This Saturday

Everyone should come on down to Dundalk Heritage Park this Saturday at 2pm to join in on the fun of the Dundalk Zombie Walk. We will be there taking pictures as well as at our booth giving away free goody bags! It will be fun for the whole family so stop down anytime from 2-6pm.

Phew...I am exhausted but still moving from the past few days. This weekend was pretty much the biggest weekend ever in terms of work/importance. All this past week I was helping a studio based out of California to get ready for a documentary shoot here in Maryland. Throughout the week we found grips, an AC, makeup people, and a DIT (myself). Then they needed black wood frames to hang bike parts in to have as the backdrop to the interview, so with the assistance of my father, all Friday night I was painting wood. I got it all done the frames were put together and we were in business. Saturday night comes around and they asked if we could make four more, there was no way to make them but we were able to paint the materials for four more. Sunday comes we take the frames and got to set on time. Then all day Sunday we were filming two interviews one with Debbie Pastrana and the other with the legend Travis Pastrana himself. It was great, stressful at times, but awesome to be in that environment. The next day we came back again at 10:30am and cleaned up the mess from Sunday.

That is why I haven't really been able to update and with the Zombie Walk coming up it is another week of dealing with crunch time.

Random Movie Fact: In the 2008 film Frost/Nixon, Both Frank Langella and Michael Sheen repeat the roles they created on stage. Ron Howard would only agree to direct if the studio would allow both actors to appear in the film version.

Thanks for the support,
Daniel Hess

This Past Weekend and the Gaps

So this past weekend was freaking awesome! I got to go to the Virgin Mobile FreeFest and do DIT for a company that flew in all the way from California. They were a great bunch of guys and while we didn't have a long time to chat, the little time we did have to talk was super informative and worth all the time in the world. I got to get the VIP treatment around the fest and got pampered with free food and swag as well as seeing some awesome acts from the media area. The piece de resistance of the day though was being around a Red Epic camera which was the first time I got to see it up close, it was a beauty and just an awesome rig the videographer had set up. Not only that but I got to handle all the footage coming in from the Red and it was beautiful. All around great time with a chill crew and a cool event.

Now to address the gaps in my blog, sorry each month I strive myself to post something every day but each month I find out very quickly I just can't do it. Some days are just big on a lot of down time which I don't want to write about because me talking to potential clients all day is just plain boring. Or on the other hand I get overloaded with work and I have a ton to talk about but I don't have time to because I am busy...then when I do have time to it makes for one huge blog post which I don't like to do either. I am going to try to find a middle ground soon and hopefully have a month where I blog every single day without missing any...

Random Movie Fact: In the 2008 film Hellboy II: The Golden Army, the one-eyed Troll Mr. Wink was named after Selma Blair's pet, a one-eyed dog named Wink.

Thanks for the support,
Daniel Hess