Archive for November, 2009

I’m not thankful I saw that.

November 25, 2009 in Work
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One of the hazards of working sets is the occasional unfortunate eyeful, so to speak.
For many years, grips and electricians have loved to wear really baggy shorts – usually of the cargo variety – to work sans underpants. Which, of course, is fine if you like a breeze around your unmentionables (and who am I [...]

New and improved.

November 20, 2009 in Work

Our few days a week unit has a new gaffer, which isn’t a bad thing. New gaffers mean new connections and the potential of more jobs down the road – but there’s always a period of, well, newness.
We all knew how to read our old gaffer (who has gotten a TV show of his own [...]

Friday Photo

November 13, 2009 in Photos, Work, camera

One of the things that sound mixers have to deal with is shoe noises. Sometimes, the shoes that make actors look super sexy also make a godawful amount of noise on hard floors.
If the actors’ feet aren’t going to be in frame, then usually the sound folks just put down matting (it’s rubber matting with [...]

Who, me?

November 9, 2009 in Non-Work, Off-Topic, dating, life in LA

LAist, in a clearly misguided attempt to maintain some stylistic consistency, a modicum of professionalism, and minimize lawsuits, tend to edit the holy hell out of everything I write for them. Therefore, a much shorter (and less offensive) version of this is on their site, but here, for you, is the full piece:
Enjoy!
Friday night, as [...]

That’ll teach me.

November 4, 2009 in Work

I was feeling pretty awesome – a whole week of work, foot feeling good.. yup. Top o’ the world, so to speak. Until yesterday night.
Sometimes, at the gaffer’s direction, one moves BFLs* just beyond the reach of the head or power feeders, but not far enough to justify completely wrapping up said feeder. When this [...]

Happy post-Halloween.

November 2, 2009 in life in LA

I feel pretty good considering I seriously poisoned myself Saturday night with gallons of cheap Shiraz and mini-Snickers (the Snickers were for the kids, the wine, not so much). I usually have to work on Halloween, so it was nice that it fell on a weekend and I was able to go to two [...]