Archive for October, 2008
Happy Halloween!
I’ll be at work tonight so I won’t have to worry about giving out candy, which is good since I didn’t buy any.
Normally, fall is a very busy time of year – production cranks up and I bounce around between TV shows and movies and while I’m tired, it’s all good as I’m on a mission to bank cash for the lean months that follow the holidays.
Except this year. This year, it’s dead when it should be [...]
The entire time we were shooting in and around the circus tent, I kept reminding myself to be extra careful around the big metal stakes that were driven into the ground to hold up the tents:
I did really well until the last moment of the last night.
Right as we were getting ready to load our [...]
Partway through day two in the tent, a co-worker got on the walkie with a very important announcement:
“Oh, my God, a clown just dropped his pants.”
I’d been huddled in a corner with my head down, trying to find a bit of air that wasn’t full of dust, but when I looked up, there it was:
One [...]
Today’s set was a big tent in one of LA’s nature areas – and by ‘nature area’ I mean a big dirt lot adjacent to a man-made lake in the Valley.
The dirt floor of the tent was covered with a layer of sawdust, which must have seemed like a great idea at the time – [...]
At work Friday night, I started to feel not so great – tickle in the throat, stuffy nose, etc.
I chalked it up to either standing all day in a stage that was air conditioned to ‘arctic tundra’ or the seasonal temperature changes around here (100 degrees one day, 65 the next. Ah, fall in Southern [...]
In addition to an uncertain economy and a more annoying than usual election season, those of us in movie world have to worry about a potential actor’s strike. Projects which should be starting up right about now are on hold pending resolution of the SAG contract dispute, and what should be a very busy time of [...]
Normally, scenes which feature actors in a moving car are shot using a process trailer. The advantage of using a process trailer is that since the car containing the actors is being towed around the city, the shots look, well, real.
Sometimes, though, process trailers are impractical – either the show can’t afford them, the show [...]
It’s time for the annual “fall” heatwave.
Over the past couple of days, the heat has blasted across the city like a cartoon supervillain bent on destroying life as we know it here in Los Angeles. Even the breeze is hot, and stepping out the door of the house feels exactly like it does when one [...]
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