April in New York (or: Travel=fun! Travel w/out passport=funnerer!!)

Mark here, back home from NYC after a small Behind The Scenes project with Ogilvy and their client Sunsilk. They brought a bunch of girls who’d written inspiring, autobiographical “Life Can’t Wait” short stories to New York to film them talking about their stories, and we’re doing a Making Of video, and we also shot “Behind The Scenes/Making Of” still photos for their PR efforts. What a great weekend; the girls were all very nice and much fun, and in addition to shooting on set at Hudson Studios in Chelsea we also got footage of them being filmed in Times Square, Astor Place, and elsewhere, just enjoying The City Experience. Perhaps the coolest part for me though was seeing old friends and colleagues from previous lifetimes; producer extraordinaire Cindy Gengras, who I used to work with in Portland 10, 12. 14 years ago; AC-turned Camera Op Melissa Donovan, who I’ve worked with on set many times starting in the late 1980’s; and many more. And of course, no trip to New York would be complete without some CelebSightings (this would not include, however, Times Square’s ‘Naked Cowboy’ or ‘BatmanBikeman’). Pretty sure I saw Tiger Woods getting into a lift at the studios, then while driving about we saw 30 Rock’s Scott Adsit (looking every bit as stressed trucking up 7th avenue as he does on the show), and on the flight home I shared the First Class cabin with Garrison Keillor (looking every bit as curmudgeonly and Public Radio crunchy as you’d expect).