My album supplier decided to run a contest where the entrants trashed a wedding album. It wasn’t about the cruelty of getting back at your clients or defacing a product, but the creative process of it all. When I saw the contest come up, I poked Michelle Peyronet and said we HAD to enter. So we sat around at lunch one day and made the most ridiculous list of things we were going to do to our stash of old albums. Most of our ideas involved explosions and the thought of a book sitting in a field in silence and then imploding got us giggling like crazy.

As we dove into our list the next day – we realized that much of what we wanted to do was completely odd or impractical so we narrowed it down to two ideas. The first was stringing the albums and some cans to the back of a car with “just married”. The second idea was reenacting the “Psycho” movie shower scene.

As Michelle and I ran through the grocery store purchasing twine, ketchup, tortilla chips, cheese, and taco seasoning (okay the last three were for dinner as we both were having Mexican food that night), we stumbled on Frank’s RedHot Sauce and Michelle squealed, IT WAS PERFECT.

So that’s how the third idea was born. The third idea that got her third place in the contest!

Here’s my “Psycho” shower scene. Ketchup EVERYWHERE.

This one didn’t make the cut, but we were having a blast shooting it! We drove around the block (and to Michelle’s accountant’s house to get some action shots- and they looked stupid so those didn’t make the cut).

Some outtakes, because you know there HAD to be some!

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