Pictures!!!

Here are some pics I've been meaning to post up...

This first one is from the set of the film 'Staten Island' when we were filming in a junkyard

 

Still from 'Staten Island', we were getting some shots of the Manhattan skyline

This night we had to re-sink a car.  The first time they filmed it it went to the bottom of the river and got stuck.

We have strange wildlife run-ins from time to time... Here a random peacock rolled up to a hospital we were filming in and tried to walk through the automatic doors of the emergency room. 

 

A little family of geese, with the Intrepid and Manhattan in the background.

 

Me, Ethan Hawke, and Jeremy Shwartz on the set of 'Staten Island' 

I don't know if I wrote about this, but I worked three days on a kids video pilot. 

  How cute!

 

Brooklyn Bridge and downtown from the water taxi dock in Brooklyn

These two shots were kind-of from a surreal experience.  I was driving around downtown... and came across urban ninjas!!! ...or maybe they were samarais...

Regardless, pretty strange.  Until next time...

Naked Brothers and Pothedz Couch - Episode 6 News

So we officially have recorded Episode 6 of Pothedz Couch!  It took forever to get everybody together to do it, but it finally happened yesterday. Peyton came over and filmed with us until about 2PM, then we shot the rest with some extra characters being played by our friends Leslie Bowen (who we know originally from college) and our neighbor Sam George, with only a little break so that Sam could go downstairs and play a concert in Second Life (check him out if you're in Second Life, his name in SL is Sebastian Jacks).  It looks like its going to be another good one, although this will be the first of our shorter, more internet-geared shows.  Odds are we'll start just making smaller segment clips and put them on the site with a new setup, but who knows.  I have a habit of changing my mind depending on what I have time for and how much funny stuff I come up with. 

Also, once again, I've started back on the Nickelodeon show "The Naked Brothers' Band".  While that means I won't be on any cool movie gigs until October, it also means I have a steady job with good hours until then.  It's on the good end of rates for PAs ($150/day), although not as good as commercials, which are about $200/day or more sometimes, but better than most low budget movies, which are usually around $125-$130/day (sometimes $100/day in the winter).  Also the hours are better than on features, which usually run 12-19 hours a day.  Most days on this are closer to 8-10 hours, which I hear is more common on episodic TV.

Anyway, I've got a little work to do on Episode 6 before it makes it to the site.  I've got to log all the tapes, edit them together, do a few more animated bits, add sound effects and music, film a couple of insert shots,....well, you get the idea.  There's still a little ways to go.  I'll be working on it every chance I get, though, which means nights and weekends now that I'm on a nearly normal person's schedule.  Hopefully it'll be done in a couple of weeks,but don't be surprised if it takes a little longer...

Staten Island and Martha Stewart

I just finished working on another indie movie called 'Staten Island' and then I worked a couple of days on Martha Stewart's 'Everyday Food' taking apart the whole kitchen set and moving it up to a storage space in Norwalk, Connecticut. Today I'm working on some kids video pilot that's really low-budget and we're stealing shots all over the city w/out a permit.

The 'Staten Island' movie was an alright shoot.  I only worked the last couple of weeks on it because one of their PAs got in an accident and went to jail because of some outstanding tickets on his license.  It wasn't too bad.  It looks like the story's pretty decent, so it just might get picked up by a distributer.  It stars Ethan Hawke and Vincent D'Onofrio.  I got my picture taken with Ethan Hawke, but I'll have to post it up here later 'cause I'm at work right now and it's on my home computer.

The Martha Stewart gig was a lot of tiring work; moving huge refridgerators, heavy ass set walls, marble countertops and thick tile flooring.  Needless to say, I'm still a little worn out from the last couple of days.  At least the hours were good and the rate was too.

We should be shooting the next episode of Pothedz Couch Monday or Tuesday of next week...(keeping my fingers crossed that nobody ends up having to work those days)  Me and Peyton talked to some lady about the show at this Comedynet place he works now, but she just mainly gave us some "advice" about toning down the weed stuff and not using copyrighted stuff like we've been doing.  I'm not really a fan of 'toning down' and doing things the 'acceptable' way, but who knows...maybe I'll end up having to do it...