Archive for November, 2006
Sometime in the past few days, I hurt my thumb. The joint’s swollen and I can’t bend it. I have absolutely no idea how it happened (although I’m tempted to blame Cam-Lok connectors) but since I do tend to use my thumbs quite a bit, I figured I’d get it checked out.
When I showed it [...]
Beverly Hills has sprouted chandeliers in boxes.
On Rodeo (remember, it’s pronounced Row-DAY-oh) Drive, of course.
To those of you outside the US, the Thanksgiving holiday is billed as a commemoration of… well, depending on who you ask, it’s either the commemoration of the onset of a genocide or a happy fuzzy friendship party thrown by some people who were probably really glad to see land.
In reality, it’s an excuse to [...]
Friday night I dragged a friend to a nightclub and we saw.. get ready for it.. 2 Live Crew (remember them?) for some sort of comeback tour or something. I’m still not sure exactly what happened, but here’s some video:
(Thumbnail because WordPress won’t allow video embeds from Jumpcut).
Yeah, I know. I thought it was going [...]
“Well”, my boss said as he came in our room right after our coffee break, “I’ve got some bad news for you.”
Sometimes things get cut, jobs get shortened and then sometimes people get cut from the crew. Not fired, just.. no longer needed for this particular job.
Guess what happened to me yesterday?
Yup. Since my partner [...]
This morning, as I was drinking my coffee and catching up on my reading I came across an article which made reference to “all the gaffers” on a set.
This (and I’ve seen the same mistake before) makes me nuts.
There is one gaffer per shooting unit. He (or she) works directly with the Director of Photography [...]
Yesterday afternoon as we were getting into work, there was a Red Hot Chili Peppers (honestly, I didn’t think those guys were still around) video shooting on the lot – as soon as we found out, we all sauntered over to the set which was on the lot’s New York Street.
Not so much to see [...]
At some point between wrap on Tuesday and call time on Wednesday, our boss got spoken to by lot management about us not looking busy enough.
It’s important to make it clear that the problem was not our not working fast enough or doing good work (what we’ve done so far looks great, and we got [...]
Or something like that.
For those of you not in Southern California, we’re currently being fried by Santa Ana winds.
A Santa Ana wind feels like… well, you know when the oven’s on “high” and you crack the door open and get that blast of hot air right in the face? That’s what a Santa Ana feels [...]
So after years of lifting 100 lb coils of cable and not having back problems (knee and foot problems, yes, but the back’s generally fine), what finally gives me a pain in the back?
Putting in fucking holiday lights, that’s what.
It’s the constant bending down and straightening up that’s done it (stretch up to reach the [...]
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