Dollygrippery

Sanjay sent me this picture of Priyanka, his Dolly Grip in India. This is hands- down one of the coolest things I've ever seen. If she s...

There's not much going on right now, other than work and sleep. My hometown of Atlanta is slammed with  feature work, while Los Angeles ...

Every so often, I get a little fired up about our field. I (we) work a lot of thankless hours to deliver shots that really make or break a p...

This is one of the newest things that Chapman is developing. It's an offroad dunebuggy set up for hard mounting or Steadicam. Clearly f...

Another site I frequent had a question from a grip who is in the market for a crane as to which is the best. Immediately, I saw the makings ...

Happy Birthday America and thank you to those who have served and still serve our country! I'm off to Vegas for three days. Have a grea...

Well, another season of my tv show is coming to an end. I now get about two weeks off and go right into another (yes, at the crappy cable ra...

"We'll go around this curve and maybe the car won't flip over."                        - The stunt coordinator on a movie...

I'll be out at the Cinegear Expo tomorrow at Paramount (at least if I can make it after working all night). Hope to see some of you ther...

I've been slogging it out on network TV this year. First a pilot for CW, now on a series for NBC. I've encountered a few things: The...

You were smelly. You were filthy. You cost me a fortune. Like a lot of Good Dogs, you were an immense pain in the ass. You loved us ev...

I had been hearing a lot lately about the Moviebird Technocrane and was curious to try it out myself. Last week I got the chance. We used ...

...I won't be able to make it after all. I have to go do a daddy thing in Atlanta. Please, those of you who can make it, take some pictu...

I'm back and all went well. A lot of free form work on this job and the operator pretty much let me have my head on this one. He would u...

Today's post is a guest post. I haven't been able to post as much, or prepare anything for a few weeks so I asked my buddy Greg Broo...

In my experience, there are basically two kinds of shows. Those where the shots are meticulously planned out, and those where they aren'...

The Annual JL Fisher Open House is coming up on May 15. Fisher always pulls out all the stops and puts on a great event with Barbecue and Be...

I can remember when I first started pushing "A" Camera. To say I was a little nervous is an understatement. Which way should I ori...

There's a scene in Die Hard where the FBI agent, played by Robert Davi, assesses the situation and says, "This is a standard A-7...

The late Conrad Hall delivers a Master Class on How It's Done. My friends, if you've never seen it, rent it. I saw it on the big scr...