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28. The Power
Sunday, March 14th, 201025. The Lack of Chalkboards
Sunday, March 7th, 2010You’re not gonna believe this, but chalkboards don’t exist any more.
How do we know? Well, basically we thought that the task of buying a chalk board was gonna be the easiest step for us. Nope. We searched in ever single store that we could drive to, in the normal driving vicinity, and guess what? They were no where to be found. We couldn’t find chalkboards anywhere. Ether that, or we really are in the middle of no where.
But in truth, it’s hard believe that in this day and age chalkboards do NOT exist.
So we found us a sink instead.
But back to the chalk board.
So basically what had to happen is the same exact process that seemed to happen with everything on this project.
We had to make it ourselves.
Below – Brian creates the frame for the what would be the size of the chalk board, which is gonna be placed on the wall as our menu.
With that frame done, it was now time to make the black board section of our chalk board. It amazed me that you can really just buy the material for a chalk board and lay it down anywhere, then boom, you have a place to write with chalk.
Below – Brian lays down the black of the black board.
At the same that Brian was putting the works on the chalk board, it was also time we finished up the cabinet doors that were gonna be placed on the back counter. This would be another bit of fakery for the sake of movie making, because there is not gonna be any cabinet’s, just the door. But these doors needed color though. So what batter color than the awesome blue that we’ve been rocking the whole time.
Below – Brian has finished the black board section of the chalk board.
Below – The back cabinets getting their coat.
Below – The cabinet doors with their new coat of blue.
Below – The doors now with their knobs.
And now it’s dark outside.
Which means its time to stop working cause we can’t see, and it’s very cold at night time.
Below- Our only warmth is this working light.
It’s so nice.
Tune in next time as there’s a possibility that our hair styles will change even more!
Subscribe20. The Overheads
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Hello, Welcome back!
Yes indeed, we are still trying to get this movie made. If you guys haven’t had a chance to read what the movie HELP WANTED is all about, please have a peek at the links to the right of the page and you’ll find a link labeled “Help Wanted the movie” and that should give you a clue towards the type of movie that we’re constructing here.
The process may be tiring, but we’re dedicated to giving you guys a tale that will shock you till you smoke.
But now back to the creation of the diner set.
Today Jacob Pulliam is joining us once again, but this time we’re gonna focus on the layout of the overhead lights. Jake saw the diner that we have now and thought that he had something that would fit perfectly with what we were going for. So he donated to us these aluminum over head lamps. Great guy. Now lets start planning on how to get them into the ceiling.
One thing to note is that this building does not have drop down ceilings. So we can’t exactly just push the ceiling up, make a hole and drop the lights in then cover it AND we can’t just attach a helicopter clamp and hang the light. Yes, like always, fate has handed us the “Life is Funny” card. So we had to plan accordingly.
Below – Jake looks very happy about the situation.
So of course we went out and searched for some sort of workable inspiration. This search did not take us very far. We stopped by a very close UNO’s Chicago style restaurant and looked up. They had exposed piping that traveled the wiring of their overhead lamps, and it looked pretty damn cool. We all looked at this and thought, “Lets go for that.”
So, the process now is to assemble the lamps that would attach to some sort of exposed design in the ceiling.
Below – Jake, starts the drilling, while I take the photos
Just like always, a problem arises. Our drill is not powerful enough to pass through the wiring box for the lamps. Great!
Below – But at least we can lay out where the lamps would go in the ceiling.
Below – Empty boxes of tile.
Below – Some how our sign moved…
Below – Still going…
Below – Jake knows a guy that could get the drilling job done for us.
Who could it be???
13. The Jump Start
Sunday, February 7th, 2010Back at the diner.
We bought something that would ironically define our situation, but also fit the diner.
Today our great friend Jacob Pulliam came with us to the diner to get things done like only he can. One of the next orders of business was our lighting situation. The building already had over head florescence lighting. This these lights were a yes and no situation for us. Easily we could have said, “Cool, no need for lighting, it’s already here!” But we believed that those lights would not fit the character of the diner. At least not all of them. So Jake, being the master of electricity for many years in a past life, began the process of stripping those lights down. At least the ones we’re not gonna use.
So while Jake handled the air attack, Brian and I handled the ground. It was time to start planning how to design our floor.
Below – How much floor do we have to cover?
Our next step was to lay down linoleum. The reason for this was because we can’t glue tile on the carpet. Well we can, but we would also be sacrificing the carpet and we didn’t want to do that. We have to leave the condition of the building like it was before we came here. So we laid down linoleum so we can place our tile choice right on top of it.
We also had to begin production on the trim that would accompany the walls and the color scheme that we had going. Jake was assigned to that job.
Below – The floor is covered and the aluminum trim is placed.
That’s a day. Time to go home.
But wait.
The truck does not want to start up.
This would a good time to tell you guys that all three of us are music lovers, so much so that every where that we go and work, that we have some sort of song in our heads, and majority of the time we’d end up singing that song out loud. Now the only real way for us to not involuntarily do that, and irritate others, would be to bring in a boom box, or ipod, or whatever music device. So we all planned on bringing a boom box.
Did we? Nope.
SO we ended up blasting music from the truck the whole day. Then suddenly we started to notice that the music playing from the car started skipping and messing up. We paid no mind to it and thought it was JUST the CD. On a side note, Jake did mention something about saving battery and I said something on the terms of, “Now way, Jake. It’s fine.”
Oh how wrong was I…
So the battery was dead. Easy fix, we’ll just jump start it.
But with what car? There’s no one here but us at the studio. But there’s vehicles all over the place right? That is true.
But we have no jumper cables.
So what does Brian recommend that we do?
“Fuck it, lets just make our own.”
That’s why I love working with these guys, nothing is impossible. It’s a mechanic, an electrician and mad scientist. I would be nothing without this team.
So lets make our own jumper cables by sacrificing a long gauge extension cord, we gotta get outta here, it’s getting dark. So not only are we stuck, not only are we making our own jumper cables, but also we’re running out of light in a place we have electricity to. OH YEAH, we still need to find a battery to jump start from!
Not a problem right? So we searched all the old vehicles that would could see, but none of them had keys. Then Brian saw the tractor on the other side of the lot. We walked to the tracker and hoped to god that there were keys. And god said, “yes, there were keys.” So we started the tracker, but here’s the new situation. Who knows how to drive a tractor? None of us. But that never stopped us before. And guess what, Brian figured it out and we were on our way back to the diner set.
By the time we got to the diner it was dark, like real dark. So now lets play with electricity in dark shall we.
So we made our home made jumper cables and now it’s time to see if they work. Time to connect the truck to the tractor.
And it didn’t work.
So we made an executive decision and just took the battery out of the tractor and put it into the truck.
We’ll just return the battery next time.
