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veen  ·  2899 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: April 20, 2016

please tell me you have a picture of you and Cena somewhere





kleinbl00  ·  2899 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Not a one. Instead, here's a glamour photo of my office for the months of November and December.

user-inactivated  ·  2899 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The precariously balanced stack of expensive looking hardware hurts. I don't recognize the thing on top with the blinkenlights, but it screams "the day you knock me over will be a bad day."

kleinbl00  ·  2899 days ago  ·  link  ·  

A film set would terrify you. We precariously stack shit everywhere, often on wheels. If we're serious about it we strap it to the walls but only if it's on a moving vehicle.

That rack is 10 channels of RF-over-fiber converters. Allows your roving ENG cams to be picked up in the control room 300 yards away. They are expensive.

veen  ·  2899 days ago  ·  link  ·  

And it was also freezing cold in there, right? Glorious...

kleinbl00  ·  2899 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It actually wasn't so bad in there. It's like this:

The whole structure was single-wall particle board, which meant it was basically a wooden tent. A wooden tent at 9,000 feet in November obviously isn't the warmest place to be but we needed our cast to be in their skivvies as much as possible because Television. Since the departments necessary to make these things happen didn't talk, we ended up with a couple heaters of roughly the same size and shape as a hot dog stand. These blew gajillion BTU warm air into the wooden tent at ear-piercing volume and heated the place up to approximately 95 degrees, because some of our cast really didn't like the cold.

My ugly little world was not heated at all - but it was separated from this tropical hell by a single layer of 5/8ths ply so the leak-through was more than adequate. I also had a single layer of duvetyne protecting my equipment from the rain and elements so when the wind wasn't blowing like all hell it was actually pretty pleasant in there.

Minus the shitty chair and the fact that it was called "the butt farm."

In order to get from there to the inside of the house I had to walk across a 12" wide ice-covered gangway with a 4' drop on one side, which I did without once breaking a kneecap, unlike the other guy hired for the gig, who washed out a week into it and spent the remainder of the year out on disability.

o the pictures I could share from that shitshow

steve  ·  2899 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I know that gig was murder on you and your family. But please at least know that your write ups here have given us endless amounts of interesting reading. So at least one good thing came out of it.

It's the shitshow that just keeps on giving.

kleinbl00  ·  2899 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Don't make me post my collection of dead pop-ups.