faulker009

The sport of People Watching has always been one of my favorites. Meeting new people may be a close second. I don’t always love the new people I meet, but I do love learning about other people’s lives. As the great English poet Roderick David Stewart once said, Every Picture Tells A Story, Don’t It? It sure do. In my current workplace, a temporary job for two more weeks, I share an office with two gentlemen. On the surface, we don’t have a whole lot in common. One is a 24-year old single-man and one is a 52-year old married man. They don’t have kids.   I have three. In just a couple of weeks of getting to know him, the single man has shared many a detail about his single life.   He lives downtown, enjoys the nightlife and wonders where his career is going. The married man, a former standup comedian, has been writing and producing television shows for much of his adult life.   He moved to our area, from Los Angeles, to try and improve his quality of life. Wh...

At approximately 1:54am local time last night/this morning, we were putting the final touches on a commercial I was producing. For those of you who would like to work in TV, we started shooting at 3:00pm -- nearly eleven hours earlier. We had our production meeting three hours before that. The commercial is 30 seconds. You do the math. And that was just the shooting.   The editing comes next, followed by the nitpicking. But if you love the art, you need to love the trip to Home Depot to buy the paint. I think it was... me, who just said that. As the Producer, sometimes it is my role to drive the bus and make sure that everyone is on that bus with me. Sometimes it is my job to just be a passenger and to make sure we are driving in the right direction. In this case, there was no problem with the direction. For this project, there was another freelance employee who jumped in behind the wheel and hit the accelerator. He was the Director and Cameraman, Editor and Visionary. One of the m...