Sunday, September 8, 2013

Birthdays, Shows, and Music videos

Last week was probably the most fun week of the year! Between turning 20, Celebrating at the zoo, and having a New York City performance and filming a music video, it was the best!

Besides for being a solo artist, sometimes I play guitar for other artists too. Kenyon Phillips is one of them and last week was his big music video shoot! The theme was vintage black and white hollywood glam and we nailed it! The video was shot at Dune Studios in Manhattan against a giant white screen with a projector in the background! In front of the camera there was a giant fan that the make up artist put glitter in and had it shoot at us while we were performing. I can't wait to see the final video and maybe by the time it comes out, I'll have successfully scrapped all the glitter off me! :)

                                          (Vintage Hollywood Glam music video look!)

A few days after the music video shoot was my 20th Birthday!!!!!! IT WAS THE BEST! My manager Danny took me to the zoo and honestly, I'm not sure of which of us had more fun. We've decided next time we go, we're totally getting our faces painted, I call the alligator face paint.
 
          (Me and my boyfriend)                     (Danny and the Rhino)                         (I was riding the caterpillar...)

The day after my birthday was my Birthday Show at The Shrine in NYC with my band! Isaac Davidson did my hair and it came out great! This was also first time I had a makeup artist for a live performance show and Yuui the artist did a fantastic job!!! I was so excited to see so many people there to celebrate my birthday and rock out with me! Even some of my friends back in Connecticut that I went to school with came! It was by far the best performance yet! The audience loved the guitar solos and the songs and I had the best time on stage. After the show, my amazingly wonderful manager surprised me with a birthday cake!!!! Instead of candles it had sparklers, I guess now that I'm 20 I'm too old for regular candles haha :) I've also learned that you can't blow out sparklers, believe me, I tried!

    (Rocking out)                                             (got down on my knees for an ear splitting guitar solo)
                                         



(Attempting to blow out sparklers)                          (Danny Madden and me :D )



xox Ariel 

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