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Playing near you (maybe)!

The first regular movie in a regular theater I worked on
What We Do Is Secret

What you’re looking at over there is for me a very historic ticket stub! Today was the first time I saw my name in the credits of a movie that I had worked on, playing on a regular day, in a regular theater, to a regular audience. Not a one-time festival date full of people who worked on the film. Not some made-for-publicity theatrical premiere for a direct-to-DVD release, but just a plain old regular movie in its second week of play! And I have to say that it feels pretty good. I finally feel like I have worked on a “real” movie.

I wasn’t even sure that I would be credited at all as I had only worked on it for a few days on what I was told were re-shoots, but when I got to the credits roll at the end, I found myself credited as grip under the “Additional Photography” section.

The movie itself, I am actually proud to say, was pretty mediocre. And actually it was a lot better than I was expecting. At any rate, having been paid to work on even a mediocre movie playing in theaters in multiple cities is an achievement that 10 years ago would have seemed like an impossible fantasy to my college-aged self.

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Ode to my Canon S70

S70 Scars S70 Scars S70 Scars

O trusty S70, you have served me so well
For four years you followed
Like my sidearm on my hip
Ready to slide into action
Off on any sort of trip

Your manual exposure mode is tried and true
Your battle scars prove what you’ve been through
You’re there when my visit to a place needs to be proved

O trusty S70, I will lament the day
When your shutter starts to stick
Or sensor bites the dust
I hope the worn off coatings
Won’t end up becoming rust

-Bryan

Some of my favorite pics from my S70:

(click for larger versions)

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Welcome to the new twentysix.net blog!

This is basically going to be the successor to and repurposing of my old web journal which goes all the way back to 1996.

As I mention in the about page for the blog, I’m no longer going to attempt to maintain a journal, but rather just post about various topics when I feel the urge.

So yeah.

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