Legacy

I remember seeing the Teamster Logo on checks my sister and I got after my father died, we recieved checks until we turned 16, I think it was in the neighborhood of $70 per kid per month, but hey it was a nice gesture. How strange to jump cut my life: here's me at 40, walking through Bally's Casino, carrying a gavel specially made to "call the Teamster Convention to order"-it has the Teamster logo on the box and on the wooden block, where you strike the gavel. I'm carrying it because I have to shoot it for the opening video tomorrow. The lady that gave it to me from the Teamsters (a woman who was referred to as "GOD" by the other people in the room) said I could take it if it was to be locked up tonight. I replied: "Yes, Cindy (apparantly God's name is Cindy) it will be locked in our edit room." She said that would be ok, and I thanked God and left, gavel in hand.

The shot we need to get tomorrow, is a 3 second shot of a hand taking a gavel out of the box, the idea is to show how Teamsters carry everything across the country, the gavel came from DC and is now in Vegas. It's an interesting metaphor, we have a google earth map zooming into Vegas, the Paris Hotel, (by the way, it's really crazy to see an Eiffel Tower on a satellite image) then we insert this 3 second shot of the gavel.

I told the segment producer Jeffrey, a self-described, obsessive neurotic Jew from NY, I think we should just show the gavel being struck on the Teamster striking block-instead. I don't think anyone is going to get this story of a gavel coming across the country in 3 seconds, so I will be shooting that tomorrow as well, when the Executive Producer looks at this gavel coming out of a box shot and wonders where the "pay off" is. I know Jeffrey wants us to see the gavel in real time-on stage and then that will be the pay off, I just think it's a lame idea.

Did I mention that this is all scored to Survior's EYE OF THE TIGER? Oddly enough, this Google Earth map treatment and a gavel looking like a hammer, reminds me of Pink Floyd's movie of THE WALL.

So this is what my creative arts are channeling these days.
I applied for a job as a field producer on my favorite show today. I hope I at least get an interview.