Blessed to be busy

So October I think has been the busiest month on record for To Tony Productions. I was expecting fall to be busy but not anywhere near this to be honest. Each weekend of this month we have been booked and then the week has been filled by catching up on filing away or organizing footage/photos from the times we are booked. It has been truly amazing. Plus on top of that I personally have had my part time job at Render Perfect Productions which has gotten me on a ton of corporate style shoots which has been awesome. This month has truly been a blessing and once it is over I am going to give a big recap of all the great things we did this month.

This past Saturday I hope though that everyone was able to make it out to the Dundalk Zombie Walk, it was a lot of fun I took a lot of pictures and if you were there you could have gotten a free goodie bag from To Tony Productions complete with a special gift inside each one! In any case I should be editing the photos from the event soon and then I will have them up here on my blog for everyone to check out and enjoy.

Looking to the future this coming Saturday I will be at M & T Bank stadium doing photography for a local non profit organization which is having their 30th Anniversary auction event. It is going to be a huge event and I think something to the effect of 800 people are going to be there so it will be a cool experience.

Random Movie Fact: In the 1995 film Sense and Sensibility, during filming, the Jane Austen Society telephoned co-producer James Schamus to complain about the casting of Hugh Grant claiming that he was too good-looking to play Edward Ferrars.

Thanks for the support,
Daniel Hess

Arlington County Fair Day 2

So I just got back from the second day of photography at the Arlington County Fair. Today was a bit smoother than yesterday and I think I made a lot more progress this time around. Today I think we doubled on how many people we got to pose for pictures for the county. The mission of this weekend is to get people to pledge to use any alternative means of transportation besides their car. The slogan of the program is called the car free diet (very catchy if I do say so myself). As people come in and out of the fair we hand out little free maps for transit and bikes and metro lines so that way people can plan to take trips in other ways besides driving. After we give people the information we ask if they would like their picture taken with the alternative transport they either use or are using. Many people will say no just out of feeling uncomfortable but we do get quite a few who will take pictures with it, so it is nice. It has been easy and difficult at the same time but today was busy so time went by a lot faster. Plus we got to see a free little show by two members of the Harlem Wizards, a trick basketball team I think from DC or something. It was cool, fun, and chill. One more day to go.

Random Movie Fact: In the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain, Afraid that Anne Hathaway's previous films The Princess Diaries and Ella Enchanted would work against her during auditions, the casting director introduced Anne to director Ang Lee as a New York Broadway actress. Ang Lee hadn't seen any of Anne's nor Michelle Williams's previous works before he auditioned and subsequently cast them in Brokeback.

Thanks for the support,
Daniel Hess

This Week is Gonna Be BUSY!

This week coming up looks like it is going to be pretty busy! Tomorrow I have to head down to Virginia to fill out some paperwork for that company that is going to contract me out to do some gigs for them. That is in the morning then in the afternoon around 2pm I am going to be setting up for the final part of Wesley Spangler's video Three Beers Later and we are going to be doing that until we finish up which will probably be at the latest 8pm. On Tuesday I am going to be at [kp] mag recording studio doing some foley work for a project I got hired on to do post production for. After that around 6pm I am doing a volunteer photo gig for a city housing project which looks to be pretty cool it is just a little community get together. Then on Wednesday I have an eye doctor appointment lol, so that day and Thursday things look like they are going to settle down. Finally this weekend if all things work out I will be doing my first gig down in Virginia for a county fair just taking pictures to promote a city driving initiative in Arlington. So that will be the 10th-12th in the afternoon. Wish me luck on all of this I hope it all pans out and everything goes through.

Random Movie Fact: In the 1989 film Do the Right Thing, all of the scenes of the "Corner Men" Robin Harris, Paul Benjamin, and Frankie Faison were improvised.

Thanks for the support,
Daniel Hess