Tuesday 6 March 2018

the Audition


The scene that one comes upon when The Bear decides that he wants you to take a picture of him just so he can go audition for television comercials that involve pillows, fabric softeners, baby diapers, milk powder, cotton scented wall paint, creches, child care centers, bath towels, marshmellows and natural frozen yogurt. Telling him that he will be nothing more than a puppet prop and it all falls on deaf ears. Nothing not worth giving a shot, he claims, and what more if you're The Bear that Homeland Security people call a fluffy little ball of fur.

And so he ruffles about the throw, tumbles around the cushions and tries all kinds of poses and positions. keeping you busy with the camera until you think that he has got it right.
 
This shot is the best I got.
 
The others had him looking like he was either praising the heavens, pouting away at the wall and generally looking like The Bear that he is all the time.
 
He is generally very pleased with this shot. 

And The Bear holds on to hope that he will get the call despite having a shot that shows only half his profile with not his face at all. He is an expressive Bear, he insists, and after all, he argues, the poster shot for Disney's Christopher Robin has Winnie-the-Pooh seated with a hat covering his entire face- and if Disney says it is okay, so will everyone else.
 
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