Archive for August, 2006
Well, okay, not friends.
Our higher-ups have been gracious enough to do us a favor by giving us a 5 am call time tomorrow so we’ll do our ten hours and be done by 4 pm – you know, in case we wanted to have a Friday night.
Of course, today we worked until 8 pm.
I should [...]
One of the things that’s really affected us is the industry ban on zip line. Zip line (lamp cord to you, buddy) is what we used to use when we had a bunch of practical lamps in the center of a room – zip line’s damn near flat and it’s easy to tape down [...]
Today, we were rigging on New York Street – there’s a little nightclub set that’s being dressed to look like a cross between CBGB and The Limelight.
Whatever the painters were using to make the fake stained glass windows made me see purple puppies and rainbows – I ended up having to run home at our [...]
Well, I failed in my mission, but the Pink Princess has learned a hard lesson about negotiation.
Some background:
Back when we all had Shawn Cassidy posters on our walls, one of my Roosevelt-era (or so) great aunts decided that toys cost too goddamn much nowadays and she wasn’t going to take the bait.
In a fit of [...]
When my boss called me to work on this show, he told me we were going to be working 10 hour days, but then production decided to save some money (they’re over budget on the lighting package) by only allowing the rigging crew to work 8 hour days.
An occasional 8 hour day is a treat [...]
I had today off, and I spent it cleaning my house, despite wanting to go to the beach.
6:30 am call time tomorrow, which means I might just get off early enough to have some fun, but not likely.
When I have a call time that early, I’m usually tired before 10 pm.
Couch of the Day:
Not riding it around the city seeing cool things and meeting interesting people (and one does meet interesting people on city buses in Los Angeles), but changing the fluorescent tubes in the bus to a movie-friendly type of tube.
This is more complicated than it might seem – to prevent passenger breakage, the tubes are sealed [...]
Today, we were wrapping out the house that first unit have been shooting in for two days, and the very nice homeowner let me pick some of the figs from the tree in her backyard.
I love figs, and I’m not the only one:
These fellows do, too.
Anyone know what the green beetles are? I’ve never seen [...]
Returning a stage package isn’t psychically difficult, inventory (which was today’s big job) just requires more concentration than I like to muster up when I’m at work and the coffeepot’s all the way on the other side of the lot.
Each stage has it’s own equipment, which may seem excessive, but this is way easier than [...]
Of course, not only did my old Paramount ID not work but my name hasn’t been in the computer at all – each morning, I’ve pushed my bicycle up to the gate, given the guard my name and had him tell me I’ve not been issued a pass. My boss has been calling his crew [...]
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