Yep, more downtime!

Hanging out near the street just before lunch. This horse doesn't look too happy, but I think he was just camera shy!! Hey Jill!!

Takin' shots of the crowd - Janine here... we'll be seeing her on TV and the big screen someday soon. She's well on her way to SAG...she was in Invincible as well, real nice girl.

Secret Service

Look at this guy - he either looks pretty menacing, or constipated. Anyway.. I'm jealous. I wanted to be SS - and have the plastic machine gun!!!!

OK - this looks like a good spot. Hanging with a great group of people I met in the holding area. Great minds think alike! Hey, if anybody caught the name of this cop - he was cool dude.. played guitar in a rockabilly band..we talked about music for a bit and he provided some great laughs throughout the afternoon.

Gathering up the extras

.. just trying to find a great spot - a spot where I'm most likely to be seen.. Yeah, right!! lol

Um...

Uh.. some important-looking historical landmark behind the stage. That is terrible - I've always lived here but have never taken the historical tour in Philly. Slacker.

The Pres

Not particularly interesting, but this is the Presidents Limo that he rolls up in... shortly after that things got a little crazy....

The Stage

It was at this point I realized I was standing on a rickety old concrete balcony with 6 other people...Downstairs with the quickness!

Shooter

Did some background work on a film in Philly over the weekend called "Shooter". Mark Wahlberg and Danny Glover, snipers, and arch bishops, and presidents.... Met some great people and saw some I had met from the set of Invincible last year. It was a great time (long and tiring, but great! lol). Here is an overhead shot of the speech scene that was filming that day.

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Los mixin' it up at the fiesta.

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Me and the dummies are outa here - heading to the bar.

Greg... was it something I said?? Hey, where are you going? (for some reason his trailer was across and down the street - he had to cross traffic to get there!)

....BRAAAAAINS!!!!! DUMMIES WANT BRRRAAAAAAAINS!!!!

NIce stadium view overall, but I'd rather be on the 50 yard line.

Evidently this gray-haired guy was the male lead from "Flashdance" way back in the day. That's the first time I felt I was wasting digital film.

Marks gym trailer on the right. His other trailers on the left. His personal chef cooking every day at quitting time. Man, those ribs smelled killer.

Ooops.

Love the hair, Greg. Between shots he was having a blast out there - running routes with the players, throwing and catching bombs in the end zone and the crowd would go nuts, but also boo him when he missed. Gotta love Philly football fans!!

... and for the ladies... Mark Walberg making us fellas look bad. Yup. That was my camera again. I guess it plays for both teams. Eeww.

They used the crane for top-down shots of the players on the field. Groovus.

A $250,000 camera. I stayed very far away from that thing.

Greg Kinnear as Dick Vermeal (I don't know if I spelled either name right).

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! I'm gonna have nightmares after this pic!!!!!!!!!!!

Whoa!! I remember the helmet cars!!!!! The MLB had the hat cars too.

QUIET ON THE SET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *cough*

Oh yeah... there was a movie being filmed out there on the field. Let's take a look.

Interesting thing... Women didn't wear bras back in the 70's.

Catchin' some buns..... I mean some shade off the set.

What the?

Whoa this camera has a mind of it's own. Honestly I didn't press the shutter button.

I found Jerome. Who's being punished here? Him, or the dummies?!!! lol

Here's me hanging out with a couple of my new friends. Didn't talk much, but they didn't complain either. Evidently there was over 4000 of these dummies populating the stadium - with my luck they'll make the film and I'll be on the cutting room floor!! I think they have more charisma anyway.

This guy Jerome (Romy-Rome) entertained everyone, hittin' on all the ladies and crackin' jokes, playin' his radio, dancing, and just being hilariously obnoxious. They moved Jerome shortly after that.

LOVE the 70's threads, Man!! They said it was 120 degrees on out there on the field. Whew!!

Here are a couple shots from the last two weeks on the set of Disney's "Invincible". An Eagles football movie set in 1976 so you'll see some killer clothes here!! lol All pics are from Franklin Fiels at the U of Penn. Nice place.

The crowd favorite here is Karl's Head-O-meter. That day he was pretty close to having his head a splode. Oh, and the Bacon soda and the revival of Mr T. were hits too.

This illustration shows the result of what I ate at the company picnic - and how I felt at the time. That fire hydrant was tough as hell, but I ate it.

mmmmm..... bacon. The story of the "oversized items" is a classic. Home Depot - I was buying a rake and a shovel - and to save time we (Karl, Joe P. and I) went to the computerized self-checkout lane. We got caught in the inevitable "Please remove item from bagging area/ replace item in bagging area" endless loop of doom.. and then the lady got tired of watching us try to fake out the machine (I'm sure it was funny to her for the first 15 minutes or so) and came over. She pointed out that the sign to the right says, "Oversized items go here" or something like that - and when we looked there was a second sign with a picture of the exact rake and shovel that I was buying. How classic. We laughed so hard I'm sure they were about to bring out the straight-jackets for us. That was one of my proudest "Hey, I'm and idiot!!!!" moments. Proud Member of the North American Galoot club since '87.

