OK, let's review: CHILD costume. Spider freaking GEISHA! [emphasis sensible human adult.]
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Why I Hate Halloween #3
OK, let's review: CHILD costume. Spider freaking GEISHA! [emphasis sensible human adult.]
Monday, October 27, 2008
Friday, October 24, 2008
Oh, the Places You Will Go
Today, the job took me--over the course of 11 hours--from the guts of the building to, if not the literal, architectural top, something precarious enough to feel pretty close to tippy top.
From HVAC to high wire.
In the lower picture, see the orange ladder? OK, now look above it. Way up there. Do you see another silver ladder? Yeah, it's balanced on two planks atop a flexible wire mesh that I've been told is walkable--despite looking about as sturdy as a screen door.
Today, I tested the claims when photographers I was escorting around asked if we could move a piece of plywood out of the shot. Thing is, the plywood was resting on that mesh: 30 feet in the air.
I had to ascend a series of ever-narrower, ever-steeper stairs to get to the doorway that led out onto the mesh. By the time I arrived at the top, I felt like I was in a submarine.
I stepped out onto the mesh, tentatively. The metal strands are woven together loosely, in approximately inch-square boxes, and the entire web gives considerably when you step on it--like a slightly stiff, nearly invisible trampoline.
I made my way to the far opposite side of the room, where the offending board rested--decorated with the abandoned soda bottle of someone far more relaxed about the location than I. (Like he was having a freaking picnic.)
After managing to nudge the board mostly out of shot, I returned the way I came, sticking to the solid metal support beams where possible and swinging around hoists, spotlights and cables in what I hoped appeared a more assured manner than was true.
They say you shouldn't look down.
I did.
Everybody was looking at the camera's display screen.
It was a pretty awesome shot.
From HVAC to high wire.
In the lower picture, see the orange ladder? OK, now look above it. Way up there. Do you see another silver ladder? Yeah, it's balanced on two planks atop a flexible wire mesh that I've been told is walkable--despite looking about as sturdy as a screen door.
Today, I tested the claims when photographers I was escorting around asked if we could move a piece of plywood out of the shot. Thing is, the plywood was resting on that mesh: 30 feet in the air.
I had to ascend a series of ever-narrower, ever-steeper stairs to get to the doorway that led out onto the mesh. By the time I arrived at the top, I felt like I was in a submarine.
I stepped out onto the mesh, tentatively. The metal strands are woven together loosely, in approximately inch-square boxes, and the entire web gives considerably when you step on it--like a slightly stiff, nearly invisible trampoline.
I made my way to the far opposite side of the room, where the offending board rested--decorated with the abandoned soda bottle of someone far more relaxed about the location than I. (Like he was having a freaking picnic.)
After managing to nudge the board mostly out of shot, I returned the way I came, sticking to the solid metal support beams where possible and swinging around hoists, spotlights and cables in what I hoped appeared a more assured manner than was true.
They say you shouldn't look down.
I did.
Everybody was looking at the camera's display screen.
It was a pretty awesome shot.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Testing, Testing
Not only new gadgets, but new POWERS!
Mwaaah hah haaaa ha!
Sent from the force of my concentration and charisma.
Mwaaah hah haaaa ha!
Sent from the force of my concentration and charisma.
Testing
After some time off, Submarine Screen Door is making a return--now,
with more gadgets!
with more gadgets!
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