I am a substitute teacher. This means that from time to time, I sit down in classrooms full of students whom (<--- Bringing it back) I have never met. Today, I have the honor of sitting in on a class that is working on a design project and the teacher left me his computer that has internet access and I can get onto blogger. Gmail is not an option.
I was simply sitting here when one of the young ladies shouted across the room and demanded that I give her a dollar. I would love to I said, but I'm broke. The class was mystified. I don't think that they had ever believed that someone could be out of college and not have some hard currency on their person. I'm sure most of their parents normally have cash for them. From the information they had about how money works, the only logical conclusion was that I was a big fat ungenerous liar.
After a few minutes of harassment, I felt the need to defend my status as a man of my word, even if it meant showing everyone in the room that I was in truth a total bum. To my disappointment, they seemed to be more interest in my Burt's Bees and my lucky baseball card (Willie McGee) than the fact that I was a truth teller. You win some and you lose some.
Anyhow, the job search continues. Get at me if you hear of some amazing opportunity, so that I can take advantage of it. It really doesn't need to be amazing. Homeboy just needs a paycheck.
In other news, my friend Daniel and I have been exploring the bottom rungs of the Detroit film industry together. We were unpaid PA's on a film project shooting down on McNichols earlier this week. We learned a lot and the guys making the movie were really friendly. Because there wasn't anyone else there to help, we got to try a lot of different 'jobs' while we were there. We supervised the script, noted sound and camera times, worked the boom and dressed the set.
The following day we were extras on a major movie shooting in Dearborn. Big names, lots of people, lots of professionals. It is incredible to me how much footage gets shot every day on these sets when compared with how much actually makes the film. I will leave you with an equation:
An average film shoots for 9 weeks 6 days a week.
An average film in 1.75 hours = 105 minutes
How many minutes are accomplished on an average day?
Posts
