Author Archives: Tom Harold

Agh! The Light!

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The morning after the big zombie shoot, and I am whipped! We did lots of action sequences yesterday, and while I wasn’t doing hand-to-hand combat with three zombies at once – oh, well, I was sort of doing that. Okay, so everything is sore today. This is what my day looked like all day – just too bright! I wanted to crawl into bed and just sleep it off. Gah.

I stressed out about that shoot, and I’m not even sure I did a fantastic job or anything, yet the idea of doing it again is already appealing. THAT was fun!

Zombieeeeees!

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Soooo many fun pictures from today! This was the last big shoot for “8 Wheels of Death.” This was the shoot where I was performing all of my lines. Big fun, and we were attacked many times by numerous bloody not-dead people. It was huge B-grade fantasticness: corn syrup, rubber limbs, cauliflower (ugh that stunk!), and a pink Hello Kitty Super Soaker full of 5-year-old Pabst Blue Ribbon. YES! Can’t wait to see what it looks like all put together!

I can’t put all of that up, however, as my rule is one picture, kind of forcing me to learn how to edit things down and figure out what to keep and what to get rid of. Here’s one I particularly like. We were rehearsing a shot where Baldy was getting his head stomped into mush by the sheriff. Nice makeup, right? There was a throwdown right before this where the sheriff gave him a fun little flip onto the floor.

Oh, crap! I forgot! There’s a teaser trailer that they just released on this! Ahhh! I’ve been meaning to put it up here for days now, and it totally slipped my mind! The teaser was done right after the car shoot, so none of the stuff from today went into it, but there’s some cool roller girl action, and the car makes an appearance or three (you can see the inside of it when Lola attacks Chad, plus the dash when the dice are swinging from the rear view mirror). So here’s the teaser for you as well:

Weiner Dogs!

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K9 Units.

K9 Units.

Better today? Hope so. I went on a benefit walk to fight congenital blindness this morning, and some folks brought out their pups. There were several dachshunds out and about, and these two were getting to know each other. The black short hair was pretty keen on making friends, and the long hair just sort of stood there and feigned mild interest. I think the long hair was a bit older and putting up with the curious young’un.

Anyway, better than yesterday’s random cop cars? Yep.

Morning Cops

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This is where my new plan has paid off – sort of. A few days back I had a confluence of busy day plus being tired and woke up the next morning realizing I’d forgotten my One Pic for the previous day. There’s no way to fix that, you know? If you miss a day, then it becomes “A Picture Almost Every Day for a Year” instead of “One Pic a Day for a Year.” Not quite the same ring to it. In an attempt to keep that from happening again I’ve started a habit of taking random photos early in the morning on the way to work or whatever. That way if I forget the rest of the day or am so exhausted that I fall asleep when I get home and totally forget to do anything until past midnight, I still have a valid image for that day.

What this means is that I’ll always have an image. What this also means is that sometimes it will just be a random-looking shot of a K9 unit sitting at a stop light. Not the most exciting thing, but at least I’m not going to lose out, eh? These crappy ones will just make the good ones seem a heck of a lot better – I hope!

Rain

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Today I was pretty exhausted, and by the end of it all the one thing I’d taken a picture of was the view outside a restaurant where I had dinner. Hmmm…you’d think I was living well to be eating out so much. I kind of would like to take some more pictures out in the rain, but the whole getting the camera wet thing obviously is a deterrent to that activity. I just like how the light looked here.

More Art with Friends

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On Tuesday my friends Andre and Amy came over and joined me for another exhilarating evening of collaborative art. It was fun, because they were new to this particular sort of work that I’ve been doing. It was kind of weird having to explain it and going over some of the same questions I’d had myself the first time I did it:

Q: “What do we draw?”
A: “Anything you like, but more along the lines of shapes and abstract stuff.”
Q: “I tend to draw sort of concrete objects. So…”
A: “Well, don’t! No, really, just kind of do what you want and we’ll see how it works out. There’s not right or wrong thing.”
Q: “When do we switch?”
A: “Whenever.”

Good times, and we came up with some pretty cool stuff!

As a footnote, my extremely sharp Awesome Readers will note that there are two days missing from this entry and the previous one. I failed hugely at getting a picture on Sunday. Quite simply, I was exhausted from the day before, and spent the evening processing pictures from the previous week’s zombie shoot and completely forgot to photograph anything! It just slipped my mind. I was angry on Monday, and sort of blew it off/forgot on purpose, and then decided to get back to it on Tuesday. I don’t know if I’m going to start my count all over again or not, but I’m going to keep shooting. We’ll see. I’m not going to just give it up. I don’t feel that’s the right thing to do, and I don’t think it’s going to make me feel any better at all about missing two days. I made a mistake, but I think I’ll be better served by moving on and continuing the work. Quitting never made me feel all that great in the past. I’m all for doing things differently these days.

Rush Job

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Does anyone remember when I did Masterpiece in a Day last year? If not, well here’s the short version: I did it. If you do, then you’ll know a lot more. You have about six hours to create an entire piece of art from beginning to end. It’s an annual event. Here’s my buddy Darrell working on his sculpture. MiaD is so friggin’ cool that I’ll probably have to devote an entire blog entry to it. Oh, and I did manage to complete my piece this year! It was a day full of win.

9C1

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Don’t you wish you had this on your dash? My friend just bought a retired cop car to use as his daily driver. It has this sticker on the dash. It also has an extra dome light, a large one, that’s called the “ticket light” used for illumination when writing such things. It has all kinds of other funky stuff, like the dome light doesn’t come on when you open the door, ’cause sometimes, you know, you don’t want that to happen. We theorized about all the people who may have gotten a ride in the back seat. Creepy, weird, and pretty cool.