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Friday, May 03, 2013

Man in Iron Mask with Starbucks


It has been a week since I returned from my business trip to Boise. And as usual, it was odd being a visitor in a town you grew up in. There is a sense of straddling two times that include the Boise of my past and the Boise that is now.

I like the Boise that is now much better than the Boise I grew up in. It is still laid back, but has a certain cosmopolitan flair that didn't exist when I was struggling through my formative years. The downtown I grew up with was fairly sterile and barren. The downtown now is lively and stoked with character and trendy restaurants.

Not that I had much free time to soak in the trendiness of it all. I spent most of my time in a parking lot in the countryside near Nampa watching television spots take shape -- a process not unlike watching paint dry. And although the weather was clear, it was unseasonably cold and windy for Idaho (not the ideal conditions for an outdoor shoot).


But we accomplished our job in the alloted three days and then hunkered down in an editing studio to piece together the puzzle of various takes and angles to produce a pretty great final product.

I caveat this all with an observation that I rarely talk about my work in my blog. I believe in a firm separation of  blog worlds and work worlds. But I made an exception here to explain why I've posted photos of me wearing an iron mask and one of me drinking out of a pineapple. They are simply props.

But I digress.

I did drive by my mom's house to see whether it had been torn down. I had mixed feelings when I pulled up to it unchanged except for a "FOR RENT" sign in the front yard. I really rather would see it torn down than to have strangers, especially renters living there. I truly hope my mom's spirit has moved on so she doesn't have to fret about things and people being out of place in her house.

Regardless, I enjoyed my time in Boise, surreal as it was. But it is good to be back in the land of the falling rain.

I miss that pineapple though.

4 comments:

Helen Baggott said...

Yes, yes, yes - they're props - but what are they for?

Time said...

They say curiosity killed the cat. But they never really explained how.

The props are for television commercials that will never see the light of day (or dark of night) in Great Britain. Once they begin running here, I'll provide links to them. But the pineapple didn't make the cut, so you won't see it in any of them.

Helen Baggott said...

"Once they begin running here, I'll provide links to them."

Don't forget - I won't.

;)

Time said...

http://youtu.be/Jra-MBKSF8Q
http://youtu.be/hEzoNLDys6M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gnbjf6xPnE