Posts Tagged ‘booths’

24. The Hit and Run

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Look what happened!

I wish there was a story to tell about this, but there really isn’t. We rode up to the set like we usually do and…

There it was.

Long story short (I guess) I’m just gonna say that I wanted that thing knocked down anyway.

Below – The Diner so far. Now with it’s newly created stools. I dig.

A real cool thing came with the stools when we bought them, AGE!

You really can’t buy that type of age anywhere.  We just thought it was a cool incentive.  In the ad it said that the stools came with 60 years of history.  I wonder what type of people have sat in these stools in the past 60 years? Who’s butts have glided across leather, what stories their asses can tell, where did they go, who they’ve met. Where are they now??

I bet they didn’t know that 60 years later that they would be in a feature film by two crazy film makers.

But we did.

The stools still had to be melded together to complete the illusion, but that could wait.

Below -After a lot of rubber mallet hammering, we have the beginning looks of the wall slot.  Soon will come the kitchen set dressing behind the wall and then we can slide plates of food across it all day long. That should really put it together.

Below – Ohh spacious.

Below – A view from the “kitchen”

We also took some aluminum and connected it to the wall. Will it stay, will we take it off, time will can only tell.

Below – Things are getting messy again.

Below – Another view of the stools, the booths and our floor. Where do we go from here?

I know that some of the stools are gonna go to a stool hospital. Their heads have fallen off.

It’s also about time to start thinking about what the outside of the diner is gonna look like. We have the ideas, but stay tuned to see what we actually do.

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23. The Man Of Steel (The Stools #4)

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Remember back in the day when we were thinking about make diner stools that would be a conglomerate of car parts?

Well, we never gave up on the idea. That’s why we took another road trip, back to the Sarvis shop!

Today we play with steel!

So as you could tell from the images from the last few posts, the new stools “Look” the part, but they don’t quiet measure up. But we found a solution, and that solution came from the mind of the man of steel himself, Brian Sarvis.

Below – The devices that make the impossible, possible.

So, what Brian proposed that we do, is basically take muffler piping, cut it to the length that we would need to expand the stools to, and squeeze the ends down so that they would fit snug into the holes of the bases and that rest the chair together as one piece.  Easy right?

Oh yeah, none of that can be done with human hands. But that never stopped him before.

VIDEO – Brian showing the steel who’s the boss.

Below – They have been cut! Now for the squeezing.

VIDEO – The Choking Machine

Below – And there you have it. Stools now with a “hydrological” lift.

Now time to get even more dangerous. Lets slice some aluminum…

With this machine!

No actually it’s used for bending.

Below – We use this one for cutting. But nether of them you wanna get you fingers stuck in. But, if there’s no risk there’s no fun right? Right?

Below – And there it is!

Below – We had some extra time so we built a car too. Why not, right?

And with that, it was time to make it back to the scary ass diner at night time.  See you at next post.

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19. The Stools #3

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

Yay! Jacob Pulliam is back!

So we arrived in the Diner set today and found something staring right at us.

A dolly!

What fun!

Some of us use dolly’s to make a living, but here we are face to face with a rouge one. Apparently this single dolly found his way into our diner set and decided to take a nap. But not on our watch, no one falls asleep while on set. So we woke him right up and immediately started testing out how smooth our new diner floor is with the newly placed tiles. Jake did the honors.

And oh it was so smooth!

But then we found something…

A script!

And not a page from the Help Wanted script ether…

It was to another movie!

Does that mean while we were out that another film crew slid in and filmed in our unfinished diner set before we could be have a chance at doing so ourselves?!?!?

I think so…

Heartbreaking…

Below – Even worst, they left a calling card!

Three big scratches on our beautful new floor!

Was this from them or someone else, we would never know. But the sight of it almost brought a tear to our eyes. But we held it in.

