally had to stop my shoot and say, "I'm so sorry. I have to take a second to update my Facebook status to tell people what you just told me."

He laughed.

Alec Baldwin. If you're out there and somehow reading this. I love you. I love you so much. I loved you since Prelude to a Kiss. And The Juror. And I'm sure there's stuff older than that but you are a little older than me. I don't believe a thing I hear about you in the press and I know you're a good guy and I don't watch 30 Rock but I hear you are amazing in it. And I hear you are good at Words With Friends and I haven't played in a while but if you want to challenge me I would totally start playing again. Anyway. THANK YOU for taking time out of your busy important A-List celebrity schedule creating entertainment for BILLIONS of people to recommend someone to my stupid little headshot business. It is an honor for my name to exist in your brain. (insert squeal)

If you ever need a photograph of yourself...anytime...ever...I would HAPPILY take it.

Obviously. Sir.

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OK I'm off to Hawaii tomorrow, maybe I will blog again soon! MAYBE

Flo-Rida Tweets Katie & Semmesey's Video!!!!!

This JUST happened!



We're gonna go viral!

Eeeeek! I'm hosting a seminar!

Yes yes, a headshot seminar!

Why am I telling you?

I don't want anyone I know to be there.

DO NOT COME.

But wish me luck!

Jimmy Eat World Audition

I auditioned yesterday for the role of a giant clone cop in an army of giant clone cops in the new Jimmy Eat World msuic video.

Random!

Castings are funny because you get to see everyone who is going out for the same roles as you. For instance, Matt and Hot Danny are almost always at the same auditions because they are super hot blonde surfer california boys.

At my casting everyone was a giant.

Remember when I was a "waitress" in Robbie William's music video? Oh those were the days.

The Tall Book!

You may have blinked and missed my entry about The Tall Book by Arianne Cohen several months ago.

But the other day I was chatting with my fellow giant Jessie, and she was reading the Tall Book and noticed that I was featured in it. And so, being reminded of my immense fame, I stopped by Borders and picked it up.

I never read books.

I have severe undiagnosed ADHD that keeps me from being able to sit down and focus on reading a book or even a magazine article. In fact, AC sent me a really interesting article on The Settlers of Catan the other day (which I am very excited to play) and it took me almost 5 hours to make it through it.

But anyway, the moral of this story is that I am reading today.



I am so thankful for literacy.

The Tall Book!

from Arianne Cohen [arianne@ilovetalls.com]
to talls
date Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 9:36 PM
subject You're In The Tall Book!

Hello,

I'm writing to let you know that The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life From On High was published yesterday--and you're in it!

First, I apologize for the mass email--many experts (223, to be exact) were phenomenally giving of their energy and knowledge, and are in the book. I appreciate every word of information and minute of time, and I wanted to efficiently tell you where you can find yourself in print!

Here's a little update:

Yesterday I went on the CBS Early Show, and you can see the clip of me talking tall here:

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5074749n

Publisher's Weekly put up the first review here: http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6660208.html?industryid=47159

And the book will be in People magazine this coming week (June 22 issue).

The Tall Book is available now on Amazon.com, and will be floating into libraries and bookstores from June 16th on:

http://www.amazon.com/Tall-Book-Celebration-Life-High/dp/1596913088

Feel free to email me if you'd like me to pinpoint where in the book you might find yourself (the chapter titles are a give away in most cases).

Thanks so much for your help--I'm indebted,

Arianne

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www.tallbook.com

American Idol: Final Four!

Naia got me tickets! YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY



We were dressed in our finest Cinco De Mayo gear.



But we got there and there were ambulances everywhere.



Apparently during dress rehearsal one of the huge rotating light-globes (you can see them below turned off in the corners) got jammed and shattered and started to collapse which caused the side staircase to collapse WHILE PEOPLE WERE ON IT and the stage manager fell and broke herself. CRAZYTOWN



It was mayhem and they rushed us in at the last minute and were seriously behind schedule and filmed little pieces of each performance for the end of the show while we were all finding our seats.

The show went on though.



Kris was dreamy. But got a bad review from Simone.



No Doubt played at the end.




Oh and I won a t-shirt during a commercial break for being Kris's biggest fan!



And we got a good closeup as the Idols entered the stage.

(The little Clapper Mexican next to me kept looking over at me in awe.)



Also we were featured prominently in the background.



Oh and Kris waved at me BECAUSE HE KNOWS WHO I AM (because I did Katy's headshots)

GAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

If I had pigtails I would pull at them and scream and bonk my head from side to side.

American Idol Night Two: Family section!

