Ellie The Empress is the most physically beautiful model yet signed with Shore Thang. She's tall, intelligent, curvy, and seemingly never ages. Ellie The Empress and I began talking during the summer of 2020 and by October 2020, we launched EllieTheEmpress.com exclusive content website. Ellie The Empress also created several try-on hauls for the Shore Thang YouTube channel. The first two times I shot photos with Ellie The Empress were both in Florida. The content turned out great. The first time was at the Ritz-Carlton in Orlando, which is near Disney World, and incidentally, the same place where comedian, Bob Saget died tragically shortly thereafter. Ellie The Empress, stunned everyone in the place, as we shot inside the hotel room, on the balcony, and all around the pool area, and the spectacular grounds of the Ritz-Carlton Orlando. The second time we shot together was at an Airbnb house in Central Florida, with Niki Peacock, a.k.a. President Niki.  The outdoor location and humidity that Florida is known for or a little problematic. That being said, Ellie The Empress was polite and professional, and we created excellent contact together. Florida is not my favorite state in the union and frequent trips to […]

Mila Santos was the third Shore Thang model signed. Her curvy look resembled Kendra and Heaven so we thought Mila was a good addition to the squad. Mila and I had one solid photo shoot in the Brentwood penthouse and then a follow up shoot at an Airbnb. That second shoot included a full month of photography with lots of stills and behind the scenes video in in Hollywood. However, after a short amount of time talking, it was clear that Mila was not a good fit. Mila attempted to renegotiate her agreement, after we signed and before At the time, not only did Mila attempt to break her modest three month agreement, but she also attempted to turn our two models against me. Mila also took the opportunity before launching her website to steal control of a Patreon profile I set up for her. I found this all odd, because while we were working together, the conversation went well and the content we easy to create. I found Mila to be a little insecure, like all models are, but beautiful and ambitious. She came to LA to do something with her life. Mila is part Brazilian and part Jewish, […]

I first reached out to Mati Marroni in the spring of 2019. At the time she had a very impressive Instagram account and I knew from chatter on social media that she was only 17. This is the first time Shore Thang ever worked with someone who was 17 and I had a lot of questions for Suzanne, one of our attorneys to make sure we didn’t break the law. Mati picked out a bunch of clothes from DollsKill and the shoot we had planned did not include nudity, so I felt confident we weren’t doing anything illegal. Mati Marroni in DollsKill I flew to Texas in order to set up the photo shoot. Mati showed up several hours late with a group of friends and even though the shoot, didn’t last long, she was very charming, fun to work with, and certainly above average intelligence. Mati’s background is from South America and she is also part Armenian. She was very cool in person and highly complementary about my photography skills. Several weeks after returning to LA, I posted the photos that we shot on CaliStonerGirls.com Mati was already an up-and-coming social media celebrity, even at the age of 16, […]

When I first began working with Julia and Lauren Burch in Summer 2019, I was closer with Julia because we helped get her Instagram account back from being disabled before she and her twin sister first came to Los Angeles. Julia was very grateful for that effort. So much of our wonderful influencers' identities are wrapped up in their Instagram accounts. However, after a handful of trips between, August 2019 and November 2019, to Los Angeles, it became clear that Lauren had a unique style that she basically pieced together in her head before building a large TikTok audience around it. The term e-girl near the end of 2019 was relatively new. Also, Tiktok at the end of 2019 had not taken the hold that it has now in global, social media culture. I remember taking fun photos with Lauren in late 2019 and it was quite clear that even though none of our other talent seem to rock the look, Lauren had a unique vision of how she wanted to style herself. @laurenxburch Both of the Burch twins are committed vegans, were homeschooled, and are dedicated to their social media success. Pretty much they stay glued to their phones […]

When I first met Alysha Grace Marko, it was to hire talent off an ad placed on Model Mayhem. Model Mayhem is notoriously full of amateur models or models who are just starting. I was surprised to meet somebody as beautiful as Alysha is. We got along really well. The idea of Lazy Sunday, my first photo book, originally came from Alysha Grace Marko. We were shooting and she likes to tease when she’s posing and not get completely topless or naked. So we wrapped her in a sheet and did like a men’s formal dress shirt unbuttoned in the front to show off her middle cleavage and it looked amazing. I remember turning to her at some point during the shoot, I said, maybe that’s the new idea Lazy Sunday . Almost like a question. Alysha Grace Marko @alyshagrace and I ended up shooting together eight or 10 times after that. We had a very ambitious shoot on San Miguel Island that required a boat to get there. We both got sick during the voyage, and after a short nap were able to bounce back  And still pulled off an amazing photo shoot. I can definitively say that a […]