Two Broke Girl$

CBS Sitcom "Two Broke Girl$"

Two young women waitressing at a greasy spoon diner strike up an unlikely friendship in the hopes of launching a successful business - if only they can raise the cash.

Jeff

Jeff Again

                         

Two Broke Girl is right, well at least one of the interns is.... Commuting into the city is a big camentment and not a cheep one either but the city is worth every cent.

The other day Kennnedy and I were yet again SUPER MODElS aka stand in's.  

( The LA office just can't get enough of us) 

This time for the show Two Broke Girls. We went on location with Jeff Staab ( Photographer / Director) and Matt Hernandez ( LA Art Director )  to take photography's of these Pink buildings in the East Village / China Town.

The shoot didn't take long since we are such great models. Then it was back to the office were we watched pilots for new shows that will be coming out in the fall. 

Since the city is not a cheep place, I also decided to get a job as a host. At a restaurant in the West Village,  called PerryST and yes it is on Perry Street. After college you might not get your dream job, working at a restaurant is a great place to meet new people and support yourself till that perfect job comes along.

The Other CBS Intern

Hello All,

You might have already heard about the exciting busy work that Kennedy and I do at the CBS internship ....

 The FREE Late Show with Letterman Tickets ....

 Being Super Models for the new "Plates" shoot for up coming shows .....

 The Amazing trip to Laumont Photographics ..... 

 And not to forget the Archiving we do

The up coming month is going to fill with much more fun adventures,

i'll try not to repeat  what Kennedy has already shared with you!

Visiting the Foundry

Today Anthony and I went to the Port Richmond section of Philadelphia to bring some of the waxes to the foundry there, and also to see their facilities. The foundry was a giant open "garage/warehouse" space with all types of machines and equipment in which some of them looked very familiar. I noticed welding machines in one area, along with other basic tools like drill presses. All over hanging from the ceiling and in different sections of the foundry were sculptures being made. Some of them described were for the city of Philadelphia, while others would be traveling to Europe. The owner of the foundry then showed us to the back wax room where we saw many more projects he was working on, along with Mother Theresa, all in their wax state.
After visiting the foundry, Anthony took me to a jewelry casting place on Jeweler's Row. The place not only casts jewelry, but will also cast anything that's done in wax and is small in size.
Knowing these places and how they work put together the entire commission for me. By seeing the actual facilities and meeting the people helping with the commission, I now have a better understanding of the entire process. I am also very grateful in knowing these places and people for projects I will make in the future.

Andrei often takes me on little field trips during the day to show me different parts of town that are interesting. It's nice, we'll take a little break from whatever we had been doing and walk around the area and visit local businesses and such.

We had visited a local photography gallery as they were setting up a show featuring some really neat nature photography. The featured artist had mounted her images to boards which were die cut into interesting shapes... pretty cool!

After that, Andrei took me next door to the most FABULOUS antique mall I've been to in quite a while! They had a really amazing vintage Pyrex collection that totally impressed me. I'm thinking about going back sometime soon when I'm not "on the clock"! :)

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Philamoca Setup

Last Thursday I helped Veronica prepare for her collaborative gallery show "Laughing in the Face of..." At 7: 45 am I took the subway to the Spring Garden stop and walked to 12th Street. I was immediately put to work when I arrived. I rolled out rugs on the platform where the band would later perform. I then touched up the walls with white paint. Meanwhile Veronica was trying to adjust the projector screens to fit the walls. Every few minutes more and more artists started to arrive with their pieces. Each one had very specific requirements for displaying their work, from how the light was cast on them to the kind of hooks used to hang their canvases. I helped Sally Eckhoff bring in her supplies for her ravioli toilet installation. I found out she also studied at University of the Arts and told me about her past experiences living in the mountains and her artistic process. Later I was sent outside to hang up more flyers, I had quite a few people walking by ask about the show and where it would be.
The most important thing I learned from this experience was to prepare the technology ahead of time when possible. One of the tasks I had was to burn a DVD of one of the video projects. Initially it seemed like an easy task, but as it turned out, there were a lot of complications. We had two computers on us and one of them didn't have a working disk drive and the other didn't have a proper disc burning program. In the end we had to download a program that would burn the DVD. Also the DVD player we had was jamming so none of the DVDs worked. It took a lot of shaking and banging to get it to play correctly.
Despite some technological difficulties, I really enjoyed setting up the gallery. It's rewarding to start out in an empty room and slowly watch it come to life as more and more art fills the voids.

