Archive for August, 2008

Golden City Beyond



My parents believe they see a city off to the west of Princeton. Well, they know it's not a city, but they can't figure out what it is.So I took this picture through my dad's binoculars and enlarged it.I think it's just a line of dead trees.

Wicked Little Creature



Pushkin does not care that he's not supposed to be at the table. If he's interested in something then he's gonna take a look. That's all there is to it.If you're making specific-sized images for web pages and the like, and don't want to break open Photoshop, Web Resizer looks ...

Artist Agreement



Here is the artists' agreement (actors' agreement) for 0802 The Uprising. The percentage which actors get is 2/10th of a percent for each day on the original schedule.It's a bit arbitrary to base on the schedule rather than actual days worked, of course, but I believe it's fair. The percentage ...

Notes on Us



There are twelve active-duty Marines assigned to the 99th. Marines are kept in deep space for almost the entirety of their tour, hopping from mission to deep-space-mission. These Marines each signed up for an 8-year stint. In all likelihood about six of those years are spent in chem-sleep on their ...

Neu To Due



I've promised myself that I won't get all anxious or overly worked-up before we begin principal on the next movie. Of course, that would be easier to do if we'd got cast a little bit more than a week out (I think on the last movie it was even less ...

Is This Even Necessary?



Longtime readers know I have nothing against our robot overlords in principal. But it's just a matter of taste.What I'm saying here people is we can do much much better than what we're getting.Stick with the 6th Ceylon and everything will be just all right. The others?Meh...

Prison Planet 101



This is not a great looking picture of me. The Warden says that's part of my punishment.This is the prisoner uniform which was standard on Rove 12 before The Uprising. We just got 9 of them today.

More PR



Julia from Venus Rises is vastly better at PR than we are. Here's an article from The Asbury Park Press which even mentions Solar Vengeance at the end.

Gotta Love Apple



So the G4 notebook Jang donated to Theatresource is cool. It can run QLab and it has a slot a P2 card can fit in. Unfortunately the USB ports will simply not power a portable, USB-powered, hard drive. So feh, I have to continue to use my Toshiba laptop in ...

Today’s Big Tasks



The obnoxious thing about shoes and boots is that they can be so dang expensive yet in a movie you just never freakin' see 'em!Today we're figuring out which helmet or flak jacket goes to whom. We have 11 Marines we need to outfit. Somebody, of course, needs just a ...