WoW i LoVe CrAigsList

Hi. A couple months ago i wrote this guy on Craigslist who was looking for a hairstylist here in town. I didnt know what i was really getting myself into (as usual) but apparently this guy has a business making haircutting DVDs and they were looking for a new Stylist to put up on the site. (ME) So they sent me all the info on how they wanted me to cut the hair and sent 4 models to the Salon. Might i add that the descriptions of the hair cuts were AWFUL and everyone in the salon was giving me nasty looks the whole time i was doing this! Anywho... I got to shave one of the girls heads, which was interesting. haha.. and the rest basically got this hair cut. :( Every time a new model would come in i'd put my arm around them and ask nicely.. "ok do you know what you're getting yourself into today?" and the reply was "no". None of them really cared about their hair except this poor girl. Her mom sat in the corner and cried as i cut off all her hair. But we bleached it out and made it all funky so she'd feel a little better. I wonder how she's doing with it now?!? Eric got to work with me on this one as well as the Cameraman. We havent seen the actual DVD but we stole these pics off the website. In the description below they put i was a "NEW STYLIST"..i hope they mean new to their website. At least they said i was Cute! :) Anyway i thought id share that with you. Pretty Funny Stuff i must say! P.S. her hair is in little pony tails at first because she wanted to donate them to Locks Of Love. ENJOY!

Hair And Makeup By. Jessica Cannon

If you look closely you can see Erics head in the background!

Can you see that cute Hand Bag?!?! Super Cute!
Im sorry but i did great!
Behind the scenes, Yo!
Changing film.
Touching up the Make Up.
Only a camera and a little light.
This was the room @ the Flamingo....and my wierd looking butt.
Love this Picture!
Hi. So...i replied to this post on Craigslist.com for a hair/makeup artist. I ended up getting called back by this Photographer James Van Alden (JamesVanAldenPhotography.com) and he says he needs a hair/makeup artist for a shoot he's doing for a friend of his, Lesa Wallace (LesaWallaceHandbags.com) who designs amazing handbags. So long story short i met with him and showed him some of the hair and makeup i've done and Friday we shot Lesa and her Handbags in a suite at the Flamingo. It was amazing. I had lots of fun. The best part was that Lesa wanted to shoot a "behind the scenes" and so we called Eric and he got to come shoot with us. Super Fun!! When i see the final pics i'll post them up on here!!

Jessica

is all talk and wont punch anyone.

This is What we've Done so Far this Summer.....

Is this Strange To anyone Else!??!?

SLASH
DAGGER


Sorry to post two days in a row BUT this morning i was going through my Photobooth pictures and was looking at a picture of Slash i took yesterday while he was cutely laying across my shoulder.

So anyways while i was looking at that picture, i then came across one from months ago where Dagger is laying on my shoulder...SAME shoulder....SAME spot on the couch....DOING the same thing. Is this creepy or what? I swear Slash, sometimes, is Dagger reincarnated.

Was This an April Fools Joke?!

So i meant to post this amazing moment in my life, last week ,but i didnt get around to it till today. And I had to draw a lovely picture so that you'd understand exactly what it looked like. SO heres what happened...

Its April Fools 2009...i've been working all morning and i'm starving!!!! My friend Julia had come in to get her hair done but i told her i was so hungry so she had to come get a smoothie with me before we started her hair. We hopped in my car and were driving down Town Center. We reached the light at D.I. and as we're talking i look over and see a Creeper (man) in the left turn lane looking over at us. Of course i'm thinking "oh gross, get a life & stop looking at us creepy man!". The light turns green and from D.I. all the way to Charleston i realize this man has been following us. So he made an effort to get out of the left turn lane at D.I. and follow us. Whenever i'd speed up, he'd speed up, when i'd slow down,...well he'd slow down!!! I was starting to get really mad! I dont like Creepy Men! So as i turn onto Charleston and proceed into the left far lane he pulls up right next to us...and as i look over to give him a horrible nasty look...i see it...

YES, The creepy man was pukering his lips and had his leg kicked up on the dash so we could see his fishnet stockings and black pumps!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Julia and I saw it at the same time and couldnt help but to start screaming!!!!! What in the World?!? Who does that?!? Julias theory was that he was going to abduct us and before he gruesomely killed us, he was going to paint our toenails.

Was someone playing a joke on me? Cause if you were, you've tramatized me for life! I thought these things only happen in movies!

Taking it E.Z. (An Eric C Weekly Section)

So, being that right now i am sitting in a chapel, getting everything ready for a week-long tour shooting Gladys Knight and the Saints Unified Voices choir, i figured it would only be appropriate to talk about my career and where i am headed these days with it.
As you probably already know, i have been on my own trying to get things going for my own 'company' Illmatic Productions (which is just a fancy freelance title so far). The difficult part of finding work and getting started in this industry(video/film) is finding the demographic or niche that you want to hit. My dream, that i always expressed, was to make snowboard/skateboard videos. NOW, my mind has changed, although i am not at all opposed to shooting skate and snowboard stuff. In school they glamorize and make everything seem that FEATURE FILMS are what everyone is going to be making, but it's damn obvious that 90% of the people in film classes will probably not have anything to do with the industry upon completion of their degrees. The reality of film school is very grim. You're being taught film basics from instructors that have not made it in the industry themselves, therefore can't tell you what they KNOW in getting your career going. I was lucky enough to work with a production company for over a year shooting/editing/directing a monthly 30 minute program that was only shown on local access television, but taught me many valuable lessons that i needed to realize how to plan and carry out deadlines for things. The show wasn't good, but definately gave me a good foundation of things that i needed to have under my belt to work in this career.
I have a new dream in film/video... I would love to spend my life making documentaries. Right now i am in the beginning process of planning my first doc, and to make it happen, im going to have to score some funds(like a grant). If i can manage this, then ill be on the road to work full time on this documentary. The thing i love about documentary is the realities of life that they portray and the things about life that i can learn and experience in the process of shooting and editing. They still contain the basic storytelling characteristics of a feature film, but have more of a challenge to form out of real footage from someone's life. To pay the bills, i am taking on other video, such as corporate and even WEDDINGS(something i never thought i could do). I have to say i am very lucky that i have a rad wife that will support me in this whole difficult venture, but she has a good attitude which is definately helpful. Anyways, that's all i got for now.