This one time, at Pier 39…

This past weekend was extra fun. Ashton and I travelled back to San Francisco to shoot the “Meet Us” video for our new website. That meant getting up at 6:30am and getting home at 11:30pm, and spending the hours in between being completely crazy. While Ashton can do anything (or nothing at all for that matter) in front of a camera, I have horrible stage fright, and freeze up completely if someone is filming me. My place is behind the camera, not in front of it!

Our cameraman du jour (Dalton Gaudin) was amazing though, and made the task of spitting complete sentences out so easy, even I managed to look good. I think. We started the shoot at Circolo; a rather posh restaurant/ultralounge in Potrero Hill. Great atmosphere and talent made things go very smoothly.

I must say that being inside a nighttime hangout during the day was surreal, and surprisingly clean. We stopped for a super yummy Asian-fusion lunch at Fang’s (upscale sister restaurant to House of Nanking), then made our way to Pier 39.

I swear; none of the tourists who were there that day had ever seen a bride before! People kept staring at our brave bride as we worked our way down the pier to the carousel. Of course the red furry boots and pink kitty-cat umbrella might have had something to do with the odd looks…

After working our magic on the waterfront, we hopped across the Bay to Emeryville, where we took over the instant-photo booth and kicked all the children out of the ball-pit at the public market. As a quick aside, I’m sure that one particular woman is trying, at this very moment, to find out which German reality TV show we were filming… At the end of the day I felt that the video shoot was a success, even with my Kevin Costner-like performance, and we had yet more amazing photos to add to our collection. Maybe I’ll move to LA and become a movie star now…

More to come about our new site.