Ireland pt.6

August 28th, 2009

Our trip to Ireland was more of a working vacation, and the work part of the equation was my filming a music video for Duke Special’s “Sweet Sweet Kisses.”  I thought it would be fun for the video to feature loads and loads of people kissing, so we commissioned a kissing booth to be built, and we set it up in the lobby of Dublin’s National Concert Hall for Duke Special’s gig with the RTÉ Orchestra.  I could be wrong, but I’m fairly certain it’s the first time the National Concert Hall had ever had a kissing booth on the premises.

Anyway, the concert was absolutely amazing, and afterwards, we had over a hundred thirty Irish folks come through the booth and kiss on camera.  It was a quite a scene.  We had this incredible line of people waiting to participate, with Kim and our friend Angela running around trying to get everyone to sign release forms.  And it being the end of the night, more than a few of the volunteers were well on their merry way, so there was a lot of showboating and some pretty hard core making-out sessions in the booth.  Probably the strangest “shoot” I’ve ever been a part of, but it was a lot of fun nonetheless.

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