Once upon a time Alena took her cluster to a workshop entitled "Dress for Success." The presenters for the workshop were some of the directors of Texoma Goodwill industries. During the course of the their talk, they mentioned that they were going to be having a wedding dress fashion show for one of the local TV stations and were in need of models. Alena, being the kind and generous and slightly narcissistic person she is, thought "Sure! Why not?" It was only after I had agreed to be in the little televised fashion show that they mentioned the show would be taking place at 5:30AM ...as in the morning, you know, early. And so the adventure began.
Now, I'm a morning person, but I have to admit that getting up at 4:00am in order to do my hair and makeup for this thing was a struggle. It felt a little ridiculous to be prancing around in a wedding dress in what might as well have been the middle of the night. Even more ridiculous was the sight of four girls, drowning in a sea of white crinoline, climbing in and out of a mini van.
The ridiculousness didn't stop there. TV stations themselves are kind of silly looking places. When we watch the news, we don't realize that it's really just one giant room. It's funny how a very specific camera angle can make one little section of a warehouse look like an entire room. And don't get me started on weathermen... Of course I knew that meteorologists don't actually have a giant map of the country behind them when they give their reports. ---I mean come on you learn that in like fourth grade. However, this knowledge does not make the fact that they are pointing to invisible things in front of a giant green screen any less funny.
And then there was the little mishap with the camera robot. When it was finally time for our 4 minutes of stardom, the camera freaked out. I honestly had no idea it was even possible, but it shorted or something and just started spinning, recording just about everything in the studio but us. But hey it's cool, I mean it's not like we'd gotten up at 4:00am for this or anything.
Once the camera issues had been resolved, we started over and modeled the dresses for all to see (the 12 people who were awake at the time anyway ;) ). Moments later we piled back into the van and stopped off at IHOP before attending our 8:00am classes. Thus the adventure was brought to a close.
To watch our four minutes of stardom click HERE
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| {The Studio} |
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| {The "Brides"} |
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| {The earliest I've been up in a LONG time} |