still haven't seen the beach
Well, dear readers, today was spent riding around Los Angeles in the production van with Kevin and Arnold. We were missing quite a few cables, parts and even needed to replace an o-ring on the jib controls.
We had to get a c-stand to prop the jib on while building it, so we went straight to Matthews to get it. Matthews made the old pedestals we used when I first started Shop-at-Home. Matthews seemed to be a little unorganized. Two people were called out to the floor to make the sale. They had no idea how to sell us the one stinkin' c-stand. Eventually, their boss came out, pointed out the item number and off we go! No, we didn't. We stood around forever while they found the right receipts, forms, item number again, stock location and then to bring us the stand. One small stand. At least forty-five minutes. Then to the rigging store to buy hooks and pulleys and such to hang the sidescreens we'll use every night. Just found out today that we'll be using four screens instead of two. Two more for obstructed view seats. Seems that the shows are selling so well that they'll be putting more screens up for the poor kids who won't even get close to seeing who's on stage. There's also a nasty rumor that they added another city for New Year's Eve. This is going to be a really rough tour.
Here's some pictures of some places I've been today.
This is the 24 ft. jib I'll be working.
Our meager production station.
I saw Gort in the window of a clothing store! Whoo-hoo!
Sorry for the screwy format change. Right now is when I lost most of my post and had to start all over again. I might go back and fix it later.
Smoggy Smoggerson and the Smoggolites.
Somewhere on the Warner Brothers lot.
Horryrood!
Vlad the Impaler! The inspiration for Dracula. This was painted on the window of a little production company called Transylvanian Express. They repaired one of the tripod heads for our camera setups. I think these guys were true Transylvanians. They had unique and interesting accents. They had tons of vampire stuff around the room. Also, they sucked my blood.
Grauman's Chinese Theater. Dad told me he still remembers what movie was playing when he first saw Grauman's. The three young Clark brothers had been set free to roam and (I'm sure) terrorize the streets of Hollywood.
We passed a lot of studios today: Warner Brothers, Universal, Nickelodeon, NBC and the one I most regret not having a picture of... the Jim Henson Company. It looked so magical from the outside. I just have to get in there one day.
Something big is being built in the stage across from ours. I hope to do some snooping tomorrow and see what's going on. The Sony lot was really bustling today. Much busier than what we experienced during the weekend.
That's about all I can remember to talk about. I really wish I hadn't deleted almost all of this post in some freak keystroke accident.
We had to get a c-stand to prop the jib on while building it, so we went straight to Matthews to get it. Matthews made the old pedestals we used when I first started Shop-at-Home. Matthews seemed to be a little unorganized. Two people were called out to the floor to make the sale. They had no idea how to sell us the one stinkin' c-stand. Eventually, their boss came out, pointed out the item number and off we go! No, we didn't. We stood around forever while they found the right receipts, forms, item number again, stock location and then to bring us the stand. One small stand. At least forty-five minutes. Then to the rigging store to buy hooks and pulleys and such to hang the sidescreens we'll use every night. Just found out today that we'll be using four screens instead of two. Two more for obstructed view seats. Seems that the shows are selling so well that they'll be putting more screens up for the poor kids who won't even get close to seeing who's on stage. There's also a nasty rumor that they added another city for New Year's Eve. This is going to be a really rough tour.
Here's some pictures of some places I've been today.
This is the 24 ft. jib I'll be working.
Our meager production station.
I saw Gort in the window of a clothing store! Whoo-hoo!
Sorry for the screwy format change. Right now is when I lost most of my post and had to start all over again. I might go back and fix it later.
Smoggy Smoggerson and the Smoggolites.
Somewhere on the Warner Brothers lot.
Horryrood!
Vlad the Impaler! The inspiration for Dracula. This was painted on the window of a little production company called Transylvanian Express. They repaired one of the tripod heads for our camera setups. I think these guys were true Transylvanians. They had unique and interesting accents. They had tons of vampire stuff around the room. Also, they sucked my blood.
Grauman's Chinese Theater. Dad told me he still remembers what movie was playing when he first saw Grauman's. The three young Clark brothers had been set free to roam and (I'm sure) terrorize the streets of Hollywood.
We passed a lot of studios today: Warner Brothers, Universal, Nickelodeon, NBC and the one I most regret not having a picture of... the Jim Henson Company. It looked so magical from the outside. I just have to get in there one day.
Something big is being built in the stage across from ours. I hope to do some snooping tomorrow and see what's going on. The Sony lot was really bustling today. Much busier than what we experienced during the weekend.
That's about all I can remember to talk about. I really wish I hadn't deleted almost all of this post in some freak keystroke accident.
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