Way Too Long...

Wow, sorry guys, it's been way too long since I have written- 11 days... unacceptable. Oh well, I guess it's good because I have been so busy. Here is a little catch-up on each day.

Saturday Nov 4th
Went to the Hollywood Bowl with the Feinermans to see a little band called The Who! Ely has seen them 7 times now... dang. I ran into Sean Christensen and Laureen Briggs from school there, it was funny because I am the only person Laureen knows in LA and they only came down for the show.

Sunday Nov 5th
I worked on that shoot that I was helping out on Friday.

Monday Nov 6th
Back at Mole, Art Institute came in, it was fun.

Tuesday Nov 7th
AFI again, like every Tuesday... the guest DP was Tom Stern who works for Clint Eastwood. He's not ASC, but he was very interesting to work with, he was a former gaffer and is very abstract in his thinking and verbalization of film. He's not very grounded in the tech part of it, which was refreshing. Very nice guy, very easy to work with.

Wednesday Nov 8th
USC came in, they already knew everything, but we still stumped them with a few things... satisfying.

Thursday Nov 9th
LA Film School came in and we did power distro. Easy stuff... but it gets hot when you're doing it in the direct sun.

Friday Nov 10th
UCSD came in, they were great! After class, I went to a shoot for an ld friend that I went to 8th grade with. She's in the Stark grad producing program at USC and works with Andrew, he recommended me for this shoot, so I went out to it.

Saturday and Sunday I literally did nothing...

I'm not kidding... I got up, walked over to the couch(had Andrew get me my coffee) and watched TV, movies, played video games, and played with my new Treo!

Monday Nov 13th
LARRY GOT FOOD POISONING!!! So Chris and I taught the whole class ourselves! It was amazing!!! We were helped by the fact that these students were prepared, they were from LA Community College and they had more passion and guts then some of the students from USC, AFI, LA Film School and other big film schools we have come in. Their teacher was amazing as well, Larry has nothing but good things to say about him!

And today, Tuesday Nov 14th
Jim Plannette came in, he's Steven Soderbergh gaffer(Soderbergh is director and DP of his movies now) He's gaffed a few small movies including Young Frankenstein, Ocean's Eleven, Ocean's Twelve, Ocean's Thirteen, The Family Stone, Syriana, Solaris, Traffic, Magnolia, She's All That, The Rainmaker, Jack, Twister, Braveheart, Legends of the Fall, The River Wild , The Fisher King, Night Shift, E.T., and this new movie called The Good German.
I was talking to him before the class(everyone else was late and he showed up early(on time). I told him that I saw a preview for his new move The Good German and I was excited because it was high contrasty black and white and that I told my mom that I was excited and the first thing she said was, "What's the matter with them, can't they afford color!?" as a joke. Jim just starts laughing and told me that if it makes her feel better, they shot it on color film and then changed it to black and white in post.
Then, after class, I went to a screening of my friends film at AFI. My friend Sandra(also one of Larry's former students) shot this short film and it was being screened, so we all went to see it. it was a beautiful little film, good story, very, very pretty little story.

Well, time for bed.

PhillM tip of the day:
If you are early then you are on time.
If you are on time then you are late.
If you are late then you are fired.