2010 Fast Dates
Above: The 2010 Credits Page is dedicated to 3-time World Superbike Champion Bayliss.
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2010 Fast Dates
Above: The 2010 Credits Page is dedicated to 3-time World Superbike Champion Bayliss.
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2008 Miller Motorsports USA World Superbike race shoot for the 2010 Fast Dates calednar May 30-June 1st 2008, Toole, Utah, USA - The return of World Superbike Championship to America at Miller Motorsports Raceway in Utah, after a 3 year absence stateside, gave us an exciting new venue to shoot the 2010 edition of the SBK World Superbike endorsed Fast Dates Calendar. Once again calendar photographer and producer Jim Gianatsis was able to photograph all the top factory World Superbike on pit lane with some very beautiful Calendar Kittens for the world's premier sportbike calendar, now celebrating it's 18 year! This year I decided to book our Fast Dates Calendar Kittens locally from the largest, supposedly most reputable modeling agency in Salt Lake City, Urban Talent Wilhelmina. We showed the agency president. Tina Bullen, photography by Email of our current calendars with the models posing in swimsuits with the World Superbike on Pit Lane. Tina approved of the shoot and said she'd be happy to work with us. I prepared a list of models I wanted to hire from the portfolios on the Urban Talent website, but the first 10 girls on my list said they weren't available for our Calendar. The fact that of the some 200 models listed on the Urban website, not one had a swimsuit or body photo in their portfolio made me think these might be very conservative Mormon girls. But Tina assured me otherwise. Finally after about 4 weeks of going back and forth trying to find models, just 2 weeks before the race weekend I was able to lock down 3 girls for the Calendar shoot, who would also serve as umbrella girls for team Alstare Suzuki on Sunday. I arranged for 2 of the models to meet me at our hotel, the Airport Marriott, to stay for the weekend starting on Thursday Evening, so we could get acquainted, I could explain to them about the shoot which was planned for the nest day, Friday evening after WSB Practice on Pit Lane in front of the team garages , and I could get them to the track on time each day in my car. I also showed them samples of the current Fast Dates Calendars just to confirm to them what we'd be shooting. The next day at the hotel we meet for breakfast, and then by 10am we were in my rental car and off to the track about 30 days away. We were on the Interstate driving past the Great Salt Lake, and despite their living here in salt Lake City, one of the models said this was the first time she had ever been west of town seen the Great Salt Lake, the biggest and most notable natural attraction in the state! When we got to the track we first stopped at the Administration Building to pick up our SBK credentials. From there we went into the track with a case of the new 2009 Fast Dates Calendars I had brought, as i do every year, and walked down Pit Lane to meet all the SBK factory teams and managers, give them a copy of the new Calendar with their bikes I shot the year before, and schedule to shoot their bikes again this year after Practice starting around 5:30 pm. Once I had all the team bikes lined up to shoot, the models and Ii had the rest of the afternoon to kill, so we walked the spectator side of the track, first visiting the Miller Race Car Museum, then walking down to the far end of Spectator row were Ducati was the lone manufacturer to setup a creditable manufacturer's display .It was quite a hike, nearly half a mile, and during the lunch break both Troy Bayliss and Lorenzo Lanzi were there to autograph posters. Then we hiked back towards the pits, stopping at a concession stand for a corn dog lunch and then went into the Main Grand stand to watch WSB Practice. After practice i walked the girls back to our ar by the pits so they 'ld have a hour to get ready for the all important Calendar shoot. I left them alone for about45 minutes to get ready, freshen up and do their makeup while i went back to the pits to check on the team bikes. I returned to the parking lot to get the models and my cameras at 5pm for our shoot, and found them standing outside the car, talking in heated voices and animated gestures on their Apple i-phones to the model agency. It seems in the 45 minutes I left them alone at the car, they got bored, and decided to search the internet to see just what the FastDates.com Calendar website, which they were advertising on the front of their Calendar Kitten Uniforms, was all about. And in scrolling through the pages of the world's most popular motorcycle and pinup calendar website they came across some banner link ads for Playboy.com. The models clicked on the Playboy ads and - "Oh My God, this is a pornographic website! We can't model for this. We're good Mormon girls. Our families and husbands / boyfriends would never accept this, and neither will we" And no amount of convincing, explaining and conjoeling could convince them otherwise. That this was just swimsuit calendar shoot. The fact that the Fast Dates calendar is sold on a website which has paided ads from a nude sites like Playboy has nothing to do with it. Is it any different than Playboy having a paid member channel on Warner Cable or Direct TV, right there next to SpeedTV, the Disney Channel, and their own church channels where they advocate violations of mankind and the law? The Mormon bitches hitched a ride back to Salt Lake City and were gone until Sunday, when they would return to complete the booking Ii had arranged for them to be the Alstare Suzuki Grid Girls. Meanwhile i was stranded with a World Superbike Calendar to shoot, right now, in the middle of nowhere and without no models after 5pm on a friday night. My buddy Jeff offered that there were a lot of other attractive sponsorship models and riders girlfriends wandering the paddock and should approach to them. So I raced back to the Pit Boxes where the teams were waiting for us and told them the Calendar models had gotten sick from being out in the heat all day and the shoot was postponed until the next evening, Saturday. When I returned to the track on Saturday morning I set about again looking for the prettiest girls i could fine. Eric Bostrom's girlfriend was a definite 10 in the model department, but said she was just too shy to shoot for a swimsuit calendar. I looked for Steve Rapp's girlfriend all day, leaving word with his mechanic at his team garage and couldn't find her. It was looking bleak. But then I ran into the PR Managers for SBK sponsors Pirelli and Hannspree with their very attractive Promo Girls. I asked them and they were excited and honored to be Fast Dates Calendar Girls, and the $300 each, I offered to pay them to shoot the calendar that evening after they got off their Promo duties, was just an added bonus they weren't expecting! In the end it worked out great for almost everyone. We at FastDates.com got 4 wonderful models in Pirelli girls Lauren Brooke and Jamie Jungers, Hannspree girls Shona Kay and Kami Wilson, all who really wanted to be featured in the 2010 Fast Dates Calendar. And World Superbike sponsors Pirelli and Hannspree got to receive some great publicity by having their models photographed in their team uniforms, as well as in sexy swimsuits for the Calendar. Back in Los Angles a few months later I did a studio shoot with 2 new professional models, Rachel Bernstein and Sabella Shake, using my own new Ducati 1098R Superbike to assure I had a really hot shot for the cover.The photos with both girls came our so well that i featured them in all 3 editions of the 2010 Calendars including Iron & Lace and Garage Girls. Also included in this year's Fast Dates Calendar is red hair freckle faced LA model Apple Price shooting in a Hollywood back alley with a Bimota Tesi and a Ecosse V-Twin sportbike loaned to us by Ducati of Beverly Hills. The female co-owner of the Ecosse company later objected when she found out we used their bike with a female model in a pinup Calendar, so while we still used the photo, you'll note their is no identification of the bike brand in the Calendar |
