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Photos and a question
First, the photos: Now, the question: This is really, really old cable. The cable we’ve used for, well, just about forever has rubber insulation, and this is clearly not rubber. In a debate about what,...
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There’s holes in them thar walls!
Somewhere along the line the people who own my building decided to replace all the plumbing. Now, I don’t inherently object to this as in some parts of the house my water pressure is non-existent, but...
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Half a weekend goes well with panic attacks.
My main problem Friday night wasn’t the copious amount of poison oak all over our location, but the dust and pollen in the air. For some reason I always forget that if the location’s on a dirt road the...
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The work expands to fit the time allotted.
I usually bitch about working for much less than scale, but this particular job was a favor for a good friend of mine, so I just couldn’t say no. The rate worked out to considerably less than half of...
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The abominable dusty everything.
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...
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The one that got away
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,...
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Hello, heat. I didn’t miss you.
It’s time for the annual ‘fry Southern California just when we thought it was autumn’ cruel joke that masquerades as Santa Ana winds. Temperature today in West Los Angeles? 100F. Of course, we were...
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Let it snow, let it snow
Back in the days when the film industry was young and innocent, someone clever noticed that real snow, when brought onto a set with really hot lights, immediately melted. The solution was to pile up a...
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