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BMW: Top Secret Z4 Concept Car Shoot

UltimateGraveyard Mojave Desert Film Location BMW Z4 Concept car photographer Agnieszka Doroszewicz

When BMW was looking for a place to shoot their new “top secret” Z4 Concept car, they needed a private desert location (away from the prying eyes of car photographers trying to get the first images), vast open land, a dry lake bed look and long dirt roads. UltimateGraveyard was a perfect fit with over 300 acres of private desert landscape, located over a mile off the nearest highway.

Once the location was locked down, we assisted the Production’s Executive Producer to secure local hotel accommodations, the Production trailers for the crew of 30, and the free permit from Kern County.

The production utilized a variety of locations on the property, including the dry lake bed area, cement tunnel under the railroad tracks, the plane shell and the dirt roads with the Joshua trees and mountain views as the backdrop.

See the impressive photos by Agnieszka Doroszewicz, in the gallery below. For more information on BMW’s Z4 Concept car, check out the website.

If you are interested in shooting at our location, contact us! Also, follow us on Instagram to see what’s new at @UltimateGraveyard.

Photographer: Agnieszka Doroszewicz c/o SeverinWendeler
Creative Director: Julia Obermeier
Production: MJ68 Productions
Model: Tony Thornburg c/o Modelwerk
Hair & Makeup: Mary Curran
Styling: Holly Copeland

UltimateGraveyard Mojave Desert Film Location BMW Z4 Concept car photographer Agnieszka Doroszewicz

UltimateGraveyard Mojave Desert Film Location BMW Z4 Concept car photographer Agnieszka Doroszewicz

UltimateGraveyard Mojave Desert Film Location BMW Z4 Concept car photographer Agnieszka Doroszewicz

UltimateGraveyard Mojave Desert Film Location BMW Z4 Concept car photographer Agnieszka Doroszewicz

UltimateGraveyard Mojave Desert Film Location BMW Z4 Concept car photographer Agnieszka Doroszewicz

UltimateGraveyard Mojave Desert Film Location BMW Z4 Concept car photographer Agnieszka Doroszewicz

UltimateGraveyard Mojave Desert Film Location BMW Z4 Concept car photographer Agnieszka Doroszewicz

UltimateGraveyard Mojave Desert Film Location BMW Z4 Concept car photographer Agnieszka Doroszewicz

UltimateGraveyard Mojave Desert Film Location BMW Z4 Concept car photographer Agnieszka Doroszewicz

UltimateGraveyard Mojave Desert Film Location BMW Z4 Concept car photographer Agnieszka Doroszewicz

UltimateGraveyard Mojave Desert Film Location BMW Z4 Concept car photographer Agnieszka Doroszewicz

California Summer: Duke India at Ultimate Graveyard

From NickSaglimbeni.com:

One of our favorite international clients recently flew to LA to create a 50th anniversary campaign for Duke India‘s fashion brand. SlickforceStudio produced the “California Dreamin” campaign, which was shot over two days.

Day One took place at our favorite playground in the Mojave desert, Ultimate Graveyard, where the models posed on vintage vehicles, built burning campfires, climbed inside plane shells, and danced along the railroad tracks.

See the 60-second commercial above, and behind-the-scenes images below. Congrats to Duke India on 50 years of success!

MODELS: Celine Farach, Maryam Zolghadr, Federico Pedroni, Austin Moreno
PHOTOGRAPHY: Nick Saglimbeni
WARDROBE STYLIST: Katie Qian
MAKEUP & HAIR: Sherri Celis, Sunny An
VIDEOGRAPHY: Derrick Cohan
BTS IMAGES: Joyce Park for SlickforceStudio

Loot Crate & Rocketjump: An Explosive Summer

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We received a call from our frequent renter RocketJump, who was collaborating with Loot Crate, for their latest Crate theme release. For this production, they needed a big desert location and wanted to know if they could blow up a car on our property. We’ve had other shoots with big fire effects before (check out The Dance’s “Cheers” video), so we gave the go ahead and helped them secure the proper permits, Fire Safety Officer and Water truck.

With an amazing help from Special Effects Coordinator Tom Ceglia and his team, the explosion went off perfectly and the clients were thrilled.

If you have a production in need of a location that can accommodate special effects or other special needs, contact us. Also, follow us on Instagram to see what’s new at @UltimateGraveyard.
 

Check out the final video and behind-the-scenes:

Written and Directed by Clinton Jones
Executive Producers – Chris Davis & Matt Arevalo
Produced by – Jamie Parslow

Starring:
Jimmy Wong
Clinton Jones
Daz Crawford
Holland Farkas
 
 

GQ Magazine: Matthew McConaughey Rocking the Tweed

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GQ Magazine was looking for the perfect desert location to showcase trends in tweed fashion with Matthew McConaughey.
They chose the UltimateGraveyard for the vast open desert land, the Joshua trees, and the railroad tracks that run through it.

Written By: Brett Martin
Photography By: Peggy Sirota

Check out the McConaughey interview in the November 2014 issue of GQ here.

 

W Korea: Call of the Wild featuring Model/Actor Kim Woo Bin

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Actor Kim Woo Bin looking mighty handsome in the March 2014 issue of W Korea photographed at the UltimateGraveyard.

Editor: Choi Jin Woo
Photographer: Jang Duk Hwa
Makeup: Yoon Eun Noh
Hair: Lim Jung Ho
Stylist: Kim Sae Joon
Model: Kim Woo Bin

See more at www.wkorea.com.

 

Jenneration K – Kendall & Kylie Jenner for WMB: World’s Most Beautiful

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In Issue 3 of WMB 3D: World’s Most Beautiful, photographer Nick Saglimbeni brought two of his favorite rising starlets out to UltimateGraveyard for an apocalyptic shoot-to-remember. Kendall and Kylie Jenner’s fashion feature was styled by the insanely talented Monica Rose, who found the perfect pieces to complement the decaying location.

Photographer: Nick Saglimbeni
Stylist: Monica Rose
Makeup: Gaby Ramos Torell
Hair: Jakob Sherwood

 

New York Post – Desert Fashion Shoot

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The NY Post chose UltimateGraveyard’s gritty landscape to showcase the latest Western looks in this fashion shoot.

Editor: Serena French
Photographer: Lizzy Sullivan

Checkout the NY Post’s Fashion Feature.