One Time 4 Your Mind

Wednesday.

Halftime. 

Almost there. Tomorrow's payday. 

Then it's friday, and yeah, friday's good. 

Illmatic playing, my O.G. iPhone which survived a pool but couldn't handle the crush of the pathfinder's door, is done for. I need to get the new one. There was an hour + wait at the 5th ave Apple store earlier. I'm not havin' that. 

I am sometimes so very much in love with my job. At Silvercup studios, current home of Gossip Girl, 30 Rock & Entourage (yes they're in NYC for a few weeks). We're on stage 3 in the cafe / art gallery set. They put a giant balloon in the middle of the cleared gallery. We rigged 3 projectors in the corners of the room up above the ceiling.  We rigged one projector on a stand that had wheels so we could send the thing up as high as we wanted and roll it around the room. So we rigged everything, the projectionist comes in and hooks it up, the other two techs take out 4 macbook pro's (one for each) and start the animations. All it does is project the image of the computer screen onto the surface. The surface here happens to be a giant balloon ball about 7 feet across. Spinning and waving with the animation. Two camera guys come in, and the D.P. joins us. We like it. We're going to move the mounted projectors higher above the grid tomorrow for a better angle. 

We mess around with it. In comes the producers, the A.D. and the director of that episode going to be filmed. They like it. Everyone loves the giant trippy balloon (now with some crazy animations). Someone says "anything else?", someone else says "let's do acid" (NOT ME). 

Today was a fun day. I was in the cafe set(which is actually in the same spot where Dr. Melfi's  office once stood) making extensions for the crates that attach to the lights to direct the light, called snoots. I had my little table set up and my process was going. 10 Big ones and 4 littles ones. "Taking meticulous care & pride in accomplishing small tasks". My little work table was set-up in the cafe adjacent to the gallery set while people worked around me, clearing the set, hanging lights, painting walls, moving walls. Constant motion. Lifts, paint brushes, hammers, screw guns, cameras, lights, ACTION! The real action is there. Constant cast of new and old characters. I truly believe it is some other world of insanity sometimes. And I love it.