vulcan architecture volume 3

Well setting the flood of pin up shoots aside for today here is the follow up to Vulcan architecture from Star Trek Enterprise, Episode # 74 entitled “HOME” this is three variations of the same location. The hillside dwelling on the right is the exterior design for T’POL’s mothers (played wonderfully by Joanna Cassidy) home on Vulcan, Joanna’s character was of a high ranking woman but somewhat of a rebel so her immaculate home is rural as opposed to in the high society of down town amongst the powerful. In these three drawings the tone and mainly the city scape will change drastically as the approval process for this concept goes thru all the changes. Concept #1 has an easy atmosphere and a smaller spread out cityscape. Joanna’s house made the cut but the sky and background didn’t. Sketch #2 puts the Atmosphere in heavy sunset mode and the city grows in terms of  ground level structures. The producers asked for more skyscrapers so Drawing #3 came to be and in the long run the city became a combo of #2 and #3 as seen in the next two, previously posted images. This was just about the end of designing new architecture for the hot planet but it was quite a treat to get to dive into such an awesome world of drawings and concepts.

 

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pin up update #2 with Mikki Bitten & Remembering our veterans

The Army National Guard post in Atascadero was the backdrop for this fun shot,, SSG Greg Brown gave us an escort to shoot around some of the vehicles and he also let little Alyna sit in a couple of the big rigs,  A big thanks goes to you and your men for letting us shoot at your post. We shot a lot of great pics but this one is a particular favorite of mine. Mikki again strikes the perfect pose with such ease & class and she sure can cast those bewitching eyes into one deadly and sultry expression!!! WOOOOO-WEEEEE,,,, In Honor and remembrance on this Veterans day, this pin up image is dedicated to all of our brave men and women that serve, defend, and protect America’s freedom without sacrifice. We so proudly honors those that have fallen and those that carry on to preserve the peace we all share on our homeland of the United States of America. May God bless and protect our nobles sons and daughters here and abroad. our prayers are with you always. Thank you to the United States Army, The United States Navy, The United States Air Force, The United States Marines and the United States National Guard.         Oh say can you see, by the dawns early light!

pin up update with mikki bitten

My little daughter Alyna (7) met up with pin up model Mikki Bitten in the coastal city of Atascadero for one great day of fun and awesome photography!!!  This is Mikki’s home town, and she found some great places to shoot and on top of that, she really knows her stuff!!!  She can whip out an awesome vintage hair doo in no time flat, and she drives one beautiful 1962 Ford Falcon!!!  Very nice to have something the same age as myself at one of these shoots!!!  This was one of the funnest shoots I have been on and am so glad all of Mikki’s fabulous work is in my camera!!  HAAA!  She definitely knows the pin-up style in every way, and her passion for the golden era of the 50’s is without measure!!!  She is one extremely nice gal, and my daughter thinks she’s the greatest model in the world!!!  Alyna played art and pose director all day and was a lot of fun to have around…we are all doomed when she gets older because she is without a doubt going to be in charge of just about everything!!!  She is a dreamer with a big heart, as is Mikki!!!  Thanks Miss Bitten for the great day and all the fun!!!

here she is right out of the camera

Mikki and the finished piece

Alyna and Mikki hamming it up for a fun last picture of the day

Pin up update with Anela amaretto

Yesterday was another awesome photo shoot day, And my buddy Nelson and I met with the Amazing Anela Amaretto in San Francisco for an awesome military style pin up shoot just north west of the Golden Gate Bridge. We were at some old WWII bunkers that rim the coast line.  Anela brought her photographer friend John Hollowell of California Redwood Photography, and with Nelson as the  flag man, we captured some amazing images.   John and I were shooting on top of each other trying to catch those perfect angles against an awesome sunset, and Anela really captured some amazingly beautiful poses!!  Anela is one incredible lady, and she has one amazing talent at capturing the era of vintage pin up and giving it a twist and flair that  is breathtaking!!!  We had a little less than an hour of light to work with, but what we had was truly magical with the way it looked on film…or data card!!!  HAAA!  So with that, here are a couple of pics from the shoot and hope you all enjoy them.

the ever lovely Anela Amarettoa close up from the full figure shot

Nelson working his bounce reflector

John Hallowell snaging some awesome close ups

A close up pulled from the full figure shot

Happy Halloween, Happy adoption day, and happy Birthday to Greg Jein

Well, it’s an awesome day on many levels.  It’s Halloween for one, most importantly, this is the day way back 14 years ago that I adopted my twin daughters, Olivia and Alicia, and it’s also Greg Jein’s Birthday!!

