Midweek photo fun!

January 31, 2007 in Photos, Work

A sticker on a door in the hospital:

Now, the sticker in context:

That’s right – this sticker was on what was once the door into the room where we were being served lunch (we normally eat outside, but it rained yesterday).
The flooring and dropped ceiling in the room (I think it was the old I.C.U.) had [...]

Attack of the cockroaches!

January 30, 2007 in Work

Sunday, we had scene calling for cockroaches, and the Madagascar cockroaches which were used freaked out about half the crew (some of who decided to take an extended smoke break until all the roaches had finished their scene and were returned to their travel container).
Although I certainly wouldn’t want them crawling on me, I thought [...]

Friday Photo

January 26, 2007 in Photos, Work

Sunset over the prop truck with machine guns.
From Homicidal Hamburglar.
Today is the sixth day of the work week for everyone except me (since I had Wednesday off), so while I’m not as tired as everyone else (and have more clean clothes), I’m also not starting the day in time and a half.
Oh, well. I don’t [...]

An “oops” kind of day

January 24, 2007 in Work

Yesterday, the game of catch-up continued as we were denied the request for a pre-call. We needed the pre-call as we had to connect the power runs to get electricity to the set. When one runs cable through the doorways of a building (as we often do), the doors must be able to close after [...]

Day two of the killing spree

January 23, 2007 in Work

Yesterday was our first day in the abandoned hospital (which is scheduled to be converted into lofts).  We had a two hour pre-call scheduled, but worked so late the night before the we ended up coming in just 15 minutes before general call, so we were playing catch up all day.
We’d leave two of us [...]

Yet more low-budget beatdown

January 21, 2007 in Work

I don’t work on too many horror movies – not by design, just by chance I’ve only worked on one before. Mostly I think it’s because horror movies tend to be extremely low budget (which I try to avoid if at all possible. As I’ve mentioned before, the lower the budget the harder the [...]

Finally, Mack’s meme

January 20, 2007 in Non-Work

My job yesterday got cancelled (oh, I’m heartbroken that I didn’t get to crawl around in the rat-infested basement of a downtown warehouse. Just heartbroken. Really I am), but I have a 6:30 am call tomorrow on some low-budget thing. Since I’d made plans for both Sunday and Monday, I should have known I’d [...]

Don’t they make bird diapers?

January 18, 2007 in Photos, Work

One of the things people forget about Los Angeles is that the city’s older than it seems – parts of the city date to before the Civil War, and that’s where we were working yesterday – in a very old warehouse east of downtown that used to be a railroad depot back in the days [...]

Free Movie Season!

January 15, 2007 in Non-Work, life in LA

Lucky for me, the pre-awards season slew of free movies coincides with the pre-pilot season sucking sounds of the last of my savings leaving my bank account (don’t worry – I’ll be working my ass off very, very soon).
I’m a member of IFP/West (now FilmIndependent), so although we don’t get fancy screeners sent to us [...]

Have you ever wondered

January 11, 2007 in Work

what the inside of a sound stage looks like during a power outage?

It looks kinda like that.
We were wrapping a commercial Tuesday night when the stage lights flickered, and then went out. At first, I thought someone had turned them off as a joke, but then I heard someone say “the whole lot’s [...]