Universal Inferno and Steve's Camera...

I am sure that a lot of you have heard about the big fire at universal yesterday. It's kind of tragic because a lot of film history was destroyed in the blaze including the King Kong exhibition hanger, a film/TV/music archive storage area, part of New York Street on the back lot where they filmed movies like "The Sting" and also the famous clock tower from "Back to the Future"!

Joe and I took some pictures on the way to set on Sunday morning, we had to drive right past the studio. We both were fortunate enough to work on the back lot at Universal and I think that a lot of people are sad about the destruction of the fire.










In other news, we both worked on a small shoot on Sunday for a former student of Larry's named Mike Parry. Mike is union and he called me a few times before for work. I think we really impressed him and the rest of the crew- it was pretty much just Joe and me for grip and electric. It was this simple little short comedy about goofy paranormal exorcists who help a young couple relieve their house of a poltergeist and it was really funny to watch.

But the best part was that on the bottom of the camera was a little label that said "Steve's HDR-FX1" Can you guess which Steve the camera belongs to?

PhillM tip-of-the-day:
A standard screen door is the same density as ND .6 which takes away 2 stops of light.