Recent content by Sad Max

Nice write-ups in 'Perspective,' the journal of the Art Directors' Guild, covering a couple of my projects from last year: "Salem" and "The Last Ship." Might appeal to anyone interested in a bit of dissection concerning how we get crap done, on my end of things...

And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned Hollywood paradise and said, "I need people who get the work done." So God made a crew. God said, "I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, open set, work all day under the lights, change magazines, draw plans, sew costumes and then stay...

After more than a year-long mating dance, starting 'Robopocalypse' on Wednesday. For some reason everyone seems to think the name of the show is 'Robot Pork Lips.' Which actually sounds like the basis for an interesting movie, too.

For a friend shooting his current project here in Los Angeles. He's in need of a "great" camera (by which he means something in the class of a RED, preferably a RED of one flavor or another) for a five-day shoot, for under $1000 rental (presumably including insurance). Any suggestions?

PA shooting BTS footage on a Red Epic M in my office. Gods, but I hate, hate, hate having cameras pointed at me.

...who raises his hand during Q&A with the director/producer/writer/honey wagon driver/whoever and, when picked, spends five minutes either gushing over the film just seen without asking a question, or yabbering about how -you- are >also< a 'film-maker' and about how the...

Saw this on Saturday - first impressions: it is a -very- beautifully made film that I think is particularly rewarding if you happen to be interested in film history. It's very much a genre piece - 'Grand Hotel' by way of the Mysterious Quest (or vice-versa) but one heck of one, at that. A good...

There's a bit more to it, than that, if'n you're after verisimilitude...the real glass boards are, well, glass - surrounded by a steel frame that is fitted with low-wattage illuminating bulbs: the light from the bulbs washes the glass and makes the grease-pencil marks seem to glow and really...

Does anyone have a preferred vendor from whom to buy memory? I need to pick up 4GB (2x 2GB modules) of Samsung K4H510438C-ZCCC or Infineon HYB25D512400BC-5 for a workstation.

Starting at Paramount on Monday (after an original planned start date back in May, having done two other projects in between...) It will be nice to be back a-Trekking. Maybe we can make this one look better than the last.

Got a note from these guys - United Agencies Insurance - detailing some of the rates for small-unit production insurance. Passing it along in case it's useful information for anyone in pursuit of coverage for their project: http://www.unitedagencies.com/shorttermproductions/

We're presently shooting parts of a feature at the new WGBH facility in Boston. Until yesterday I hadn't known that WGBH is very eager to attract productions to their facility, which includes a couple of very well-equipped sound stages (lighting+electrics included in the stage rental, which is...

So last Sunday night I was sitting on a restaurant patio on a side street south of Peachtree Avenue in Atlanta, and Mark Wahlberg walks by, headed south. And I'm thinking, okay, that couldn't have actually been Mark Wahlberg; what the hell would he be doing walking down an Atlanta side street at...

Okay, this is about something basic. So very, very basic that most of you reading this don't need to, and the rest of you will probably think you don't need to, even though you very desperately do. It's about resumes (or CVs, if you come from some place where a CV is a list of your...