Shawn is a model from Red. We were at the agency casting for a story and he was in the back doing pushups. We'd seen his photos before, but meeting him in person was a different story. You can't stop looking at his eyes; like butterflies fluttering under his eyebrows. The next week we shot together on the street in the Bronx. He got a lot of catcalls. The girls were very excited. The guys, not so much. But he shrugged it off. "It's aight. I be fuckin' they mothers with these pictures." Haters, ya heard?
We first met Casey Spooner at Adam Kimmel's studio in Chelsea. An ornate antique chair had just arrived from France, and Casey sat in it, still in the crate, as if it were a throne. He knows a photo op when he sees one. This time was at our studio, with a king-size wardrobe case that we ended up wheeling from his rehearsal space on Wooster Street, crossing Broadway with a hat box balanced precariously. He and John Tan tried many, many combinations before settling on a trench coat made from US Postal Service envelopes; a hi-tech mesh bodysuit sent to him by Calvin Klein; a pair of Japanese wooden clogs complicated by a huge rubber band he wore around his neck, for posture training. He did his own hair. 