Update: Ooh I got a shout-out as having the "Odd Sign of the Night" on E! Online's "What You Didn't See"!

After my Idol-buddy Eric called last night (with Kris Allen on the line) saying he had two extra tickets for me to attend for the second night in a row I thought, shit I would love to....but I have plans with my dad and it's his last day in town.......

My dad doesn't understand celebrity. Doesn't get why people read Us Weekly or People Magazine. Doesn't care about TMZ or read Perez. And he deeeeefinitely has never watched an episode of American Idol.

So I brought him.

And this time my handicapped-ness managed to finagle us some blue tickets in the family section!

2nd row. Right behind Kris Allen's family.



I made him carry the Simon sign.



But because our seats were much more conspicuous this time around, I didn't manage to sneak too many pictures.



It was fun though. The music was great. The group performance decent.

Brad Paisley performed.

Ryan threw a water balloon at Simon but completely missed and hit a girl in the front row.

And there was a surprise David Cook performance.



Dad actually enjoyed it somewhat. Though he did still manage to doze off at times.



But the best part?

Was watching them announce Kris Allen's results.




And becoming an honorary member of Kris's family!!!!



I befriended Kris's mom and his pretty wife Katy.

They liked my "Kripples 4 Kris" sign, which was very much appreciated because most of the signs in the crowd were for Adam or Danny.

Eric tried to score me a picture with Kris, but right after the show the kids were rushed off to Camarillo to take a private jet to Detroit or something, so there just wasn't time.

His dad didn't even get to say goodbye to him.

I still have hope though.

Someday I will get my Kris pic.

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Being at Idol for the second night in a row, I was kind of blown away by the immense power of this show.

It's surreal.

Really it's just a fancy stage in a big room. But the stage is much bigger than the audience section.

And when the performers are performing, they're performing for the couple hundred people in that room. They don't see the rest of America. They see us. Right there. In the room.

Sure there are a ton of cameras. But how do you really wrap your head around the fact that 30 MILLION people are watching you perform at that very second?

Talking with Kris's parents, seeing the way the contestants and judges all interact with each other off-camera, everyone's just really....normal. What they're doing and saying isn't even necessarily extraordinary. But the transformative power of those cameras in that room, taking their images and voices and turning it into instant superstardom, is nothing short of incredible.

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Of course, leaving the sound stage, I also realized that though the show has created household names such as Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Jennifer Hudson, Clay Aiken, Chris Daughtry, and David Archuleta...

You sometimes also end up with people who are complete jokes...

...like Justin Guarini.

AMERICAN IDOL!!!!

So it was the big day.

Evan and I decided to make signs and dress in green in order to:

A. Properly celebrate St. Patty's Day.

B. Get noticed by our favorite performer/judge.

and

C. Get on TV.

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Still can't get over how much Evan looks like Bobby.






We got to CBS, where the show is being filmed, and the line was insane. Outside, and around the block.



Happily I brought my cripplewheels and we got to skip all that nonsense and go in through the friends and family/handicapped entrance.



And, because I'm "unable to do stairs", we pretty much sat in front. 2nd row left.



Right behind all the families of the contestants.



It was country night. And everyone sounded AMAZING live.

Also, the stage is ENORMOUS.

They only ever show the bottom half on TV because the band sits in the top half.



The cheering and loud music really helps to hide a bad performance, because later on when we watched it back on West Coast feed, we definitely noticed some not-awesomeness that was not apparent during the live taping.



During commercial breaks, Simon turned and waved and blew kisses at us constantly. He really liked our poster.

They also had a little audience wrangler who keeps everyone's energy up by being kind of funny, kind of douchey, bringing people on stage to sing (Lil Rounds's sister below), and passing out awesome free stuff.



Stupid Evan almost won an iPod Touch when he claimed to be "The Biggest Country Music Fan EVER." But when asked to name three Randy Travis songs (Randy was the mentor that night) he totally failed to name even one.

Randy was not pleased.

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After the taping, we got a special performance by Carrie Underwood and Randy Travis.



Evan really was the biggest country music fan though, and knew like every song.



When I got home, we were sitting on the couch when Eric called me.

He was with the kids at their Bel Air mansion and he put Kris on the line!



So cool!

Kinda awkward.

But so cool!

After we chatted, Eric came back on and said he had a "huge favor" to ask of me.

He had two tickets for tomorrow's show that he couldn't get rid of.

Looks like we're going back for the results show!

So awesome.

AND...we were all over the telecast!




I think for the results show I'll bring a big "DKHeadshots.com"sign.

30 million people...there's gotta be a headshot client or two in there somewhere...