Get That Coffee Cup Dude Outta Here!!
Shooting on the Brooklyn Bridge, New York, November 2009
Iris Nation, USA (New York) developed this commercial for their client Verbatim which called for a large coffee cup costume. In the spot, the large coffee cup man keeps getting in everyone’s pictures! Above he crashes a wedding party on the Brooklyn Bridge. What a pest!
Is that a coffee break….dance? Coffee Man hams it up in Times Square.
What is that you ask? It’s a dumpling person! Jane Tsai of TMI Trading Corp/Chef One contacted Yvette to make this costume to be the mascot for an event they were putting together in lower Manhattan - A Dumpling Festival!
Yvette models the dumpling costume in her Studio’s Hallway
Yvette at the festival - yes, she wore it too…hey, I stand in my work
Finally I can talk about the costume I made for Ryan Reynolds for his role as Captain Excellent in the film Paperman! I made the costume for Motion Picture Costume Designer Juliet Polcsa. The film has its world premier at the Los Angeles Film Festival on Thursday June 18th at at the Mann Village Theater. Check out the festival’s full lineup here.
Yvette looks really short next to Captain Excellent. On location in Montauk, New York, November 2008.
Ryan and Jeff prepare to perform a scene on Montauk point in New York. Ryan is about to fly away into the sky.
Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Daniels in Paperman
Yvette recently made cell phone costumes for an upcoming movie “A Couple of Dicks” starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan. The costume is a cell phone that Tracy wears while on a trike….. its a loooong story - see the movie when it comes out!!
Tracy rests between takes in Queens, New York. June 2009.
Also click on this link to Splash to see photos they snagged while shooting took place in Queens last week! We made 16 identical phones for filming. Whew! That’s a lot of phones!
http://splashnewsonline.celebuzz.com/2009/06/tracy-morgan-films-a-couple-of.html
Yes that was me and my team helping the KOTU team on NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice.
Above, I work with Dennis Rodman making fabric choices for the Kotu Team’s superhero costume icon for Zappos. For those of you who saw the show, you know that the EEE was not a great title for their superhero creation. However, on the news which came on television directly after the show, it was declared the first part of a license plate number for a local murderer. Hmmmm
Above Melissa works with Dennis Rodman and Jesse James. If you look closely, you can see a mini Yvette climbing on the back of Dennis’s hat. And on the far left, see Sarah’s hand.
You can catch the episode online on NBC.com, Celebrity Apprentice, Episode 2 of 2009 season. Our 3 minutes of fame occur midway in the episode. My line ” two way stretch fabric”
Although EEE’s costume was hot, apparently her name was not.
Well, weee had a great time.
I know! What is going on here! We made this special Elephant Blanket for Tommy Hilfiger to be donated by Tommy to the Elephant Family www.elephantfamily.org who host an auction of the blankets to raise money to save the elephants. Here is the blanket as seen in Regent’s Park, London. Several prominent designers made blankets for the elephants. The blankets will be shown in a gallery in London in November, 2008. The elephants were shown in Hyde Park in September with all their blankets on. The elephants travel all over the globe!
Fish the size of sea turtles were seen swimming the halls of our new home in the Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design Center. And of course, we made them. They were sent to Seaworld in San Diego where they made their debut in their park for Halloween festivities.
Hannah’s got her head! Hannah is a spokeswoman for DaVita. Her long lashes were added later.
Yvette Helin was hired by Seaworld Orlando to design and make a prototype of Virgil, a Pelican character in the Seaworld Family of Characters. Here he is, in the hallway of our new location. We are now at 1205 Manhattan Avenue. 11222. He will debut at Seaworld Orlando on August 4, 2008. But first, we will make his eyebrows less excited!
The Norfolk airport needed a fun way to advertise their services. What better than birds who realize that planes are better than flying? MRB Films hired me to design and make 7 birds for their Norfolk Airport commerical called “ORF”. Shown here at the Love Bird and the Starling.
OK, we make Big Sandwich costumes too sometimes….
We made this one for Magic Box Films for their D’Angelo’s commercial.
TVOTR stands for TV on the Radio, and as some of you know, they are a great band out there doing well. Daniel Garcia of Superfi contacted us to make some costumes for their TV on the Radio “Me-I” Music Video Production.
We made a pigeon costume and a tree costume for their new music video that should be out by now. In their post editing they created some fantastic images using the costumes. It was a great job, and the video is stunning! The Pigeon is constructed of dyed burlap in various colors. For a lot of pics of shoot click here!
SNL creates their shows in just a few days. Sometime on a Wednesday I received direction for the making of some meatball costumes for a skit on the upcoming Saturday show where Jake Gyllenhaal hosted. There was also a Parmesan chicken in the skit. January 2007, NBC Studios, New York.
Tony Cantale produced the commercial for Radical Media and Lyrica called “Don’t Have to Live With It”. He asked me to make the Nerve Man, who runs around in the commercial making nerve pain for the people in the commercial. Nerve Man is very small in the commercial, not bigger than your calf. Shot against green screen at Silvercup Studios, New York, April 2007.
Yes, still have to satisfy the crazed artist in me. And keep my commitment to the Prague Quadrennial, and Martha Wilson, Director of Franklin Furnace! My Artwork The Pedestrian Project, was invited to perform in Prague in the Old Town.
The Prague Quadrennial is a large exhibition and convention for theatrical design and architecture. To spice up the event they added street performances that occured around Old Town. Franklin Furnace brought 5 artists; Pat Oleszko, Julie Laffin, William Pope, Nicolás Dumit Estévez, and yours truly.
We took pictures of the tourists with our cameras.
I felt like a rock star! But, really, we are nobodies.
And, there is graffitti even in beautiful Prague!
I had one in May, and he was the biggest ever!
In May we made a cabbage patch kid costume, he has grown up! And he works in New York City. Geico, the Martin Agency, and Moxie Films asked me to make this big guy. He is hilarious. I am anxious to see his debut on TV soon!
Here he is leaving his office job, where he has been let go.
Yvette recently designed and fabricated Baby Jaguar for “Go Diego Go”, a live theatrical version of the Nickelodeon property. Produced by Live Nation, the show will tour the country for several months. Radio City Music Hall hosts the show in early April 2007.
Baby Jaguar performing with Diego in Baltimore on March 2, 2007
Below: Baby J’s head backstage. His mouth is operational. (So he can Growl!)
The Truth.com guys contacted us to make what we have been calling the Truth Monster. They call the spot “Puppet TV”. They have an anti-smoking campaign that is really to the point and quite fantastic.
Go to Truth.com and Watch Online, click on ‘Video’ (hard to see on left of screen).
Watch the other ones too! They are all great.
Shooting the Monster in January, 2007, Midtown Manhattan.
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