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Spending a few nights with the stars
as your canopy is a wonderful way to reconnect with nature. This episode
will have you outward bound with confidence and style as we pitch our
tent in God's own timeshare.
Incidental Treasures: The pleasure of camping is a relatively new concept. In the 50's, 60's and 70's camping equipment was redesigned and marketed to a whole new leisure class. Gone were drab tents and hum-drum supplies, only to be replaced by charming, often times colorful accessories that made a weekend in the wilderness that much more like home. We featured a few of the more collectable items from days gone by, including the flashlight/fan combination, a "Buzz-Off" personal sonic bug repellant, a cooler that was really more like a "mini fridge" and one of my favorites - a suitcase table with matching stools. These forerunners of modern day camping equipment are fun because they bring to mind the camp-outs of our youth. Perhaps that's why they're so collectible! Anywho Foraging and gathering for your meals is a very satisfying activity. I learned how from an old hand at the process - Christopher Nyerges (Knee-ear-gush). He showed me how to live off the earth very tastefully. We went about our campsite and gathered greens for a splendid salad. He says to be very careful about what you eat in nature. It's important to know what you're picking and not eat it unless you can definitely identify it. Our salad consisted of: -Miner's Lettuce It was the freshest salad I've ever eaten, and just delicious! We ate it out of big shells, with chopsticks made of cattail. How delightful! Random Thoughts This is, to date, the only episode of The Brini Maxwell Show that was shot entirely on location. It was shot in Altadena - the foothills of the mountains above Pasadena in California. We shot the entire episode in two and a half days during the rainiest season California had seen in recent memory. The first day we shot in the morning and had our afternoon scenes rained out. Luckily Andrew could stay over night and we spent the following morning finishing up his segment. Luckily we had better weather for our second two days of shooting. Buying and renovating the camper was quite an undertaking. It was bought on eBay for $500 and renovated in about a week by Julia Van Vliet with the help of the fabric from Marimekko and paint from the automotive division of Krylon. The car parked in front of the trailer is a 1968 Chevy Chevelle and belonged to Brandon Trost the boyfriend of my west coast makeup artist, Thea Samuels. He is very protective of his wheels, but was gracious enough to let us use them for the shoot |
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