It’s best for me to keep in my anger. This is just how the business works sometimes. Besides, it adds to the “Set Design”

So here we are again. More tiles to be placed on the ground. This time they were would be placed underneath the red booths. Which is why Jake came along, lifting these booths is definitely a two person job.

Bam! And the tiles are laid.

Below – New tiles with red booths on top of them. Looks good.

Below – Jake is excited about the progress.

One final thing had to be done before we leave.

We have finally found a set of stools that we thought matched the look that we were going for. Something with a chrome finish. So yes, yet again we have new stools to be placed into the diner. But the colors matched perfectly and the chrome was already aged like it’s been around for 60 years. It was a good price so we couldn’t pass up on them.  But it does pose a new question. The amount of money that we spent on the stools so far, would that equal buying completely new original soulless stools. The would never know. But I believe character wise that these are the stools that will take us into the movie.

I bet your asking. “But what would happen to the other stools, the black ones?”

Well, since you’re asking…They’re for sale!

Just contact Astray Production if you’re interested in buying stools that have never been used. Images can be seen in postings before this one. I bet they would fit perfectly in any place you wanna put them. They can also be mounting into flooring. The sky is the limit! We only have 8, so offer only stands until we run out. Buy one or buy them all! It would be ground if you could pick them up, but I bet we can figure out shipping in some form.

WHILE SUPPLIES LAST!

You may have noticed that the stools that we have in place now are a bit short. Well,  we have an idea, and it could fit back to the original theme that we were working on before.

Stay tuned…

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7. The Booths

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

Now it was time to find one of the most crucial elements of the diner, the booths. This was not an easy, or cheap, choice to make at all. As you could tell from the last entry when we were walking around the restaurant supply store, there were A LOT of booths just laying around. But which set fit what we were trying to do?  AND which set had enough of it’s pieces for us to use? You see, even if we found a color that we liked, we needed a certain amount of them. So having the right amount and the perfect color was the real challenge. Then the next challenge was getting them into the diner without breaking our backs. Which for some reason we were less worried about.

Below – We liked the blue, but did they have more?

Below – The possibilities were endless, or were they?

Below – So Brian and I tried to gather as many of the blue tones as they had.

Below – And they were everywhere. Or were they?

Below – 1 block west of boulevard on broad street in richmond, virginia.

So now that we chose our booths it was time to get them to the diner, and we just had to do that on the coldest day of the year.

Below – Take 1

Below – As you can see in the image below, there are some red booths. Why, you ask? Cause we were struck with a situation, they only had a certain amount of the blue booths that we liked so much. So this called for some quick creative thinking. Which resulted in us choosing the red booths for something we call “The Love Section”, well at least i hope it turns into something like. but ether way we have red booths too.

So here’s the truth about the building that we’re making into a diner, whatever the weather is outside the building, it’s worst inside. So if it’s burning outside, it’s hell inside and if it’s freezing cold outside, you get the idea. I can truly say that lifting these booths in cold weather, then into colder interiors, hurt.  But anyway… Gotta do it. Let the back breaking begin.

Below – We did it!

Now this was the moment when our confidence went up, now the set really looked like it was forming into something that it was supposed to be, a place to sit down and eat something. At least, it was getting there and having the booths in place were steps in the direction of that happening.

Below – The Love Section! We’ll see if that name will last.

Below – Brian being the first one ever to be photographed sitting in our diner booths.

Below – Take 2

Thus ends one of the first days of us vs the weather. And it was a tie.

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2. The Pieces

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

Now that our diner location had been locked down, it was time to find the bones and the guts of the diner. Our first order of business was to find restaurant booths, and cheap ones.  Brian and I searched and searched Virginia, and through the good words of our friend Andrew Carnwath we found a restaurant supply one block away from broad street in the city of Richmond.

Below – Images of our first visit to the HUGE restaurant supply store.

We weren’t exactly sure what we were looking for, but we knew once we decided on our dirty diner atmosphere that this would be the place to find it’s guts.

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