One job leads to another

Yeah so today was no big deal. Just picked up Matt Wilder from his apartment, grabbed breakfast, drove him to the office, got offered a job to work on set in New Orleans on the shoot of his film Inferno...

Yes! This made me ecstatic. I don't even know if this will work out, but regardless, it shows the process of getting your foot in the door, then busting down the door with that foot.

Breakfast with Matt was very interesting- he looks at films in a similar way that I do. BASIS has taught me plenty about analyzing books (Thank you Kittredge, Harings, Toews), and in my personal time, I've made it my job to apply these skills to film. Matt learned a similar process of analysis, but at Yale. This education combined with industry experience made him a perfect interview subject. I now feel as thought I have a greater understanding of the generally hush-hush process of pitching an idea and financing a film, both of which are important in looking at the economic aspects of cinema.

After a morning of driving from errands to errands (his driver is out of town this week, and I was the next best thing [so to anyone who knows what this means, Shelby has driven around a movie director!]), he offered me a job to work as a Production Assistant on Inferno, with Malin Akerman and Matt Dillon, when they shoot this summer in Louisiana. I don't know if I'll be able to take this job, as I said, but it was a very humbling gesture that gives me optimism for the future.

After that, I moved on to more mundane office tasks, but in the mid-afternoon, I got a fun assignment. One of our bosses at the company is an avid art collector, so I was to go to his house and help his wife unpack a work of art that he just bought at auction. Then we had to transport it from his home about half a mile to the office. This was the work:


If you're not familiar with the piece, it's by Andy Warhol. So that was kinda cool. I touched the bubble wrap surrounding an original Warhol.

Tomorrow I have to go in early so I can drive a co-worker to the airport, then I've got the office to myself. Most of the day, I'll be playing real estate agent, showing the downstairs office that is still available for rent.

The days here get more and more interesting. Even though I still miss Tucson and all of you guys and some other folks, I'm enjoying my time here. I'm sure that right when I decide I'm perfectly content to stay, my time will be up and I'll go home the next day. But until then, it's good stuff.