Interesting day yesterday

I was in Harrison BC overnight on Tuesday put up in the Executive Inn by Circle Productions so I could get up and work as 2nd AD on a commercial at the Hemlock Valley Resort in the morning. The ad was for Coca-Cola® Snow Mountain which is under construction at the Stone Mountain amusement park in Georgia. We had a great time in the snow with actors and extras building snowmen, having snowball fights, roasting marshmallows and tubing. There was even an appearance by the Coca-Cola polar bear on a tube.

I was drenched from being out in the snow and tired from dragging my out of shape ass up and down the tubing hill at least 15 times, but I had a great time.

I met a relative, who was working as an actor on the shoot. His title? “Ethnic Father”. Here’s Alistair Browne:

Alistair was hilarious. What a friendly guy! We yacked a lot. He grew up in the U.K. so has a British accent and has lots of family in the Carribean. We ended up calling each other cousin all day. I’ve worked with his wife before. She was in Mind Games, an MoW I worked on last year. He’s a great guy. Stay in touch Alistair.

I also met a PA named Justin who had some interesting tattoos. I was amazed when he showed me. He let me take photos.

Here’s his left arm:

It’s going to be entirely dedicated to the films of Stanley Kubrick. The above is a creepy rendition of Jack Nicholson in The Shining holding his axe. On the other side of his arm is Dave from 2001: A Space Odyssey, but it’s not quite done so he asked me to hold off. The plan is to have tattoos of symbols from all of Kubrick’s films down to his wrist including a large Lolita on his forearm. He mention that the tattooing in his underarm for The Shining really hurt. I bet.

Here’s a shot of his right arm:

This arm is all about Star Wars. Boba Fett, Darth Vader, Bespin’s Cloud City, storm troopers and Han Solo encased in carbonite have made the cut so far because, “Empire is the tits!” according to Justin. from Return of the Jedi will grace the inside of his forearm from elbow to wrist as he continues.

I’ve actually considered tattoos of pop culture stuff I like a few times, but am too much of a chicken to go ahead with it. Justin appears not to have the same concerns as I do.