Dude, you are the closest thing that any of us will ever come to knowing James Bond personally. (Despite the fact that you look like the guy who wants to kill James Bond, and actually stands a reasonable chance of doing so.)

Feel free to post as many photos of your amazing world travels as you wish.




I'm reminded of my childhood years in Puerto Rico.

Crabs, goats, poultry, feral dogs... None of them cared.



Also, I find that cat oddly beautiful. She has a strong and wild look about her.

 

Nice! Very good. This won't make sense to most of the younger generation!

 

We took ridiculously expensive cameras and equipment with us, and no one except the DP, camera operator and the camera assistant was allowed to touch them.
They somehow trusted me with the Alexa mini. Just the lens on the camera is worth about $120K...



"Daladala" is what they use for public transportation.
Crudely modified Toyota trucks with benches at the back, and a guy collects money.

 

That's a camera rig I can respect. Are you allowed to divulge who the production company is?

I don't have any Arriflex lenses in my station (we use Fujinon and Canon, which are better suited to live-broadcast use, whereas Arri is more intended for cinema production), but I absolutely know what you means in terms of the cost. My news shooters destroy 2-3 of them every year (to be fair, this is understandable and expected given the operating conditions), and it's always painful.

This reminds me of a picture I snapped a few weeks ago in the storage room, after we received the last few pieces from an order I placed a few months ago:




The thought in my mind at that moment was "I just stacked $1 million worth of equipment on $300 worth of flimsy wire carts I bought from Amazon. This is utterly absurd."





I'm also reminded of a demonstration which went very badly wrong a few years ago at a broadcast tradeshow. A vendor from a company which manufactures a cheap knock-off of the Stedicam was demonstrating its performance using a camera which was on loan to them from Arri when, well, it broke. I never found out what happened between the two companies afterwards.

 

There is no land ownership. Land and trees belong to everyone, and no one claims ownership.
If you need a home, you just build it anywhere you want, without infringing upon others.
Houses do not last very long, because torrential rain season.
They just build another one rather that deal with repairs and whatnot..

Tree trunks, limbs, driftwood, palm fronds, whatever is handy is used...



Then they build walls using mud and rocks as filler...





Kombu, a resident of Mjongoni, just abandoned this house after the walls got washed away during the rain season, and built another one about 100 yards away...

 

I feel as though I am living vicariously through you.

This has the side-effect of making me feel like an old man who will experience no further wonders...

 

I am quite a bit older than you, Joe..

 

True, and I respect this.

Many of the people with whom I work have spent the whole of their lives working at a single job, with a single company, within a single state, within a single country, and they feel perfectly content and satisfied with that lifestyle. One of the odd side-effects of becoming a director at a young age is that you have to attend the retirement parties of people whose greatest achievement is having spent 40-50 years working for the business which I now control. This also has the uncomfortable effect of marking me as a "newcomer" within the business from their point of view, and therefore less a member of the group defined as "us," as compared with those people who have just been mindlessly punching the clock for decades, doing the same thing every day and never seeking to improve.

While I recognize that I have already exceeded these limitations by a great deal, the idea that the second half of my life might be spent within such sheltered confines is more terrifying to me than the prospect of even the most painful and horrible death.

 

Wm Deming would fire your boss. Why not train people properly instead of relying on printers to do it for you?

 

OH man. This got me re-reading his 14 points and 7 deadly diseases. I am a believer, and now I have been reminded at why I think our present management are ...... We were thinking they were operating by a 1980's playbook, but, in fact, it is a 1930's playbook.



Revolutionized Japanese industry when sent their by MacArthur after WWII. I like this quote the best:
"the most important figures that one needs for management are unknown or unknowable"

He also proved that statistically based census is more reliable than 100% census, but the US Government still tries for the 100 style.

 

for joe:

https://www.facebook.com/Aputure/videos/1960565240671292/

 

third of all: feed me!

 

See next post. I fail on occasion, and somehow was not able to edit this one.

 

Cold air intake (old picture from this site, another thread):

 

Lol, you have no idea what you are talking about.

 

Shh don't tell everyone why this forum exists.

 

Take a sabbatical from your job. Convince them to lend you a camera. Go with Commie next time he goes on an adventure. Film it all. Bring back and have interns edit into a TV show.

 

 

 

Words fail me...