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| Is winter finally going to end? (doesn't look like it with this week's forecast). Time to work off the winter pounds, I've been spending a lot of time at the gym in Burnaby. |
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| Yup, they're clouds all right. It's been so long since I took some of these pics, I can't remember what it's all about. (must off fascinated my little a.d.d. mind at the time, though!) |
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| It seems like it doesn't matter what direction you head into Vancouver from , you seem to get a great city view. (I think this is over by Clark and East 6th) |
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| Can still get pretty cold this time of year, as attested by my frozen water bottle and iced windshield. |
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| One of my favourite views is across the water from Granville Island |
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| towards the Burrard Street bridge |
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| I think this is funny, being from the Okanagan. This is the only shot of snow I have on my car all winter! |
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| A random couple of days. I ended up helping on the filming of a commercial for Auto Trader downtown Vancouver. Russ and I had to bring the police cars from 911 Film Cars to set, and be around in case they needed us for anything. |
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| When your standing around, you start to notice little things, like this music poster on a dumpster! |
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| It was an early start the next morning downtown to finish the commercial. |
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| This was my ride. It's kinda of funny watching people drive on their best behaviour when you are cruising down the freeway with this "ex" police car. |
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| and it was very foggy that morning. |
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| The scene was kind of funny. One guy robs a bank, and jumps into his buddy's SUV and are soon being chased by the police. The gag is the SUV has a for sale sign on it in big letters, and the driver is happy for the exposure with Auto Trader. |
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| It was time for the inside the SUV dialogue. This was great for me, because I drove behind in the Dodge minivan, which had a video monitor and speakers inside, so the director and production could listen to the actors. The range was short, so I had to stay close to the SUV as we drove up and down the streets of Vancouver. |
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| Ready to go, you can see the camers sticking out of the rear window |
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| They did a scene with the actors in the SUV. The vehicle did not move, the car was put on blocks, and was shaken to simulate driving down the road. |
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| The sitting around part was hard. I got so bored, I ended up taking goofy pictures, like this one of the granite floor inside of the office building that was being used as a bank for the commercial. |
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| and the chase begins- again! (This was about the 20th take) |
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| Looking outside from the office building, just thankful to be inside on this cold day |
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| So to simulate the police helicopter chasing the SUV, they had a camera on top of the office building, It doesn't look like it was up very high, but believe me.......... |
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| it was! |
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| Finally the day ends and I have to leave my ride at the lot, but not before I played with the lights one more time! |
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| A rare work day, this time driving the production crew of the T.V. show Supernatural around to scout out their next filming locations. This show just won a People's Choice award for best Sci-fi?Fantasy show. This is another ominous Vancouver alley. |
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| The Murray hotel, downtown Vancouver. (Construction started in 1914) |
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| Waiting outside the Murray Hotel on Hornby in Vancouver. |
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| Then it was off to Fraser Shipyards on the Fraser River in Richmond |
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| This place has certainly seen better days. |
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| Not much going on beside an upholstery shop upstairs. Through the door you can see across to New Westminster. |
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| Everything was derelict |
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| I'm sure something used to be moored to this dock long ago. |
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| A lot of it looks like one good wind storm would bring it all down. |
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| back to the Supernatural production offices |
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| On the way back to the bus yard in New Westminster, I got stuck in traffic, which gave me time to snap a pic of the skytrain crosing the fraser river from Surrey to New Westminster. The Patullo bridge is just beyond. |
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| random shots from last fall. One of the film sets for the show Motive was on the other side of the skytrain in Burnaby, in an office at Metrotown. |
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| This homeless person shopping cart was actually one of the props for the show |
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| I'm losing track, I think this is a shot from the office building. |
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| Yes, that was the office building, and this is the wrong stairwell I took to go back to my truck, ended up lost in the parkade, had to ask security to direct out back out to the real world. |
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| Another show I worked on was Falling Skies (a Steven Spielberg production). This shot is from the crew parking lot in North Vancouver looking west towards downtown Vancouver |
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| Iron Workers Bridge. |
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| parked for good? |
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| Looking east across the water towards a Coast Guard vessel being worked on at Allied Shipyards |
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| Night falls on Falling Skies, the set was a lot scarier when they weren't filming. |
