26.2.05
Three Goofs
Millions and millions of dollars and Jay spends his 37th birthday with the film crew and his boys... Validates one's sense of purpose, y'know?
Battle Stations
Your friend and humble narrator at the helm of a Sony HDW F900. Yup, the same camera they shot Episodes II and III and Collateral and Once Upon A Time In Mexico with. Natch, I was shooting a pilot for Jayson"Not Guilty" Williams and Juney Smith. If I only had stills from the cameras, but when you see Joey McIntyre and Chris Kirkpatrick belting out a duet of Islands In The Stream on karaoke you'll laugh yourself into a fit. Good times...
I'm flying over New jersey with Jayson Williams and his instructor and we are all about to die...
Okay, so maybe it wasn't that extreme. But I was the only person willing to go up in the cessna with the brother. The perils and rewards of being a cameraman...
11.2.05
Lemme get your #; you got a pen?
Whatever happened to miscellaneous pieces of paper with random numbers scrawled on them from the previous night's adventures?
4.12.04
8.11.04
Express train to HELL
Forgive me, loyal fan for it has been three weeks since my last post and even then it was mostly just a photo blurb. I am now a regular, nay- senior barista at the SBUX establishment, and I am getting better at making all of the drinks on the menu. Even if people only want to order hot chocolates or grande skim lattes and nothing more. But this, fair reader has nothing to do with the coffee place that I work for. No, this is about yet another fun camera gig that I had the pleasure of being involved in just last night.
I shuttle my cookies all the way out to North Williamsburg to meet with a woman I was scheduled to film some B-Roll for. The assignment was easy; Blind Date meets Benny Hill meets Punk'd! All I had to do was cover the gentleman who was being set up. Seemed easy enough. Don't tell him anything and just stay on him in close or medium close until the date finishes. What the guy didn't know was the chick he was going to get set up with was actually a character and not the real deal. The character was a pseudo dominatrix from South London named "Susan" and the idea was that she was such an almost-goth freak that she would actually scare the date away. Her "hobbies" were taxidermy, welding, gummy sculptures and spanking. The guy was supposed to be this huge behemoth of a wrestler named JJJ(yes just like in Spider Man), and the rumor was that he was gigantic. When I arrive at the director/actress's house, she is dressed like a gothic viking, and her boyfriend is hanging out watching the new Star Wars dvd set. After killing time with the boyfriend and geeking out over the new Episode III footage in the set, while the actress gets ready, we depart to shoot her video personal Ad. In a loft, on a sex swing, dangling from a chain on a rafter, with a hairy guy in a gimp/wrestling mask, who was shirtless and getting whipped with a riding crop that was in the shape of an open palm...in one shot. And that was the easy stuff. For some reason, I can always spot someone's stash whenever I enter a new apartment. If wonder if that means anything...
The next stop was the bar where we'd be meeting the Mark. As I set up I met with the incredibly cute producer and the co-director of the piece. They, and the brilliantly competent sound-engineer/boom guy, went over the requirements of the piece with me and I started talking with the two guys who were hanging out at the bar with us. I didn't pay them too much mind until I was informed that the smaller and younger of the two men that we were talking with was the guy being set up. Let me just inform the few of you out there, that don't know me personally, that I am 6'2" and around 190lbs on any given day. When someone tells me that a guy is huge am I not remiss to presume that "huge" might mean "bigger than me"? This guy was about 5'7" with boots on and about 170lbs of muscle, but he wasn't huge. Just a bit musclebound. We went on and interviewed him for the Blind Date part of the show when I realized that the guy was actually a very genuine and sweet fellow who was down for anything. It was at this point that I began to suspect that the date would not go as planned.
24.10.04
RING1
Ladies and Gentlemen...
The RING.
My beloved G-Friend has moved up the ranks of the Jones family tree by accepting this platinum and diamond ring and becoming my fiancee. We're still idiots, but we're ENGAGED idiots now. We win.
21.10.04
The cutest cat in my world
Aww shee-it. Now I've done it. I finally broke down and posted a photo of my pet. Ladies and gentlemen, allow me introduce to you all; The Baby Girl Jones. Yes, she actually is cuter in person.
13.10.04
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- On the ones and twos..
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