Good evening, Hive! I’m blogging from bed while I wait for my Indian food to be delivered. Still reveling in having a schedule of my own again. I spent a few hours editing at 
Tonight’s post is going to be my first pinup photography post in a while. I’ve been under water with the Dark Pinup release for weeks so it’s been hard to find time to edit outstanding photos. This one is a priority, though, because it’s part of a set reward for collectors that manage to either open or buy up complete sets from the secondary markets. This was an ambitious goal and a new concept for an NFT set. The model’s name is Vee and she flew in from Colorado just for this Dark Pinup marketing/reward shoot.
I’ve wanted to shoot with Vee for over a year but 2020 was pretty much a wash. We booked a room at a super fancy bed and breakfast in the Minnesota suburbs. It’s one of the most impressive shoot locations I’ve ever seen. She bought several outfits and I loaded my trunk with three boxes of the usual 
One thing that made this a particularly cool shoot was knowing that it would eventually be used to create an NFT expansion to Dark Pinup Act Two. I brought my Insta360 One X camera and was able to map the entire hotel with an app called Matterport. There will be a point when the hotel walk through will be included as a compliment to this set reward release. Ultimately, we’d like to get as close as possible to making collectors feel like they are part of the shoot itself. A step at a time, I think we’re getting there. Very happy with how this all came out. Thanks for reading!