Casting for bike messenger-types for a photo shoot on march 8th
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au14 at 03.5.07 - 3:32 pm
Casting date:Thursday March 8th
Shoot date: Wednesday March 21st
What we’re looking for:
We’re looking to find cool young men and women cyclists ranging from age 20 to 30 with unique, personalized bikes. We’re looking for REAL PEOPLE – not models - to show the real face of Los Angeles messenger and bike commuter community. Ride a fixie? Road bike? Old 70’s Schwinn commuter bike with moustache bars? Bring it on. Shoot would consist of a full day of shooting downtown and would involve various riding and portrait sessions on the streets around the very center of downtown.
What to bring to the casting: You and your bike.
Where:The S/E corner of Flower Street and 5th Street downtown (near the library)
Compensation:We are looking for both key talent and extras. If you are cast as a key talent you will be paid $500 for the day. If you are cast as an extra you would be paid $200 for the day. You will not be paid on the shoot day, you will need to fill out an invoice and Getty Images will mail you a check within two weeks.
If cast you will be required to sign a model release.
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Addional Note: The casting will be from 3pm-5pm
au1403.5.07 - 3:33 pm
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you had me at cool young men!!! im in!
mandingo03.5.07 - 3:38 pm
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there u go Dingo, u can be their hipster for the casting. lol.
t.bone03.5.07 - 3:43 pm
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i think this might be my big break.anybody got a fixie i can borrow for the shoot?im going all out for this one~hipsters watch out!
mandingo03.5.07 - 3:54 pm
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AGISM. All the real cool ridazz are over 30. Let see if those kids will be riding in ten years?
sexy03.5.07 - 3:55 pm
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what are you talking about david? You are the poster boy!
Joe Borfo03.5.07 - 4:05 pm
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Nuttin' more hipster than black betty (beat up, brakeless & beautiful)
420LaHaRR03.5.07 - 4:22 pm
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BlackBetty is the hottest ride in town. There was a time when you really got her going, she just couldn't stop. And she's got the finest seat you've ever seen.
spiraldemon03.5.07 - 4:26 pm
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Dingo, make sure you show them how you can pee while standing on your head!
Joe Borfo03.5.07 - 4:37 pm
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"Ageism"! Thanks, Sexy, you beat me to it. I guess geezers on personalized bikes just don't sell shit . . . . I'm washed up.
mr rollers03.5.07 - 5:59 pm
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I can understand why they wouldn't want to use me. You Mr. Rollers
that is a shame. Its sound like you are what they are looking for in this photo shot. Tall, skinny, you sport cool ridazz fashion acessaries, ride a cool bike. I don't know how old you are, but it said 50 is the new 30.
so I guess the 20-30 crowd is the new 0-10 crowd.
Fuck Getty Images, they canned Big Bike Dan, just cause they needed to get rid of some people. All his co-workers where so bummed about it. He was well liked where he worked. He had his new $3000 mnt bike stolened from him, so they all pitched in and bought him the mnt bike he rides now. No big deal, he doing better now anyways, he's soon to be Big Dollar Dan
sexy03.5.07 - 6:16 pm
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Aww shucks, Sexy, I'm (almost) speechless. I guess that makes me 31 again.
mr rollers03.5.07 - 7:46 pm
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hmm, I ride a fixie, and could use some cash... this could buy me an extra set of wheels....
FuzzBeast03.5.07 - 8:19 pm
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of course they wouldn't want me though.. I'm not skinny... or all that hipsterish...
FuzzBeast03.5.07 - 8:39 pm
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i think its a trap to get all the F.A.M. together and blow them up...
superfish03.5.07 - 8:51 pm
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I think we should all show up wearing flannel and weilding chainsaws, claiming that we misunderstood the post.
Eric Hair03.5.07 - 9:19 pm
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Yeah FuzzBeast, your may be right, it unfortunate that the call is for all image, Let it not be the one who sleep at the train station to come out to a ride from 30 miles away, let it not be the one who makes righteous art and post it all over the city. I guess a picture is about looks, but who said they wouldn't use you, you might not be a stick but you do have a look, and if I recall you are within the age.
I got lots of respect for the fact you don't let the distance stop you from living the lifestyle. Sounds like people who live the convinent bike lifestyle may be focused on. How do you get the picture of a man who travel to a ride, an extreme distance as oppose to those that live on their bikes, but are only a few miles away from everything.
The reality is that, these people are putting up big funds for models.
It's their photo shoot. They pick who they want, they are paying. I say we all go down there and see who gets picked. I suggest Rollers and fuzzbeast, and deesimple, with his Bad Ass MTA show up and see if they use you anyways. Worse you can lose is some time, thats if you don't have to miss something else(work or school).
I got the image of a few guys that I know who are living the messagener life right now. I could see them not using them not because of their age, they are 20-30, not because they are overweight, they are slender, just because they might not photograph well, or their bikes are don't have the image they are seeking.
