#set work

Plus a video of the set.

Hi! I have no idea how long ago you sent this so I'm sorry if it's really late. I'm not active on Tumblr generally - sorry about that! Filming locations I can absolutely help with! Here's a few I can remember / poignant ones: - The Cat King's lair was Steveston Cannery - Martini Acres was the woods we used for the shrine, for when they go looking for Monty's imaginary friend, for the mirrors, for Esther and TeethFace - Orpheum Theatre was our Limbo Hotel Lobby - Autostrada Bakery was the set for Gluttony - The store for the Tongue & Tail Butcher Shop is on Cambie Street - Vancouver Art Gallery was our upscale cafe, London gallery space and boutique store from the Crystal centric episode - Shirley Lighthouse in Sooke was our Lighthouse - Point Grey Secondary School was the high school - Whytecliff Park was the beach with the sea glass, the gift shop and part of the Lighthouse work. Those are the ones that come to mind at the moment! And that's very sweet about the crew shout outs!

Rojda, Wilma and Fabian collab 😎

M'talas Prime

Heading out to be an On-Set mentor for one of our students shooting their final. I also have to act and I am definitely not an actress.

I was a union worker of the United Scenic Artists for 20 years working on huge Hollywood Productions. I was working in a set shop for TV commercials and Broadway shows, but I had an ambition for more. All major motion pictures and Broadway jobs were controlled by the Union. I wanted to make good money surrounded by good people doing what I love. When I first applied to the Union and took the entrance exam, I was only two of two hundred who got accepted. The painting I did for Die Hard with a Vengeance was 180 feet wide and eight stories high. I had a crew for painting alone of about ten people; someone to mix paint, someone to wash the buckets and brushes. When we were working on the mural, each artist had their own style. It was subtle, but I had to constantly move them to different part of the scaffolding so their styles blended together. I loved working behind the scenes of movies because I saw an empty lot in New York City come alive into a true scene of explosions and hysteria. Today, watching movies allows me a whole new realm of satisfaction that most viewers don’t understand. The hole in the ground was made out of Styrofoam, plaster and rubber creating a true look of destroyed cement. There was a crew of a dozen working on the hole for months on end to create a scene that lasted 3 minutes on screen. Knowing this information, doesn’t “ruin” the movie for me, but enhances it. Communication is such a key part of the process, making sure everyone is where they need to be. Walkie talkies were always being used. Several of the movies I worked on, my name over the radio would be “Rembrandt”. So many people used their creative talents to collaborate and produce a cinematic masterpiece. 

Working on an improved set w/ the Fu’ster.