Bloomingdales
What a strange day I had yesterday.
What a world.
First I got caught in the worst traffic ever -
all the way from my place in Wantagh
to my Caricature gig in Short Hills, NJ.
The web said the trip would take 1 hour and 15 minutes.
But it took me 5 HOURS !
From the moment I got on the parkway in Wantagh
until I got over the George Washington Bridge,
the traffic was so heavy that I was glad when
we were able to creep along at 5-miles per hour.
(Things like this remind me that I don’t have to answer
for myself because I’d charge a travel-fee
or that I factor in ‘fluff-time’ between gigs.
And Bloomingdales - cross my eyes!
My section at Bloomingdales had ‘rap’ music!
At Bloomingdales!
Turned out that they were testing a new line of products.
Here’s a photo of my set-up.
I like how I incorporated the mannequins into my setup
(the blue backpack is usually hidden under a table or behind
a curtain, but this time I made it look like a prop for the
mannequin:
Then I was surprised. When I’d stray from doing straight faces,
I actually got good responses from the fun Bloomingdales customers.
Turned out that they were just nice wealthy people - WHO WERE OUT
TO HAVE A GOOD TIME ! Just pleasant people who were open to having fun:
Then, tired from the long day (after not sleeping much the night before -
last-minute Studio pieces with outrageous deadlines), do I go home? No.
I had been invited to see the Arkhams at a bar in Brooklyn.
Just a personal outing, but as usual, I occupied myself studying
some ideas for Caricatures. And that meant that I ended up
drawing some of the people there. In the dark bar.
Will the Fun never end?
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