Looking for some great boots? Here’s a pair you outta check out. The Jesse James Work Boot. They’re the first pair of boots in our workwear line of clothing. They’re full on real deal working boots, but also look pretty damn good for riding or kickin’ around. They’re available at select Walmart’s around the country, and also online at Walmart.com. And keep an eye out on our workwear site, we’re going to be announcing our summer Working Man’s Tour 2009 soon. Yup, we’re hitting the road again to go to county fairs across America to show off our workwear, and shake some hands, and kiss some babies.
The shots of the boots were done by Kevin Necessary, one of the shooters that has worked with us more than a few times over the years. He shot the silver catalog we did (die hard WCC fans will know what we’re talking about). Check out his site to see more rad motorsports shots. He drives in the Baja 500 and 1,000 too. So he gets bonus points in our book.
In case you didn’t catch it, Jesse got to broaden his skill set this week by learning how to clean toilets, lug other people’s stuff around, and politely deal with unruly demands of the people he’s serving…skills that the rest of the staff here at West Coast Choppers have already mastered. But that’s commentary. So, the men’s and women’s groups were tasked with staffing the Lowes Regency Hotel in New York. All the candidates were outfitted in hotel uniforms, and it’s probably the only time you’ll see him in something other than a tshirt with burn holes. It was the most dramatic episode so far, and you can see it again in living color at the NBC website…plus get the behind the scenes scoop on how it felt to wait on cranky ass guests.
So, here’s Fran Kuhn. Fran shot the very first WCC catalog…back when we were all in the 718 building, Cisco was around and had teeth, and Jesse still had some bare spots on his arms. So he’s been one of our BFFs for a long, long time. He stopped by a couple weeks ago to take some B+W shots on film. On what? Yep, film. Didn’t want to shoot any bikes…just the old school machinery that helps build the bikes. Check out his shots, and if you check out his website, you’ll get to see a rare shot of Mr. James with his summer cut.
Well, that’s our brief intro of Fran. Here’s what he had to say about that shoot: “After enduring twelve years of Catholic school, I think Jesse’s place is the only shop where I feel compelled to genuflect, light a candle and dab my forehead with holy water. Maybe drop a few coins in the alms box on the way out. Shoot digital in there? Hell no. That’s gotta be a sin, right? I’d be excommunicated or something. So–film it is. Anyone remember Tri-X?”
When Jesse took charge of the marketing for the men’s group this week on Celebrity Apprentice, the task was to advertise a video phone. The men’s team decided to make a commercial showing the phone being used by a gal talking to her boyfriend who is stationed in Iraq. So Jesse called Anne Lindfjeld, longtime Chopperdog and Chopper Hottie, and model to help out on the shoot.
We asked Anne to give us the 411 on how she originally got mixed up with WCC, and also the backstory on her gig on the set of Celebrity Apprentice…”So I did my first shoot for Chopperdogs back in early 2006. I had been to LA once on a 3 month backpacking trip 2 years before, and was thrilled about going back, and had been hitting up companies and photographers about shoots, including Shannon Brooke. She asked me if I’d be up for shooting for the website and for the 2008 calendar. I was stoked after having watched Jesse on Monster Garage and Motorcycle Mania on TV. This was a pretty cool deal for me.
When I joined Chopperdogs I started talking to people, and found that is was like having a second family. This was also how I got to know Jesse like a lot of the other dogs. We’ve become friends over the years, and I came back and shot for Chopperdogs and the 2009 calendar during my yearly trip to LA.
The Apprentice thing happened when I was hanging out with my then boyfriend in NYC, and Jesse called me up and told me that he needed someone to do a small acting part in some TV thing he had going on. He couldn’t tell me what it was about or what I would be doing. I was just given an address, and showed up to support him and be a friend by helping out. So I got there and still didn’t know what the hell was going on, and all of a sudden they told me to go into a room filled with all the apprentices, and a camera crew was there….I didn’t know I would be on TV so I hadn’t done any hair or make up or anything! And I still didn’t know that I was now ON the show or what show it was ‘till I sat down and looked at some papers saying Donald Trump (in gold of course). Then I figured out what was going on. From there I was just hanging out ‘till my part was up which was hours later…. fun experience…my first time ever speaking English on TV. I never saw any of it so I have no idea if I look or sound like a complete jackass… but it was fun, great crew, fun people and different ‘job.’
I don’t live in NYC, or in the states full time…I’m currently a gypsy just traveling around with my suitcase, crashing on couches and air mattresses trying to find a good job, but I do spend most of my time in LA.” Check out what Anne does when she’s not looking for couches to crash on…
www.annepinup.com.
Our boy survived another week in the Big Apple! This week he got to show his girly side once again as the groups teamed up with Zappos.com, the Mac Daddy of online shoes, to create a super hero/mascot/brand character to liven up their site. The guys got off to an intersting start when one member of the team thinks it’s a great idea if the super hero is a transvestite. NOT. Eventually they settle on a character and Jesse heads up the costume design. And once again, the guys have the better looking solution. Unfortunately, the Zappos dude din’t like the character name, so the girls [even with their lame-o outfit] won in the end.
See you next Sunday at 9:00pm to catch the next cage match.
So, If you didn’t catch Week 1 of Celebrity Apprentice, we’ll recap it for you: The Donald and his gale-force-defying-do greet the celebs on a windy NY pier and dole out the first challenge: bake and sell 1,000 cupcakes to raise dough for charities. They had to take the bake sale on the road and decorate a roach coach to sell their cupcakes on the streets of NYC. Both teams had a little trouble cooking their cakes and ultimately the women won the task. But there’s no arguing who took the prize for best looking roach coach. Jesse was in charge of customizing the men’s truck and called up Skinzwraps and had them execute his very own artistic vision he titled “Cupcakestarcalatica”. Watch for cupcake designs to appear on choppers later this year.
Be sure to tune into NBC next week on Sunday night at 9:00pm and catch all the hijinks!
