Wednesday, August 17, 2005
The Cucumber Months...
So we have had a slow news cycle for our needs - slow?? Four plane crashes in three weeks, an Israeli pullout from Gaza and Iran is restarting its nuclear program. Well... slow for our production schedule, that is...
By the time our next video comes out, the Gaza pullout will be over, I'm maybe too superstitious to make a joke out of a spree of airliner disasters, and that leaves us with the Iranian nuclear topic, which isn't burning up as a story (unless you're a defenseless barrel of yellowcake), but it's what we're going with.
Dutch newsies call these "The Cucumber Months," referring specifically to the months of July and August when all of the Netherlands take shifts in getting out of the country to someplace with guaranteed sunshine or a spot to park the camper and listen to Renee Froeger & quietly sip Heineken. The papers get thin, the gardens are watched while they grow...
I'm feeling like we are all a little burnt out right now and I'm getting grumblings from the video crew that our admitedly paltry 'startup phase' compensation isn't really cutting it considering the time involved. Happily, some of the new actors have expressed interest and might be able to give the veterans a break. I'm hoping I can keep as many as possible from our original crew of actor/writers because it takes a few weeks to 'get' the gig.
Here's a still from the soon-to-be-released short on the latest WWII anniversary: the Filming of Saving Private Ryan...
The tabloids and SAG are right - actors will save the world...!
Or if I remember my Team America correctly, it's the Film Actors Guild... "Alec Baldwin - FAG". Ah, those South Park boys... not sure what they have against Alec Baldwin, but what a stupidly funny bit.
By the time our next video comes out, the Gaza pullout will be over, I'm maybe too superstitious to make a joke out of a spree of airliner disasters, and that leaves us with the Iranian nuclear topic, which isn't burning up as a story (unless you're a defenseless barrel of yellowcake), but it's what we're going with.
Dutch newsies call these "The Cucumber Months," referring specifically to the months of July and August when all of the Netherlands take shifts in getting out of the country to someplace with guaranteed sunshine or a spot to park the camper and listen to Renee Froeger & quietly sip Heineken. The papers get thin, the gardens are watched while they grow...
I'm feeling like we are all a little burnt out right now and I'm getting grumblings from the video crew that our admitedly paltry 'startup phase' compensation isn't really cutting it considering the time involved. Happily, some of the new actors have expressed interest and might be able to give the veterans a break. I'm hoping I can keep as many as possible from our original crew of actor/writers because it takes a few weeks to 'get' the gig.
Here's a still from the soon-to-be-released short on the latest WWII anniversary: the Filming of Saving Private Ryan...
The tabloids and SAG are right - actors will save the world...!
Or if I remember my Team America correctly, it's the Film Actors Guild... "Alec Baldwin - FAG". Ah, those South Park boys... not sure what they have against Alec Baldwin, but what a stupidly funny bit.
