A long way off.

September 28, 2009 in Work

After a while, one gets a feel for how long any particular call sheet will take to shoot – look at call sheet, factor in all the wild cards (stunts, babies, temper-tantrums, animals, weather, etc..) and guess how long the day’s going to be with some accuracy.
Sometimes, of course, said estimation is completely and utterly [...]

Friday Photo

September 25, 2009 in Photos, Work, locations

Normally,  diffusion frames* aren’t placed in front of follow spots like this – it made a very nice super soft effect, but it was a bit hard to see where the beam was in relation to the actor on the set.
The upside of this is that when I did screw up and ‘lose’ one of [...]

It’s a long, long way down

September 19, 2009 in Work

One of the things about going up in a condor is that familiarity breeds, well, comfort - or the lack of discomfort as the case may be.
Even thought I’m not afraid of heights, being 50 or 60 (or 70 0r 80) feet up in the air takes some  getting used to, and when I haven’t been up in [...]

Oh, damn.

September 15, 2009 in Non-Work, Off-Topic, mishaps

I’ve got work tomorrow, which is wonderful as I’d been hoping for at least one day a week and stressing about it, but all my worries seem sort of silly now.
Chuck Atkins, whose blog you’ll find over there on the sidebar and who’s been a commenter from way back, has been in a motorcycle accident.
His [...]

Cable, party of four

September 11, 2009 in Work

Dear god (pick one, I don’t care which), I’m sore. Bone tired and aching from my neck down to my knees.
Although the foot is sore, it doesn’t hurt any more than the rest of me which just spent 10 hours walking on tile floors and wrapping the heavy cable.  We did the outside cable runs [...]

An even trade

September 10, 2009 in Work

There always seems to be some kind of anxiety in my life no matter what – I’ve swapped the anxiety about the foot getting better for the older, more familiar ‘am I going to get enough work to pay the rent’ variety.
It’s still fairly slow here in Los Angeles (most of the work has gone [...]

A fine and dandy first day

September 4, 2009 in Work

Yesterday ended up being 10 hours with a move from one stage to another, and the foot held up better than I’d expected. Of course it hurt at the end of the day, but nothing that over-the-counter anti inflammatories and an ice pack couldn’t handle. I stepped on it the wrong way a few times [...]

Easing back in

September 2, 2009 in Work

The last time I needed to drum up some work right away, I  freaked out and made 12 work calls in a three hour period.
Although this did result in a job, it worked too well and I ended up with four job calls for the next day, three of which I had to turn down.
Best [...]