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It’s All About Sandro

If you have ugly hobbit feet, don’t wear open toe shoes. If you still go ahead and wear open toe shoes, your toes must not hang off the front of your them. Yuck. Oh and while I’m at it… Girls? Toe rings. I know they’re all the rage, but toe rings started to be worn by girls who had cute feet. It accentuated their already cute feet. 95% of the population do not have cute feet. If you don’t have nice feet, do not, I repeat, do not wear toe rings no matter how tempting and cute they look on your friends feet. They look cute on your friends feet because their feet are cute. Your feet are ugly. Do not draw any more attention to the fact that your feet are ugly by placing a shiny ring on them. Your boyfriend’s opinion does not count. He is lying. Do not kid yourself. Please. Do us all a favor. Thank you, and I’ll be checking with an extremely condescending eye. I’m serious.

Imageworks Ski Trip To Mammoth

On the road with Sony’s 4th annual ski trip. Sometimes there’s nothing like watching the world go by the window. All cameras should have a function where you can only shoot photos the hour or two during sunset. I’m sitting with 50 other people on a bus to L.A. and they’re watching a movie. “The […]

Merry Friggin’ Christmas

Merry friggin’ Christmas and Happy New Year. Now get the hell out. Stripped naked, and left to rot out by the loading docks, the Sony Christmas tree that graced the lobby just days ago has fullfilled it’s earthly duties. I hope all ex-employees aren’t treated this way.

Fairfax

The bookends of my day. 8:30am morning dailies to see the film from the previous nights filmout, and what I think most nights are like driving home. A blurry streaky 10 to 15 minutes. Just a rat on his squeaky wheel during the week. Tired, hungry, and a four day weekend ahead with no big […]

Sony Holiday Party At Gotham Hall

The office party was at Gotham Hall on the 3rd Street Promenade. Of course no one’s allowed to bring guests, so it’s not really fun to mingle with everybody you already work with. The guacamole was so spicy I had to run to the bar and beg for a bottled water. Seeing your fellow employees […]

Harry Potter Wrap Party

Wizardry at the Harry Potter Wrap Party. Ok, so I only shot one photo tonight. At some point in the night I think I forgot I had a camera, and may have even forgotten my name too. After parking at the Hollywood Studios, and waiting in a line for an hour, we caught the bus […]

Stuart Little 2 Finals 100 Shots

The Stuart Little crew celebrating it’s first milestone of finaling 100 shots. Only 900 billion to go. Julie and Pia looking like someone died. …and Sarah Moore in the most electric top ever. None more purple. And last but not least a trifecta of alcohol guzzling co-workers.

Imageworks VFX House Bread Bake Off

Sony Imageworks hosting the great bread bake-off. The goal? To try and topple the record of most loaves baked simultaneously at an effects facility. We beat it. Whatever the old record was…? Above center: Some dude thoroughly impressed with the whole event.

Imageworks Street Party

Block off a street, cater some food, add a band, multi-colored spot lights and you have a party. First off, hardly anyone drives on that street, the food was cold, the band sucked and it was still light out so the lights didn’t work very well. Secondly, we couldn’t charge it to Sony as hours […]

Imageworks BBQ

One of the very few perks of working for Sony Pictures Imageworks. A BBQ. Like I said… the food is free. So it’s considered a perk.

Shreks’ Opening Weekend

Shrek finally opened! I flew down to L.A. to see it with family and friends at Universal City Walk. It had a $42 mil. dollar opening! All the type A people are in the photo. The type B’s are just off screen.

The Man

Ben came from Australia to work at PDI/DreamWorks. A newspaper back home was doing an article on Shrek and he needed photos to send to them. So we shot some in the lobby and out front. He’s quite purple for some reason.

My Office Stuff

1. The Rocket of Peace. 2. My Nokia phone which is basically a Walkie Talkie. 3. Stevie Nicks – Belladonna 4. Email interface machine 5. The blinkie phone call dinosaur alerter. 6. Skater stickers. 7. The metal dog/wolf/hyena/buffalo thingy. 8. Another skater sticker. 9. The Happy Face. 10. Real Skateboards patch. 11. Much love note. […]

The Mister and Missus

These mallard ducks started hanging out on the back door of PDI. The male always keeps an eye out while the female sleeps. What a nice guy.

Oscar Party

I won the big prize at the Oscar Party! I won $100 for picking the most winners. I rarely lose this game.

Shrek Lighting Wrap Party

The Lighting team from Shrek had our own wrap party. Probably to console each other that we actually did a good job. We probably didn’t mean some of the things we said to each other during production either.

Shrek Wrap Party

A wrap party PDI/DreamWorks style. In the parking lot. They really now how to splurge on us after having sweated through two years of work. Factoid: The Shrek Crew Jackets… don’t say crew on them. Thanks a lot.

Highway 280

If I have to commute 37 miles to work, I’m glad it’s this beautiful the whole way. Most nights it looks like this along Hwy 280, with the fog rolling in over the hills and Half Moon Bay. [LINK] According to the sign it’s “The World’s Most Beautiful Freeway”. Kind of an oxymoron if you […]

The Mad Hatter

I bought this figure today after having seen the new “Alice” game from EA. The “help me” sign was a cry for help via my internal webcam. It was pointed at it most days during production woes.

BBC Gud’bye

Another employee bites the dust today. So we all dragged our asses over to the BBC pub, drown our sorrows, and secretly wish we were him. It’s funny how alcohol will make you tell the truth about how you feel.