I’ve been coaxed into doing photography and being a sweatshop art director for this person and his company. No professional photos have been shot yet, but apart from the nomral boring things with computers and such, I’ll try to convince him that he needs a photo of himself in the shower wearing cut-offs. Because noting is more serious than that.
Other props I’m thinking of: a game of Risk. cat, soda can with a straw, drums. In short: anything you can use to make someone look stupid.

