Sat - May 3, 2008

April to May

Big Month, first day of shooting and more

Big deal, its April 19th, we have been here since Feb 5th, we are now 3 days into shooting, and its about to really take off, 8 stages loaded with scenery, 3 in play at once today, makes for a busy day, lots of walking, I really need a bicycle,

Got hauled in by the gendamaria ( special police) during the NATO summit for taking pictures of police vehicles ( accidently) rode in the paddy wagon,to the 10th precinct with sirens blaring through town, was bailed ( rescued ) by the studio rep, 4 hrs later, long story will tell all sometime.

ran into the construction co-ordinator and his brother a couple of sundays ago, they were carrying a case of beer, come on up and have a beer, sure why not, 4hrs and one big family b b q
later,

heres some pics of the Vracu family bbq on the roof terrace in Lipscani









May 3rd,
two full weeks into shooting now, cant really post pictures of the sets as its all a bit secret, although the local crew I am sure have taken loads and who knows where they are sending them.

super busy schedule, the rushes are looking great, costumes,sets, lighting all making a really interesting look to the film. its going to be cool.

thats all I got for now,

Ciao

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Sun - March 16, 2008

March is Ladies Month

Bunraku is boomimng

Here in good old Romania, March seems to be for the Ladies, the first weekend in March was a "primavera day" where all the ladies get flowers, single flowers, bunches etc, no matter whether you're married or not the ladies are showered with flowers and little glass buables and shiny things, lots of roadside stands selling all the goods, big deal here, an appreciation of ladies day, pretty good I'd say.

then this weekend another one, more like mothers day I think, we see people selling poplar trees and pine trees ( xmas) on the side of the road, not quite as nice as flowers and shiny things but still a gift non the less, the ladies still get flowers too,

Things are really starting to move along at the studio, we have 4 sets on three stages and a fourth stage firing up Monday,

another week passes.................ziiipp



I am very slack on the bLog lately, I knew it would get this way, not much free time, when it comes, its nice to lay down and stare at the ceiling.............ahhhhh.

Sundays are the Day off, and last week was the Birthday, which was odd to spend it here and on my own, I did have a nice long video chat with the L's.
Today is Sunday again and i'm going for a walk ,probably with MG, and we'll head west maybe?

here's some pictures from the last trek

this escalator was not working, there are a few like this, call Mr Otis.




Here is the Bucurest Mall, not much to say about it really, small crowded, full of people shopping, universal really. ( lots of Perfume on the ground floor)





Forget the "subway "tiles , these are cool, Anne Sachs take note




LIPSCANI neighbourhood....now then this place looks like WW2 but its cool, lots of little bars and retuarants, its definitely the area where the "cool" kids hang out, there's skateboard shops, and "leather" wear,

art shops, small galleries, a bar called the "offside" which has football on all the time, its a warren of little narrow streets and its coming back to life after much neglect as you can see.








THE DACIA, the ONLY car you could have under the communists, there are two doors, four doors, no doors, pick ups, trailers, horse drawn version, and many discarded ones,
now you can buy what you want.








cool kids hang out in this arcade , I took a picture of this place a while back, but now its warmer , people sit outside, this other building , is where they put caucescue ( spelling) against the wall and shot him





cool building



thats it for today

more to come,, will have stage pictures next week

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Sun - March 2, 2008

Wed - February 20, 2008

Wed 20th February

What weekend was that? its Wednesday already!

Well the end of last week flew by and then there was the weekend, we are going to be workin' Saturdays very soon, however, we havn't really started yet.
There are some issues which I am told are being dealt with and will be resolved very soon, so we can make some steam and get out of port.....so to speak, so when that happens , Saturdays are ON.

anyway Friday night looked like this , at about 4pm, it got whiter outside, then by 6-0pm, it looked like this outside the window



a bit later when we were leaving it was like this



AND THIS



then








It took us 2 hrs top get back to Bucherest, it usually takes 45 mins, not so many snow ploughs, ...say no more

and here the day after, glorious sunshine and freeezing cold



Saturday, I moved apartments, down the hall, moved into a slightly bigger space, much better, esp for the next 5 months, I have a balcony I can jump off of, if need be.

I have a TV in the bedroom and the living room, thats living, what's odd is that I get different channels in the bedroom to the living room, ahh yes , thats Bucuresti

chatted with the 2 L's, getting exited to see them in Munich next weekend.

Sunday took a Subway ride and a walk back across what we think was the east side of town, basically the Metro is small, but reminds me of The TTC in Toronto, but with a more Eastern bloc flair, ( Spaz will tell you that Toronto is the Eastern Bloc)

saw this lovely big tree in a neighborhood, I am sure everything will look much nicer with Green leaves on everything


did Adolf Loos build this ? I now realise the bigger pictures are much better, will fix that in the next post.



and finally here we are back in business
at Media Pro with one of our sets marked out on stage with MG and Adi holding up some poles, I think it might actually be starting,
these pictures were taken on Tuesday, I'll get back to you on Friday with some more

its Western Town by the way , in case you couldn't tell






thats about it,
buna sera

learning Romanian daily and will no doubt be bi-lingual by the end of the show


oh and we saw this last night walking back from La papi restaurant.

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Thu - February 14, 2008

Its Thursday already!!!!

zipping along

Can't hardly believe its Thursday already, Valentines day, miss my girls back home, have been very busy all week.

Ate out at a restaurant last night we had eaten in at the weekend, had the most surly waiter, obviously did not like foreigners , ignored us for so long, then finally we got to ask for menu's , he brought one only, ten minutes later, he comes back says "so what you want", then after that is was not so bad , just slow, and of course surly.

Almost over the jet lag and into some normal kind of sleep patterns, get to have an ichat on video most days at 5-30 pm Romania time, when the L's are getting up and eating breakfast, then another at 6-45am Rom time when I am eating breakfast. its all about breakfast on video.

have taken to feeding the dogs on the lot with bread from the commissary, however some are not interested in it, it seems they are holding out for something better, the house cats got real scraps today from the cleaning ladies, chicken bones and all, they loved it.

walking back from lunch we saw a donkey strolling around the lot, just passing through I guess.



we are going to start building sets very soon,........Monday ?, we hope

thats all I got for now.

ciao

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Sun - February 10, 2008