Dollygrippery

  Ok, here it is. I'm going to veer away from Dolly Gripping in specific here for a minute and talk about the craft of gripping in gener...

  It's that time of year again.  This is a great event year in and out. Unfortunately I won't be able to make it this...

   Here's a tricky subject. Key Grips traditionally bring their own Dolly Grips. It makes sense since Dolly Grips are actually members o...

  I've gotten a few emails concerning Bl ack Panther.  This movie used a variety of camera movement platforms, mostly Technocrane provid...

  Can we just call it the Dolly Grip Award already?   Anyway, my old friend Danny Pershing  ( Django Unchained, Eat, Pray, Love, Baby Driv...

  I did a post a few years ago called Freeballing which talked about freeform finding a shot when they don't really know what they want....

  Anytime I have to put a camera looking straight down over anyone it gives me the willies. I hate it. I'm in a constant state of ...

  Something happened today which gave me an idea for a post. Since I have a long turnaround (a week of days into a Friday night exterior) I ...

Well, here we are. It's been a while since I've turned up a bottle and joined you. A lot has happened over the last few (or many) mo...

  I've always been an X-Men fan. Especially Wolverine. I have the Wolverine Limited Edition circa 1985. I won't get into the fanboy ...

I got it, Frank!

This is a really cool video I found about the guys who did the creature effects for a lot of the Alien movies. In honor of Alien: Covenant  ...

  A movie I did last year is about to open big next week. When I signed on to Guardians Vol 2, I knew immediately it was going to be differe...

   As Azurgrip said, the NDA is a mighty frightening thing. Therefore I will just say this. It was a movie about a cat with big claws in an ...

Just a quick update. It's great to hear, through the grapevine and to see the daily people joining the Facebook page that people are rea...

  It's that time of year again. I push this event every year because I am such a big fan. It's the Dolly Grip's day to be center...

  After ten years of operating this font of information on an obscure craft that half the world sees but few understand, and the fact that I...

  A recent commenter mentioned how he is an up and coming dolly grip who often loses out to guys who say they are an "awesome dolly gri...

Thankfully we’re just days away from putting 2016 behind us. I think we’re all ready to move on, however, thanks to Facebook and  Google...

Now Fisher, now Libra, now Scorpio and Techno! On Hybrid, on Hustler, on PeeWee and Slider! Okay, I know… a lame attempt. That’s...