John Gibson, Calvin Klein Model

Yes, you read that title correctly. I have now modeled for Calvin Klein. But, I feel I should clarify myself. This is more of that fit modeling, like I discussed in my previous blog. My agent has booked me twice with a company called Redcats, and now once with Calvin Klein. So, no big billboard in Times Square with me in my underwear (that's probably in everyone's best interest), but I am getting paid well, so I'm happy!

Last time I talked about shooting the show LIGHTS OUT. I did end up booking that second day of shooting like I hoped. It was crazy. About 17 hours on set! For anyone who thinks TV and movie stars are way overpaid, they should at least understand the physical and mental stamina that is required to do this kind of work. I get tired doing it, and I don't usually work more than a day or two on set every couple of weeks. The principal actors do this about 6 days a week, for months at a time.

The other television work I've booked recently was a two day shoot on the HBO show BORED TO DEATH, starring Jason Schwartzman, Ted Danson and Zack Galafinakis. I'm a big fan of all three of them, so it was exciting. And there were two cool things about this shoot. One, I got to work with Heather which was awesome because that almost never happens. The other cool thing was the scene took place at a comic book convention, so it was filled with all kinds of nerdy stuff I liked! We didn't get much interaction with the leads, but it was still cool to be there and watch them work.

We recently saw PROMISES, PROMISES on Broadway. It was a lot of fun! It stars Sean Hayes from WILL AND GRACE and Kristen Chenoweth is the female lead. I've wanted to see her on Broadway for years, so it was great to finally be able to! We got to meet them both after the show too which was great!

That's all for now. We're going to Arizona this week to see Heather's family! More blogs to follow!

Modeling work, seeing shows

I found an interesting way to earn some extra money here. I was recently contacted by a modeling agency to see if I'd be interested in doing some work for them. This came as a surprise to me, as I had not pursued any modeling work here. But this was a similar scenario to that of my commercial audition I had a couple months ago. I submitted my head shot and resume to a casting director for a film, and Ellen, the modeling agent saw it and thought I'd be a good fit for this modeling job. She explained that is was "fit modeling" which I had never heard of. Basically, I will go in for sessions with some designers and buyers where I try on some of their clothes. They ask me how they feel, and they get to see them on a live person instead of a mannequin. I had the measurements they were looking for, so they brought me in for two different fittings. They seemed to like me and they are going to give me a try! My first session is tomorrow! It sounds like it could be fun, and it pays really well, so obviously I'm very excited about that.

As far as acting jobs, things slowed down for a few weeks. But I did get to do another episode of LIGHTS OUT yesterday! I played a sports photographer at a press conference. That was fun. And my camera got paid too, so bonus. They said they may bring me back for another scene on Friday, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed for that.

We've gone to see some shows they past few weeks, which has been a lot of fun. We were getting bummed that we hadn't been to more shows so we've been working on that now that we're making a little more money. Heather has always wanted to see CHICAGO, so we went to that a few weeks ago. It wasn't as good as I remembered it being, but it was still fun. Summer was in town last week, so we took her to see MEMPHIS. Heather and I saw it back in October, but she's really been wanting to see it again and we thought it would be a good one for Summer since she had never been to a Broadway show. It was amazing again. Definitely recommended to everyone! Summer actually saw a bunch of stuff while she was here, but time and money limited what we could see with her. I did go to ROCK OF AGES with her one night while Heather was working. It was about what I expected. Cheesy as hell, but fun. Then this past Thursday, Heather and I went to EVERYDAY RAPTURE. This one we were excited about. It's pretty much a one person, semi-autobiographical musical starring one of our favorite performers, Sherri Rene Scott. She did it Off-Broadway last year, and it just opened on Broadway. It was awesome! There a bunch of other shows we want to see. Hopefully I can book a lot of these modeling gigs so we can afford to!