Things for the poster photo-shoot proceed slowly because of many reasons, really, one of them being that the rehearsals for “Was Wollen Sie von Mir?” are being held parallel, and in full swing, and it seems since day one everyone on is in fights with everyone, Vladimir and Jan for starters and now really the whole crew. As for Molly, she is trying to hang in there seeing it apparently as a potentially highly imperative career step, consequently upsetting the lonely Starfish, at the same time trying to keep him happy with connecting to the poster shoot, just where Starfish thought it will be a sort of romantic moment for the two love-birds only, the drama about the ultra-feminine kimono aside,  it turns out it is supposed to be a photo-shoot for a group of friends to advertise this Tokyo hotel, and now the assembled models are Starfish and Molly, Chiaki, Larry and all of a sudden also Viola popped up, I supposed she was all the time working with the same agency that Molly signed up with as well.

Job overlapping and internal tensions not even considered, it all of a sudden seems to rain every second day at least, and by the all models can be assembled for a shoot it will start drizzling half an hour later.

Not an easy task to get done, that’s for sure. Here some first shots from session one, and yes, it seemed a good idea at the time to include the animals Muschi, Goebbels and MiuMiu, the dog on a leash (!) and the cats decorated with colourful silk ribbons around their neck, neither of them is used that, no comment on that idea:

Josiane Keller “group shot outside – Chiaki leaning back Starfish on a rock” (2017)

Starfish had to sit on that rock with Muschi, what you can’t see here is that Starfish has extreme vertigo, already a bar-stool is too much for him, so this was quite daring, mildly put, and getting him up there even less than getting him safely down…

Josiane Keller “group shot outside – Chiaki leaning back 2” (2017)

Josiane Keller “group shot outside – Starfish and Muschi on a rock” (2017)

Josiane Keller “group shot outside – Starfish on a rock 2” (2017)

Josiane Keller “group shot outside – Starfish on a rock 3” (2017)

The director of the shoot thought it would be nice if Viola gets to hold Goebbels, because somehow he thought the dog would go well with her pink hair or something. Viola really likes dogs and has never in her life met an unpredictable monster like Goebbels, in particular now that Goebbels got somehow, do not ask, used to Starfish, but Starfish was stuck high above everyone on a rock and trying not to fall down, and Goebbels was about to attack everyone who seemed to separate him from Starfish, not knowing where exactly Starfish had gone. Goebbels starting barking, Starfish shouting at him, trying to calm him down and all others tried to keep a peaceful advertising face, in one word: CHAOS. Considering all that what was really going on the shots look rather peaceful…

Josiane Keller “group shot outside – Viola with Goebbels and Larry” (2017)

Josiane Keller “group shot outside – Viola with Goebbels 2” (2017)

Josiane Keller “group shot outside – Viola” (2017)

Josiane Keller “group shot outside – Goebbels on a leash” (2017)

Josiane Keller “group shot outside – Goebbels on a leash 2” (2017)