I was a foster parent way back and the first children that I got to foster parent for were two little twin girls just a few days old. The girls’ birth mom vanished after a couple of visits in the early days and after a year or so the court gave the option to adopt, and it was a great day to get this long awaited news…just a few days before the girls turned three (Halloween Day).  We went to court and so happily made Olivia and Alicia a permanent part of our family…I have been truly blessed with these two wonderful daughters, and they bring a special joy to every day of my life!

Another way back story to the late 1970’s, as a little kid in Arizona, was the day Close Encounters of the Third Kind came out and I learned about a man named Greg Jein!!!  Within the next couple of years, special effects mags like Starlog and Cinefex would do special articles on Greg, and from the first day I read about him, I was a fan!!!  In 1984, I got a hold of his # and worked up the courage to give him a call, and he invited me over to his shop to say hey.  I was in town doing my bi-monthly turn in a new portfolio and resume to all the VFX houses hoping to one day get a job, and Greg’s shop was right behind Boss Films!!  It was a quick visit, and Greg had his hands in some black, gooey, brushable resin he was smearing into a laser blaster mold…I didn’t have a lot to show him, but I left with one big ear to ear grin after meeting my hero!!!  A few years later I managed to break in to the VFX world, and Greg Jein came to the shop I was working at to lend a hand on some models we were making.  We kept in touch, and soon I was working with Greg at his shop on Star Trek V; it’s funny to look back on those times and have a new outlook on someone who was once someone I only new from books and the big screen to now calling Greg my friend!!!  To this day, it is still one great honor!!

Happy Birthday, GREG!!! and Happy adopted day, Olivia ‘n Alicia!! and Happy Halloween to all.

Alicia and Olivia

Greg and I at his shop

Greg and I at Comicon

Greg and Ed (big daddy) Roth both loved to work their magic with bondo by hand!!

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It’s hot and covered with big statues!!!! HAAA! pretty tough place to live when your trying not to be emotional!!

 

  Ed. note:  Screen Caps courtesy of  Jörg, of course!   These are from Eps #79, “Home”, as John’s artwork states.

miss amanda lee

Here is a quick one derived from a much bigger picture!!  Whilst cleaning up the exposures on a western themed shot of Miss Amanda, a close up of her eyes proved to be something special and had to have their own frame!!  In color this grab was nice but oh so very bewitching in B&W!!!   Thanks Amanda!

pin up update with daniza

Lots of pin ups in the next coming days!!  Working on getting all my calender and holiday ideas worked out, so I hope all you bloggers are up for a cornucopia of vintage style gals showing there best pin up poses and outfits!!  Lots of fun working with all these awesome and talented models, and I so love putting these pictures together!!

Today’s model is the lovely Daniza from Phoenix Arizona!!!  We met at the park in Scottsdale AZ where I first worked with Miss Amanda Lee last October….  If there was more time, I would love to get back to PHX and shoot Daniza in the Star Trek garb!!!  She is awesome in all styles of fashion, and boy oh boy, would she ever make a great Star Fleet officer!!!  I have to say Daniza has one incredible talent!!  She has such a love and passion for what she does, and she makes every picture a work of art!!!  She is one great gal and very sweet and kind as well…so with that, please enjoy these fun pics from a very fun shoot.

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pin up update with miss amanda lee

WOOOO HOOO!!  Finally had a moment to work on some pics from all my recent shoots, and here is the lovely Miss Amanda sporting her Starfleet uniform in the rocky terrain of Reatta Pass Arizona.  Always a treat to get back home  to work with Amanda, and this was a fun, new kinda pin up theme for the both of us!!

pin up update with victoria

Wow, lots of great comments on Victoria’s post from the other day, and also some just too serious one’s!!!  Relax folks, this is an art form celebrating the golden era of pin up with a fun Star Trek twist to it!!  Today’s pick is from the same shoot featuring the TOS phaser against the NorthWest face of Vasquez Rocks.  Victoria again strikes one awesomely gorgeous pose!!!  All Gorns beware…she’s one lethal beauty!!!