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IN THE PHOTO:
I made this little stage set: the paneled door with door handle, a “brick” wall (not quite visible in the shadows); also, I tailored Bunz’s custom suit.
Our lighting professional, Tash, lit the scene!
This is from our first newsletter:
Hi!
All this started with this black and white photo (above), of Bunzini looking at his friend Webbs’ hat. The hat lay abandoned, late-night, on a foggy stoop in San Francisco. To start my story, I decided to answer two questions:
Why was Bunz looking at Webbs’ abandoned hat?
Where was Webbs, his spider friend, and why had Webbs left his hat behind? (Okay, that’s three questions.)
I pictured Webbs involved in a card game inside the building with the open door. Sure enough, Bunz discovers his friend, late at night, in the basement of a deserted Victorian house on the Embarcadero of San Francisco. Three friends, Bongo, Hamms and Webbs, are playing cards. Why are they in this abandoned house? Bongo is the building watch dog. They were keeping him company.
Next question: how to launch my story?
The answer was found in this sketch of a donut and coffee (below), by E.A. Sawabini. I invented a diner called Murkey’s Diner, and a customer who sketched the image on a napkin at the diner one night.
Why? Because Murkey’s coffee and donuts are the best!
From all this, a story emerged. The Guys have to save their favorite hangout from marauding moose. Why? What’s going on?
Read MURKEY’S, A RABBIT NOIR and find out!
