We've been busy.....last week we had a crew of ten (our biggest crew so far) at The Serpentine Summer Party. It was two long days, finishing past midnight on Wednesday and Thursday but ultimately rewarding and fun. We were filming interviews taking place in a set designed by Zaha Hadid for the announcement of Canvas TV, a proposed TV channel specialising in design and the arts. The idea was that the celebrity laden guest list would be guided to our set where either Lauren Laverne, Rory Bremner or CNN's Monita Rajpal would conduct light-hearted interviews. Thanks to Rebecca King Lassman's excellent team of "celebrity wranglers" this actually happened. Grayson Perry, Pharrell Williams (Hannah tried to touch but failed), Damien Hirst (hugged Chris the cameraman to be explained in another blog) Mario Testino, Zaha herself, Thandi Newton, Sir Peter Blake, David Bailey, Phillip Green and many others looked great and were wonderfully framed in Zaha's set. I was really the only person who could hear what was being said and it was interesting to hear a bunch of major artists talk about what they had been doing that day - Grayson making a giant tapestry, Damien a new show of paintings at The Wallace Collection coming up, Sir Peter Blake working on the graphics for a new movie about Ian Drury and Mario confessing he wanted to make a film. I was a bit knackered the next day but felt charged up by these art dudes and their energy.