My favorites here are the robot locust and the Pope in the woods. What's the Pope doing in the woods?

Hello all, I am still alive!! Here are some more pics of "the board" -

Jessi got herself into a mess here.

Man, that Matthew is practicing already - I can hear it now, "Hello beautiful, going my way?!!"

The marker board lives on.... This was not one of our stranger ones.. we have to try harder next time.

Ahhhhhhhh, let the burning...uh.. I mean grilling begin!!

Well, I decided to keep the chocolate color - and I'll make the forward wall some sort of beige. I dunno, we'll see!

One last pic - Surrounds in place - sounds perfect. But that chocolate. That might have to go! Maybe I can get away with a two-tone... upper half a lighter color and the bottom half can stay. I dunno.

Ahhhh, the comfy couch. Art desk and Matt's Spiderman chair. And the kick@ss TV!

THe view looking back towards the stairs - the corner is pretty dark. Might have to re-think this. If you have any ideas, lemmie know, bros!

Uh.... the utility room door. Nothing special here.

And BEHOLD!!!!!!! The beginnings of an entertainment center the likes of which the world has never seen!!! That's because I'm a cheapskate and pieced it together from 2 E-Z Cubes and a tv stand. Still need to get those side spkrs down a bit, might have to modify the stands with a chainsaw or a flame thrower or something.

Here's what you see around the corner. A little play area for the kids.. ahem.. and .... my Shrek house. Anyway, the compooptor area is there as well.

Here's the view form the stairs. Say, that tv box sure made a good painting table!!

well, since I only have pic of the dungeon of doom, we'll start there.The slide on the left is before, and the other is after 1 coat. The color did not come out as expected, and way too dark. I'm not so sure about this as of right now.

Hooray! The move was successful and there were no casualties. Well, except for a 19" TV that didn't make it. But here we are! This photo was taken the first week. Man, it feels great (until the yardwork starts! Ugh).

Uh... here's another sketch. I think we were designing something very important. Then going to see Sin City.

This photo marks the first documentation of the spectacular behind-the-scenes artwork that is magically created here in the Lockheed Martin IMDG. Unfortunately none of what you see here ever makes it into our finished product. It's all a part of the LM creative process.... or just a by-product of a bunch of us goofing off..*cough*.. Anyway, there will be more fine photos to come!

This photo marks the first documentation of the spectacular behind-the-scenes artwork that is magically created here in the Lockheed Martin IMDG. Unfortunately none of what you see here ever makes it into our finished product. It's all a part of the LM creative process.... or just a by-product of a bunch of us goofing off..*cough*.. Anyway, there will be more fine photos to come!

What an adventure this Sun. Here is a photo of the crime scene (shortly after the clean-up). We had some toilet trouble Sat. night that didn't seem too bad at the time. Sunday I got a call from the downstairs neighbor about a water leak in their bathroom vent fan. I called to have a plumber come out - "between 4 and 8 today", he said. Meanwhile, as the minutes went on, the drip downstairs became a steady stream, and what made things worse is that the woman just put her house up for sale a few days before. Man, talk about stress!! So the Rapid Rooter guys show up at around 7pm and snake out the blockage - all the way outside, it almost broke their snaking machine. And poor Dee, I left her home with these smelly guys, and what's worse is that her eyes saw not one, but THREE but cracks!! There was the need for an industrial-sized tub of CrackSpackle in there!!!!! So they got the drains cleared up and I am thankful for that, but they trashed the bathroom, using our good towels to soak up the stinky mess. When I got home I had to clean it all up - there was stuff splashed on the doors, the wall, all over the floor - I was so grossed out.. these guys made themselves at home, too. When they came in they hung their jackets on ours, and sat all over our couches with their stinky-poo-poo funky pants!! Classy guys!! If anyone had a similar run-in, please feel free to share!! Oh.

NASA's lesser-known division, the "Wilfully Expendable Pilot Testing" program, or "WEPT" is evidently there for finding out the right thrust ratio for ejection seats. They told us we were in the program because we "were not like other pilots"...... photo recovered by test pilot "Krazee" Ken Lomas.

The beginning

Blog, huh? Sounds like a condition. "Don't go near him, he's got a bad case of the blog!"

Well, this is where I intend to post some of my thoughts and observations, sketches and photos, or just jibberish that I feel I need to get out of my head. There is only limited space in there!!

Little known fact (even to me), that my good friend Karl and I used to play professional rugby and soccer... (Actually I found these totally uninteresting video game shots and thought they REALLY needed some silly heads on them.) lol

Here we are at Don Pablos. Adine, Karl and I sipping on hot sauce and celebrating our fake birthdays. Mmmm...free dessert.Kids, don't drink hot sauce.