Ruining Other People's Porsches!

Ruining Other People's Porsches!

You down with OPP? (Other People's Porsches) Yeah, you know me! This is just kind of a funny story. So, what you're looking at is the cover of a calendar. This will definitely require some explaining before I just show you the pictures, so here it is.

My buddy (and neighbor) Michael bought a Porsche 911 that was being shipped to him. Unfortunately, he was leaving on a family cruise for a week and the car didn't quite make it before he had to head out. He asked me if I could take delivery of it and keep it until he got back. No problem!

The car showed up late on the day he left. Michael was very excited about it and messaged me from the ship asking for pictures. I told Nel that I was going to ruin every picture by putting myself in it so I started sending him shots like this:

 
And this:

This one was actually on "National Selfie Day" so it made sense.

For the next week, every time Michael would ask for a picture he got shots like these. At some point he texted a comment to the effect of having enough pictures for a calendar. Branelle made the same comment the day before Michael was getting back and we just decided to do it.

Perhaps my favorite thing about these entire shenanigans is that we started this thing about 5:00 pm and had it finished that night. We decided to just go with costume changes and snap a few shots and then switch and do it again....and again....and again...

Nel was dealing with our two youngsters, so I would stage the car, get into whatever ridiculous outfit I needed, set up the shot, and call her out. She would run out and take some pictures and then we would do it all over again. Keep in mind that it was like 98 degrees while we were doing all this.

When we had enough pictures we built the calendar on Walgreens website and ordered it. We picked it up, put it in a gift bag, and put it in the trunk and just didn't say anything. Michael found it eventually.

Anyway, here you go:

JANUARY

This one was pretty simple. I just threw on a ski outfit and grabbed an old pair out of the garage and then added some effects from the Walgreens editing tool.

FEBRUARY

This was a picture I had sent during the week, but with some fun Valentine's Day stickers added.

MARCH

Same story - a pic from the week, but unfortunately the Walgreens design tool didn't have any clovers or March related options. My shirt happened to be green at least.

APRIL

Also the shot we used for the cover - we grabbed every little rubber ducky that our daughter had and I put on a ridiculously fluffy bathrobe. Get it - April showers? I set up a ladder for Nel to take the shot just because there are only so many angles you can get of the same car.

MAY

Honestly, we just miscounted how many pictures we had with me posing and it was too late to take any more (and I was out of outfit ideas). I had taken this shot of the 911 in the garage next to our Beetle so we made due.

JUNE

We were kind of going with showcasing the Porsche racing heritage with this one. I grabbed every marathon medal my wife had and my hydration pack.

JULY

Trying to hit on the lifeguard. That's not photoshopped - it's one of those cardboard cutouts of Alexandra Daddario. It was breezy and I had a hard time keeping her upright (Ha! - I had a hard time keeping Alexandra Daddario upright.) 

AUGUST

Clearly every tool listed in the 911 shop manual - sledge hammer, chainsaw, pry bar.....

SEPTEMBER

Branelle added a nice little tinting effect to mix things up. If any of my neighbors had driven by while we were taking this shot (pun intended) I might of had some explaining to do.

OCTOBER

This seemed like a good month for the Bandit costume. My daughter thought this was hilarious when we were shooting it. 

NOVEMBER

The name's Idiot....Scott Idiot. We tried a lot of different poses for this one but the classic Bond shooting behind himself ended up looking the best. The champagne bottle and flutes were a nice touch I thought. 

DECEMBER

I had to recruit my mom to take this picture because Nel didn't want our daughter to see me wearing the Santa suit. I was going for Santa delivering Michael's present to him and handing him the keys. 

That's it. One of the funnier things about this is that Michael was telling me that at work people would ask if he had any pictures of his new car and all he had to show them were the ones I was texting him so he kept having to explain why there was some idiot in his car all the time.

It was fun making the calendar, but the downside of having the car around all week was it gave me the 911 itch again (which I've since scratched). Thanks a lot Miguel - my wife says you're a bad influence and I'm not allowed to play with you anymore.