Get a friend to practice with you.
Aucoin's break came when he went with a model friend to Vogue, and the beauty editor's assistant asked to see his book.
He chose a photo of Lisa Lyon, Mapplethorpe's friend and model, with a tiger, because the animal reminded him of his fiercely protective dogs.
My farm-girl mother can remember churning butter by hand, and my father recalls starting a friend's Model T Ford, "a temperamental beast," with a hand crank.
Get a few friends to play with.
A friend had a two-door model with a three-speed manual transmission.
Call friends to be models.
Starting with a sketched composition, she juxtaposed photographs of women (enlisting her daughter and friends as models) with stock images of objects and scenery, surreally shrunken or enlarged.
Mr. Gardner and his team asked their designer, model and celebrity friends to come up with personal items, and collected more than 50 in total.
Warhol, later a frequent subject -- and competitor -- of Mapplethorpe's, led me to his friend Maxime de la Falaise, a socialite and model with a food column in Vogue and several cookbooks under her belt.
In April, a federal jury acquitted him on charges of transporting explosives during a road trip with a friend who had packed model rocket propellants in the trunk.
