I was about to say that I've found a balance regarding my workflow with the mucky-mucks on this feature film job, because I managed to make peace with most of the actors, but then I received troubling news from the top of the ant hill. I feel much better about the stills that I am getting, but they are still complaining that they are not getting what they need. Perhaps they are just not looking at the images that I am sending. If the person receiving the pics is a typical image technician, then he's probably spending more time surfing the web than he is spending examining my pics.

Yesterday, a woman showed up on set wanting to be my apprentice. I told her that this is a thankless job that involves working with massive egos, but she still wanted to learn how to do it. I shouldn't be so surprised, because it didn't dissuade me from taking the job when I found out how much it would suck. Don't get me wrong -- most of the crew are sweet, and I'd love to work with them again -- just under different management. The exec prod keeps hounding me for pics, and the director keeps excusing me from the set. These guys have the art of confusion down to a science.