Archive for April, 2008

Typical Fortnight?

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

I woke up this morning and thought about the last 2 weeks, and I had this ‘Great Googly Moogly’ moment. This one may be self-indulgent, but seriously….?

In the last 2 weeks, we’ve had video shoots in California, Mexico, China, Michigan, Florida, and Milwaukee, a photo shoot in Chicago, we’re in post-production on 9 videos for four Fortune 100 companies (one of which will be globalized into 25 local languages), and we have a composer in Japan working on 2 custom tracks for us.

So, we’d like to thank the Academy…

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Delicate Napa (shhh. the grapes are napa-ing)

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Mark here, on a quick gig in Yountville, CA, a delicate little foofy spa town type place about 5 miles north of Napa, CA. It’s like a gentle little enclave, so clean and tidy and manicured and “Capital of PC-fornia” feeling. I feel like I stumbled into that movie from a few years ago….what was that movie? Where the characters (whom I cared zero about) go touring wine country and have a whole lot of useless “adventures” (that I cared zero about)? It’s like that. Much ado about *yawn*. Anyway, quick shoot here tomorrow with nice people, then the red-eye back home from SFO so I can get back to the energy and springtimeyness of Chicago quick-fast! Oh, fun fact: Robin Williams has adopted the section of the 101 that leads from SFO towards city. I know because I saw his name on the “This Highway Adopted By” sign—-I wish it was because I saw him mowing the grass on the shoulder, or picking up empty In And Out Burger bags in his little orange vest or something, but no. I think he only does that when Mercury is retrograde.

Poll question: is it possible the reason I sound bitter with this post because I can’t drink? I AM IN WINE COUNTRY, IN A HOTEL ROOM WITH A COMPLIMENTARY BOTTLE OF WINE, AND I CAN’T DRINK?!? Yes, possibly…..but you decide.

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April in New York (or: Travel=fun! Travel w/out passport=funnerer!!!)

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Mark here, back home from NYC after a small Behind The Scenes project with Ogilvy and their client Sunsilk. They brought a bunch of girls who’d written inspiring, autobiographical “Life Can’t Wait” short stories to New York to film them talking about their stories, and we’re doing a Making Of video, and we also shot “Behind The Scenes/Making Of” still photos for their PR efforts. What a great weekend; the girls were all very nice and much fun, and in addition to shooting on set at Hudson Studios in Chelsea we also got footage of them being filmed in Times Square, Astor Place, and elsewhere, just enjoying The City Experience. Perhaps the coolest part for me though was seeing old friends and colleagues from previous lifetimes; producer extraordinaire Cindy Gengras, who I used to work with in Portland 10, 12. 14 years ago; AC-turned Camera Op Melissa Donovan, who I’ve worked with on set many times starting in the late 1980’s; and many more. And of course, no trip to New York would be complete without some CelebSightings (this would not include, however, Times Square’s ‘Naked Cowboy’ or ‘BatmanBikeman’). Pretty sure I saw Tiger Woods getting into a lift at the studios, then while driving about we saw 30 Rock’s Scott Adsit (looking every bit as stressed trucking up 7th avenue as he does on the show), and on the flight home I shared the First Class cabin with Garrison Keillor (looking every bit as curmudgeonly and Public Radio crunchy as you’d expect).

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