Originally posted at www.fiestavus.com
Yesterday a cast of thousands three gathered at the bad colonies movie studio to film what will surely be the second most anticipated movie of the year (Where The Wild Things Are wins top title). I spent the previous days tolling away with the Executive Producer (Isadora) to create a set of epic proportions and a breakfast machine that actually worked, sort of actually worked. Despite the muggy conditions and a looming actors strike for wine and beer, we marched through the complexities of the script and captured some amazing shots. The video is currently in the bad colonies editing studio high up in the mountains, but here are a few photos to hold you over.

Liam getting into character, any guesses?

This was the first day that I parked the Fiesta on the street, so many people stopped to look and take photos that multiple accidents nearly occurred. Of course they may have been rubber necking at the oddly dressed folks hanging out in front of my house.

The Dudely one, Dominic, hamming it up in between scenes.

The final member of the cast, the lovely Jennifer Beck as "The Mannequin", hanging with the executive producer.

Production assistant Bob (the dog) and I set up the opening machine shot.

The Executive Producer barking about us being over budget (by $9) and behind schedule (she was getting really hungry) as I set the skate camera for The Mannequin's big scene.

The Writer/Director with the Mannequin, I heard there was an on-set romance...

The Executive Producer stoked that we finally wrapped it.

I will give the person that can guess the correct operation of this thing a 40 of Steel Reserve. Yes the full 40 oz.

This shot shows steps 3-5. I will break it all down once the video is released.

Paying homage to GI Joe and the fine Fensler videos.

The cooking set-up with ample pop culture props slyly placed through-out the shot. My favorite is the Muscle guy.

The big finale, take note of the glasses.

Random props.

Testing, a lot of eggs perished in the making of this video.

Enjoying the fruits of the machine.

This lamp broke while I was in college (10 years ago), I was never sure why I kept it.

But with a little imagination and a drill, the old lamp became a minature camera crane.

Here is the crane in use. Since Isadora now has the best skate set-up, we used her deck over mine (pictured previously).