Dollygrippery

  My last post generated a lot of comments, so obviously it's a subject that merits more attention. Most Dolly Grips will assist in hand...

Handheld....the bane of the Dolly Grip. I recently signed on to a pilot. Sounds like a good story, A-list cast, average money, and it is a p...

 This post was suggested by a Dolly Grip buddy of mine from Texas. He had worked with a relatively green operator, who, when he made a sugge...

  Sooner or later, you're going to do what I call "Monkey Work". This is how I refer to jobs that are basically just for a pay...

  Once again I find myself in a hotel room somewhere midway across the country. My Dad and I are driving my two cars to Atlanta where we wil...

  As most of you know, my procrastination caused me to lose my precious domain name to some woman who writes fairly unintelligible articles....

  I'm actually low on ideas for technical posts right now. Over the last four years we've covered just about every imaginable topic ...

    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 ...