SPECIAL FX

I try to rarely shoot horror movie imagery - fake blood, monsters, creepy crawlies. It's irresistible sometimes. My main subject matter is people in their underwear alternately stupefied or transmorgified by the very act of having their image taken. That's a hard thing to dramatize! And gore is really inevitable when my girlfriend gets all her special effects gear out because she's working on horror director Zoe Alice's new short film. Here's some photos of Caroline lifecasting Zoe's actor Claire for that and Claire goofing with the slime. 

 

That Beastie Boys line "pulled out a pair of pliers pulled a bullet out of my chest" has been stuck in my head. It's such a great beginning to an all-American tall tale of into the void kleptomania. So I got Caroline to try out a quick bullet wound to mystical results. 

 

We had a date to take photos with Bree and Cat, so we doubled down on this concept. We got pliers and fake bullets and other things the Beasties mentioned in High Plain Drifter, all sleaze Americana. They told us about TikTok, which they're both really good at. I can't imagine having an audience as big as they have and not wanting to run some chaotic social experiment, although that inclination is probably why I don't have much of a following. The photos we took are really fun, it makes me realize fake blood is probably more of a social lubricant than booze.