The poster and  map for the gallery by CHER's Jessie Clark

Piece of Cake

CHER's Laughing in the Face of.... event arrived and it was a great success!




Setting up was flawless and everything went as planned. The music was checked, the beer arrived and we were ready to go. We had a great turnout and I think the guests thoroughly enjoyed the interactive and playful pieces that CHER had to offer.

Each of the artist's instalations were meant to make you laugh and forget the drama of the real world. Here is the show's statement: "Humor is a front, misdirection of the sneakiest sort. As tears spring forth from hearty guffaws, our defenses drop. Through these boisterous chinks in our psychic armor, dark and uncomfortable subject matter stealthily enters. Once mouths close and laughter ceases we are left to deal with that which remains (opened cans and worms, worms, worms). Propriety is always up for debate but it cannot be denied that comedy is an indispensable strategy. This practice allows us to acknowledge, process, and ultimately embrace our world, warts and all.  

 

Famine, illness, war, and injustice press in on all sides. Caught in the chasm between environmental collapse and economic catastrophe, it can be quite easy to suffocate in this cavern of despair. Seemingly powerless to change our circumstances, we’ve but a handful of options at our fingertips. We may choose to languish in the dark; hard hearted, reserved, and grim. Or...we can build a fire. It is here we tell stories, we tell jokes. This flickering flame of humor plays upon the dingy surface of reality. In this light our heartaches and fears are bravely faced within a social context, rather than relegated to a dim and solitary realm of ignorance and escapism.  Around this fire we nod, we smile, we understand."

 Setting up included adjusting lights and putting out art merchandise. (I made that CHER sign :)

 The Bands included The Heavy Sweater Band, M.T. Bearington (solo), and Cymbals Eat Guitars. There is M.T. Bearington who is also a Uarts alumni and Veronica's boyfriend. They are making a loving eye connection.

 Out of all the pieces this one cracked me up the most, I think its absolutely terrific. Also here are the featured artists:Shawn Beeks, Sally Eckhoff, Seth Gutierrez, Lauren McCarty, Caitlin McCormack, Christine Negus, Martin Peeves, John Stephenson, Dan Reidy, Matt Zigler, and Brian Hamilton

 Oh and here is Laruren McCarty's video that I helped out with. Thats me there on the screen. And true to her style the television and DVD player are from thrift stores. This piece almost didn't make it to the final show because there was a broken Neil Diamond CD stuck in the DVD player.

 You know, just your average spaghetti toilet. 

 This cake is a copyrighted sculpture by Seth Gutierrez. The idea was that as people eat it they too become copyrighted. I explained this concept to one man, who then became worried that he wouldn't be able to take pictures of people because they were copyrighted.

I can't even count the number of times someone picked up this phone and jokingly said "hello." It never got old.

 My job for the night was to serve the cake to people, and take a Polaroid  picture of each slice and place the Polaroid in the newly vacant spot. Thus recreating the cake. To my right is the man who was worried about the legality of photographing copyrighted people.

 I think the artist had wanted it to look like a near exact copy of the cake, but it was pretty much impossible because the Polaroid would automatically zoom out. I still think it looks great though. 

Completed Waxes of Mother Theresa!

 For the past few weeks, Anthony and I have been painting the waxes into the rubber mold that we had created of Mother Theresa. This is done by heating up the wax until its liquid state and then painting it in layers until it builds to about 1/4 inch thick. When this is done, the edges are scraped off and then the pieces are assembled by searing the edges together with a hot tool. Here are some pictures to better show the process!

 This is a picture of the front middle section of the mold and painted wax. The pink is the rubber mold and the red is the painted wax in it. It's a very abstract image in this state and hard to picture what it will be.

 This is a picture of the waxes when they were taken out of the mold. The one in the bottom right corner is actually the wax that was being painted in the previous picture.

 This is the picture of drapery done in wax.

 These are some of the pieces assembled together by putting the two pieces together after being taken from the molds.

These are the busts of Mother Theresa. This is how they were sent to the foundry this week. This coming week on Monday I will be going to the Foundry with Anthony to drop off more piece that we finished later this week, and hopefully getting to see some of the stuff that makes these pieces into bronze sculptures!