Dollygrippery

    I learned something interesting on the last show. The A Camera Dolly Grip pushes a Hybrid regularly. He showed me a new way to configure...

We lost one of our own a couple of weeks ago. Tony Bendt, a Dolly Grip I had known only a few years passed away in his bed in New Orleans w...

  Well, it's been a while. I apologize for not checking in for a few weeks, but I've been dealing with real estate stuff, one year o...

 I haven't done really much of anything for two days. I've been going about this all wrong! Day 1: A camera- Steadicam, B camera- ...

  Hello from Oxford, Mississippi, home of Robert Faulkner, John Grisham, and Ole Miss, or, the University of Mississippi. I have made this m...

  This week I will begin the long drive to Atlanta to start my next show. It's the one I'm doing B Camera on and I'm actually lo...

  I once had a camera operator ask me how many takes before I start to sweat. I honestly have no idea what my answer was. At the time we wer...

  This post is for all of us who have: Woke up in our car in crew parking. Walked out of the bar to a pale blue sky and realized we have ...

  It's been a good week.  I got two days on a series (A one day and B the other) and a two day commercial. I also got a call from one of...

  This week, as part of my current two and three day a week schedule, I got to visit a place I've rarely had cause to venture into. I w...

 I find myself in the not-too-unpleasant position of a two or three day a week fill in dolly grip. This is a phenomenon that often arises fo...

  If any of you ever wondered who shot Raiders of the Lost Ark , it was a British DP named Douglas Slocombe. When I was a young boy, still e...

 ....is pretty much my motto. Anything can happen at any given time. The recent stage collapse in Indiana got me thinking. For those of you ...

 AJ over at The Hills Are Burning has a great post  about getting thrown under the bus. I also mentioned it in the post below this one. Get...

   Our friend Ed Moore, a cinematographer in the UK, sent me an email a while back asking if I might do a post as kind of an introduction to...

What I did on my last vacation                                        Hello from Vacationland...which is really just my house.  I'...

 Rick Davis at Grip411 has extended a free offer to be listed in his upcoming Grip411 IPhone app. Grips all over the world use his Grip4...

  Seven months of splits, nights, splinter units, inserts, cold, heat, dust, blood (real and fake), and sweat are finally over. No matter wh...

 Back before cell phones, at least before cell phones were smaller than a shoebox, the landscape was dotted with glass and steel cubes known...

  Well, we're reaching the end of another six month run. I'm starting to develop that "last week of school" mentality (alo...