Good Luck, I'm rocking a flannel and busting a chain saw to increase my chances.
What is F.A.M.?
sexy03.6.07 - 1:13 am
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(i was gonna go anyway, I need the money)
FuzzBeast03.6.07 - 11:57 am
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hey sexy quit cryin you old fuck. you see me cryin? I cant get in on this shit either, worse still, I havent even popped my first boner!
CryBaby03.6.07 - 7:17 pm
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Haha, no one ever quite knows what to say after CryBaby posts. Or maybe sexy hasn't seen it yet, cuz dude sure loves to TYPE!
I wonder what the scene will be like down there today for this casting. It definitely has the potential to hit a raw nerve with the messengers who feel like their style is getting jacked, like if a bunch of non-messengers get a lot of the spots. And 5th/Flower is right where a lot of messengers typically hang out.
(After that dildo 53x11 made his troll post, I feel obliged to qualify this by saying no hate on LA messengers. Most of the LA m's I've met are down right cool as hell. But there's always the odd guy with the chip...)
City Hobgoblin03.8.07 - 11:30 am
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Just keep your bags off my head
CryBaby03.8.07 - 11:53 am
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Toast? Did I really just post that? I think I was still laughing from your post on the "posers" thread...
City Hobgoblin03.8.07 - 12:08 pm
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Just taking a look at this thread (where it started and where it went), I find it interesting that it became all about messengers, 'cause if you look back at the original post it says they're looking for "the real face of Los Angeles messenger and bike commuter community. Ride a fixie? Road bike? Old 70’s Schwinn commuter bike with moustache bars?" (But of course to have a real face, you have to be 20-30 years old.)
Makes me think Getty Images (or whoever's doing this) is a little confused themselves. Why don't they show up at the Bicycle Kitchen or one of the many rides going on (they aren't hard to find), scope out the scene, talk to whomever they like the looks of, slip 'em a few $$ and just ask to take their picture? What are they doing here, documentary or fashion shoot? The very way they're going about this just encourages egotism and divisiveness.
Me, I'm too old for this shit anyway, I'm not a messenger, I only have a Chrome bag because Brassknuckle twisted my arm and made me buy it (gotta say it's excellent for carrying stuff), and besides I'm working today so I couldn't make the casting call if I wanted to, and finally I'm out of town next week on vacation when the shoots going down, so . . . whatever, eh.
mr rollers03.8.07 - 12:21 pm
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Getty Images does stock photography, so basically they got a gazillion images of everything under the sun, and people license them to use for god-knows-what. It's not a documentary, it's capturing images of a look that's popular and they can sell. It's a fashion shoot. But they have this idea of authenticity, so they cruise over to M.R. and hope to cull some of us handsome devils on wheels.
I'm going because crybaby said he'd be there and I want to figure out who this guy is.
City Hobgoblin03.8.07 - 12:50 pm
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I saw an email from the Bike Coalition this morning pimping the event that states the top-end age they're looking for is 39, which still makes me too fucking old and cantankerous for their fauxtograph session. And bitter. But not obnoxious, because obnoxious adds 10 pounds.
Grumble grumble.
Agent Orange03.8.07 - 1:37 pm
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Does anyone have the number for CryBaby's agent?
Joe Borfo03.8.07 - 1:55 pm
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shit I didnt realize the casting was today... meh, i wouldn't have gotten it anyway, cause I'm not and never will be a skinny stick person.
hmm, maybe we should do a fashion show ride or something...
FuzzBeast03.8.07 - 4:21 pm
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Even the sell-out drama was more civilized back in the day...
nathansnider09.16.10 - 1:57 am
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Hahaha!!
Nathan!! You ready to sell out big dog!?
Roadblock responding to a
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09.16.10 - 1:59 am
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i'm totally going to this, in my time machine.
mikeywally09.16.10 - 8:13 am
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Wow, I wrote all that back in '07? Not too embarrassing really, but it's funny how the internets follow you around.
mr rollers09.16.10 - 8:28 am
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do they have a fixie version of that dolorian (sp?)?
mikeywally responding to a
comment by Foldie
09.16.10 - 8:31 am
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It's all this guy's fault.
So when is the F.A.M. RIDE gonna happen, K. ?
Joe Borfo09.16.10 - 10:08 am
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And this thread has got to be followed up with dingo's actual magazine pictures on black betty, right? Isn't that the shoot that this thread is about? I can't find it.
Joe Borfo09.16.10 - 10:12 am
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DAMN THIS OLD THREAD GETTING BUMPED UP!
I thought I was one step closer to getting rent money.... now i have to work like
the rest half of you guys...
Gizzard09.16.10 - 12:35 pm
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I wanna have FUNderstorm play at that spot at the 1:30 min mark. It's an awesome and well hidden spot, kinda like the tunnel on the west side.
GodLovesUgly responding to a
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09.16.10 - 12:49 pm
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