Dollygrippery

I just looked up and it was May already. I know I haven't been very good about posting lately, but.....I have no excuse. In the last mon...

  It's been a while, guys. I'm sorry. I've just had so much going on and to be quite honest, the whole Sarah Jones situation jus...

  It's that time of year again. Every year JL Fisher hosts an open house at their facility at 1000 W Isabel St in Burbank. It's a gr...

  Thank you to all who have sent their slates in to  Slates for Sarah . You are now part of an industry-wide movement that has covered the g...

  As most of you have heard by now, a young member of the Atlanta film community, 27 year-old Sarah Jones was killed yesterday when a train ...

  Dolly Grips spend an inordinate amount of time correcting mistakes. Most of these mistakes involve foreground actors blocking the other ac...

  Years ago I was doing a crane shot on a big studio movie (one of my first). It involved a couple of stunt drivers screaming around a corne...

  Happy New Year! I hope everyone's holidays were relaxing and fun. Every new year I do a "What I Learned post. Here's this one...

I usually save this post for the end of a movie. My last movie didn't really end. It will be finished at some point. Whether or not I an...

I was going to write a post on crane moves that come very close to other objects, like cars. I was going to call it "Scraping The Paint...

  This morning as I was taking a shower, I suddenly flashed back to my first day on a movie set. I was about nineteen and had somehow fumble...

  I have a lot of time to observe as a dolly grip. Here are some things I see: Setting a flag isn't a two person job. Just back away o...

  I spent today surfing the top deck of an insert car manhandling a Hydrascope as we swerved around the city. Here are some thoughts: Agre...

Aaaaand it's a boom town.    I am based out of a city other than LA. Have been for over twenty years, except for a period of six or sev...

   Thanks, you guys for the support for my wife's Cancer Walk. So many of you came through, even people that I don't know. She would...

  After eight weeks off, I'm chomping at the bit to get back to work. So, on Monday I'll go into town and commence my first day of p...

  As most of you know, I've been trying to navigate Paypal to set up the whole T-Shirt payment thingie. I had a "shipping and handl...

  I am proudly announcing the first batch of Dollygrippery  t-shirts. This is the first run and will be distinguished from all other editi...

  This isn't something I often do, but I'm asking for a little help. My wife is walking in the Susan G Komen Three Day Breast Cancer...

I'm looking for a review from anyone who has used the new Hybrid 4. I keep seeing mixed reviews and would like someone who has used it t...