Dollygrippery

  I've been thinking lately about camera operators. These people we share so much of our time and talent with. I have been blessed to wo...

One year ago today, Sarah Jones lost her life. Help remember her by taking a moment of silence before the first shot today. This is a repost...

  Congratulations to my friend Chris Mcguire for winning Camera Operator of the Year. I livestreamed the show and though it had some hiccups...

- A quote from Winnipeg, Manitoba dolly grips. Here in Toronto, we were lucky enough to miss the Blizzard of ’15 that dumped a few fe...

Congratulations to Moose Schultz for winning the SOC Lifetime Achievement Award for Moving Camera Platform Operator this year. This is truly...

  Had a great time at the Chapman-Leonard Grand Opening at Pinewood Studios Atlanta today. I got to see a lot of friends and coworkers that ...

  We finally wrapped on the twelve week Sci Fi extravaganza/catastrophe I've been working on for what seems most of my life. It just wen...

  I know, I know, a dormant blog is really depressing (first world problems). I'm sorry for my absence. But, as you all know, real life ...

  I taught a dolly class for our local last Saturday. We had a great crowd and at least this time they were all grips (the first one I taugh...

  Ok, so if you search over the last few years of this blog,you will find a few track posts. I think it's time to revisit this.  Mainly ...

  Hi everyone. It's been a while and I apologize but it's been a madhouse around here. Between the work, a three year old son, a dau...

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...