Posts Tagged ‘tiles’

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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21. The Floor Is Done!

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Brian and I are back at the Diner, and things are getting messy!

During the course of laying down these tiles, there were certain sections where the tile needed to be that were just josh darn painful. For instance, if you can tell there are about half tile spaces left underneath the platform where the booths and the stools sit on. We had a choice of ether meticulously cutting each of the tiles so that they fit in they’re proper spots, or we can, with our Superman strength, lift up the platforms and place the tile down easily in their spots.

No, nothing comes easily.

So we chose which path to take and decided to do something else first. Like make cabinets behind the counter.

And clean up our mess.

Then we did it.

There was no easy choice. But we didn’t want to do all that math that could have been wrong. So we decided to lift each platform and slide and glue each tile into place.

Sorry, but there are no images of that process because it was a serious moment. Brian is indeed strong ladies.

But…here’s the aftermath!

The tiles are almost done!

Below – A wider view of the diner with the tiles laid in.

Below – Just a few more to go. Brian sculpts the last tiles that will be placed behind the counter.

Below – One last spot.

And it’s done!

Below – More of our modern art.

Check out our diner floors!

ohhhhhh…

Below – A shot of the life behind the counter.

Below – The view from behind the pathway.

Below – Our “Kitchen”

Below – New stools with finished floor.

Below – Old Stools – On sale now! Contact us if your interested. I bet we can work something out. (I’m serious)

Below – Where does everything go. It’s like the land of forgotten toys.

Nice day.

To Be Continued…

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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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18. The Orange Sky

Friday, February 19th, 2010

So at this point, Brian and I have been taking turns, at random times, laying tile at the diner. There’s no real reason for both of us to be there if we have the free time to just stop by for a few hours. SO we chose to just come in whenever we’re free and chip away at all the tile laying. It has now become a nice place to gather our thoughts and think about the problems of our real life while we still conjure up ideas about this on going project.

Pretty soon we’re gonna start audition for this film and bringing in more people to help us out, so the alone time really helped set things into perspective and  on what we have to look forward to in the incoming future. Which is a lot more work. But someone might see this and miraculous be THE right person, you never know. Everything is luck and hard work. We got the hard work and now it’s luck’s turn.

But on the day that I chose to come into the studio, the sun set was amazing.

I loved how the light came into the diner, it was perfect, almost romantic. I could really envision this being real.

Below – This is how the sunset looked outside.

Below – More interior sunset light coming into the Diner.

It was really a calming moment to have. Usually at the diner we would just fear the sun going down like as if it were the dinosaur age and predators were gonna kill us at night. But the moment I stepped outside and saw the entire sky a shade of cloudy gold, it was a heavenly feeling, and it was only me and my camera.

It was truly a Smallville moment.

Below – Our sign is now gold

So when I continued to walk out into the field in front of the diner, I turned around and was instantly taken back by the hugest rainbow that I have ever seen in my entire life. It was the whole entire sky. I’m not a rainbow person, and I might now start losing my street cred for saying this, but damn it was nice…

At one point the rainbow attached from the diner to the sound stage.  These words and pictures will never come close to the experience, but I still wanted to share it with you.

On the way back home it rained like crazy. That was cool too.

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17. The Sticky Day

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

Armed with his trademark Vans shirt, Brian and I are ready to get down to it. (It would be awesome to get a sponsorship from vans)

It’s time to lay down some tiles.

BUT, before we get to that piece of business, we decided to make a little bit further progress on our counter top.

It was feeling a little bit bland with it’s roadster blue, so we decided to gloss it up a bit. So we did our usual number of inquiries and bought a coating that would finish up the look of our counter top. This material, to tell you the truth, like I always have, was intense. It truly became the theme of the day of us having to deal with material that could only be used for a short time before completely hardening and ruining our set goal.

So the material that we were using was a liquid gloss that we would evenly apply to the counter top to give it it’s shine. The challenge was that we had to do it in under 10 minutes. That means it had to be smooth, bubbleless and evenly applied to the whole space, or it would just harden into a lumpy muck. Also, lets add to the game that we had really no tools to do this with, so we just improvised with sticks that you get when you buy paint. (I know…)

But we got it done.

Now were were ready to get to tiling the floor. First thing that we had to do was set our starting point on the ground and that would be our guide so that hopefully all of our lines will be straight when we apply the tiles.

Below – A lot of snooty contact glue.

Below – Time to roll up our sleeves, it’s about to get sticky in here.

Below – The first tile to be glued to the diner floor (Yippie!)

Below – The second tile to be glued to the diner floor (Yes!)

And then we repeat this process…

And repeat…

It was pretty exciting seeing the floor come together. It was also nice and super smooth. I almost didn’t want to touch it when it was settle in. But then I had to come to the realization that this was made for people to walk on.

Below – The sign still stands.

Below – Our doors are turning blue.

Below – Our addictions

Below – Whoops. It’s ok, it’s gonna be covered by tile anyway. But it sure does look cool.

Below – A closer shot of the glossy counter. Hmmmm….


Below – We also spotted a deer on the lot.

So the process of laying down the tile has begun. Where will it take us from here…?


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16. The Taste of Tile

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

First, Happy Valentines Day to everyone!

So now we have the black stools, the trim in is up, the wall is erected and painted, the counter is stained and the booths are in their place,

Whats next?

The floors! It’s time to lay down some tile, or at least get started with it.

Now since we have to bring this location back to the working condition that came before us, we had to completely cover the floor with plywood so we could glue the tile down. The instructions of placing the tile down also said we have to make the surface completely smooth and clean so that the tiles can be placed flat. We also had to clean the whole floor. Looking back at our process now, the tile really should have been one of the first things that we did. But we were just too eager to get things going, also we didn’t have the funds at that time to make it happen.

But now, it’s time.

So with hour new surprise small bit of funding for the floors, we bought our tile. And damn were those boxes heavy! I have a truck, but we also had 15 or so boxes of 45 pounds of tile. I could feel the weight when we drove. I could also feel the weight as we had to pick each on of those boxes up into the diner.

But this was another piece to our set that we felt would make of the break the look of our location. I mean, we gotta have black and white checker board tiles! And that’s what we got.

Above – Check out the size of that broom!

Now Brian is about just over 6 feet tall, now compare the hieght of the broom to him. I don’t even know where it came from, but imagine trying to sweep floors with it. It was awesome!

Or was it?

Above – The broom went right to the ceiling.  Brian is also wearing his trademark shirt.

Above – Brian testing out our counter. But that counter needed something.

The counter needed some color.

So we thought about it for a few seconds…and painted it blue like everything else.

Below – Closer shot of the new blue counter.

The space is really starting to feel like something.

So now that we’ve gone forth with the counter color, it’s time to get started with the tiling.

Above – Brain placing the tiles on the floor as a test to see where would be the perfect place to start. Also, this would give us a good idea of how the floor would look without all of sudden realizing we can’t turn around.

Well…


There’s gonna be a lot of tile to lay down…

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