A MISSED OPPORTUNITY
A Light hearted bit of fun today with the Sunday Times…
What do you do with all the newspapers after you’ve read them? Maybe they just collect dust in a corner of the room or in a magazine rack somewhere. I never have time to read it all and often the Magzine section hangs around for a few days before I get round to reading the articles inside.
( Sad day for me when we lost A.A Gill… The most decorated journalist on the paper winning awards for his restaurant reviews and travel pieces and memorable for his witty put downs. Gordon Ramsey famously threw him out of one of his restaurants after Gill wrote that Ramsay was ‘A failed sportsman who acts like an 11-year-old’ and one of my favourite restaurant reviews from an article on Tribecca 66 in New York sumarised the place like this : ‘To say the food is repellently awful would be to credit it with a vim and vigor and attitude it simply can’t rise to. The bowls and dishes dribble and limp to the table with a yawning lassitude. A vain empty ennui. They weren’t so much presented as wilted and folded to death. It was all prepared with that most depressing and effete culinary style—tepid whimsy. Tell me, off the top of your head, what two attributes should hot-and-sour soup have? Take your time. It was neither. Nor anything else much.’
… Hats off to any one who can make a restaurant review for a restaurant you’ll never get to try, the most popular section in the Sunday Times. )
Anyway, I digress, This blog article is to illustrate what we do on an experimental day when the imagination can run wild.
One model and all our old copies of the Sunday times collecting dust in the corner. (Yep, there was a lot of them) - The idea was to cover everywhere with the Sunday Times and to have the model almost completely lost in amongst it all. An idea that ended up taking over the entire day. Worth it though to get pictures like these…
The missed opportunity? - We didn’t pursue the Sunday Times about running a little story on this. Shame on us.
Hayley was on make-up and hair duty and, naturally, we made time for a little fashion style shoot at the end.
