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Sunday, 21 February 2010 - 09:52

Dancing on the ceiling


Here's a funny little job that I found for The Sunday Telegraph. Britain's first ever vacuum cleaner museum. Whilst there are plenty of museums with vacuum cleaners in them, this is the only one devoted solely to them.

The owner, James Brown, is a lovely bloke with a great sense of fun. He told me that he even vacuums the ceiling in his museum/shop at Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. That set me thinking, and together with my assistant I went in search of an apron so that we could photograph him doing just that and make it more of an amusing image.

The image is not photoshopped in any way,(other than levels and curves), although I admit that it does look like it has been.
It's the result of James leaping off a chair, (just at camera left out of the shot). An old trick, but it does work. He did it four times for me and six times for my assistant Sophie, which was very sporting of him.

I'm thinking maybe I need an obsession like that to fill the vacuum in my life,(sorry, only joking-I couldn't resist). CLICK below for the Telegraph audio test with James...(By the way-he identified them all correctly).









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