“I DON’T KNOW IF YOU REALIZE THIS, BUT YOU KINDA STAND OUT…” | March 7, 2010

I’m about to go on another Nikita shoot (www.nikitaclothing.com). Don’t know where we’re going yet, but here are some snaps from the last summer shoot. It was the 7th shoot I’ve done with them and I love those weird, intense trips we take. Usually Rúnar & Heiða, who run the company, throw a dart at a world map and off we go. This time they were aiming for The Bahamas and the dart hit Tampa. So we went to Miami.

One day we were shooting in what we thought was this really picturesque area: run down houses, all painted in pastels and lined up along massive, wide streets. We parked the cars and started shooting on a street corner. After a while I realized certain cars were cruising by us veeeery slowly with alarming regularity. I was starting to feel a little apprehensive when a police car drove up and asked us where we were from.

“I don’t know if you realize this, but you kinda stand out.”

Waving around expensive electronics while hanging out with a bunch of cute girls, who are feverishly dancing to gangster rap while simultaneously peeling off their clothes on a street corner in one of Miami’s roughest ghettos was not his idea of blending in, apparently.

He told us there had been 5 armed robberies that same morning in that same neighborhood and we’d be well advised to get the hell out of there, fast.

“Welcome to America,” he added sarcastically before driving off.

So we drove off to the Fashion District, where the girls could dance without being shot and raped.

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