May 2012
2 posts
Things to do in Delhi when you're dead
My trip to India ended with a horrific 16 hour drive from Dharamshala back to Delhi, and me sticking my arm up to the elbow into a Dhaba squat toilet to retrieve my dropped iPhone. Several days and a bag of rice later, the phone miraculously seemed to work in every way, but I got a new one because, well, once a toilet phone, always a toilet phone. It had other people’s poop on it when I...
April 2012
7 posts
Day 34 - Capturing goat sounds in Kasol
Riding in the picture car by India gate.
In India, ‘cold weather’ is merely a conventional phrase and has...
– Mark Twain
Current list of the words I know in Hindi
Jaldi - faster
Jaldi karo - do it quickly
Chalo - hurry
Kya? - what?
…you can tell I’m on set.
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Day 9 (of the shoot I'm on) in India
My boom operator bought me an ice cream by India Gate when we were on lunch. When I went to try to find a trash can for the wrapper, he told me to just throw it on the ground. I protested, so he made me give it to him, then he threw it on the ground. My utility informed me, “this is India.”
March 2012
2 posts
Drinking British beer is like making love in a...
Alright, so…
February 2012
5 posts
Is the L train fucked? →
Yup.
I just realized that I will have my period 3(!!)...
January 2012
1 post
December 2011
3 posts
In which two of my friends go on a speed dating episode of a public access TV show, get paired up, and admit to the studio audience and viewers that they have unresolved sexual tension.
November 2011
3 posts
11 hour day for one shot.
October 2011
1 post
Brooklyn is the Coolest City on the Planet: An... →
Brooklyn has just as much to offer as Manhattan - except cheaper and less crowded.
September 2011
2 posts
August 2011
2 posts
I have a place to live!
Moving to an awesome apartment in Gowanus by Brooklyn Boulders. Looking forward to Brooklyn.
June 2011
3 posts
May 2011
11 posts
You know when you’re just trying to live your life and then a parade goes down your street?
I've been doing night shoots all week
so I’m on a night schedule, and even though I got back to the city at 2:15AM, I am hanging out and can’t sleep.
I found the director’s sister’s flip video camera in the couch and Adrian and I watched the videos on it: all drunken, cinco de mayo, teenage debauchery. I’m tempted to save one to my computer. The videos are sadly stereotypical, but hilarious.
I picked up my rig today
and it’s sick. Sound Devices 788t SSD and the CL-8 control surface, Lectrosonics wireless transmitters and receivers, battery system, etc. Excited to start using it on Monday.
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Was watching Alien with Zach today. During the scene where everyone is holding the guy down who is writhing because the alien is about to explode out of him, Zach says, “that was you at Kabin.”
April 2011
14 posts
I tried to explain to my grandmother what it means...
she responded that she prays every night that I will find a job.
There is a drink that you make by infusing rum... →
I AM MAKING THIS DRINK.
I jumped in Lake Michigan in my underwear today
It was cold.
The steadicam shot that took 8 hours. As the steadicam op moves forward, people have to duck and pull their chairs out of the way so he can get by. Also, the table at the end had to be pulled out of the way and an apple box placed down so the op could step on it.
This took more than 3 hours to pull off but it looks cool. Playback is boring. I have done very little actual mixing.