Last week, Amelia Battaglio, one of the best production designers I know hired me to decorate a commercial for an air freshener . It was a quickie - She had scouted locations for 2-3 days and I was hired on friday to start decorating.
We were on a tight budget so she and I headed out to Ikea to purchase most of the furniture. It was a exhausting trip late in the afternoon that lasted almost 3 hours. We ploughed through, and with the help of Jose, my driver we filled his minivan with all of our purchases - bed, mattress, dressers, shelving, rugs - The works.
So I continued shopping on monday and tuesday - sporting goods, curtain fabrics, rugs etc. Everything was coming together.
At around 3pm, the director contacted Amelia and said that he thought the kid should have a collection of his converse sneakers..."like 30 pairs", he said on the phone. The idea was he had collected all the converse he had ever worn - "Hmmm, 30 pairs," we thought. Where to find 30 pairs of used converse in varying sizes... at 4pm in the afternoon. Amelia suggested a place on St. Mark's Place. A guy who sells used sneakers in an old shoe repair store.
I drove over there, and he had 8 pairs that would be appropriate. He charged me $70. Then I went down to a store on prince Street called Vintage. They had Vintage Converse - White, yellow, blue, even converse with an american flag pattern. Each pair priced at $80-90. So I bought two pairs and headed back to Brooklyn.
He also wanted gnarley looking stuffed animals so I stopped at the Atlantic Avenue Salvation Army
When I got back, Amelia said that the director called to tell her that the clients had nixed the sneaker idea.
All in a day's work. All in a day's work
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